How Dance Movement Therapy helps you reconnect with yourself.
Find Your Rhythm Again
The body holds stories.
Stress tightens your jaw. Anxiety lifts your shoulders. Grief slows your limbs. Joy expands your chest.
We carry our experiences in muscle memory, in breath patterns, in posture. Because the mind and body are always in conversation.
And sometimes we can talk through what we’re feeling. Other times…. we just can’t.
That’s where Dance Movement Therapy comes in.
It’s a guided way of paying attention to what your body has been holding, and giving it a little room to shift.
Dance Movement Therapy invites people to explore what they’re feeling through gentle, mindful movement without choreography or performance.
And there’s no prior dance experience required. Sometimes it can look as simple as rocking side to side, pressing your feet into the floor or letting your arms open up.
Those small movements can create real shifts. When the body feels safe enough to move, everything else tends to soften too.
While many people find Dance Movement Therapy during seasons of grief, it supports so much more than a single life chapter.
It can help with:
Anxiety and stress
Trauma recovery
Depression
Major life transitions
Social connection
Confidence and self-awareness
Processing emotions
Movement can rebuild trust with yourself. It can help you feel steady again. It can remind you that you’re not stuck, even if things feel heavy right now.
Inclusive by nature
One of the reasons we love Dance Movement Therapy so much is because it truly meets you where you are.
You can participate seated. You can move minimally. You can choose stillness. There’s no “right” way to do it. No pressure to perform. No expectation to look a certain way.
At MOVE Inclusive Dance, that matters deeply to us. We’ve built our entire community around the belief that expression doesn’t belong to one type of mover. That healing isn’t reserved for the flexible, the trained, or the confident. We see it every day in our studio.
Dance Movement Therapy fits naturally into who we are because it allows people to reconnect with their bodies in ways that feel safe and supported.
Movement belongs to everyone. And everyone belongs here.
Join us for a FREE music and movement workshop!
This spring, we’re hosting Finding Rhythm in Grief at our Bellevue studio.
While centered around supporting those navigating grief, the experience reflects the heart of Dance Movement Therapy and Music Therapy, creating space to regulate, reconnect, and move in community.
If you’re curious what it feels like to explore healing through movement, we’d love to welcome you in.
Sometimes healing starts with moving.
Dance Movement Therapy is recognized by the American Dance Therapy Association as the psychotherapeutic use of movement to promote emotional, social, cognitive, and physical integration
