With the holiday countdown, Nutcracker performances, increased social engagements – stress levels can easily increase. Dancers and dance teachers need recovery time and ways they can train (or retrain) their bodies into more efficient patterns.
I created a mp3 file of guided imagery for my students. As I talk about in the Inner Dance of Success ebook – your brain doesn’t know the difference between what is real and what is imagined. I first learned about ideokinesis (using imagery to change neuromuscular pathways) from Irene Dowd and it has guided my rehab work with clients since then. In order to make a real physical change you have to go back to the cortical or brain level and change the message that is being sent out.
The focus of this mp3 file is to simply release all unnecessary tension and to increase your physical state of well-being. When you listen to it you can either be in constructive rest position which is lying on your back with your legs supported over pillows or on a chair – or sitting easily upright, supported comfortably in a chair. (note: it is 26 minutes)
I hope you’ll take a break over your busy week and listen to this audio clip! (click here)
Until next week,
Deborah
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