Introduction
Dance therapy is a kind of psychotherapy that uses movement to promote the social, mental, emotional, and physical improvement of an individual. Dance is the most important key of the arts it involves a direct expression of someone’s self over one’s body. It is specifically a powerful medium for therapy. Dance therapy is the use of movement to recover the mental and physical health of a person. Dance therapy is the use of movement to recover the mental and physical health of a person (Dance, 2013).. It emphasis on the connection between the mind and body to support health and healing. Dance therapy can be deliberate as an expressive therapy. Clinical reports propose that dance therapy may be effective in refining self-esteem and decreasing stress and anxiety. As a form of exercise, dance therapy can be beneficial for both physical and emotional phases of quality of life. The benefits of dance involve improved balance as well as it can improve the quality of life. Though benefits can be attained with a short and concentrated dance involvement, longer involvements may prove to be more beneficial.
American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA)
The roots of dance/movement therapy can be found to the early 20th century and Marian Chace was the founder of DMT (Sandel, Chaiklin, & Lohn, 1993). . Chace was a dancer in Washington, D.C. who started teaching dance after termination of her career with the Denishawn Dance Company in 1930. She observed that some of her students were much more attracted in the emotions they spoken in dancing, and she also began to motivate this procedure of self-expression. Word spread of the dance students’ conveyed feelings of well being when they mentally relieved themselves through dance, and doctors became attracted towards dance therapy. They started to send their patients to Chace many of who were people with psychiatric disorders. Dance therapy is the psychotherapeutic use of movement as a practice that promotes the emotional, mental, societal, and physical integration of any person (ADT, 2013). Expressive, communicative, and adaptive actions are all deliberated for group, individual, couples, & family treatment. Body movement instantaneously provides the processes of valuation and the mode of involvement. Dance/movement therapists are working in an extensive diversity of facilities along with private practice.
Effects of dance/moment therapy on physical health
In our normal life we are mostly going through with the several problems that we can’t even count. Dance therapy is presented as a health promotion facility for healthy people and as a good method of decreasing the stress of people who take care of others and people with some disease and other chronic illnesses. Physically, dance therapy can offer exercise, improve flexibility and muscle synchronization, and reduces muscle pressure (Chodorow, 1991)..
Eating disorders: Dance/movement therapy can absolutely affect body image in the situation of eating disorders. It can also support the creative process and improve healing capability with some activities like discovering tension and relaxation through some physical movements, and relating these movements to important times in someone’s life. Moreover, dance/movement therapy can improve self-awareness, with the capability to sense and feel emotions and other impressions like deprivation, tension, and relaxation. Dance/Movement can also be a way to reestablish the link between the mind and the body and then make a balance between them. The dance/movement therapy technique of Blanche Evan is the one in which people were able to discover their inner emotional backgrounds by using imagery and conceptions (Levy, 2005). This method is particularly helpful for women who have eating disorders. Once I visited the dance therapy session and I experienced that women feel safe and free there. They give some exercises like psychosomatic breathing to help women find their restricted point and then release their emotions. They also recommend them to do exercise by placing their hands on different breathing centers on the body, like near the collarbone, chest, or belly button. My experience has been that when we start a session working with the body in a way that provides contact to feelings, and the talking part of the session has a slightly different attribute to it (Graetz, Sawyer, Baghurst and Hirte, 2006).
Dance/movement therapy for cancer patients: Cancer is a major problem nowadays, its effecting people both mentally and mentally. Having cancer may result in wide emotional, physical and social problems. Existing cancer care progressively incorporates psychosocial interventions to recover patients’ quality of life (Pratt, 2004). Creative arts therapies like dance/movement, music, art and drama therapy have been used to help in the care of cancer patients and in their early recovery. Cancer patients are using dance/movement therapy to understand to admit and reconnect with their bodies; with this therapy they can be able to build new self-confidence and can improve self-expression. They can address their feelings of loneliness, depression, irritation, anger, terror, anxiety and distrust. They can build and strengthen their personal resources. For this assessment, studies were deliberated only if dance/movement therapy was offered by an officially trained dance/movement therapist or by trainees in an Official dance/movement therapy program (Bradt, Goodill and Dileo, 2011). Though there is not much significant recovery in cancer itself due to dance therapy but it helps patients with their other problems.

Effects of dance/moment therapy on mental health
Depression: nowadays depression is disturbing about 121 million people worldwide (WHO, 2007). It is between the leading reasons of disability and causes the highest loss of productivity globally. In the United States about 17 million persons are facing depression problem. Globally, women are suffering twice as frequent from the illness as men. Hence, depression has very high social and financial costs and discovering economical and effective treatment methods is an significant public health goal. The depression pre-test results of patients in the dance group were somewhat lower than that of the music group, however patients of the dance condition revealed the biggest development. Depression and anxiety can be present in adults with mental obstruction. It is been noticed that symptoms of depression and anxiety reduced and work efficiency increased at the middle of the first treatment period of dance/ moment therapy and continuous throughout the period of the treatment (Whitehouse and M.S., 1987). People can express freely they don’t have any fear that they are being noticed by someone, they just let their feeling come out and feel much better.
Physiologic problems: The brain has a very delicate and long process, to deliver the exact message for your body to what to do. There are two hemispheres in the skull that make up the brain (Abikoff et al, 2002).. Scientist deliberate that they do not vary so much in what they focus on and do but more in how they are managing the information Inside the human brain. The left hemisphere is supposed to work on specifics and the right hemisphere on just basics like background. The cerebellum is the one, taking up about 10 percent of the brain and it controls the balances and coordination. Dance therapy is an active approach that benefits the patients to express their story to resolve their problems, they accomplish a catharsis and increase the depth and breadth of their inner experience, and they appreciate the meaning of therapy session and get a relief from their all problems and leave it in the room (Levy, Fried, & Leventhal, 1995).
One of my friends was suffered from a severe emotional disorder. She was not able to hang out with us or live the life in a perfect manner. Her therapist suggested to her parents that they should try dance therapy. My friend’s parent gives the value to her therapist and she had been sent to dance therapy and we noticed a lot of difference in her after attending the dance therapy. After five months, she was going out on Saturday nights with us, and spending her time in a routine manner. Her mental and physical health had significantly improved. And now she is living a healthier life than before. Many people are facilitated in mental and physical behaviors from doing some kind of dance therapy. Dancing can affect someone’s physical and mental health in a very positive way.
Emotionally: Emotionally dance therapy is described to develop self-awareness, self-confidence, and interpersonal communication in one life, it is a platform to express feelings. Some organizers say that dance therapy can improve the immune system through muscular action and physiological processes and can also help to avoid disease (Koch, Morlinghausb. and Fuchs. 2007). In my surroundings I mostly noticed that overweight children and teenagers have a greater possibility of social and psychological problems, like discrimination and low self-esteem, which can continue into maturity. Overweight children are more probably feel more sad, lonely and nervous than overweight children, lonely, and nervous. In future, these children and teenagers are mostly the target of peer-victimization: provocative and bullying, which increases the psychological burden on those children. The dance therapy is based on the principle that the mind and body work with each other (Goodill et all, 2013).. It is observed that through dance those children can recognize and express their deepest emotions and bringing those feelings to the surface. Some children can even make a sense of regeneration, unity, and completeness through this therapy. Dance therapy can be emotionally curative, because it permits children to express their feelings easily and can share them with other.
Dance/movement therapy can make an impact to the general effort to decrease childhood heaviness. Training intended at those children who experience psychosocial obstructions to changing health behaviors, can benefit from the creative expressive method to movement proposed by dance/movement therapy (Schmais and A.N., 1980). The social features of dance/movement therapy are characteristically motivating. When accompanied by a professional dance/movement therapist, these practices can help generate new approaches about someone’s body, and increased satisfaction in moving.

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