No strings attached: how to relieve body tension –

How to relieve body tension: who dances away from evils

Surely you’ve heard the phrase above. But did you know she has scientific proof? Morena Cardoso, founder of DanzaMedicina, a project that travels through 11 countries in the form of retreats, conferences and workshops, has studied dance for years and explains that even at a still superficial level, dance stimulates the reward centers of the brain, generating feelings of pleasure and well-being. “Neuroscience has carried out increasing studies on dance and its benefits: it is known that it activates sensory and motor circuits; brings improvements in memory; strengthens neural connections; reduced the risk of dementia and progressive and degenerative neurological disorders; improves mood; supports certain cognitive skills like visual perception and decision making; helps reduce stress; increases levels of the feel-good hormone serotonin; helps develop new neural connections especially in regions involved in executive function, long-term memory and spatial recognition.” All this while loosening the muscles.

To have all these benefits right there, in your living room, follow Morena’s tips:

Give your body what it asks of you! For that, you need to learn to listen to him, to dialogue with him;
Try dancing in different wayswith different intentions and different types of music;
Realize which internal contents emerge, what kind of emotions, sensations and feelings come up, what spaces you enter in yourself. Over time, this path of connection and inquiry will become increasingly familiar and profound, potentially changing the way you relate to yourself;

It may be that you need to make fast and strong movements, to release anger, or to activate your strength and power of action, through more agitated music. It may be that you need fluid and light movements to get in touch with your emotions and sensibilities in acceptance and affection with yourself, it may be that you need to cry and release what is trapped in the body, mind and heart, through music more harmonics. It may be that you need to laugh a little at yourself, clowning around remembering the way you moved freely as a child, in lightness and play, through fun, agitated and well-rhythmed music. It may be that you need to scream, with your body and voice, removing the muscle nodules and throat knots, through more intense music. It may be that you need to touch yourself, roll around, activate your sexual energy through dance to awaken a flame that has been forgotten and extinguished in day-to-day tasks and concerns, through more sensual music that incites intimacy.

Each moment is unique and only you can know which song makes you get in touch and activate what you need. Stick with what it is, and remember, give your body what it needs!