Dance and movement therapy holds promise for treating anxiety and depression


Dance and movement therapy holds promise for treating anxiety and depression: Dance and movement therapy holds promise for treating anxiety and depression, as well as deeper psychological wounds. A few years ago, framed by the skyline of Detroit, a group of about 15 children resettled as refugees from the Middle East and Africa leapt and twirled around, waving blue, pink and white streamers through the air. The captivating scene was powerfully symbolic. Each streamer held a negative thought, feeling or memory that the children had written down on the streamers. On cue and in unison, the children released their streamers into the air, then sat down nearby. Then they gathered up the fallen streamers, which carried their collective struggles and hardships, threw them in a trash can and waved goodbye.

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