An exploration of the relationship between the arts, awareness of nature and dance movement psychotherapy

Abstract

The aim of this article is to underline the importance of metaphors, imagination, and symbolism, and our connection to the natural environment through dance movement psychotherapy. In today’s society, the humancentric attachment with others and with nature highlights the nature-body-mind split and how far apart we have grown from our surrounding environment. Through spontaneity, playfulness, desire and exploring the joy of existence, we can weave anew the web of life; a life directly connected with the earth, our bodies, our inner experience and spirituality. Rituals, symbolism, and a more sensory way of experiencing the world could become the anchor of our journey towards otherness and developing our ecological self.