Oct 16, 2014 | Kimberley Pena - Musings of a Dance Movement Psychotherapist |
Today I find myself increasingly aware of the media’s impact on how we see and define our bodies. Whether it be the constant bombardment of images of the ‘ideal’ women and male physique within advertising campaigns, which aim to convince us to... Oct 10, 2014 | Kimberley Pena - Musings of a Dance Movement Psychotherapist |
This year, Friday 10th of October is also known as World Mental Health day. This year the focus is on living with schizophrenia. The wording is ironic due to the lack of focus living with schizophrenia can create. To break it down the World health Organisation... Oct 10, 2014 | Kimberley Pena - Musings of a Dance Movement Psychotherapist |
Before I could start to write my blog for World Mental Health Day, my body had it’s only story to tell! A dance improvisation was created in an empty studio, a relational embodiment of a Dance Movement psychotherapist who once stepped into the world of her... Oct 4, 2014 | Kimberley Pena - Musings of a Dance Movement Psychotherapist, Uncategorized |
Yoga enables you to become present in the body, and it is only in the present, that life exits. The practice of Yoga has many similarities to the facilitation of Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP). Yoga, like DMP focuses on the present moment of honouring the body.... Oct 1, 2014 | Kimberley Pena - Musings of a Dance Movement Psychotherapist |
As I sit waiting in the arrivals lounge watching a constant stream of people, some hesitantly, some confidently, travel through the arrival gates, I start to question if we every wholly arrive anywhere. Surely as our body/mind moves through various places and stages... 