Medicine Dance

Physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhilarating, Medicine Dance is a verbally guided, often music-accompanied movement experience. We identify present moment thoughts, feelings, and sensations and invite them to be expressed through the body. In a Medicine Dance class or workshop we dance from the inside, out.

There is attention on Self, time with partners, and time with smaller and larger groups. Every participant always has the option to work individually, in the belief that our most significant partner is our Self. No dance experience necessary.

“We find solace, connection and a sense of mending and wholeness within the movement we see on the outside, and the movement that we can feel on the inside. Our desire and our practice is to join in with that movement which is occurring inside of us, in our deep inner cave that is so personal and so private that words become inadequate to describe. Why describe? Because we want to share, we need to share; we discover our own and each other’s magnificence and brilliance and unadulterated being alive and it is not possible to not want others to taste and smell and feel what we have discovered” – FLS, Founder

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Weekly Classes

Medicine Dance offers ongoing, weekly classes at locations throughout West Los Angeles, California. Join us to work individually, with partners, in smaller and larger groups, and add the intention of exploring the “space between.”

Workshops

To delve a little deeper and longer in the movement, we invite you to attend a verbally guided, most of the time music-accompanied workshop – explorations of capturing present moment thoughts, feelings, and sensations and allowing them to be expressed through the body.

Immersions

Programs away from home that support better relationship with self, other(s) and all relations, immersion into the work, over longer time in environments removed from the ordinary and predictable. Current immersions take place in Northumberland, England, and on the Big Island of Hawai’i.

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'What is Medicine Dance' in The Words of a Somatic Psychologist and Therapist

“Medicine Dance integrates two fundamental aspects of consciousness —intersubjectivity and bottom-up processing— by creating safe relational, experiential containers for the body’s movement into and out of autonomy and communion, inner and outer awareness. By slowing down, by encouraging all sensations, feelings, and emotions to emerge and allow them to transform, by enhancing curiosity, movement, and radical self agency (always do only as much or as little what you wish to do, follow the body’s inherent impulse), Medicine Dance sessions provide safe relational experiences that encourage greater comfort with self-agency and self-awareness on all levels of consciousness…” – Gary Glickman, LMFT, PhD, Los Angeles, CA