healing dance
Therapeutic rhythmic ceremony
A healing dance is a ceremonial or ritualistic dance performed with the intention of restoring physical, emotional, or spiritual health.
Many indigenous and traditional cultures practice healing dances as part of medicine or shamanic traditions: The community gathered for a healing dance to help the sick elder.
In contemporary contexts, the term extends to therapeutic movement practices aimed at emotional release or wellness.
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
- spirit guideSupernatural personal protector
- shamanicOf spirit-world intermediaries
medicine man · drumming · chanting · movement · spirit · sacred · sacred space · medicine · circle · tribal · energy · energy work · catharsis · release · letting go · rhythm · full moon · swaying
- ritual dancescorroboree, barong, dervish, jingle dress, grand entry
- tribal healingmedicine man, medicine woman, curandero, herbalist, bush doctor
- danceballet, breaking, b-boying, ballroom, waltz
- KhoisanBushmen, click consonants, Hottentot
- adaptive dance
healing dancemedical treatment
Care for illness
surgery · chemotherapy · hospital care · invasive procedure · drug therapy
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