Studies continue to confirm what my heart has always known: dance is not just movement, it’s medicine. Research shows that dance outperforms other forms of exercise in improving mental health. It consistently alleviates symptoms of depression, uplifts mood, and creates a sense of vitality that ripples into every area of life.

As a therapist, I see how essential it is to engage not only the mind but also the body when we’re healing. Trauma, stress, and grief live in the body as much as in the mind. Movement - especially rhythmic, expressive movement like dance - can help release what words cannot reach.

And as a woman who loves dance, I can tell you: there’s a moment when the music starts and your body takes over. You stop thinking. You start feeling. You become breath and pulse and flow. This is where healing happens - when you stop observing yourself and begin experiencing yourself.

Dance isn’t about performance or perfection. It’s about presence. It’s about shaking loose the stuck emotions, reclaiming your aliveness, and letting joy rise in your body even if life has been heavy.

Friends, it’s time to hit the floor. Not to escape your life, but to embody it. To feel, to move, to heal.

🔥What song or style of movement makes you feel alive?

🔥What would it look like to give your body five minutes of dance today - not as exercise, but as freedom?

🤍May you remember that your body was born to move, and in movement, there is medicine.

Aniela