Dancing With Your Baby In the early months and years of life, children begin to understand the world through their senses; they see our smiles, hear our voices, smell their milk, and they touch and taste everything! Meanwhile, they also start to match their inner sensations, like their hunger and their energy levels, with outside …
Am I not already in my body? Well okay yes, you are, but stick with me for a minute. Take a second and notice your jaw muscles, notice your shoulders, how does your stomach feel right now? and wait… has your jaw already re-clenched? This awareness of our internal bodily sensations is called Interoception and …
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Mioi Forster-Nakayama is a Dance Movement Psychotherapist and helps others to express themselves creatively. Whether you are a parent or a health professional, there’s plenty more to learn about dance and movement, how it improves our mood, and how we can incorporate it into our daily routines to benefit our wellbeing. Find a space and …
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We’ve gotten really creative over the last couple of years of the pandemic and have come up with a plethora of ways to entertain the kids in isolation. TV is handy, but if you’re looking for ways your kids can have fun with you or entertain themselves, here are our favourite activities of ISO 2022. …
Our Dance Movement Psychotherapist Mioi Forster-Nakayama is an expert in understanding the body-mind relationship. Here are some of her own simple strategies for connecting with the body for the purposes of exploration, regulation and relaxation. 3 ways to creatively express yourself at home through movement Exploration You do not need to prepare anything for this …
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Using music as a way to make our days more enjoyable is a way many of us improve our lives, but we can also use music as a way to cue our children into the activities we need them to get through while getting them more excited about it. Whether it’s brushing teeth, packing up …
2021/2022 Summer Holiday Program We are excited to announce our Summer Holiday Program running over the 2021/2022 school holidays. With a range of creative activities offered across our dance, music and drama programs, this is a perfect opportunity to try something new or continue participating in regular sessions at Creative Therapy Adelaide. Keep reading to …
Drama for social skills Think of your favourite story or movie growing up…did you ever imagine what it would be like to be one of the characters in the book or movie? For me, it was always climbing the Magic Faraway Tree, exploring the different lands at the top with Moonface, Silky and Saucepan Man, …
Dance and movement: my story In my 20s, I established an art school for street and working children in India and trained them in dance and theater for about 11 years. The purpose of this was to rescue them from the worst form of labour, educate and empower them. Many of them were abused, neglected …
THEA MAXWELL Why Creative Art Therapy? I really care about empowering people to live to their best… and creativity, especially music and movement, is a beautiful and potent tool in working toward this. The best part is it involves heaps of fun! How’d you get there? Music and movement have always been part of my …
