With trauma symptoms primarily experienced somatically within many cultures around the world, the IRC in NY’s Body Movement Workshop series makes use of positive findings for mental health approaches ...

We all know that being more active is a good way to keep your body healthy. And more and more data are suggesting that it can have benefits for the brain as well. To understand why dance can be so ...

Dancers Kelly Dornan, Gianna Forte and Philip Perez. (Photo: Amanda Tipton) In a world often characterized by its hustle and bustle, there exists an art form that transcends the mundane and speaks to ...

The dance environment represents a microcosm of the outside world in many ways. From a wellness coaching perspective, this speaks to dimensional models of wellness, including physical, emotional, ...

Brice Johnson thought he was going to be a soccer star. But when a high school injury derailed his dreams, he stumbled into hip hop – which turned out to be his true calling and his path to wellbeing.

The Dancer Wellness Program, a founding affiliate of the Dancer Wellness Project, is a program designed to assist dancers, dance educators, and medical care practitioners who interface with dancers.

Dance is a unique artistic activity. Dancers need to be more than artists; they need to be athletes, too. And yet, all too often, dancers’ careers are cut short by injuries that could have been ...

You could say Emily Jesse fell for aerial dance as soon as she tried it. “I kind of stumbled into it,” she laughs. “At the end of my first class, I was like, ‘How often can I be in here?’” Eight years ...

Every major hospital, reputable hotel and institution, has a health club manned by a sports and exercise physician unknown as physiatrist. This is because physical fitness is a component of good ...

Cal-a-Vie Health Spa is pleased to announce that Louis Van Amstel, three-time world dance champion and Emmy-nominated choreographer from the hit ABC show “Dancing with the Stars”, will host his ...