Dançar com o Coração - The reencouter with the essence
Written by Doctor João Santiago
Dançar com o Coração is more than a physical exercise to improve musculoskeletal and cardiorespiratory functions. It has many other benefits. It enhances the quality of life, health in general, and organic harmony. It improves well-being, boosts motor capabilities and increases vital energy. It promotes motivation, joy and the pleasure of living. It strengthens self-image and self-confidence.
Dançar com o Coração allows the integrated development of identity and one’s potential. It stimulates communication and the expression of feelings. It increases the awareness and perception of the self, the other, space and time. It is a protected space, propitious for self-knowledge, which allows identifying challenges, overcoming difficulties and changing behaviours.
It is a method that promotes creative exploration and self-expression through art. It promotes change and the discovery of new paths towards personal fulfilment.
It is a method based on listening and in-depth work on bonding; Dançar com o Coração brings more love into the relationships and the knowledge of a new human ecology, making it easier for the individual to reencounter their spontaneity and authenticity. It creates an emotional, experiential space, generating a strong sense of belonging. It promotes a new relationship with nature and life based on love.
It is a plunge into the self, into the essence, with no age boundaries.
The experience of Dançar com o Coração is responsible for innumerable biochemical processes, for the production and synthesis of numerous hormones, of which I will only name the most important:
- Dopamine reduces anxiety and improves mood, vital energy and motivation.
- Serotonin (a hormone of happiness) increases optimism, well-being, and decision-making capacity.
- Melatonin, which improves sleep quality and thinking function.
- Noradrenaline, which reduces stress and improves focus and thinking function.
- Oxytocin (the love hormone) is responsible for feelings of love, connection and trust.
- GABA, which reduces anxiety and promotes relaxation.
- Endorphin, which reduces pain and depression, increases happiness.
- GH (growth hormone), which, in adulthood, is responsible for burning fat mass.
- Adrenaline, which promotes increased energy and decreased physical strain.
- Cortisol which is responsible for controlling stress, inflammation, the immune system, blood sugar level (both in hyper and hypoglycaemia) and blood pressure.
Dancing with the Heart is a clinical practice that promotes the functioning of the neuro-vegetative, endocrine and immune systems. It includes people without any associated pathology and specific groups, namely people with anxiety disorders, depression, stress, Parkinson’s disease, oncologic diseases, fibromyalgia, and so on.
João Santiago - Naturopathic doctor (who combines the specialities of homoeopathy, phytotherapy, acupuncture, and chiropractic), master in naturopathy, practising for over 20 years. Iridologist and Researcher. Within Allopathic Medicine, his expertise is neurology –pain therapy/neuropathic pain.