What is Let Your Yoga Dance®

by Megha – Nancy Buttenheim, M.A.

Let Your Yoga Dance is a unique approach to movement, combining the time-honored traditions of yoga, movement, breath, the chakra system, and user-friendly dance. Born from Kripalu Yoga and Kripalu YogaDance, it is meditation-in-motion, sometimes wild and filled with abandon, sometimes quiet and still. Let Your Yoga Dance (aka: LYYD) is a beautiful way to come in contact with grace and your indwelling spirit, providing spiritual, physiological, artistic tools that allow you to reach for the deeper source of energy within. It offers techniques that take you beyond the limitations of the body and mind. Let Your Yoga Dance also uses the joy of movement to tone muscles, build flexibility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness. In LYYD, you come home to the self and return to the soul; you fall in love with your body, and experience community in a safe and sacred setting. This is a healing practice that literally anyone can do, even someone in a wheelchair or in a hospital bed. Modifications and variations abound in this gentle, compassionate practice.

Through this approach to dance and movement, you discover a new way to love your body while awakening your inner rhythms that allow your spirit to revel in the celebration of life. You actually experience what it feels like to be at home within your body, recognizing your mind, spirit, heart, and body as vehicles for healing and self-expression. This is a votal element in Let Your Yoga Dance: it helps you learn that the body is more than something to keep your head portable!

The emphasis in Let Your Yoga Dance is not only on physical expression. Yoga and dance movements offer a way to cultivate self-awareness in every moment. An holistic approach to well being, LYYD integrates the physical, emotional, artistic, and spiritual dimensions of your being, providing a vehicle for healing, wellness, prayer, and fun. It also provides a healing energy bath to all of the energy centers in the body, which in turn enlivens the entire endocrine system. Over two decades I have witnessed thousands of people receiving benefits from from this delightful practice, no matter what their illness or injury, including the rocky terrain of depression, grief, and loss. In recent years I have also watched first hand the benefits of dancing our yoga with Parkinson’s disease. My students with PD are delighted with their increased movement ability, balance and breath, as well as a tremendous mood enhancement, so necessary for people with Parkinson’s.

Let Your Yoga Dance has a healing benefit for everyone.

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