{"id":284,"date":"2014-11-30T15:18:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T15:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2014-11-30T16:49:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T16:49:42","slug":"folk-dancing-is-theraputic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Folk Dancing is Therapeutic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/teendance1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-285\" src=\"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/teendance1-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"Folk Dancing is Theraputic\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/teendance1-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/teendance1-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/teendance1.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In junior high school,\u00a0on rainy days, \u00a0we had co-ed dancing in the gym.\u00a0 Sometimes this was\u00a0line dancing or square dancing.\u00a0 Listening to instructions or the &#8220;caller&#8221; while staying in step with the music and circling in a &#8220;grand right and left&#8221; was great multi-sensory activity.<\/p>\n<p>Integrating listening, movement, touch, in sync with music and song was a great fun and theraputic right-brain\/left-brain activity for the full spectrum of learning diabilities.\u00a0 It was also a great equalizer because no one was a superior dancer.\u00a0 We we&#8217;re all learning together a new dance.\u00a0 And since it was multisensory,\u00a0 the dyslexics had a great chance of keeping up.\u00a0 Emotional, auditorial, social, visual, mental, and physical learning with the risk of embarassment meant alert holistic participation. Great exercise and fun.<\/p>\n<p>A bigger folk dance opportunity happen through a youth church group activity where we practiced square dancing in smaller groups in preparation for a big performance with the joining of hundreds of groups.\u00a0 the final performance was in the Rose Bowl in southern California. This was a visual, and audible extravaganza.\u00a0 All those dancers, with the loud country music, and entertaining such a large audience.\u00a0 Everyone all connected and synchronize with movement and music.\u00a0 Being connect so big externally and being connect with my body and senses was a great landmark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In junior high school,\u00a0on rainy days, \u00a0we had co-ed dancing in the gym.\u00a0 Sometimes this was\u00a0line dancing or square dancing.\u00a0 Listening to instructions or the &#8220;caller&#8221; while staying in step with the music and circling in a &#8220;grand right and left&#8221; was great multi-sensory activity. Integrating listening, movement, touch, in sync with music and song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about","category-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}