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@@louisefairbrother8840 Fascinating idea, must be exciting essays, but unfortunately not! Not the right fit for my time use - 1-1 mentorship is my only offer currently, sorry!
Hi....board certified dance/movement therapist, Jungian psychologist, and teacher/practitioner of Authentic Movement here (since 1994). Thank you for your powerful, thoughtful, and deep offering. One comment: what you are describing here I would call inner-directed movement because "Authentic Movement" by definition, as a practice, especially in the beginning (2--3 + years), ALWAYS includes a human witness. There is an alchemy that happens between the mover and the witness that is essential and irreplaceable to the process. This IS the ground form: Moving AND Witnessing (with a trained witness). Also, Authentic Movement is pretty nearly always practiced in silence. All this said, I'm in no way diminishing moving alone or with music or with camera or Nature as witness---these are valuable too--just saying that the human witness (a person who has been a witnessed mover for at least a few years and trained to be a witness) is absolutely necessary to make inner-directed movement be Authentic Movement. Hope that makes sense! Keep moving!!
Thank you Lisa, a group of us Authentic Movement Teachers just became aware of this video and while I am thrilled Jordan you are finding your way into your body's intelligence, using music and dancing alone is not what the practice is. A Witness and that relationship between mover and witness is essential in exploring the unconscious and some are not ready for this yet. And there is a whole precept language that the mover and witness share with verbal witnessing. And perhaps your video will encourage more men to move from the inside out and I deeply appreciate this first step. Like Lisa I too am a board certified dance/movement therapist recognized in the USA and down under (Australasia) and I teach the practice of Authentic Movement.
I attend a practice called 5Rhythms - it is not choreography and I felt very self conscious at the start. I always walk away feeling better - to feel back to the body when we can be so disconnected. The lady who leads the practice says, “rather than dance like no one’s watching - dance like God, whatever that is to you, is watching.” It’s been one of the best medicine for me.
This is crazy! I do this a lot through dance. I didn't even know it was a "thing." I just follow my intuition. Right on! I love it when we get confirmations like these.😊 I'll definitely be checking out that book. Thank you, brother!🙏💖
I love this! I am the dancer “in my body” type. Grew up dancing with choreography. I loved dance because it was a safe space for self expression. My parents saw talent in me and pushed me to compete with other dancers. This is when I lost my interest. I was dancing for fun and the feeling of freedom. But once I was forced into dancing “to be better” than someone else…. It wasn’t fun anymore. As I got older… I still feel that that movement of the body is so expressive and fun. Liberating!!! I think we can all learn so much from that space.
Also wanted to add… I am a very quiet person in nature, and a good listener. But struggle with expressing myself vocally. I tend to get walked all over in relationships. Im a typical “people pleaser”. But if I could speak through dance… I would be thrashing and all over the place! Maybe in a world where words can’t be used, I would be the extrovert? Or maybe I need to learn how to use my words… in a world full of people that talk. 😆
Ashley, thank you for sharing some of your story here - I’m glad that you’re simultaneously reaccessing the ‘true voice’ of your body whilst also looking towards expanding your vocal capacity to balance out! Although speaking up is a challenge, it’s absolutely a skill that can be learned - I’m likewise more quiet and ‘shy’ by ‘nature’... but we can consciously shift! 🌲
Your expressionism is freeing just to view, thank you for showing all of us. Authentic Movement is something I knew not of by words, but by random episodes of my child-mind expressing itself through my body; when I was a kid. Since about four years, I've been heavily interested in shadow work. It's so interesting to step back and view that I've done all my consumption of these works with my mind, and realizing I've done none to quite minimal physical versions of these work(s). As if I've been meditating still for years, and as a result my head has become so heavy... waiting for that pressure to be released, by opening the physical flood gates and allowing myself to move with my mi d, instead of being so still. I'll be watching the video again, to ensure I'm grasping all your words. As well as getting the book you were so kind to share with your viewers. Please never stop. I need your wisdom where mine is lacking; as I am sure so many feel the same.
Jet, you’ve got this brother. Sounds like we have similar baselines with heavy intellect & meditation bias. It took me perhaps five or six years before I realise that I could regain physical vitality & deeper integration work with intentional body practices (outside of gym or romantic intimacy) - highly approve of this authentic movement essay collection, beautifully written academic style yet so encouraging to make practical 🌲🔋
@@jordanthornton Thank you for your wonderful reply, Jordan. I'm an avid viewer, and your support means everything to me. You've got this too, brother. We're all on the same journey after-all. 🙏
Awesome vid today. Very exciting. I can't remember who wrote it, but I was very impressed when I read: something about the way a person walked revealed his/her history. I see it all the time.
*Jordon, thank you for so beautifully and clearly sharing about the holistic healing and transformative powers of dance therapy, and your personal experience.* As a dance reconnection specialist and dance passion mentor, I truly believe we ALL have an inner "eternal dancer" within us that longs to move and express itself creatively, its just that society and culture's parameters as to what constitutes as 'nice movement' closes off many from its wonders. *Your sharing as a man and an influential voice for embracing "inner work", is so helpful. Thank YOU!*
One day I was in the library and stumbled upon some of Alexander Lowen's work. It resonated with me but I didn't (or I still don't, actually) fully understand it. What happened though was that night, through having read the material, I intuitively tapped into this part of my body that underlies everything I consciously do and am aware of, and I allowed it to move through me, and it made me shiver with fear and hold my body in a position of: "Please, don't hurt me" while I was covering my face with my hands in terror. When I was a teenager, a group of girls attacked me physically, and ever since that day I developed a sense of social anxiety. After that night, a lot of that social anxiety disappeared. It was as though I never let that part of me that was scared of those girls have her say and validity of experience. I always said to myself that those girls were just savage and it should not affect me as I did nothing wrong to them. However, in my body there was still trauma from that day that needed to be expressed to be released. Now, years later, I am learning about authentic movement and other ways to heal the body and I really want to delve into this subject again! It is so interesting.
I've watched many of your videos, and this one is my favorite so far. What you speak of connects to something really significant to me, but which I haven't fully embraced or come to know. Over the past few years I took up a intuitive movement practice, but it wasn't informed by anything--I just I felt it within me. I had done many years of yoga, but my body no longer wanted to be trained in that way, rather wanting to move how it wanted to, and express something, I didn't know what. I still have more to discover with it, to go into that unknown deeper. I have studied Jung some, but I've never come across mention of movement and dance connected to the unconscious. I'd love to find out more about that. Thank you for this video and for sharing your process and practice, it is very encouraging and inspiring ☀
Let your body voice....express freely, nice free dancing. Osho said - when dancer and dance/ movements become one. And that can release a lot, integrate the disintegrated, dissociated in us? Help us be whole and flow....afloat!
Nobody scratches this itch quite like your content. The caliber of this message and that of your channel is in line with Jonathan Pagieu. Thanks for doing the heavy lifting that we can all grow from
Perhaps this dont fit, but I, being artist see this as an ultimate artistic expression, and I can't tell you how authentic, I found this , and your great and emapthic and expressive face letting us learn about this path. I got some friends doing this, and it reminds me to open it up, once again. Thank you. Namas
Wow, thank you for this important reminder! I will integrate this forgotten way of dancing into my routine. And the music that touched me deeply 20 years ago still „works“ :-)) I appreciate so much your „showing yourself“ to us by sharing the details of your healing journey like in this video. 🙏
Of course, movement therapy has many different flavours and variants but the basic principle of the physical unconscious is a very powerful process and I’m glad you’re going to keep going deeper here.
I am studying and immersing in Expressive Arts Therapy research right now. So happy it brought me to your channel! Your articulation and pace are easy to follow, and I am so down with the work you do!! Ill definitely be tuning in to more of your content.
Expressive Arts Therapy sounds excellent, and a timely connection with this video. Enjoy the videos - took a peek at your channel and you're sure to love this route of research!
Thankyou for this ❤ Deeply impactful and affirmative. I would love to see a video about the specific approach you use with clients, or just an example of how you might work with someone with dissociation and trauma in a relational and therapeutic context 🙏
Absolutely, and I hope to get around to this kind of video eventually. Difficult to know how to flow with regular video releases, saved your comment and screenshotted for the future (and its also why there’s a one month delay on my response lol)
So much happy dance to this!! Interesting threads, have a dear friend former professional ballet dancer. He shared with me that learning guitar has helped his voice relax into a lowered pitch center. As a former voice teacher, I would say that the tension being held in the throat that was forcing the larynx into a narrower throated position is finally releasing, thus allowing the larynx to sit in its proper "throne". Me, I remembered recently how much I love to dance! Your milage may vary 😁😉
Just my two cents... As someone who has been a semi-professionally trained classical ballerina for over ten years, I'd like to correct one assumption here... Trained dancers are not necessarily capable of authentic expression, no matter how well acquainted with their body and physical movements they might be. If anything, I am overly aware of how I move and where my limbs are, to a point of neurosis for moving in a "wrong" or "ugly" way. I can only speak for myself, but simply put, I was nothing but a copying machine, which perhaps, over the years, only limited my ability to move authentically. Improvisation classes were always my most feared ones, as I am absolute sh*te at improvising or, as you mention here, authentic movement. As if my training only limited my ability to do so, making me feel like my movements, when un-choreographed, were broken, ugly, uncomfortable and simply wrong in some way. And given that the classes were always followed by interpretations and judgement of a teacher and fellow students, I was never motivated to examine them myself. Quite the opposite. 'What are you trying to tell others' outweighed 'what are you trying to express from within.' I will certainly pick this up, when I manage to get over my "pre-programmed-movement-self", so to say, as I very much missed this during training. As one who has been trained to dance, when asked to dance (be it at a festival, jam-sessions or wherever), I usually reply with "Nah, I can't dance". Because I can only copy, I can only be programmed to preform. Authentic movement is something I never really grasped, almost ashamed of what might come out. So perhaps exactly where I should start. Because if I miss anything these days (due to my physical limitations), it is classical ballet and dancing in general. And I would love to move without worrying what anyone might think of it. Now that would be a true change.
Thank you for sharing your story here, Nemo. Your comment resonates and I know exactly what you’re saying - also now wondering if the ‘untrained’ may even have a potential advantage (under certain conditions) when it comes to ‘going with the flow’? 🌱
@@jordanthornton Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me at all. No "bad habits" to unlearn first, so to speak. No taught restrictions or "ways" to limit movement, or any other particular ways of expression for that matter. There is no part of the brain telling you you're doing something "wrong" or "unlike you ought to be doing it". No programming one needs to break out of first. Drawing is something I like to do as well, for example, and specifically fine motives and tiny little details. I remember joining in on a painting class my mum used to go to, where we had to express ourselves with thick brushes and bold colors. No space for little details or thinking about what should go where. Just let the colors (indeed) flow, inspired by a pile of objects in the center. Similar discomfort there. Didn't know what to do, what to focus on, how to capture anything. No trouble for her tho. Still claims to not be able to draw but makes the most beautiful things, just through 'simply messing around a bit', as she puts it. :)
What I notice about your story is that the qualities of the external "witnesses"when you were training in dance were: critical, exacting, objectifying (you were not witnessed as a subject, i.e. just like you said, you weren't asked "what are you trying to express from within"). So that's the witness you internalized (plus maybe some reasons there stemming from childhood as well, where it feels dangerous to go off the narrow path of 'acceptable' expressions) and expect to experience in other settings. So it would be interesting to see how it would go with an Authentic Movement witness, who is genuinely curious and open to anything that you might express. Navigating that weird place between the kind of witnessing you are programmed to expect (evaluative, critical) vs. the experience of being witnessed in a responsive, intimate way, which is both wanted and feared.
@eeks78 I guess it would be. :) At the end of the day, I suppose we'd all like to be seen and accepted for who we are, not for who we are carefully presenting to be. Hmm... Nice observation. Makes one think. Thanks for your reply. 😊👍
@@jordanthornton Good. it's something I never regret doing. Though I tend to need to work through resistance to get myself to begin. Bless you, Jordan!
Lori, only now getting the notification for the super thanks - massively appreciated, and you might like knowing that you’re the first person to ever tip me on this channel 🔥📚 Thank you!
Yes yes yes.. dance is a wisdom key that unlocks our u conscious and allows a flow to our own inner source..beauty..I'm so glad many of us are discovering this and finding our soul dance...bravo
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Dude thank you for this invitation haha I've been stepping back into this space and and it has been such a fun and exploritive space to heal from, thank you for the perfect timing as Always 🤣🙌
I come from a strong dance background and also value therapeutic work in general, but had not experienced authentic movement till a few years ago. Wow, it is such a rich experience. I love the suprise of doing movement that I would never normally do and the emotions, colours and shifts that comes from embodied cognition. It is one of the most wonderful and powerful things I have ever done.
Ellie, this is especially wonderful to hear - it’s often the case that the movement and gestures are allowed ‘more skilful / complete’ expression from somebody who already has the ‘tools’ of body intelligence - can imagine the power of some of these moments! 🌲
@@jordanthornton it's strange because when I do this I feel I'm both releasing feelings but also I'm painting inside my body with colour and sometimes language. I went through a life changing bereavement and after an authentic movement workshop I felt the stress shake from my body, like an animal shake from an attack. It was transformative. I'm interested in all aspects of active imagination in writing, painting and movement. It feels a real wsy to be, to know myself and create. It can sometimes be a strange walk in the dark but there is usually gold waiting somewhere....
@@ellieb8551 Beautifully expressed, I’ve experience similar things - both in workshop environments and alone. Keep going on this wild ride of growth and exploration 🌲💃
Hi, Jordan. Thank you for sharing these videos and your work. I can agree women can be more easily aligned with this. I've been doing this in some form off and on since my early 20's ( I'm twice that age now 🤔🤫). I appreciate you sharing the resources in your videos, too so I can go back and look into them afterward. Hope you don't mind that I have shared with my colleagues and on my FB page. 🌄
Share away - it’s an honour to resonate in a way that inspires this extra effort, thank you. Happy to hear that you’ve already found major growth from this work for so long 🌲
Can you make a video on your top 10-15 reads with categories into concepts? Apologies if already done, just discovered your channel and watched few videos. I’m def going to go through more of your videos and so far really impressed with the content. Jung obsessed here and so glad to find a jewel like this.
No problem - this video series is my best attempt at sharing my top 52 reads out of about 350. Best bet is to click around on the topics which interest you and buy the book - they’re all golden! 🌲
To add on to this concept, I have truly felt such embodiment by combining authentic movement with music, specifically CharlestheFirst (so I definitely recommend checking out his tunes) you can really tap into that flow state. I feel his music peaks into many different dimensions, and combining that with authentic movement really aids the body in releasing and stagnant energy... if you allow yourself to get into that state :) there is a heart opening aspect that comes with allowing oneself to tap that deep into flow movement, it's super freeing :) Love this video and all the concepts shared! I truly feel like movement/dancing/flow has helped me let go of so much trauma, and shift from being too much in the mind, to being connected into my body.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write your story here - I found it inspiring to read how you’ve grown through authentic movement / somatic practice, and I’m sure anybody else seeing these words will likewise feel the same. Amazing! 🌲
You currently pour your own wisdom and a desire to help others (heal) from your heart. I'm sure even through these crazy little snippets of thanks that you feel it pouting back. Although a little mainstream and with a 👃 of choreography I would recommend a recent song and it's video to anyone considering letting it all hang out... from the lovely Florence (and her machine!) 'Free' I'd hazard an assumption that she understands this work, or like me has just been embracing the movement and the healing it brings anyway. Whether it is with or without intention or purpose, I say let's just all dance the nights and days away, I came here to play after all 💃 (I like your forest and I've decided your 'van looks a bit fancier than mines! You can fit a massive bookcase in yours- I'm a little jealous about that!😉)
@@jordanthornton be sure to let me know what you think- is she working it out through dance or just working it!? 😉 ua-cam.com/video/ui8kUKuLBaU/v-deo.html
Thornton, I think your surname is same of that of the character from north & south book? Love your accent and voice. Movement, dance without choreography, whatever comes is wonderful
Not me searching for this type of content Coz every time I imagine myself dancing, I come back to reality and realize I have been moving around and enacting things subconsciously... I used to love dancing as a kid
Hi @jordanthorton I’m studying Expressive Therapies at the master’s level currently, which includes dance movement therapy. Have you heard about or explored Butoh? There are many similarities in the impetus of the dance. The imaginative and unconscious aspects. “The space in between” “dancing with your unconscious”. Archetypes. You may find it of interest. Thanks for sharing your experience with this!
I wonder if ballet dancer Nijinsky was unconsciously engaging in a sort of healing dance--seeing his spontaneous dance movements not to mention his inexplainable "leap". I say "unconsciously" because he was blessed in the sense it was happening to him effortlessly but it ended up being a curse as he kind of went mad, the reason, I suspect is that he was not aware of the process.
@@jordanthornton and yet many are robotic too. Body is kind of a vehicle for the "subtle-body" (read it somewhere too) but most dancers try to force the body to do what they want than let it be used by a force within. I think it applies to everything including music, martial-arts, etc Thank You.
@@pretheeshgpresannan4172 Completely agree - have worked with women who were trained dancers and they readily admit that they 'learned the moves' but often not the feeling - it doesn't always translate.
Similar concepts, exactly! Authentic movement (as a discipline) tends to encourage more internal awareness & after-processing reflections - done both AM and ecstatic dance alone + in groups, however... they are nonetheless similar, especially if engaged with a steady internal awareness of movement quality 🌲🔋
@@jordanthornton I’m not a very active person. It’s a trauma response or maybe depression but I have found ecstatic dance and qi gong are getting me moving again. I am in love with both.. but I will give this a try too.
@@brianneml2979 Perfect, keep moving. Four or five times per week movement practice & fitness routine are some of the best anti-depressants around. Keep taking up space.
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Yes I understand
Wow, I will be D-ming you now!
@@SunofGod13 Perfect, I'll respond with full presence when I can - looking forward to connecting!
Are you available for help with Essays? Focus - anima or shadow - can’t decide, what is transpersonal work..?
@@louisefairbrother8840 Fascinating idea, must be exciting essays, but unfortunately not! Not the right fit for my time use - 1-1 mentorship is my only offer currently, sorry!
Hi....board certified dance/movement therapist, Jungian psychologist, and teacher/practitioner of Authentic Movement here (since 1994). Thank you for your powerful, thoughtful, and deep offering. One comment: what you are describing here I would call inner-directed movement because "Authentic Movement" by definition, as a practice, especially in the beginning (2--3 + years), ALWAYS includes a human witness. There is an alchemy that happens between the mover and the witness that is essential and irreplaceable to the process. This IS the ground form: Moving AND Witnessing (with a trained witness). Also, Authentic Movement is pretty nearly always practiced in silence. All this said, I'm in no way diminishing moving alone or with music or with camera or Nature as witness---these are valuable too--just saying that the human witness (a person who has been a witnessed mover for at least a few years and trained to be a witness) is absolutely necessary to make inner-directed movement be Authentic Movement. Hope that makes sense! Keep moving!!
Appreciate you taking the time to share, thank you!
Thank you Lisa, a group of us Authentic Movement Teachers just became aware of this video and while I am thrilled Jordan you are finding your way into your body's intelligence, using music and dancing alone is not what the practice is. A Witness and that relationship between mover and witness is essential in exploring the unconscious and some are not ready for this yet. And there is a whole precept language that the mover and witness share with verbal witnessing. And perhaps your video will encourage more men to move from the inside out and I deeply appreciate this first step. Like Lisa I too am a board certified dance/movement therapist recognized in the USA and down under (Australasia) and I teach the practice of Authentic Movement.
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I attend a practice called 5Rhythms - it is not choreography and I felt very self conscious at the start. I always walk away feeling better - to feel back to the body when we can be so disconnected.
The lady who leads the practice says, “rather than dance like no one’s watching - dance like God, whatever that is to you, is watching.” It’s been one of the best medicine for me.
This is crazy! I do this a lot through dance. I didn't even know it was a "thing." I just follow my intuition. Right on! I love it when we get confirmations like these.😊 I'll definitely be checking out that book. Thank you, brother!🙏💖
Nikki, absolutely! The body holds so much wisdom and untapped potential - excellent to know you’ve already been exploring intuitively!
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Me too 😅👌🏼
I love this! I am the dancer “in my body” type. Grew up dancing with choreography. I loved dance because it was a safe space for self expression. My parents saw talent in me and pushed me to compete with other dancers. This is when I lost my interest. I was dancing for fun and the feeling of freedom. But once I was forced into dancing “to be better” than someone else…. It wasn’t fun anymore. As I got older… I still feel that that movement of the body is so expressive and fun. Liberating!!! I think we can all learn so much from that space.
Also wanted to add… I am a very quiet person in nature, and a good listener. But struggle with expressing myself vocally. I tend to get walked all over in relationships. Im a typical “people pleaser”. But if I could speak through dance… I would be thrashing and all over the place! Maybe in a world where words can’t be used, I would be the extrovert? Or maybe I need to learn how to use my words… in a world full of people that talk. 😆
Ashley, thank you for sharing some of your story here - I’m glad that you’re simultaneously reaccessing the ‘true voice’ of your body whilst also looking towards expanding your vocal capacity to balance out! Although speaking up is a challenge, it’s absolutely a skill that can be learned - I’m likewise more quiet and ‘shy’ by ‘nature’... but we can consciously shift! 🌲
Your expressionism is freeing just to view, thank you for showing all of us. Authentic Movement is something I knew not of by words, but by random episodes of my child-mind expressing itself through my body; when I was a kid.
Since about four years, I've been heavily interested in shadow work. It's so interesting to step back and view that I've done all my consumption of these works with my mind, and realizing I've done none to quite minimal physical versions of these work(s). As if I've been meditating still for years, and as a result my head has become so heavy... waiting for that pressure to be released, by opening the physical flood gates and allowing myself to move with my mi d, instead of being so still.
I'll be watching the video again, to ensure I'm grasping all your words. As well as getting the book you were so kind to share with your viewers.
Please never stop. I need your wisdom where mine is lacking; as I am sure so many feel the same.
Jet, you’ve got this brother. Sounds like we have similar baselines with heavy intellect & meditation bias. It took me perhaps five or six years before I realise that I could regain physical vitality & deeper integration work with intentional body practices (outside of gym or romantic intimacy) - highly approve of this authentic movement essay collection, beautifully written academic style yet so encouraging to make practical 🌲🔋
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Thank you for your wonderful reply, Jordan.
I'm an avid viewer, and your support means everything to me. You've got this too, brother. We're all on the same journey after-all. 🙏
@@jethodgkin6610 Absolutely - we got this 🌲 Hope your shelves have been filling up with an abundance of inner work essentials hahah
Awesome vid today. Very exciting. I can't remember who wrote it, but I was very impressed when I read: something about the way a person walked revealed his/her history. I see it all the time.
Exactly! It's something we often overlook, but very telling.
*Jordon, thank you for so beautifully and clearly sharing about the holistic healing and transformative powers of dance therapy, and your personal experience.* As a dance reconnection specialist and dance passion mentor, I truly believe we ALL have an inner "eternal dancer" within us that longs to move and express itself creatively, its just that society and culture's parameters as to what constitutes as 'nice movement' closes off many from its wonders. *Your sharing as a man and an influential voice for embracing "inner work", is so helpful. Thank YOU!*
Thank you for being here, happy to have connected! 🕺
@@jordanthornton cheers & gratitude!
One day I was in the library and stumbled upon some of Alexander Lowen's work. It resonated with me but I didn't (or I still don't, actually) fully understand it. What happened though was that night, through having read the material, I intuitively tapped into this part of my body that underlies everything I consciously do and am aware of, and I allowed it to move through me, and it made me shiver with fear and hold my body in a position of: "Please, don't hurt me" while I was covering my face with my hands in terror. When I was a teenager, a group of girls attacked me physically, and ever since that day I developed a sense of social anxiety. After that night, a lot of that social anxiety disappeared. It was as though I never let that part of me that was scared of those girls have her say and validity of experience. I always said to myself that those girls were just savage and it should not affect me as I did nothing wrong to them. However, in my body there was still trauma from that day that needed to be expressed to be released. Now, years later, I am learning about authentic movement and other ways to heal the body and I really want to delve into this subject again! It is so interesting.
Beautiful comment to read, thank you for doing this work.
I've watched many of your videos, and this one is my favorite so far. What you speak of connects to something really significant to me, but which I haven't fully embraced or come to know. Over the past few years I took up a intuitive movement practice, but it wasn't informed by anything--I just I felt it within me. I had done many years of yoga, but my body no longer wanted to be trained in that way, rather wanting to move how it wanted to, and express something, I didn't know what. I still have more to discover with it, to go into that unknown deeper. I have studied Jung some, but I've never come across mention of movement and dance connected to the unconscious. I'd love to find out more about that. Thank you for this video and for sharing your process and practice, it is very encouraging and inspiring ☀
You talk with such grace ad fluidity. Thank you for sharing Jordan. Excited to learn more about this!
Thank you for being here. I love the work too.
Let your body voice....express freely, nice free dancing. Osho said - when dancer and dance/ movements become one.
And that can release a lot, integrate the disintegrated, dissociated in us? Help us be whole and flow....afloat!
Nobody scratches this itch quite like your content. The caliber of this message and that of your channel is in line with Jonathan Pagieu. Thanks for doing the heavy lifting that we can all grow from
J, thank you. I’ve never heard of Jonathan but I’ll search him now - more videos on the way, hopefully for years to come! 🌲
@@jordanthornton looks like I misspelled his name , jonathan pageau
Perhaps this dont fit, but I, being artist see this as an ultimate artistic expression, and I can't tell you how authentic, I found this , and your great and emapthic and expressive face letting us learn about this path. I got some friends doing this, and it reminds me to open it up, once again. Thank you. Namas
Beautiful comment, happy to connect and wishing you the best!
Wow, thank you for this important reminder! I will integrate this forgotten way of dancing into my routine. And the music that touched me deeply 20 years ago still „works“ :-)) I appreciate so much your „showing yourself“ to us by sharing the details of your healing journey like in this video. 🙏
Of course, movement therapy has many different flavours and variants but the basic principle of the physical unconscious is a very powerful process and I’m glad you’re going to keep going deeper here.
I also just released a video about how to physically work with repressed anger, if that’s something which would likewise support you?
I am studying and immersing in Expressive Arts Therapy research right now. So happy it brought me to your channel! Your articulation and pace are easy to follow, and I am so down with the work you do!! Ill definitely be tuning in to more of your content.
Expressive Arts Therapy sounds excellent, and a timely connection with this video. Enjoy the videos - took a peek at your channel and you're sure to love this route of research!
Thankyou for this ❤ Deeply impactful and affirmative. I would love to see a video about the specific approach you use with clients, or just an example of how you might work with someone with dissociation and trauma in a relational and therapeutic context 🙏
Absolutely, and I hope to get around to this kind of video eventually. Difficult to know how to flow with regular video releases, saved your comment and screenshotted for the future (and its also why there’s a one month delay on my response lol)
So much happy dance to this!! Interesting threads, have a dear friend former professional ballet dancer. He shared with me that learning guitar has helped his voice relax into a lowered pitch center. As a former voice teacher, I would say that the tension being held in the throat that was forcing the larynx into a narrower throated position is finally releasing, thus allowing the larynx to sit in its proper "throne". Me, I remembered recently how much I love to dance! Your milage may vary 😁😉
Fascinating comment - thank you for sharing this, learned something new!
Just my two cents... As someone who has been a semi-professionally trained classical ballerina for over ten years, I'd like to correct one assumption here... Trained dancers are not necessarily capable of authentic expression, no matter how well acquainted with their body and physical movements they might be. If anything, I am overly aware of how I move and where my limbs are, to a point of neurosis for moving in a "wrong" or "ugly" way.
I can only speak for myself, but simply put, I was nothing but a copying machine, which perhaps, over the years, only limited my ability to move authentically. Improvisation classes were always my most feared ones, as I am absolute sh*te at improvising or, as you mention here, authentic movement. As if my training only limited my ability to do so, making me feel like my movements, when un-choreographed, were broken, ugly, uncomfortable and simply wrong in some way. And given that the classes were always followed by interpretations and judgement of a teacher and fellow students, I was never motivated to examine them myself. Quite the opposite. 'What are you trying to tell others' outweighed 'what are you trying to express from within.'
I will certainly pick this up, when I manage to get over my "pre-programmed-movement-self", so to say, as I very much missed this during training. As one who has been trained to dance, when asked to dance (be it at a festival, jam-sessions or wherever), I usually reply with "Nah, I can't dance". Because I can only copy, I can only be programmed to preform. Authentic movement is something I never really grasped, almost ashamed of what might come out. So perhaps exactly where I should start. Because if I miss anything these days (due to my physical limitations), it is classical ballet and dancing in general. And I would love to move without worrying what anyone might think of it. Now that would be a true change.
Thank you for sharing your story here, Nemo. Your comment resonates and I know exactly what you’re saying - also now wondering if the ‘untrained’ may even have a potential advantage (under certain conditions) when it comes to ‘going with the flow’? 🌱
@@jordanthornton Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me at all. No "bad habits" to unlearn first, so to speak. No taught restrictions or "ways" to limit movement, or any other particular ways of expression for that matter. There is no part of the brain telling you you're doing something "wrong" or "unlike you ought to be doing it". No programming one needs to break out of first.
Drawing is something I like to do as well, for example, and specifically fine motives and tiny little details. I remember joining in on a painting class my mum used to go to, where we had to express ourselves with thick brushes and bold colors. No space for little details or thinking about what should go where. Just let the colors (indeed) flow, inspired by a pile of objects in the center. Similar discomfort there. Didn't know what to do, what to focus on, how to capture anything. No trouble for her tho. Still claims to not be able to draw but makes the most beautiful things, just through 'simply messing around a bit', as she puts it. :)
Reading your comment was/is very helpful to me, so thank you 🙏
What I notice about your story is that the qualities of the external "witnesses"when you were training in dance were: critical, exacting, objectifying (you were not witnessed as a subject, i.e. just like you said, you weren't asked "what are you trying to express from within"). So that's the witness you internalized (plus maybe some reasons there stemming from childhood as well, where it feels dangerous to go off the narrow path of 'acceptable' expressions) and expect to experience in other settings.
So it would be interesting to see how it would go with an Authentic Movement witness, who is genuinely curious and open to anything that you might express. Navigating that weird place between the kind of witnessing you are programmed to expect (evaluative, critical) vs. the experience of being witnessed in a responsive, intimate way, which is both wanted and feared.
@eeks78 I guess it would be. :) At the end of the day, I suppose we'd all like to be seen and accepted for who we are, not for who we are carefully presenting to be. Hmm... Nice observation. Makes one think. Thanks for your reply. 😊👍
Thank you. I've been appreciating your videos very much. well done, amigo. Ima go do some authentic movement now
Yes Mairi! How did your movement practice go? 🌲🔋
@@jordanthornton Good. it's something I never regret doing. Though I tend to need to work through resistance to get myself to begin. Bless you, Jordan!
Thanks!
You are very welcome! 🌲
Lori, only now getting the notification for the super thanks - massively appreciated, and you might like knowing that you’re the first person to ever tip me on this channel 🔥📚 Thank you!
Yes yes yes.. dance is a wisdom key that unlocks our u conscious and allows a flow to our own inner source..beauty..I'm so glad many of us are discovering this and finding our soul dance...bravo
Yes, moving through the emotions! Happy to connect, thank you.
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Dude thank you for this invitation haha I've been stepping back into this space and and it has been such a fun and exploritive space to heal from, thank you for the perfect timing as Always 🤣🙌
Glad to help, brother! Keep moving and exploring!
Very grateful to have found your channel, looking forward to binging your videos and future uploads.
Make sure to buy a dozen books too - whole point of the series!
Hi, you are very genuine. Great video, Jordan. Thank you.
Thank you for saying so, Cristina. Wishing you all the best.
I come from a strong dance background and also value therapeutic work in general, but had not experienced authentic movement till a few years ago. Wow, it is such a rich experience. I love the suprise of doing movement that I would never normally do and the emotions, colours and shifts that comes from embodied cognition. It is one of the most wonderful and powerful things I have ever done.
Ellie, this is especially wonderful to hear - it’s often the case that the movement and gestures are allowed ‘more skilful / complete’ expression from somebody who already has the ‘tools’ of body intelligence - can imagine the power of some of these moments! 🌲
@@jordanthornton it's strange because when I do this I feel I'm both releasing feelings but also I'm painting inside my body with colour and sometimes language. I went through a life changing bereavement and after an authentic movement workshop I felt the stress shake from my body, like an animal shake from an attack. It was transformative. I'm interested in all aspects of active imagination in writing, painting and movement. It feels a real wsy to be, to know myself and create. It can sometimes be a strange walk in the dark but there is usually gold waiting somewhere....
@@ellieb8551 Beautifully expressed, I’ve experience similar things - both in workshop environments and alone. Keep going on this wild ride of growth and exploration 🌲💃
Hi, Jordan. Thank you for sharing these videos and your work. I can agree women can be more easily aligned with this. I've been doing this in some form off and on since my early 20's ( I'm twice that age now 🤔🤫). I appreciate you sharing the resources in your videos, too so I can go back and look into them afterward. Hope you don't mind that I have shared with my colleagues and on my FB page. 🌄
Share away - it’s an honour to resonate in a way that inspires this extra effort, thank you. Happy to hear that you’ve already found major growth from this work for so long 🌲
I love that you did this ... i totally get it. i did and do similar I call it flow.
Can you make a video on your top 10-15 reads with categories into concepts? Apologies if already done, just discovered your channel and watched few videos. I’m def going to go through more of your videos and so far really impressed with the content. Jung obsessed here and so glad to find a jewel like this.
No problem - this video series is my best attempt at sharing my top 52 reads out of about 350. Best bet is to click around on the topics which interest you and buy the book - they’re all golden! 🌲
To add on to this concept, I have truly felt such embodiment by combining authentic movement with music, specifically CharlestheFirst (so I definitely recommend checking out his tunes) you can really tap into that flow state. I feel his music peaks into many different dimensions, and combining that with authentic movement really aids the body in releasing and stagnant energy... if you allow yourself to get into that state :) there is a heart opening aspect that comes with allowing oneself to tap that deep into flow movement, it's super freeing :) Love this video and all the concepts shared! I truly feel like movement/dancing/flow has helped me let go of so much trauma, and shift from being too much in the mind, to being connected into my body.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write your story here - I found it inspiring to read how you’ve grown through authentic movement / somatic practice, and I’m sure anybody else seeing these words will likewise feel the same. Amazing! 🌲
Authentic movement expressing deep feeling discovering layers of self.
Thank you for your time have a wonderful day
Yes Terri - it’s truly amazing what happens when we set the intention to explore unconscious territory with your physicality - enjoy the dance!
@@jordanthornton I truly love exploring and I do enjoy all your videos on u tube
@@terriborter3061 Many more episodes on the way - check out some of the books mentioned in this series too!
You currently pour your own wisdom and a desire to help others (heal) from your heart. I'm sure even through these crazy little snippets of thanks that you feel it pouting back. Although a little mainstream and with a 👃 of choreography I would recommend a recent song and it's video to anyone considering letting it all hang out... from the lovely Florence (and her machine!)
'Free'
I'd hazard an assumption that she understands this work, or like me has just been embracing the movement and the healing it brings anyway. Whether it is with or without intention or purpose, I say let's just all dance the nights and days away, I came here to play after all 💃
(I like your forest and I've decided your 'van looks a bit fancier than mines! You can fit a massive bookcase in yours- I'm a little jealous about that!😉)
I’ll check Florence out, thank you! 🌲🔋
@@jordanthornton be sure to let me know what you think- is she working it out through dance or just working it!? 😉
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Thornton, I think your surname is same of that of the character from north & south book? Love your accent and voice. Movement, dance without choreography, whatever comes is wonderful
I'm not familiar with that book, but perhaps - thank you for your attention and engagement, it's a pleasure to make these videos for you.
9:50 is very interesting! It makes me want to try the recording method you mentioned.
It’s absolutely worth it - highly recommended. Valuable to witness yourself from new perspectives.
Not me searching for this type of content Coz every time I imagine myself dancing, I come back to reality and realize I have been moving around and enacting things subconsciously...
I used to love dancing as a kid
Mmmm! Dancing with the Beloved. ❤️
Thank you 🙏🏼
Enjoy the movements! 🌲
Bliss 🌀
Bawling 😭!!
It really is incredible . I never thought about this
Especially good practices under moonlight, Jack 🐺🌝
(More seriously, yes - powerful stuff!)
I LOVE THIS
you inspire me alot 🙏🏻💚
Keep dancing ✌🏻🧠
Thankyou for sharing this. It makes sense.
Sheila, you are most welcome - happy dancing 🌲
Thank you!
Beautiful video 🙏🏼
Thank you, YingLan 🧁
Love this. ❤️
Lori, you are most welcome 💃🌲
As always-wonderful material. Thank you for your vulnerability, authenticity, and wisdom, Jordan. 🤍
Rachel, thank you. It’s a pleasure to be able to share.
Hi @jordanthorton
I’m studying Expressive Therapies at the master’s level currently, which includes dance movement therapy. Have you heard about or explored Butoh? There are many similarities in the impetus of the dance. The imaginative and unconscious aspects. “The space in between” “dancing with your unconscious”. Archetypes. You may find it of interest. Thanks for sharing your experience with this!
Fascinating, I'll go deeper into this. Good luck with your studies this year, it's such a worthwhile pursuit.
Thank you
As always, thank you! 🌲
I wonder if ballet dancer Nijinsky was unconsciously engaging in a sort of healing dance--seeing his spontaneous dance movements not to mention his inexplainable "leap". I say "unconsciously" because he was blessed in the sense it was happening to him effortlessly but it ended up being a curse as he kind of went mad, the reason, I suspect is that he was not aware of the process.
Interesting idea - many dancers are certainly tapping into these healing and expressive energies when in their flow, I agree.
@@jordanthornton and yet many are robotic too. Body is kind of a vehicle for the "subtle-body" (read it somewhere too) but most dancers try to force the body to do what they want than let it be used by a force within. I think it applies to everything including music, martial-arts, etc
Thank You.
@@pretheeshgpresannan4172 Completely agree - have worked with women who were trained dancers and they readily admit that they 'learned the moves' but often not the feeling - it doesn't always translate.
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Wishing you well, Poppy.
hahah i cant take this seriously
Why’s that?
Hey,I've DMed you on Instagram.
Wonderful - I’ll be with you as soon as I can 🌲
Ecstatic dance. ❤️🤍🖤
Similar concepts, exactly! Authentic movement (as a discipline) tends to encourage
more internal awareness & after-processing reflections - done both AM and ecstatic dance alone + in groups, however... they are nonetheless similar, especially if engaged with a steady internal awareness of movement quality 🌲🔋
@@jordanthornton I’m not a very active person. It’s a trauma response or maybe depression but I have found ecstatic dance and qi gong are getting me moving again. I am in love with both.. but I will give this a try too.
@@brianneml2979 Perfect, keep moving. Four or five times per week movement practice & fitness routine are some of the best anti-depressants around. Keep taking up space.
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