Using movement to music to recover... an inspiring story...

Perhaps see if this floats your boat on your recovery journey.

In this video, Alison Herron shares in an interview with Raelan Agle how she recovered from nearly a decade of chronic illness (numerous symptoms) and turned what she learned into a free music and dance program to help others heal.

I'm posting up because moving to music has been a huge part of my own recovery journey thus far (from having been bedridden for a total of over 18 months and housebound for many years to functioning pretty normally by comparison). Helmut Koeckritz aka The Mindful Gardener who has a channel on YouTube also used daily dancing as part of his recovery journey.

You can be bedridden and in a huge amount of pain (like I was) and still move to music, even if it's just doing a gentle hand 'jive' or even simply tapping a finger along to the music. Sometimes I used to just sing (badly!) to a song or two too, which helped a lot to bring some badly needed joy into my life. Every little helps!



At the bottom of the webpage in this link is a list of Alison's songs https://faith-squared.com/our-music They won't be to everyone's taste, but you can be still be inspired by Alison's story and choose your own music of course

Many of Alison's song have religious references and I'm agnostic, so I've picked these two that don't have religious themes to include in my dance choices (I dance in my living room every day; at one time I struggled to stand even for just 5 minutes) ...

 

I've started using a rebounder (mini trampoline) for general exercise. Just bouncing on it is very therapeutic and pretty easy. I've moved on to doing some one foot at a time moves, and jumping, and adding music is great. Very fun workout.

 

Loved the video “Your Brain is Listening”! ❤️ Catchy! Fun! Thanks @BloodMoon