Episode 19:
Trance & Dance with Kate Clement
Join as we connect with Kate Clement, a lover of dance, Biodanza facilitator and trainer with an extraordinary life story. We’re exploring the connection between trance, dance, ritual and mental health.
Kate has been a Biodanza facilitator for over 20 years, first in South Africa where she ran groups and workshops and worked with Biodanza in companies, government and NGOs, schools, clinics and social projects.
Kate now lives in Canberra where she is the Director of Biodanza Australia, training facilitators and offering Biodanza workshops in Sydney and Canberra.
IN TODAY’S EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT…
What Biodanza is (hint: it’s not a Latin aerobics class!) (2:17)
The link between trance, dance and ritual and how they connect us to a deeper wisdom (4:20)
What happens in a typical Biodanza session (5:30)
How trance, dance and ritual support our mental health and wellbeing (10:44)
The 5 different types of trance states (13:32)
The physiological and psychological benefits of Biodanza (15:00)
The importance between balancing thinking, feeling, doing and being and how Biodanza can support inner harmony and integration and the healthy expression of emotion (17:50)
Trance as an inner journey and its connection to ritual and symbolism (22:52)
Kate’s experience of participating in rituals in the Valley of Sangomas in South Africa (25:20)
How to get started on a Biodanza journey (27:00)
And so much more!
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