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In Parkinson's, motor activity, sociality and the possibility of taking care of one's emotions play a fundamental role in improving the course of the disease. Dance therapy fits perfectly into an integrated rehabilitation approach, as it offers delicate stimulation on both a motor and emotional level in a pathology characterized precisely by disorders that involve these two spheres. It involves functional, cognitive and psychological aspects to bring them towards mutual support, contributing to greater psychophysical well-being.
The courses are dedicated to those who experience the disease firsthand, but also to family members and operators: not companions, but actual recipients of the intervention, with a view to sharing health as intended by the World Health Organization: state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not simply the absence of disease.
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The experience of dance therapy was lived fully by everyone, the illness was left in the background, allowing contact with oneself and a meeting between people. The proposal represents a safe container, a relational space in which the group itself is also a resource and in which, thanks to the building of mutual trust, one can feel at ease and free to share and talk. These therapeutic aspects are crucial in relation to the isolation and shame with which the experience of illness is often lived.