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I was invited to Cuba in 2017 as part of a small group of mental health clinicians to teach at the Ministry of Health on integrative medicine. Our professional colleagues at the ministry and at all our site visits welcomed us with generosity and a palpable warmth of spirit. In the evenings, I loved being immersed in Afro-Cuban music and dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My cherished experience, however, was visiting a hospital where severely ill patients received treatment with dance therapy. This was no ordinary therapy! As we entered a large room, we were invited to join patients, psychiatrists, nurses, orderlies, and therapists in a circle, hold hands, and dance together. We learned about each other through dance. I laughed as I thought, never would a psychiatrist dance with their patient in the United States! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was an obvious missing link in our model of treatment. It was a joyous experience that, in addition to the exercise, hand-holding, and communal effect, also eliminated the traditional hierarchy of care, which often seems to miss the heart-to-heart connection of one human helping another in modern-day pharma psychiatry.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New research confirms what we know intuitively and what I witnessed and felt that day in Cuba. Dance heals; a structured dance program of at least six weeks can significantly improve psychological and cognitive health outcomes equivalent to other structured exercise interventions. So, when you plan your next integrative mental health group for clients, include some dance before the yoga session, and when a client demurs at your suggestion that they go for a walk every day to brighten their mood, put some Chucho Vald\u00e9s on the speakers and get up with them and show them how to shimmy and shake for their well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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