by Sorina Petrescu | Oct 30, 2020 | Life skills, Social-emotional development
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe world of dance is extremely diverse. There are many types of dance, each with specific influences and characteristics. But one type of dance combines them all: creative dance. Although it seems a descriptive construction, it is a style in...
by Sorina Petrescu | Sep 30, 2020 | Meditation
Reading Time: 3 minutesKnown as the ability to contemplate, observe experiences that appear in the present moment and accept them without judging them, meditation can benefit children and their emotional intelligence. The connection between meditation and emotional...
by Sorina Petrescu | Sep 15, 2020 | Dance therapy
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe coronavirus pandemic has come with a lot of fears, worries and anxieties that children do not know how to perceive and therefore cannot manage effectively, especially if they were already facing such challenges. Let’s find out together...
by Sorina Petrescu | Aug 27, 2020 | Life skills
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf we think of a song that we learned when we were little using gestures, like “Bate vântul frunzele” (Romanian song) for example, it would probably be impossible for us to reproduce it without mimicking those gestures. This is an...
by Sorina Petrescu | Jul 23, 2020 | Dance therapy
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs humans, we move for many reasons, whether out of a need for self-expression, pleasure, connection to the community, habit, or ritual. When the idea of dance movement therapy emerged in the 1940s, it was practised primarily in psychiatric...