Complaining Quote by Gabrielle Roth

In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four…

— Anonymous

“in some cultures, doctors don’t ask, “When did you start to feel depressed?” but, “When did you stop dancing?”

— Mark Williams

If you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened,dispirited, or depressed,they would ask one of four questions: when did you stop dancing?…

— Anonymous

When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of…

— Tatsumi Hijikata

Many people have said many things. I can only say I did not consciously go after dance. It found me.

— Rukmini Devi Arundale

I started dancing at a young age. When I became busy with films and studies, dance took a back seat. Also, it was constricting…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism and the…

— Judith Lynne Hanna

I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

— Walter Savage Landor

There is something so rewarding about dancing. Its almost spiritual, you let loose, you feel free.

— Julianne Hough

Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.

— Gabrielle Roth

Each time we arrive at a new level in extricating ourselves from economic, social, spiritual domination, we have a moment when we dance in…

— Harry Belafonte

I think there's a spiritual element to dancing in general. There's a reason why in every culture, dancing seems to be in our DNA.

— Jon Hopkins