Dance=Alternative Medicine?

We should all have the right to dance every day
We, as a society, have become so stagnant, so formalized, so static. We sit at desks, sit on transit or in our cars, stand squished like sardines on transit, wait in lines, walk in a rush, sit in front of computers or televisions or performances.
WE RARELY USE UP ALL OUR PERSONAL SPACE.
I bet you no one but a dancer knows how much space they actually need to move. Properly.
Everyone should have the right to take up as much space as they need every day. To just MOVE. To feel their bodies and muscles work. To remember that they are, in part, a body–a wonderous and complex body–that is capable of so much! Use it! Discover! Feel! Embody!
Somatic bodywork, something becoming so popular in dance these days, frankly is alternative medicine. It connects you to a part of yourself that you are not educated to connect to. This makes me think that dance is integral to our well being–mentally and physically. If we allow ourselves the right to move–yes the right, not the privilege–we can connect to our world all the more fully. The concept of energy as a connector between things and people becomes clearer. We come to recognize thought patterns. We may learn about our bones by touching, muscles by contracting. We come to recognize the part of ourselves that we rarely pay attention to. Our bodies are so intelligent and can tell us things we have not linguistically comprehended. So much is spoken about this–in consciousness research, neurobiology, Chinese and natural medicine, yoga–its time we listened.