Early into her career as a special educator, Sneha Sivasubramaniam heard one of her friends talk about dance movement therapy (also known as creative movement therapy), which, as the name suggests, integrates movement and creativity to enhance emotional, cognitive, and physical well-being. She thought it would help her deal with children with learning difficulties. Being a dancer, she readily signed up for a certificate course with the Creative Movement Therapy Association of India (CMTAI).
Some of the things she learnt, she applies in her role as a special educator at an international school in Bengaluru. The course, as it turned out, helped Sneha personally more than professionally. “During the course, we had to go through the therapeutic movement. We did the activities that clients usually do. In that process, I learnt a lot of things about myself. It really helped me connect with my body and process certain insecurities about it,” she says.
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