“When people are invited to fully inhabit, embody, and express their unique movement, the dance becomes a unified shared field of connection, joy, and belonging.”
-SHAUNA DEVLIN FOUNDER
Dance Your Ability Therapeutic Movement Foundation
Not-for-profit Organization
Offers inclusive free-style movement and dance programs
to people of all abilities & all ages, including:
Mixed Abilities
Elders
Children
People Living With: Dementia, Parkinson’s, cancer, brain injury etc.
Dancing with Menopause
Addictions / In Recovery
At-Risk Youth
Incarcerated
Trauma Survivors
Dance Your Ability can enhance existing programs
by bringing the joy and vitality of dance.
The desire is to create connection.
Music & Movement create a joyful space where it is easy to achieve connection.
ALL BODIES respond
to beat + ALL SOULS respond to Love.
Dance Your Ability programs warmly facilitate a blend of self-led dance and shared group movements.
And uses the benefits of music, movement and everyone's unique dance moves to create space for all to experience themselves in healing motion and collective joy.
Programs infuse:
Trauma-Informed Practices
a teaching style to effectively meet varying individual learning & physical abilities,
simple stretching & basic group movements that come from each person's unique dance
specifically chosen music to get everyone moving as best as they are able.
