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Logo for 'Dance Your Ability Therapeutic Movement Foundation' featuring a stylized green dancer within a black circle, with the name and foundation description below.

“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

Two young girls happily dancing or playing in a school hallway, one in a pink shirt with a cartoon character, and the other in a pink and black shirt with a unicorn logo.

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

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An elderly woman with white hair, glasses, and a big smile, standing indoors, holding a small object and appearing joyful. The image features a motivational quote about happiness and dancing from Madaline, with a dance logo in the bottom right corner.
A man and woman smiling outdoors, both wearing headphones and caps, with trees in the background. The man is wearing a white sports shirt and the woman a red top.
A smiling woman with long blonde hair outdoors, wearing a beige sweater and scarf, with a background of blurred trees and foliage. Overlaid text with a quote about dancing and healing, attributed to Gaileen, with a logo of a stylized dancer in a circle and the words "DANCE YOUR ABILITY".
A woman with short dark hair, glasses, wearing a floral shirt, black pants, and sneakers, smiling and dancing in a room with a television and furniture. Overlay text reads: "How do you feel when you dance? 'I feel happy, stronger & tough when I am dancing.' -Amy" and a logo with a stylized dancer and the words "Dance Your Ability".

Dance Your Ability can enhance existing programs
by bringing the joy and vitality of dance.

The desire is to create connection.

A group of four people, including a person in a wheelchair, are outdoors on a grassy area with trees. One person is pushing the wheelchair, while the others are engaging in conversation or looking at each other. Everyone is wearing headphones, and the sunlight suggests it is a clear day.

Music & Movement create a joyful space where it is easy to achieve connection.

ALL BODIES respond
to beat + ALL SOULS respond to Love.

A diverse group of people of different ages and backgrounds in a circle participating in a group activity in a community room.

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. 

An elderly man laughing while sitting on a wooden chair, holding a blue balloon in motion, with framed artwork on the wall behind him.

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.​

Green background poster with illustrations and motivational text about dancing, self-regulation, energy, self-connection, and celebrating being alive.
A young woman with red hair smiling outdoors with trees in the background, wearing a striped shirt, and a silver nose ring.
A poster promoting dance as first aid with illustrations of diverse people dancing and demonstrating benefits like releasing tension, building connections, supporting flexibility, self expression, reducing stress, and boosting memory.