“Filia Alchemic Dance” – an Experiential and Transpersonal Program for Restructuring, Healing and Activation of Amplified Consciousness States
Journal Title: Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy - Year 2017, Vol 20, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction: The psychotherapeutic program ”Filia Alchemic Dance”, developed ever since 2006 in Braşov, represents a holistic and integrative approach to human personality, having as a main frame the ”Unifying Experiential Psychotherapy” method. This program combines the efficiency of dance and movement therapies, as creative-expressive methods, with the effectiveness of body psychotherapies and transpersonal approaches which use the amplified consciousness states. Objectives: The present study aims at underlining the efficiency of this program in restructuring and healing some deep psychosomatic and emotional problems, which originate in traumatic experiences from different periods: prenatal period, birth, early childhood, childhood and even adolescence. In my previous studies, I used quantitative methods to demonstrate and present the remarkable results obtained through this holistic and integrative program, called ”Filia Alchemic Dance”, without insisting on restructuring and healing emotional traumas through regressive experiences and amplified consciousness states. Methods: The experimental method of this program is a unique and innovative one, especially in terms of accessing traumatic experiences. This part of the method represents a unique combination of dance moves and conscious breathing using a mobilizing and inductive musical background, with moments of stillness and body work in the absence of music. This method differs substantially from the holotropic breath work proposed by Stanislav Grof. As a research method, this study uses a qualitative approach, such as case studies based on accounts of participants in this program, which were collected and selected throughout the ten-year span of practicing this method. Results: The results obtained over the past ten years of implementing the ”Filia Alchemic Dance” program are remarkable: some of the participants managed to process and restructure certain traumatic experiences, while others had the opportunity to access extraordinary states of consciousness, which facilitated a superior understanding of reality. Conclusions: Based on the results obtained in this therapeutic program over the past ten years, we can state that it can join those complex and profoundly restructuring approaches that already exist (holotropic breath work, „pneuma” breathing, biofeedback, neo-reichian approach, rebirth, psychosynthesis). Filia Alchemic Dance can be a viable alternative to the traditional methods mentioned above.
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Florin Vancea
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