Programs on Holistic Healing and Natural Pain Relief

Dancing with Pain® helps facilitate holistic healing and natural pain relief through interactive, on-site classes, workshops, and lectures tailored to chronic pain patients and the health care professionals who treat them. No previous meditation or dance experience is ever required. See the schedule page for upcoming programs.

Corporate Wellness Programs
Given that 76 million Americans are living with pain, and given that chronic pain is the most under-treated condition in America today, your company is sure to have employees who are suffering. Employees with untreated pain are less able to focus, be productive, or contribute to a positive work environment than those whose pain levels are effectively managed. Bringing Dancing with Pain® to your workplace is a cost-effective way to provide resources, tools, guidance, and support to your staff — helping them transform their lives and, in effect, the workplace.

Dancing with Pain® Basics
In this safe movement class for people in pain, you will learn how to comfortably dance from the spaces in your body that feel good, no matter where or how small, even if just in your imagination; you will fill these areas with powerful, transformative, and healing energy; and you will use dance as a tool for dialoguing with and softening pain, as well as for distilling and channeling the raw energy of pain – ultimately learning how to “recycle” pain to heal itself.

DANCEformation™: Mind-Body-Spirit Transformation through Dance
In this guided dance class, you will move at your own pace, both internally and externally — in a way that enhances body awareness and self-love, taps into and expresses your authentic self, fills your spirit with joy and gratitude, and provides you with a whole-body workout. While this class is not exclusively for people in pain, it is facilitated in a way that is safe for those who are.

The Powerful Patient
In this discussion workshop for people in pain, you will learn how to hand-pick a team of nurturing health care professionals, communicate effectively with doctors and body workers, get the most out of health insurance policies, and create and implement a healing action plan.

Body Worker Basics
In this discussion workshop for body workers, you will learn how to create a physically and emotionally safe space for treating pain, work with the spiritual dimensions of chronic pain, and guide clients through the maze of resources for chronic pain relief.

Doctor Dos & Don’ts
In this discussion workshop for medical professionals, you will learn how to make the most of a short session with a thick-folder patient, help chronic pain patients feel empowered and cared for, utilize an integrated East/West approach to treating pain, and work effectively within the limitations of health insurance policies.