African Healing Dance, with lead dancer Wyoma and the dancers and drummers of the Damballa dance troupe, is a step-by-step dance course on healing traditions and spiritual movements that are special to the African dance heritage. An African proverb says, If you can talk, you can sing, and if you can walk, you can dance. African healing dance is suited for beginning to advanced dancers, students of dance, instructors, and choreographers studying and/or performing African dance. The instructional video and manual can be used for a dance or exercise program at home or in a workshop. Director of the Damballa dance troupe as well as head dancer, Wyoma begins with a simple warm-up, including breathing techniques, body movements for the hips, chest, shoulders, and feet, and stretching. She integrates the teaching of six traditional African dances with the passion and joy of connecting dance movements that have the spirit and energy of nature and the elements (water, wind, fire, and earth) and animals such as the snake, elephant, and bird. Wyoma encourages personal exploration of inner rhythms and feelings through improvisational movement in the final portion of the video. It is difficult to not feel the pulse of the drumbeat and the spiritual strength of Wyoma as you watch this video.

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