Dancing the Rainbow

Inside everyone there is a dancer waiting to break free. This book asks if dance, voice and movement could be more than an expression of creativity but also a way of healing? By entering the colourful and thought-provoking pages of Dancing the Rainbow you will learn to release yourself from the negative, stressful thinking that has become the norm in society today. Follow simple steps to discover practical ways to move away from self-criticism and self-doubt, increase your vitality, energy, youthfulness and restore balance to your body and mind. By using and practising the movement and dances explored in this book and by living with the message Dancing the Rainbow teaches, you can experience a life-altering release from the pressures of everyday life. Dancing the Rainbow is a unique therapeutic healing programme that has already benefited countless men and women in Ireland. Lani O’Hanlon is a choreographer, dancer and writer. She is a co-founder and Creative Director of Dancing the Rainbow. Have you ever sat in the audience but wished you were on the stage? Or maybe you are a naturally creative person but sometimes you feel blocked or find it hard to keep going? If you ever breathed in with joy when you saw a particular colour, like the colour of the gorse or the sea, and would like to recapture that feeling and build on it, this book is for you. It will help you to become fitter in body and soul, to slow down your thinking and worrying and inhabit your body with more passion and ease. Lani O’Hanlon brings the creative and healing arts together in Dancing the Rainbow. It includes the story of how movement and dance transformed her life when she started to use dance to heal the trauma in her own body, and her book sets out to also transform the reader’s life through dance. With easy to follow illustrations throughout, it uses tried and tested methods to unlock creative potential in a way that is in balance with the body’s rhythm and with the rhythm of the Earth.