You Are How You Move: Healing Through Dance | Jessika Baral | TEDxWUSTL

Jessika is a dance activist who started the nonprofit organization Our Chance to Dance in 2015. She talks about how dance can transform people and draws from her experiences teaching dance to the blind, the deaf, orphans, senior citizens, female domestic abuse survivors, cancer patients, and the general public. She started the ‘Move to Heal’ movement worldwide which connects, heals, and empowers others through dance. Jessika Baral grew up in California. She has been dancing for the past 18 years and teaching dance for the past 7. She founded Our Chance to Dance, a nonprofit based in St. Louis focused on using movement to empower, heal, and connect. She also is a captain for the WashU Indian Classical Dance Team and competes on WashU’s Bhangra Dance Team. She is a junior at WashU studying Biology on the Computational Biology and Genomics Track. She started the ‘Move to Heal’ movement in the US and abroad through her dance workshops. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@CurlyQueen82]

gave me goosebumps, how truly movement helps people, i dance myself, and I have noticed how confidence has grown in me and how i don't care about being embarrassed but so free to express myself.

[@noxtwilight_]

💯 true and the absolutely simplest way to transform pain into joy

[@clasencoach]

I must have watched close to a hundred Ted talks. About coaching methods, brain science, mental health, mindfulness, business and what not. The powerful yet simple message in ‘You Are How You Move: Healing Through Dance’ is by far the one that has spoken to me the most. My mind, my body, my soul. So people: Get out there and boogie!! You have all you need: You.

[@tasha_labelle]

💚

[@tubedarsan]

What a slogan, "Movement heals"! And what a tag line, "You are how you move"!! Truly, this is a very effective way to get out of mental and emotional problems of stress/depression that affects 46.4% of American population. Awesome idea.👍👏👏👏

[@scwellnesssolutions1537]

Just came across your talk. Amazing!! I teach a program I created based on yoga and dance. It's all about moving and finding the joy in "your" dance. Love what you're doing! I will also continue to spread the word and the joy of dance. Thank you

[@Losos38]

Oh, I’m feeling this so much. I also liked to dance as a kid, not just in after curriculum classes. But then teen years came, then bullying, and I lost connection to that side of myself. I only could dance when I was drunk for a while, then stopped at all. I was really deeply unhappy. And now, this year, I’ve decided to come back to it and chose twerking. And not only this is fun and beautiful but also physically challenging. It’s about physical and mental health for me. I feel like myself again 💃🏼 Thank you for this talk, it is important 🙏🏻

[@thecamillaramirez]

Thank you Jessica 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽 This was inspiring ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

[@AfiSoul103]

Gracias “you’re how you move” this is so powerful

[@elle7193]

Thank you.

[@ecaterinacleis]

I’m not crying, your crying. Wow ❤

[@whitewolf1240]

i resonate greatly with what you are doing!!! Thank YOU!

[@xanya6405]

Beautiful!

[@AnnaPresents]

Wonderful talk 👌♥️😊

[@angelabanuelos2187]

Thanks, I feel better when I am dancing:-)

[@akshaypunetha9118]

Too good!

[@ainashtleubayeva2678]

Great

[@KoolT]

Movement heals

[@KoolT]

Fantastic

[@peterswellingtonthe3rd513]

It’s easy to comfortable in that beautiful incarnation. Not everyone is gifted. Teenage hardships are different than undesirable features or social anxiety disorder. Just throwin’ it out there.

[@jordynrobertson2283]

I’m crying tbh

[@ems6792]

Excellent talk! Everything you said made total sense Where can I find more info for classes?

[@mariaalejacardozoenglish4job]

I would like to read more of her research.

[@cheapsoot1981]

"Aren't you gonna introduce me to the little lady? I'd like a dance! " - Buford Mad Dog Tannen

[@KoolT]

Oh look.

[@debbiecarson2576]

Fantastic

[@magicalisticable]

She should really work on her speech, I was having a bit of a hard time listening to her movement of speech. So I stole listening after few minutes. I tried.

[@kriegerdeslichtsx]

I don‘t see what your problem is she speeks perfectly

[@vishasaili7431]

I was thinking the same but I think it’s the microphone maybe, that makes it so flat but harsh.