Dance is a way to reclaim the space of your body when that space has been taken from you. It is a way for you to heal. It's a way for you to acknowledge your power, to get back into your body when you've had to disassociate from it to survive.

Alma Dance founder Heather Robles stopped by the Travelogue Media studio in Quetzaltenango during her Guatemala trip with Suzzanne Ponomarenko Dance. She spoke about working with Caras Alegres and Hogar Temporal, the healing powers of dance, and her experience as a birth doula.

Lago Atitlan

Heather also spoke about her connection with Lago de Atitlan. "I'm thinking about the people who have existed there always... For me it's a very easy place to be able to connect and listen"

1:50 Background in dance and choreography3:42 Starting Alma Dance5:18 Travel in Guatemala6:14 Significance of travel12:09 Dance in healing and recovery18:52 Relationship with Guatemalan orgs, responses20:52 Break21:35 Work as birth doula29:00 Carrying forward the travel experience33:00 Staying healthy and sane36:29 What's next38:48 Staying in touch, wrap-up

Music: Remix from Wanderlied by Robbero (c) copyright 2014 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Robbero/45425

About the theme music

Links:

The Bessies

Our Birth Doula (Instagram)

Spontaneous Joyful Natural Birth

Secrets of the Talking Jaguar

Wassaic Project

Caras Alegres (Happy Faces)

Hogar Temporal (Quetzaltenango)

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