The Power of Movement, Dance, and the Mind/Body Connection
This episode of the TiLT Parenting Podcast features a conversation with licensed clinical psychologist and board certified dance/movement therapist, Dr. Lori Baudino. Dr. Baudino provides therapeutic support to assist parents in understanding, handling, and accepting the challenges of parenting and the complexities of a developing child. She specializes in supporting children identified with special needs, including those with learning disabilities, early life traumas, academic/behavioral/emotional challenges, children on the Autism Spectrum, and with chronic acute illnesses.
In our conversation, we talk about the mind-body connection, and how teaching differently wired kids to tap into this relationship and understand their body’s unique language can be a valuable tool as they learn to regulate their emotions, better understand social communication, and more.
About Dr. Lori Baudino
Dr. Lori Baudino has been a practicing clinician for over a decade. She received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Masters in Creative Arts Therapy – Dance/Movement Therapy, which identifies symptoms and creates ways to express psychological and emotional experiences through the mind/body connection, ultimately transforming words into action. Dr. Baudino is the National Clinical Spokesperson for The Andréa Rizzo Foundation. With their sole funding, she brought the first Dance/Movement Therapy Programs to UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where she provides bedside therapy to children with cancer, special needs and terminal illness. She has specialized in supervising, facilitating, and providing treatment for children with special needs and their families, and has worked in psychiatric hospitals and at rehabilitation centers for trauma, addiction, and pain management. Learn more at Dr. Lori Baudino.
Things you’ll learn from this episode
- What “body knowledge” is and why it’s so important for differently wired kids
- How the mind and body are connected
- How to learn how to recognize the body language and movement profiles of rigidity, tantrums, and more
- The ways in which body knowledge can support a child’s development
- How we can learn to be tuned in to our child’s body language
- How Dr. Baudino uses movement and physical play to help children better understand their emotions
- What mind-body integration means and why this is what we’re going for
Resources mentioned
- Super Flyers: A Parent Guidebook for Airplane Travel with Children by Dr. Lori Baudino
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