Ciclos em dança: O (re) encontro com a espiritualidade e a feminilidade no processo arteterapêutico

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Silvia Xavier da Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8384
• topic: Espiritualidade. Arteterapia. Dança do Ventre.; Espirituality; Art Therapy; Belly Dance.; Espiritualidad; Arteterapia, Danza del Vientre; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA

This article aims to comprehend the importance of the spirituality on the Art Therapy practice under the Jungian perspective. With the analytical Jungian Psychology as the central theoretical foundation, this present research, which happened from June to September, 2014 shows an experience report involving spirituality and belly dance with the art-therapeutic process. Ten women took part of this research, all of them users of the “Centro de Práticas Integrativas e Complementares em Saúde – Equilíbrio do Ser”, based in João Pessoa – PB, with ages between 37 and 62 years old. Following the methodology for group work in Art Therapy, the belly dance was used as was that enabled the creative process release, facilitating the internal content expression. Supported by the Oral History methodology, the study tried to register the importance of this process into distinct aspects of the collaborative lives, through interviews and special notes. The findings analysis helped to understand the importance of this art-therapeutic work, where the awakening value to the spirituality dimension, the self-knowledge search, the feminine rediscovery and the pleasure of dancing, the self-care and the other´s care were highlighted, improving the participants health and life quality. The results have also showed the spirituality as an important element to the art-therapeutic process, enlarging the therapeutic modality range and enriching the benefits reached, creating, then, new perspectives towards the existential chalenges.