WELCOME! To the fast-moving world of dance & movement to music as therapy!

When, as the Association of Dance Therapists, we began our activities just over 45 years ago, two of our most optimistic supporters were the late Lord Yehudi and Lady Diana Menuhin. It was they who encouraged us to develop a distance-learning method, available to all. 'Healing from within' becomes so achievable through the transforming power of the arts. Present-day technology means that the 'distance learning method' has become the 'on-line method' – and is even better!

As a tribute to those who have helped us, Lady Menuhin wrote:

So do these lovely impressions, which neither time nor circumstances can efface, remain in the mind and influence for good our whole existence. In the dark places of life, they point to that clear-shining and distant future in which our whole hope lies.

Music, together with the movement it inspires, has for millennia been known to heal both nerves and body. Those of you who have chosen to manifest this basic truth are very valuable members of society. For your work not only soothes, but also brings together in harmony and unison, those lonely or unhappy souls who above all seek friendship and a common bond. I offer you the following anonymous ancient quatrain:

One day a weasel came swimming
All the way over from France.
And taught all the weasels of England
To play on the fiddle and dance.

Our Students

Our students may not yet all have mastered the fiddle but they are showing us all the time how well they have learned to harness and put into practice the 'magic of dance'. We are immensely proud of them. Their progress seems unstoppable: their work was once described by a leading psychiatrist in London as 'a valuable contribution to medical research.' Above all, they seem to find the training we offer not at all difficult. Most say that they enjoy the studies from beginning to end. This is important – for a happy and fulfilled practitioner is always the most successful!

It is therefore a particular pleasure to be able to set out, on the following pages, details of a new 'breakthrough' in practical dance therapy at community level – the Joydance™ Method.

We hope that this information will encourage every visitor to our site to feel more confident about the 'on-line' method. It really is the most convenient and cost-effective way to study. It is especially appropriate for working with 'community'dance therapy' because each creative idea, which may eventually become part of the student's future 'working repertoire', needs to be carefully nurtured and allowed 'time to grow.' This cannot happen if that student is forced to keep to a strict timetable, has to travel, attend lectures and meet deadlines. Not to mention the worry about how much it is all costing! Working from home, in a steady and uninterrupted way, with an Individual Tutor to guide at every step, can in itself be a highly comforting experience in to-day's busy world.