Move-Assure
Dance for Mental Wellbeing
with Dame Darcey Bussell
and Dr Peter Lovatt
Move-Assure is the perfect combination of dance and wellbeing, to help you get your wellbeing back.
The Move-Assure Dance for Mental Wellbeing programme was created by Lindsey Lovatt (who is an occupational therapist and mental health specialist), Dame Darcey Bussell (who is a former principal ballerina with the Royal Ballet Company and the founder of DDMiX, a dance fitness program) and Dr Peter Lovatt (a Psychologist with a special interest in movement and dance, and the author of The Dance Cure).
The Move-Assure Dance for Mental Wellbeing programme has two main elements. It has a dance element and it has a mental wellbeing element.
The Mental Wellbeing element is grounded in practical advice and activities to help you develop resilience around your own mental wellbeing. Move-Assure does this by including a mental wellbeing quiz, so that you can keep track of changes in your mental wellbeing, by including “Did You Know?s” at the end of each of the 60 dance sessions, by including weekly wellbing tips that help you to develop a wellbeing toolkit and by providing weekly wellbeing coaching sessions, which you can take part in via zoom, either as part of a group or privately.
The Dance element is made up of 60 pre-recorded online dance sessions, which can be done anywhere, at any time. The dance sessions are based on 17 different dance styles, which stimulate a range of positive feelings. All of the dances are taught and demonstrated by Darcey and Peter. You don’t need to be a dancer to dance with Darcey and Peter, or to wear any special clothes. The dances are taught slowly and simply, and they build up across the sixty sessions.
The most important thing to remember about Move-Assure is that it’s not a workout, it’s wellbeing.
Lindsey, Darcey and Peter created Move-Assure for you, to help you get your wellbeing back.
Move-Assure
Dance & Wellbeing
Dance for Mental Wellbeing - 60 fun, dance-based sessions, led by Dame Darcey Bussell
- Unique, progressive, 20-week online programme
- 15-20 minute sessions, recommended 3 times per week
- Weekly Wellbeing Tips and Toolkit
- Learn the science behind the moves with Dr Peter Lovatt
- Complete at your own pace - anytime, anywhere
- Monitor your wellbeing - using the Move-Assure Mental Wellbeing Quiz
Membership
Move-Assure Dance & Wellbeing
£49 for 1 year
Move-Assure Dance & Wellbeing gives you access to the complete Move-Assure Dance for Mental Wellbeing Programme (Move-Assure Dance & Wellbeing) for 1 year.
Move-Assure Dance & Wellbeing is a 20-week programme that includes 60 dance sessions with Dame Darcey Bussell and Dr Peter Lovatt. 20 wellbeing tips to help you build your mental wellbeing toolkit. Access to the Mental Wellbeing Quiz and the science behind the movements. This is an online Dance for Mental Wellbeing Programme which can be completed in your own time.
You can purchase Move-Assure Dance & Wellbeing either for yourself or as a gift for someone else.
A Free Move-Assure Taster Session
We are sure you’ll love the Move-Assure Dance for Mental Wellbeing programme.
Please enjoy Week 1 Session 2 as an example of the Move-Assure warm up and cool down and the Move-Assure dance to feel happy and the Move-Assure dance to feel energised.
If you enjoy our taster session, please sign up for access to all 60 sessions, the weekly wellbeing tips, science and coaching.
Before joining in with the Move-Assure Taster Session it is essential that you read the Class Liability Waiver and Release
Dance for Mental Wellbeing
Welcome to Move-Assure our Dance for Mental Wellbeing Programme, created and presented by Dame Darcey Bussell and Dr Peter Lovatt.
The Move-Assure Dance for Mental Wellbeing Programme is perfect for use by individuals, Employee Wellbeing Programs, and providers of Mental Health Services.
Dance is fantastic for mental wellbeing, scientific research shows that it helps to build confidence, improves relationships, and our thinking skills.
Dancing also lifts people’s mood and, of course, it improves physical wellbeing too.
Our Move-Assure Dance for Mental Wellbeing programme is for anyone who wants to improve their mental wellbeing through movement and dance.
In our Dance for Mental Wellbeing programme, each of our 60 sessions is about 20 minutes long – long enough to help you feel great, and short enough to fit into your day.
We recommend that you do three sessions per week and that you keep dancing with us for 20 weeks.
This is a graded dance for wellbeing programme, which means that at the beginning we’ll teach you some new dances and then, as the programme progresses and you’ve learnt the routines, we’ll jump straight in and get groovy.
In total you’ll learn 17 dances, which have been inspired by different cultures and styles of movement – and they help to change the way we feel.
Our Move-Assure Dance for Mental Wellbeing sessions are available on-line – which means you can do them anytime, anywhere.
Did you know, that at the end of each session, Darcey and Peter chat about the links between science and dancing – in a feature we’ve called ‘Did you know?’.
The programme also includes 20 weekly wellbeing tips, to help support your mental wellbeing, a mental wellbeing quiz and some nuggets of science in The Science Bit.
Our Move-Assure Team consists of Darcey Bussell who has created the dances and music, Lindsey Lovatt, who created the mental wellbeing content and Peter Lovatt who provides the scientific evidence-base.
We are so grateful for the support of a team of expert mental health clinicians, focus-group members and experts by experience who have helped us develop this great programme.
Our Dance for Mental Wellbeing programme is for anyone who wants to improve their mental wellbeing through movement and dance.
So join us today, in our Move-Assure Dance for Mental Wellbeing Programme.
