Patient Feedback

• “Yes, I can tell, I really resonated with the things that you wrote. And I think it's indicative of the fact that it's based well on my story, like, I'm not sure, I don't know how anyone else would react. And I think that that's really interesting to think about. So I very much thought it was based on my own narratives. [...] I thought it was like, a lot of these feelings are difficult to put into words. And sometimes there just aren't words to describe the way that they are. And so like, in doing a movement session in this way, and so it's something that focuses on healing or focuses on, you know, bringing your thoughts into the world. That's, that's not abstract. That's like, what I need. That's what you know, people in my situation need to heal.”

• “[...] it emulated like a way of taking that noise out of my brain and putting it in my body. So my brain could be quiet for a second. [...] that’s what my head feels like, and bringing it into my body almost removed it from my head. So it was like, you know, that awareness, kind of like, came into myself when I was letting my body exist with that noise? [...] But this is a way to kind of heal that feeling? It's like, okay, well, I'm moving. I'm shaking, but, but it's for a good reason. It's not because there's anything here stressing me out. It's because I want to. So it's kind of like a nice sense of control in that way.”

• “Yeah, I think it was definitely clear. For both of the sections, I could tell specifically where the interview was coming from. So that was really, I think, powerful to be able to have a movement and then automatically relate it to an experience or a feeling that was really nice. [...] I think it was pretty much like as far as the crises that I went through, like very physically, the manifestations that I felt, I think emotionally it's a bit harder, because that's like, a whole other level of complexity with family relationships in particular, as well as like mental illness stuff. But I think for the physical manifestations of those panic attacks, that was definitely portrayed.”

• [on abstract scripts vs. scripts with more direct instructions]“I don't think there's a specific preference, I think that they each have their own strengths. And I think that the way that you put the first one with the panic attack, and the second one with the spiral was really well placed. Because I feel like if the spiral one were to be line by line, here's what you should be doing. I think that that would be too technical for the experience itself. Because it's the experience itself isn't really like that, right? The experience itself is more of like a lack of control and therefore not having step by step instructions makes more sense. Versus like for the first one for the panic attack. I feel like that one very much is about racing thoughts like racing heart sort of situation and less about movement itself more about body mind connection and what that feels like internally. So I think that the way that you paired the two forms and the two experiences worked really well.”

• [on whether anything was uncomfortable] "I don't think it did. And I think the reason why it didn't is because you primed for that by asking me to breathe at the beginning. Because you already had introduced the concept of breath as part of the script, I think, had there not been that concept of breath, then it would have been difficult because suddenly, like there's a lack of breath, right. But because there was that grounding, the beginning of mind-body connection, feeling the breath feeling that internalized, like, I was more attuned to it throughout the entire keys, and therefore it wasn't sudden and new."

• “I don't think I have any concerns. I think that that was really an interesting activity. I've never done something like this before. So it was super cool to like, see, the way that experience can be translated into something artistic. That was really nice.”

“Yes, and the script on discussing anxiety really got to me. At first, I was surprised to hear the word lava during the [movement] session, until Ruth brought it up in our conversation that it was the story I had told her during our previous session. [...] Additionally, I also do like how from our initial one hour conversation, she picked up three of my stories. Reading through them has completely amazed me. [...] since I was able to resonate to the recording after hearing it again after our zoom session. Initially, while Ruth was taking me through the session in [movement], I felt like it was a normal session until our discussion which amazed me and made me want to listen to our recording.”

“I would say I was around 80% comfortable majorly because I was tense to complete my pending homework. But, the 30 mins session really did make me want to just leave everything I was doing. At times, while walking around my room, I found myself finding peace while staring for no reason at the trees outside my window. This made me feel really very nice and connected to my surroundings.”