The potent persuasive pleasurable unappeasable pli

I am thinking about a movement that I, as a psychotherapist working with dance and movement, have reframed and re-visioned as a therapeutic tool. Every dance sequence contains this movement in it. It is a movement that all people who do not think of themselves as dancers also, unknowingly, do. The movement is named pli.

I think about the pli. I: dancer teacher, choreographer, educator, writer, or any combination of the above certainly have done and certainly know about, the pli. My objective in speaking about the pli is to bring to our attention the capacity, inherent in this most familiar of acts, for healing and transformation.