{"id":3473,"date":"2013-01-12T12:42:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T17:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2013-01-12T12:42:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T17:42:29","slug":"when-did-you-stop-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3473","title":{"rendered":"When Did You Stop Dancing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIn many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited or depressed, they would ask one of four questions:\u00a0 When did you stop dancing?\u00a0 When did you stop singing?\u00a0 When did you stop being enchanted by stories?\u00a0 When did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gabrielle Roth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This quote came by on Facebook and I really liked it.\u00a0 It reminded me of Barbara Ehrenreich&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1849\" target=\"_blank\">Dancing in the Streets<\/a>.\u00a0 She also connects the rise of depression with the oppression of community dance celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a story, I think it&#8217;s about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_A._Tomatis\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Alfred Tomatis<\/a>, who was called to a monastery where the monks were all depressed and sick.\u00a0 He found out that they had stopped singing Gregorian Chant, and insisted that they start again, and lo and behold, their energy returned.\u00a0 I love this story, and wish I could have found the original.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited or depressed, they would ask one of four questions:\u00a0 When did you stop dancing?\u00a0 When did you stop singing?\u00a0 When did you stop being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3473\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-healing","category-present-day","category-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}