Therapeutic Value of Indian Classical Dances

How is Natyashashtra and dance therapy connected?
In ancient India, Classical Dance was aimed at the betterment of the health of dancers. How and why did it digress? What is making it come back as a therapy?
One of your articles reads, “turn your suffering into art, art into awareness and awareness into action”.Based on this I have a few questions.
How can one think of dance when they are in pain?
Is this possible for a person to get out of depression?
What are the steps you take to bring the person in suffering to at least step on the dance floor?
If dance form is so ecstatic and one loses a state of awareness, how can one concentrate and work on his or her sufferings?
Where do you see Dance therapy going in the future? Maybe 50 years down the line?

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