ABSTRACT
This chapter offers reflections of one dance therapist as she faces physical challenges in her later years. There is a diminished capacity for the demands of dancing. This loss shifts the embodied perspective and skill set. It alters basic elements of dance therapy work: the ability to both mirror and model as fully as was once possible. It now becomes necessary to grow into the remaining days as a dance therapist with honesty, emotional energy, and especially creativity.
Lessons learned, opportunities for renewal and resolution of inevitable loss are shared. Philosophical, physical, and psychological perspectives are woven in with coping strategies and examples from clinical practice. Through these various lenses we follow the journey from the realization of shrinking capacities to the understanding and positive acceptance of current remaining abilities for the time still available.
