Support for body, mind and spirit. Dance turns out to be a powerful resource for those with cancer as Emily Jenkins has clearly demonstrated.

To suggest that dance could play an important part in the experience of cancer treatment and recovery may seem improbable to some, but Emily Jenkins has set out single-mindedly to make the case.

Over the last eight years, she has developed improvisational dance as a therapeutic tool for those with cancer, researched and demonstrated its wide benefits, and begun training a generation of other practitioners to carry her work to more people and locations. It’s a hugely impressive story of a pioneer, determined to bring a new resource to women with cancer, and succeeding in building an impressive body of evidence to underpin her achievement.

Listen to this week’s Yes to Life Radio Show “Move Dance Feel” with guest Emily Jenkins, where she discusses movement and dance as a support for the body, mind and spirit.

• Move Dance Feel website