This week marks five years for the reason that launch of Dazed Beauty! Over the following five days we will likely be celebrating this anniversary by bringing you big celebrity interviews, cultural deep dives into the extraordinary trends of today, and going back through the archives to resurface a few of our favourite pieces.

To cite our co-founder Bunny Kinney in his original editor’s letter, Dazed Beauty is: “an area for us to document, deconstruct and experiment with beauty in all its forms, in every dimension, and tell the stories of the lived experience each one in every of us has in our own individual bodies as we navigate the world, each online and off.” We hope we’ve remained true to our promise and can proceed to be difficult, anti-establishment, diverse and exciting. Thanks for being a part of our journey.

Welcome to the Dazed Beauty Digital Spa, a space where you may come to flee the stresses of on a regular basis life. On this section, we’ll be hosting a series of interactive classes designed to make you are feeling calmer, happier and more at peace.

As a performance artist, dance psychotherapist and movement director Ekin Bernay knows first hand the healing qualities of movement and dance. Born and raised in Ankara, Turkey, Ekin has 20 years of dance experience in addition to a master’s degree in Dance Movement Psychotherapy from the University of Roehampton, under her belt.

In her role as a dance psychotherapist, Ekin works with children with Autism and adults with severe and enduring mental health problems. “Dance Movement Psychotherapy meets us where we’re, through the empathic creative process using body and movement. In my practice, I also use music recurrently. Similar to in other psychotherapy practices it’s through the therapist-client relationship we will go deeper.”

In her class for Dazed Beauty, Ekin guides and encourages viewers to work on a latest relationship with their reflection within the mirror. “These exercises fall between my performance work and my therapy work. It’s about bringing a latest awareness to the judgements we placed on our image and to take into consideration constructing self-awareness wherever we’re at that cut-off date. There’s also a component of remembering the body since we are likely to detach from it due to realities of our times.”

This text was originally published 24 May 2019.