Multi-Dimensional Movement Arts® (MDMA®) is a bodywork modality practiced in warm water, combining massage and yoga-like techniques to relax and realign the physical, energetic, spiritual, and emotional bodies. Developed by Sandy Friedland, it allows clients to fully relax their muscles and experience potential emotional and spiritual releases. The technique can be applied anytime, by anyone, and can be combined with other modalities of bodywork.
Multi-Dimensional Movement Arts®, or MDMA® is a modality of bodywork that is practiced in water. The art combines the weightlessness felt when floating in water with massage and yoga-like techniques. As a client floats, Multi-Dimensional Movement Arts® practitioners help them relax through gentle body manipulations that can include stretching, squeezing and shaking. Working out in hot water allows clients to fully relax their muscles and helps slow down circulation and heart rate. MDMA® is intended to work on the physical, energetic, spiritual and emotional bodies. Clients can be prepared to feel relaxed, realigned, and open to experiencing potential emotional and spiritual releases.
The practice was developed by Sandy Friedland, a native of Miami Beach, Florida, and a longtime body builder. Multi-Dimensional Movement Arts® was inspired by Friedland’s love of water and waves. She had experienced the freedom of movement that is possible in the water due to the lack of gravity and she felt that the natural movements of the waves in the water reflected the movement into energy throughout the body. MDMA® harnesses these qualities of water to relax, rejuvenate, restore and explore the energy and physical body of both the client and the practitioner.
Multi-Dimensional Movement Arts® is most commonly practiced in warm bodies of water, usually in pools where strong currents, waves, and the hustle and bustle of other people are absent. Clients can choose to wear a bathing suit or be naked during the session. The womb-like environment is said to allow for more complete relaxation than would be possible on a massage table or chair. Water impairs hearing function and heat slows heart rate and blood circulation.
Clients rest their heads, arms and legs on floating cushions so they can fully relax. MDMA® practitioners gently move and touch clients’ bodies in undulating and spiraling motions. Techniques may include stretching, squeezing, gently pinching, shaking, or gently manipulating clients’ bodies. Clients floating in the water allow MDMA® professionals to access them from all angles. The lack of gravity means that normally tense or activated muscles in the client’s body can be fully relaxed, especially the spinal muscles which are involved in standing, sitting and walking.
Friedland doesn’t exclusively practice Multi-Dimensional Movement Arts® in water and argues that the principles of the technique can be applied anytime, by anyone. Other MDMA® practitioners combine the technique with various modalities of bodywork such as Thai massage, Lomi Lomi and yoga. Some choose to offer MDMA® alongside other treatments, while others blend them together.
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