The symplectic area contained in a closed curved, that is the boundary of map of a disc, is the "action along the curve". 
$$
\int_\sigma \omega = \int_\sigma d\lambda = \int_{\partial \sigma} \lambda = \int_0^{2\pi} \lambda_{\gamma(t)}(\dot \gamma(t)) dt,
$$
where $\sigma$ is a smooth map from the disc to $M$, and $\gamma = \partial \sigma$. In all cases, the pullback of the 2-form $\omega$ by $\sigma$ is exact since the disc is contractible, so there exists a primitive $\lambda$, on the disc, and you apply Stokes' theorem.

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*[I apologize for the lengthy answer]*

Let me try to elaborate a little bit on a not too complicate but not that simple example to see where the symplectic form makes sense. Let us consider a point on the sphere $S^2$, let 
$$
TS^2 = \{ (x,v) \in S^2 \times {\bf R}^3 \mid x \cdot v = 0 \}
$$
Let 
$$
L : TS^2 - S^2 \to {\bf R} \quad \mbox{with} \quad L(x,v) = \Vert v \Vert
$$
be the "length function" as lagrangian. And you look for the variational problem
$$
 \delta \int L(x(t),\dot x(t))\ dt = \delta \int \Vert \dot x(t) \Vert\ dt = 0.
$$
I don't put the limits of the integral on purpose, it would lead to a too long discussion. Since the lagrangian is homogeneous of degree 1 in $v$, we have the Euler identity
$$
L(x,v) = \frac{\partial L(x,v)}{\partial v}(v)
$$
And the nature of the partial derivative involved above is a map from $TS^2-S^2$ to the cotangent $T^*S^2$
$$
\forall v \in T_xS^2 - \{0\}, \quad \frac{\partial L(x,v)}{\partial v} = \frac{\bar v}{\Vert v \Vert} \in T^*_xS^2
$$
where the bar denotes the transposed. Let's call this map $P$
$$
P : TS^2 - S^2 \to T^*S^2 \quad \mbox{with} \quad P(x,v) = \frac{\partial L(x,v)}{\partial v}.
$$
Now let $\lambda = pdx$ the Liouville form on $T^*S^2$, its pullback by $P$, integrated along the curve $\gamma = [t \mapsto (x(t),\dot x(t))]$ is exactly the action
$$
\int \Vert \dot x(t) \Vert \ dt = \int_\gamma P^*(\lambda) = \int_{P \circ \gamma} \lambda.
$$
Now, let $\tilde \gamma = P \circ \gamma$, this is a path in the image $Y$ of $P$, which is the unit cotangent bundle
$$
Y = {\rm Im}(P) = \{ (x, \bar u) \in T^*S^2 \mid \bar u u = 1 \}
$$
And the variational condition becomes then
$$
\delta \int_{\tilde \gamma} \lambda = \int d\lambda\left(\delta\tilde\gamma(t), \frac{d\tilde \gamma}{dt}\right)\ dt = 0.
$$
But $\varpi = d\lambda$ is a 2-form on $Y \simeq US^2 \simeq SO(3)$ which is of odd dimension, actually $3= 2\times 2 -1$. Now, $\varpi$ has a kernel of dimension 1, and $\gamma$ is a solution of the variational problem if and only if 
$$
\frac{d\tilde \gamma}{dt} \in \ker \varpi_{\tilde \gamma(t)}
$$
In this case, the kernel is given explicitly by
$$
\frac{dx}{dt} = \alpha u \quad \mbox{and} \quad \frac{du}{dt}= -\alpha x.
$$
The quotient space ${\cal S} = Y/\ker\varpi$, the space of solutions of the variational problem, is then equivalent to the sphere $S^2$, thanks to the (SO(3)-moment map) 
$$
\pi : (x,u) \mapsto x \times u.
$$
By construction this space inherits a symplectic form $\omega$ such that
$$
\pi^*(\omega) = \varpi.
$$
And $({\cal S}, \omega)$ is the space of oriented non parametrized geodesics of the sphere $S^2$ (which by chance is also a sphere $S^2$). Finally what do we get? A space $Y \simeq SO(3)$ made of matrices $y=[x\ u \ x \times u]$, a 1-form $\lambda$, the "action-form" (actually called the "Cartan 1-form"), a characteristic distribution $y \mapsto \ker(d\lambda)$ whose leaves are the pre-images of the point of the sphere $S^2$ by the moment map $\mu : [x\ u \ x \times u] \mapsto x \times u$, and the image of $\mu$ is a symplectic manifolds for the projection $\omega$ of $d\lambda$. Note that in this case $\omega$, proportional to the standard area-form, is closed but not exact.

Now you can ask the same question as previously: "What does mean the area include in a disc $\sigma : D^2 \to {\cal S}$?"

[[To be continued]]

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Note 1. that this construction can be applied to any homogeneous lagrangian, and for non-homogeneous lagrangian, first we homogenize them and after we apply this construction.

**Bibliography** *Jean-Marie Souriau, "Structure des Systèmes Dynamiques", Dunod ed., Paris 1970*