20 Great Reasons Why you should be Dancing (Guest Post)

Today’s guest post is from Chris' blog

Emotional

1. Endorphins give you a natural high


2. Forget life’s pressures for a moment or longer


3. Feel gracious as you bow to your partner and escort her off the floor


4. Catch the rhythm of different music styles. Know your tango from your rhumba


5. You can dance in your head and in your heart when it’s not possible to dance on the floor


6. It feels good when a woman asks you to dance


7. Novice dancers melt in your arms as you gently but firmly lead


8. It feels three times better than it looks


9. Physical contact without getting your face slapped!

Physical

10. Improve posture


11. Burn calories


12. Tighten leg and thigh muscles


13. Create new patterns in the brain and reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s


14. You drink plenty of water

Mental

15. Lifelong learning? Learn to dance. No-one lives long enough to learn them all


16. Dance is an international language that you can speak anywhere


17. As a competent pilot and navigator, you engender trust in your partner


18. Thinking about and recognizing the rhythm is a prerequisite to ‘feeling’ it


19. Those smiles of appreciation from a dance partner get embedded in memory

Spiritual

20. Everything in the world is connected. Dancing builds connections


21. From East to West, dance is a spiritual expression

That makes 21, but who’s counting??

Chris Mitchell
Director, Dance Tours
www.dancetours.co.nz
www.dancetours.blog.com