Today’s guest post is from Chris' blog
Emotional
- Endorphins give you a natural high
- Forget life’s pressures for a moment or longer
- Feel gracious as you bow to your partner and escort her off the floor
- Catch the rhythm of different music styles. Know your tango from your rhumba
- You can dance in your head and in your heart when it’s not possible to dance on the floor
- It feels good when a woman asks you to dance
- Novice dancers melt in your arms as you gently but firmly lead
- It feels three times better than it looks
- Physical contact without getting your face slapped!
Physical
- Improve posture
- Burn calories
- Tighten leg and thigh muscles
- Create new patterns in the brain and reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s
- You drink plenty of water
Mental
- Lifelong learning? Learn to dance. No-one lives long enough to learn them all
- Dance is an international language that you can speak anywhere
- As a competent pilot and navigator, you engender trust in your partner
- Thinking about and recognizing the rhythm is a prerequisite to ‘feeling’ it
- Those smiles of appreciation from a dance partner get embedded in memory
Spiritual
- Everything in the world is connected. Dancing builds connections
- 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
2 comments:
Thanks Talia. You've got a great site and some brilliant ideas for sharing your knowledge. I am still voting for you in the Weblog competition each day and hope others are too.
I hope we can dance sometime.
Chris
Thanks for your kind comments and votes!
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