Some Health Benefits of Dance

Besides burning calories and building muscle, dancing engages creativity and opens new learning channels within the brain. Through dance, an individual builds strong emotional, cognitive, physical and social assets.

More calories are often burned through social dancing than are burned in a gym. Surprised? The reason is because dancing is fun, so you’re more likely to stick with it.

Shake Your Thing

Aerobic dance is one of the best activities to increase self-confidence and satisfaction. Those who attend dance class improve self-esteem, self-image, reduce stress, gain a sense of well being, and feel connected to a community.

Shimmy Your Memory

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that frequent dancing reduces the likelihood of dementia, and builds memory. If you change your routine, you’ll up the ante because rapid-fire, split-decisions brought on by unfamiliarity improves mental acuity.

Let’s Dance!

All at once, dancing involves kinesthetic, rational, musical and emotional processes. This increases neural pathways in the brain, known as neuroplasticity, and creates new pathways. This keeps your mind sharp, and strengthens how you perceive, learn, make decisions, and reason.

Endorphin Holiday

About 20 minutes into a one-hour session, the body is flooded with pain relieving peptides. Participants experience a burst of positive mood and energy that carries them through the rest of the hour, if not the day.

Other Benefits Include:

• Improved Heart, Circulatory, and Pulmonary Systems

• Reduces Body Fat and Increases the Metabolism

• Decreases Resting Heart Rate

• Decreases Stress and Symptoms of Depression

• Increases Bone Density and Strengthens Connective Tissue

• Improves Posture

• Improves Joint mobility, Flexibility, and Increases Range of Motion

• Increases Muscular Strength, Endurance, and Functional Strength

• Increases Lung Capacity

• Decreases Risk of Injury

• Increases Self Confidence

• Overall Improves the Quality of Life