| Dance gives us loads of room for self-expression and | | | | moment with your eyes closed. Feel the connection |
| can be potent in assisting the body and mind to be | | | | of your feet to the floor and just calm down. if you |
| stimulated. It is all about movement, music, and you. | | | | have the feeling completely at a loss at what to do, |
| Everyone agrees that dancing is beneficial. It is | | | | imagine your breath supplying your entire body with a |
| exercising without "feeling" as you are exercising, it | | | | golden fluid, making your body light and flexible. |
| expands cardiovascular and mental health, releasing | | | | Allow this to transition into any movements you |
| endorphins while you turn, spin, and easily move. | | | | want, moving as the body dictates. Flow, float, |
| Unfortunately, in our "modernized" society, we have | | | | stomp, and jump up and down. Move quick or in slow |
| lost touch with its potential. In contrast, dance has | | | | motion. The secret is to allow the body to move, so |
| continually been an integral part of many other | | | | do not think too much, just move. Do not worry |
| cultures. You do not have to dance with an African | | | | about how you look, if you are alone, no one can |
| tribe around a roaring fire to understand the healing | | | | see you. If you are in a dance class, everyone else is |
| advantages of dance, luckily, all you require is | | | | laughing, making an identical mistakes you are. |
| yourself. | | | | When you really get into it after a while, you will |
| The other superb thing about dance is that it can be | | | | completely notice something, you are not worrying |
| completed either in the privacy of your own home, in | | | | as much anymore, you are sleeping better, you are |
| dance classes as a recreational outlet, at a party with | | | | not as irritable at work or at home with your family, |
| friends, or as you do any number of household | | | | and you feel extraordinarily "healed" in a few way. |
| activities, fitting slightly "swing" in your steps. | | | | In fact, the natural bodily healing and restoration can |
| "Oh, I cannot dance," you will say, cannot, or will not? | | | | last from a few of minutes to a many hours. People |
| Dancing is easily moving, like wayward walking. It | | | | young and old, in all states of fitness, living in all |
| does not have to be funky crazy or hip, you do not | | | | forms of bodies can take advantage of dance. Those |
| have to go with a style you do not feel comfortable | | | | with injuries or physical challenges can benefit and |
| with, and those of you with "dance inhibition" are | | | | any "able bodied" person just listens to your body |
| free, closely daily, to find time and a private place | | | | and work with its restrictions. Dance might be use for |
| large enough to move around freely again, better | | | | healing drastic stresses and also "everyday life," for it |
| known as dancing. | | | | is often that these stresses create up, manifesting in |
| Choose music you feel comfortable. Music choices | | | | extreme tension, anger, and even illness. |
| naturally vary from person to person, and even from | | | | Remember, you are not forcing your body to move |
| day to day, so it just does not matter of you | | | | according to somebody else's steps, to surely dance |
| decides to dance to Prince, Mozart, Garth Brooks, or | | | | is to just tune in to your own personal radio station, |
| Billie Holiday. That is the first rule, Never put any kind | | | | and move in line with the rhythm of your soul. Dance |
| of limitations on yourself, thinking, "I like that music, | | | | slow, dance quick, dance solo, dance with others, |
| but how do you dance to "Jingle Bells"? | | | | dance with joy, and even dance the sorrow out of |
| When you are prepared to begin, stand for a | | | | your heart. There are no rules, just dance! |