Benefits of Dancing

Physical Health:

Dancing provides many health benefits, and is even recommended by many physicians as a fun way to exercise. These benefits include improving your cardiovascular system, helping to maintain your weight and burn calories, and increasing muscle tone. It is also a great way to increase flexibility, strength, balance, and improve your posture.

Mental Health:

Dancing improves your overall mental health. It keeps your mind sharp as you practice memory, problem solving, and self expression. Dancing provides a wonderful emotional outlet that allows you to reflect on your feelings and attitude and release them through movement. It is also a creative outlet, which increases motivation and energy.

Confidence:

Dancing increases self-confidence on the dance floor and in all areas of your life. It helps you become more comfortable in social situations, gives you a sense of achievement, and helps you to acquire more poise and grace.  

Social Life:

Dancing is a great way to improve your social life. As a dancer you will meet other dancers, and develop friendships with people who share a common hobby with you. It is also great way to build skills and confidence that will help you meet people outside of the dancing community. Dancing can be a wonderful hobby for a couple can share, or can be a safe and comfortable way to meet someone who shares a common interest with you.

Stress Relief:

Dancing provides a relaxing way to wind down from the stresses of everyday life. It is a way to escape from your daily activities, take your mind off of your personal concerns, and take time for yourself.

Fun:

Not only do you get all of the benefits listed above, dancing is also a lot of fun and is a great way to add excitement to your life!

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Introduction to Ballroom Dance

This course is designed to introduce you to a variety of Ballroom dances.  The goal is that by the 6^th week you have had a wonderful time, feel more confident on the dance floor, and have begun to have a solid foundation in several dances, techniques, and partnering skills.

6 Week Course

Tuesdays at 7:00pm

Starts January, 19^th 2010 at Yoganics in Kainaliu

$60 for all six lessons with preregistration (before Jan. 12th)

$65 if pay after preregistration deadline

No partner necessary!

Dances introduced in course:

Fox Trot - Fox Trot can begin as a basic dance from which you can acquire a strong foundation of movement. Learning to combine steps easily and smoothly teaches variety and maneuverability. Being able to dance to slow, medium, and fast tempos will add confidence and great social adaptability to your dancing. The Fox Trot provides a good foundation for all dances and is sometimes called the "get-acquainted" or "first impression" dance. As this dance develops it ultimately becomes an extremely skilled dance that can be challenging at the highest levels of Smooth and Standard styles of dance.

Rumba - Learning the Rumba is a prerequisite for good Rhythm dancing. The Rumba is used by good dancers everywhere and provides interesting variety suited to a limited space. Neat, attractive, precise footwork gives you confidence in your dancing. The Rumba will help develop Latin body motion (Aka Cuban Motion) and sharpen your sense of rhythm, timing, and muscular control.

Waltz - The basic Waltz patterns are the foundation for most ballroom dances. The elegant sweeping movement of the Waltz develops strong balance and control, and the ability to move with ease. Correct posture, rise and fall, and smooth movements should be stressed to achieve good styling. Waltz remains to this day as the standard "honor dance" at various formal occasions, weddings, anniversaries and graduations.

Cha Cha - The Cha Cha adds fun to your dancing through its syncopated steps and many open movements. When you can dance many interesting combinations with ease, you will be able to feel the pulsating Latin rhythms which make this dance so fascinating. The Cha Cha is a dance you will be able to use often, and its energetic rhythm encourages you to cut loose and let your personality show.

For more information and to register contact Seatree at

808-990-1417 or seatreeosage@yahoo.com

If you have already taken the Introduction to Ballroom session the Beginner Ballroom starts Monday, January 11th at 7:30pm. Contact me to sign up if you are continuing.