Benefits of Dancing

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Dance has been around forever. It’s an art form that’s basically a sequence of movements performed by the human body to the beat of a certain song (although, not limited by music), but it is way more than just that. It’s a great form of exercise, a creative outlet, and a way to express yourself through movement. It stimulates your brain and even promotes social interaction. Whether you want to start dancing as recreation or you want to go the competitive route, we want to let you know of the amazing health benefits for which you’ll be signing up.

 

Health Benefits of Dancing

Besides being great fun and accessible for people of all ages and sizes, there are other benefits that come with dancing.

 

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  • Improves cardiovascular health and increases lung capacity. You could say it help us keep ourselves young.
  • Increases muscle tone and strength.
  • Promotes weight loss as it helps burn a lot of calories. According to www.dancescape.com: “It is estimated that dance burns anywhere from 5 to 10 calories per minute depending on speed and intensity.”
  • Exercises our memory as we have to repeat and remember steps in a routine. It’s basically a great workout for our brain.
  • Helps us relax and relieve stress.
  • Improves coordination, flexibility, and agility.
  • Develops core strength.
  • Gives our self-confidence and self-esteem a boost.

 

Dance Freely: No Cultural Barriers

 

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Besides the health benefits that come with dancing, it also encourages cultural diversity. There are no cultural barriers to dance. Learning dances from around the world has a way to bridge the gap between cultures, bringing us closer together. Plus, it’s indoors, so it’s the perfect workout for Denver winters. Check out our world dance classes in Denver such as Bollywood, Afro-Caribe, Samba and Belly Dance. We even have some great world dance classes for kids, too, because it is never too early to start dancing.

Dancing Health Benefits

Dancing, as a whole, has many health benefits for all ages. Researchers have found that dancing reduces the feeling of stress, increases energy levels, improves muscle tone, and can even improve an individual’s coordination. It can also lead to lower risks of heart disease, decrease blood pressure, and assist people in managing their weight.

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Dancing has many other physical and mental benefits for the participant. The physical benefits of dance include an increased body awareness, cardiovascular endurance, muscle toning, and even bone strength. You may have noticed from watching those dancing television shows that dancers have a certain way of moving all the time. This is because dancers generally have great body awareness. They are used to having control over their bodies, and they know what their bodies can do.

Dancing classes that include aerobics will generally involve quick-paced movements that are designed to get the heart rate up. This increase in heart rate over a period of time leads to greater cardiovascular endurance. An example is Latin dance, which requires the use of many muscle groups at once.

Often, the arms are up in the air, the hips and core are twisting, and the legs and feet are moving fast all at the same time. All of this constant movement leads to a more toned and slimmed muscle tone.

Lastly, like walking or jogging, dancing is a weight-bearing activity that will help maintain bone density.

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Mental benefits from dance include memory improvement, increased self-esteem, and stress relief. Memorizing steps and being able to recall them from week to week is a great way to improve memory. With the various choices for exercise and physical activity, dancing is quickly becoming a favorite for the crowd.

The benefits that it has for both the body and the mind make it a great choice for anyone who is looking for a fun way to bring activity to their lives.

The Benefits of Proper Breathing Techniques

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Learning proper breathing techniques for dancers is just as important as practicing and perfecting your moves.

The truth is that the right amount of oxygen will enhance your performance. Although we may be aware of these, here are some common mistakes dancers often make that prevent them from breathing efficiently:

  • High anxiety levels: Controlled breathing helps to relieve tension dancers may be carrying. This can relax muscles and loosen movements. Dancers who are stressed are more prone to injuries. Practicing breathing exercises will help dancers to move more fluidly and give a better performance, all while preventing physical harm.
  • Only focused on hold in the stomach and having the shoulders back: It is best to try to focus on your diaphragm by focusing on expanding your ribcage. A proper breathing technique includes heavy utilization of diaphragmatic breathing.
  • Lack of awareness of their breathing patterns: For many dancers, the highly technical complexity of the art makes it easy to forget to breathe. Instead, pace your breath to the tempo. This exercise will help prevent stiffness and tension when performing and make your dance appear smooth and effortless.
  • Tight muscles – like the abdominals, chest, and neck – that restrict the diaphragm from doing its work: Your diaphragm isn’t just for breathing – it also plays huge role in postural stability. If you don’t use your diaphragm properly, you’re missing out on a whole world of stability challenges and choreographic possibilities.

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There are a couple of easy exercises you can use to get accustomed to this practice. We suggest that students lay with their backs on the floor with their palms on the lower abdomen. Take deep breaths to the count of four and watch your hands rise. Exhale and focus on tightening the abdominal muscles.

Another option is to practice a few easy yoga poses, like upward salutes and forward folds, while inhaling as you raise your arms up and exhaling as you bend forward to touch your toes.

Once you start to focus on properly breathing, you will instantly experience the benefits, such as improved posture, less stress while dancing, and getting rid of various musculoskeletal aches and pains.

What do you need to start dancing today?

Learn About Other Cultures Through Dance

Dancing can be one of the best workouts you experience!

It is also a very creative, free and emotive way of self-expression and artistic performances. Even though you’re amazed by ballet dancers, or latin dancing contests, dance is for anyone and everyone.

Incorporate physical activity into your lifestyle, along with a balanced diet, and enough sleep for a healthy routine. Learn of what you need to start dancing today and of the amazing benefits of dancing.

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What is needed to dance?

It really doesn’t require anything but your will, discipline and effort, plus your feet and a great attitude! Dancing is a physical activity that offers a wide variety of styles to satisfy everyone’s tastes and likes. When you listen to music and involuntarily start moving your feet to the beat, you need more dance in your life. Try any of the many World Dance Classes we offer in Denver: Samba, Belly-dancing, Afro-caribe, Bollywood, Hot Hula, Bharat Natyam, Tribal Infusions Belly Dance, Ballroom Latin Foundations and Classical Foundations.

Benefits of Dance

Exercise will provide you with many benefits to your overall well-being, even if it’s just 10 minutes. A full dance class will provide you with a cardiovascular workout, will liberate endorphins into your body, and leave you feeling less stressed and more relaxed.

Dance will help you increase your body’s flexibilty and strengthen your muscles and bones. It also helps boost your memory and workout your brain in such a way the it prevents dementia, memory loss and other mental diseases.

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Bella Diva Dance’s  new studio is located in the Glendale Center on E. Mississippi Ave and Birch St, near Colorado Blvd. We offer you: Belly Dance, Samba, Yoga, Bollywood, Hot Hula Fitness, Afro-Caribe and Kids’ World Dance. Learn of some great venues to go dancing in Colorado and of the amazing benefits these yoga postures can give to your body.

Need to workout? Reasons to choose dancing classes

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Regular exercise is essential to living a healthy life. If you don’t have time to do some exercise on a daily basis, be sure to spend time doing some physical activity you like. Dancing is a great workout, plus it’s lots of fun! So, today we share some important health benefits that dancing can give us as a workout.

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Dancing workout benefits

It really doesn’t matter if you think you can’t dance. Our brains are made to rewire themselves based on use. If you want to try a dance class, go for it and be constant to make your brain and body practice more and more each time. Dancing improves our heart’s health, makes us stronger and preserves motor skills and perceptual abilities. Here are some more specifics…

Memory and Cognitive workout

Dancing is one of the physical activities that helps boost our memory and can help prevent the development of dementia by 76 percent. Dancing will stimulate coordination, focus and memory which leads to stronger synapses. In short, it helps you be sharper in the short term and less likely to develop brain diseases in the long run.

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The physical movement, which can also be born from inner spiritual flow, helps release mood-improving chemicals. These chemicals help elevate your mental state, and leave you feeling energized and relaxed. We all need a weekly dose of that combination!

Physical workout

A good 30-minute dance class can burn between 130-250 calories, depending on the intensity of the class. Dancing can target all the areas of your body: core, arms, legs, glutes, back and more. It also helps develop more flexibility and strength. It’s an aerobic exercise that helps raise your heart rate. Depending on the class style, it can be low or high impact exercise. 

 

So make sure to dance as often as possible and you’ll enjoy these great benefits! Read more about Bollywood Basic Moves and Middle Eastern Drums class in Denver.

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Benefits of Dance for Kids

Children are in constant growth and learning. It’s a process that starts from the moment we are born. Part of that process should involve exercise and learning different ways to express themselves physically and emotionally. Dance lessons for children can be very beneficial in various aspects of their lives. Let’s take a look at some of these…

Benefits of Dance lessons for Children

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  • Improve Physical Health: Dancing is a highly physical activity in which they get to improve their flexibility, range of motion, physical strength and stamina. It can also improve muscle tone, correct poor posture, increase balance and coordination and improve overall cardiovascular health.
  • Behavioral Benefits: Dance can help ease children that suffer with hyperactivity disorders, self destructive behaviors, reduce socialization anxiety and improve socialization skills. It can also alleviate fears of performing in front of an audience and improve their social and communication skills.
  • Mental Benefits: Children who are involved in dance will excel in their academics and tend to be more creative. Dancing helps teach a child to focus, creativity, and discipline, all in which are mandatory in any area of education.
  • Emotional Benefits: Dance helps develop self-confidence and self-esteem in a stimulating environment. Dance lessons can encourage children to foster a more positive attitude and explore their own self-expression.
  • Coordination Benefits: Increased hand-eye coordination and improved fine motor skills. Students who can perform complex rhythms can also make faster and more precise corrections in many academic and physical situations.

We offer Kids World Dance lessons, ages 7 – 12. Middle Eastern Folk Dance, Brazilian Samba, Afro-Brazilian Axe, and Indian Bollywood are rotated monthly to learn about their music, movements, culture, costumes, geography and much more! The class is taught by our Instructors Caitlin Brozna-Smith, Erin Anderson and Candice Willard-Fletcher. Our prices:
4 week month series = $52
5 week month series = $65
$15 Drop-in rate (if spots are available)

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JOIN US FOR WORLD DANCE CLASSES IN DENVER

Bella Diva Dance’s  new studio is located in the Glendale Center on E. Mississippi Ave and Birch St, near Colorado Blvd.  We offer you: Belly Dance, Samba, Yoga, Bollywood, Hot Hula Fitness, Afro-Caribe and Kids’ World Dance. Contact Caitlin for more information about classes: 303.359.9414 or email us at [email protected].

 

Start 2015 Getting Fit With The Health Benefits of Dance

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Dance is one of the best exercises there is. Even though it follows patterns and guides, it can be done freely and moving every part of the body. Dance as a regular exercise brings many health benefits that can improve physical ailments, emotional distress and release tension. Let’s take a look at some of the health benefits of dancing.

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  1. Every dance starts with a warm-up and stretching exercises that, little by little, help improve the body’s flexibility. Many dance moves require bending and stretching which also aids flexibility just by dancing.
  2. Memory is actively exercised during aerobic exercises and choreographies through coordination and repetition of series. It’s important to exercise the brain to prevent mental diseases and slow-down aging consequences, like memory loss and dementia.
  3. Using our own bodies as weight, we exert a force of resistance that strengthens muscles and bones when dancing, jumping and leaping in the air.
  4. Dancing liberates tension and combats depression. To move and perform any exercise produces endorphins and serotonin, that are neurotransmitters associated with the sense of happiness and well-being.
  5. Dance is an aerobic cardiovascular exercise that helps in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, helping lose weight at the same time.
  6. Dance requires to have a good posture and to do fast movements that will improve balance and spatial awareness.
  7. Dancing will boost your energy, improve your well-being, help you get a better self-esteem and self-confidence!

 

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What are you waiting for? Get started with your dance lessons today!

JOIN US FOR WORLD DANCE CLASSES IN DENVER

Bella Diva Dance’s  new studio is located in the Glendale Center on E. Mississippi Ave and Birch St, near Colorado Blvd.  We offer you: Belly Dance, Samba, Yoga, Bollywood, Hot Hula Fitness, Afro-Caribe and Kids’ World Dance. Contact Caitlin for more information about classes: 303.359.9414 or email us at [email protected].