Emotional Benefits
- Dancing releases dopamine and endorphins, two neurotransmitters responsible for feelings of pleasure and happiness
- It’s a great way to express your creative self and your emotions through movement
- Improves mood, giving you the “feel good” factor while you learn, move, and perform
Mental Benefits
- Improves self-esteem – showing yourself that you can learn and master new moves and skills through dance can improve your self-esteem and confidence
- Helps eliminate social anxiety as dancing makes people “loosen up” and feel less self-conscious when interacting with others
- Keeps your grounded in the present, alleviating any worries
- Protects your memory – Prevents dementia and other neurological degeneration such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Social Benefits
- Increases a sense of belonging and alleviates loneliness
- Improves sensitivity, understanding, appreciation, and consideration for others, both for similarities and differences
- Dancing with a partner helps build trust and communication skills, as partners must work together to perform the dance moves
Physical Benefits
- Boosts metabolism – in just 30 minutes of dance, you can burn between 200-400 calories
- Helps managing your weight management and improves muscle tone and strength
- Full body workout – dancing actively involves the muscles of the arms, legs, torso, back, and even the facial muscles
- Increases endurance and stamina as well as coordination, flexibility and motor skills
- Helps your posture, balance, and elegance
- A low-risk way to stay fit for people of all ages, shapes and sizes.
