Folk Dance

BENEFITS OF
DANCING
• Everyone can benefit from dancing - actually regardless or how well people can
actually dance (of which more later) - and increasingly adaptable, inclusive, and accessible
in different ways to people with physical or mental disability.
• Dance offers benefits of one sort or another to every person living, and also to every
community, and group, and organization.
REASONS PEOPLE ENJOY DANCING
• To express emotion.
• As a physical release
• As part of rituals
• For social and romantic experiences.
• To develop and reinforce a common 'code' and mutual understanding among particular social
or ethnic groupings.
• For team-building and group relationships.
• As exercise.
• As a profession.
• For entertainment
THE BENEFITS OF FOLK DANCING:
• Physical benefits of dance

• Mental benefits of dance
• Stress-reduction (physical and mental) benefits of dance
• Workplace and motivational benefits of dance
• Community/cultural/recreational benefits of dance
DANCING IMPROVES PHYSICAL CONDITION IN
TWO MAIN WAYS:
• 1.Dancing exercises your entire body (including connective tissue, nerves, brain, etc)
which tones your muscles, and stimulates and sharpening your senses.
• 2.Dancing increases the amount of oxygen that you take into your body - developing
your cardiovascular system (heart, lungs breathing, etc) - because muscles and brain are
being exercised and so demand more oxygen.
DANCING TENDS TO:
• Improve the condition of your heart and lungs.

• Increase muscular strength, endurance and motor fitness.
• Increase aerobic fitness.
• Improve muscle tone and strength throughout your body from your neck to your feet.
• Help with weight management.
• stronger bones and reduced risk of osteoporosis
• Improve brain functioning, particularly cognitive function - Learning a dance routine helps
increase memory and general brain function.
• better coordination, agility and flexibility
• improved balance and spatial awareness
• increased physical confidence
• improved mental functioning
• improved general and psychological wellbeing
• greater self-confidence and self-esteem
• better social skills.
MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL BENEFITS OF DANCE
This includes improvements to:

• Mental health generally.
• Motivation.
• Happiness and positive outlook.
• Personal relationships.
• Self-esteem and self-image.
• Assertiveness and confidence.
• Stress, anxiety and depression.
• Bereavement and grief recovery.
• Coping with life-changes and emotional trauma.
• Ageing healthily and avoiding isolation and withdrawal.
DANCING CAN HELP MANAGE STRESS AND
ANXIETY.
• Given the challenges of modern life, and the shocking degree to which mental problems
can affect anyone - from simple mild stress to far more serious or even life-threatening
emotional difficulties, it is appropriate to comment further and more specifically about
how dancing can alleviate or resolve problems of stress and anxiety or worse.
• As a therapeutic device, dance has been shown to be a powerful tool in the treatment of
severe and chronic mental health conditions from depression to bipolar disorder, from
eating disorders to obsessive compulsive disorder.
• Dance is frequently proven in studies and personal stories to help manage stresses of all sorts.
• Dancing can do this because of the variety of positive effects it produces in the mind and body, and in
terms of stress or emotional difficulty this might be because:
• Dancing unlocks or releases suppressed feelings which can hurt us or stop us recovering if the feelings
are 'bottled up' or denied.
• Dancing aids the processing of toxins in the body, which under stress become blocked. There is long-
standing and widely held opinion that distress in the mind is directly related to bodily ailments.
• Dancing is another way to move the body and thereby heal or care for our mind.
BENEFITS OF DANCING FOR WORKPLACES AND
ORGANIZATIONS
• Social interaction, relationships, and team-building.
• Removing barriers between people and teams - by virtue of rank/seniority, department,
geography, culture, age, race, and other differentiating aspects of groups and organizations.
• Individual and collective mood improvement - helping increase people's happiness.
• Individual and group health and fitness - mind, body and soul.
WHEN WE DANCE WITH OTHERS THERE ARE
SUBSTANTIAL RELEVANT BENEFITS FOR THE
WORKPLACE, IN TERMS OF:
• Team-building and relationships.
• Equality, and actually helping people relate to each other as equals and fellow humans.
• Conflict diffusion.
• Communications.
• Mutual respect and awareness
COMMUNITY/CULTURAL/RECREATIO
NAL BENEFITS OF DANCE
THE BENEFITS OF DANCING IN SUMMARY.
• Dance offers amazing benefits for human wellbeing - physical and emotional, extending to reducing serious
stress and psychological pressures.
• Dancing, especially as part of a group, is highly motivational. It brings people together to share
experiences, and builds friendships, bonds, and is often the beginning of marriages and families.
• Dancing in various ways improves virtually every aspect human existence, for individuals and
groups.
• In an age of incredible technology and gadgetry, online social networking, fast-food, fast pressurized
lifestyles, fashion, celebrity culture, materialism and artificial constructs, dancing offers some of the
simplest easiest ways to feel good - that money simply cannot buy.

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• Physical benefits of dance

• Improve the condition of your heart and lungs.

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