Start living your best life!

Get Dr La Puma's Healthy Bites & Weekly Wows in your inbox to help you feel your best inside and out. Insights, healthy recipes and recommended household, culinary, literary, botanical and natural products to make your life easier, healthier and more fun.


Get Your 2 Free Downloadable Mini-Books When You Sign Up!

Green Rx & Real Age Excerpt

TOOLS & RESOURCES

Free Healthy Recipes

Chef MD

Quizzes

REFUEL

Healthy Bytes

Search
Generic filters
Exact matches only
Filter by Custom Post Type

7 Health Benefits of Dancing

By DrLaPuma 3 years agoNo Comments
Home  /  Wellness and Mental Health  /  7 Health Benefits of Dancing
dancing

Whether you shut the door and close the blinds to move to the beat of your favorite tunes, participate in a formal dance class, or simply “get jiggy” with your kids, dance isn’t just fun — there are health benefits for the mind and body too!

The beneficial effects of dance are largely universal for everyone. Children more freely express themselves through music and movement. And us adults can ease our mental tension simply by bopping to the beat!

Dance has been the subject of research on its general health effects, as well as its therapeutic effects for people living with cancer, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, mental illness, autistic and learning spectrum disorders, and many other health conditions.

Consider some of the benefits of dance. Dancing…

  • Supports a healthy cardiovascular system
  • Builds strength and agility
  • Improves mental health status in patients with various psychological conditions
  • Reduces stress
  • Improves mood
  • Improves joint range of movement and muscle flexibility
  • Enhances body esteem

Whether for toddlers, teens or older adults, many fitness programs have evolved from various forms of dance, including Zumba and Barre classes. Similarly, forms of dance have become fitness pursuits in their own right such as hip hop, country line dancing, and stepping.

Whatever kind of music helps you get your groove on, get on up and dance!

For weekly EcoMedicine advice and my exclusive, free ebook on how to be less stressed and happier using nature, subscribe to my email list.

Category:
  Wellness and Mental Health

Get Dr La Puma’s Healthy Bites free newsletter designed to help make your life easier, healthier and more fun.

Simply add your email below and we'll send you a confirmation.