7 Great Benefits of Salsa Dancing

“Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.”-Voltaire

Today I would like to share a guest post with you from my friend Gyurang. Gyurang is the creator of English Salsa In Busan, South Korea.

I have had tons of fun dancing salsa and I would encourage anyone to try it. If you live in Busan, come check us out to get the best lessons on Salsa dancing, all in English and in a nice friendly environment.

If you can’t come join us, Salsa is very popular everywhere, find a local dance studio and go have a blast. Here are 7 reasons why you need to get your dancing shoes on.

7 Great Benefits of Salsa Dancing

1) Social Benefits – You’ll meet more people dancing, than any other single activity on the face of the planet! Singles-bars? Ha! Health-clubs? No way. You’ll laugh at the things you used to do to meet people because once you dance, it becomes so easy – it’s effortless.

2) Strengthens your personal relationships: Married? Trouble with family? You and your boy/girlfriend lost that spark? Dance is the answer (specifically salsa dance – I just had to say it). It helps you relate to others in a passionate, honest, and unique way.

3) Confidence – You’ll be comfortable in yourself, and you’ll find your confidence affects every aspect of your life.

4) Self-Expression – The ability to express yourself, verbally or with movement, is important to us. Perhaps you’ll have to hear and feel the music first, to fully grasp this one, but the ability to express yourself, with another person, to beautiful, exciting, and passionate music, fulfills a basic human need (that you may not even know you have).

5) Weight Loss – Self-explanatory. You lose weight, you feel better about yourself, and you live longer. Personally, I used to weigh 40 pounds more, and had tried every diet on the planet! Who would have thought, all I had to do was dance? I wish I had known about this earlier.

6) Flexibility, Coordination, and posture: Not only will these benefits affect you, but they also affect how people see you at first glance.

7) Happiness and Fulfillment – I’m not going to get religious, or too spiritual, but we’re all here to lead good lives. To affect others, or to find our place in the world, is no easy task. To be honest with ourselves is difficult, and that says nothing about being truthful to others. Dance is a way to happiness! It’s a way to become honest with yourself and eventually find that fulfillment.

Everyone asks me, is dance truly for everyone? Really, can anyone do it? Is this the answer for every person who has a problem on the planet? The lonely, the overweight, the old, the angry, the disillusioned, the poor? In my eyes – yes.

Not everyone can become the greatest dancer in the world, but everyone has something to gain from the effort. Some people will be affected more than others, some people will try it and move on, but everyone needs to make the attempt.

The more reasons you can think of NOT to do it – the more you’re probably going to benefit from it. I can say that from personal experience!

Keep dancing, and Stay Crazy!

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