Dance Your Way To Health - 2014

With good wishes of the YVN family, Dance Therapy was started in the Annual Meet of 2007. Since then many students have helped to grow and develop Dance Therapy as an approach towards Holistic Health. I find, ‘Dance Therapy’ as the most powerful, interesting, sustaining, and energizing total  health package, which would be very easy for everyone to have Holistic Health.

Exercise can be fun too. Try adding dancing to your fitness routine.

Dancing can be magical and transforming. It can breathe new life into a tired soul; make a spirit soar; unleash locked-away creativity; unite generations and cultures; inspire new activities; kindle inner strength; trigger long-forgotten memories, and turn sadness into joy, all these, only when we dance.

On a more physical level, dancing can give us a great mind-body workout. Researchers have found that regular physical activity can help us to keep our body, brain, and psyche healthy as we age old. Exercise increases the level of brain chemicals that energies nerve cells to grow. And in dancing, we require to remember steps, moves, and sequences and that boosts brain power and improves memory.

According to Rita Beckford, M.D., a family doctor and spokesperson for the American Council on Exercise, published in New England Journal of Medicine found that ballroom dancing at least twice a week made people less likely to develop dementia. Research also has shown that some people with Alzheimer's disease are able to recall forgotten memories when they dance to music they used to know.

It could be any form of dance, it helps people of all ages in physical abilities and stay in shape. There's even chair dancing for people with physical limitations. An obese adult can burn about 150 calories doing 30 minutes of moderate social dancing.

AYUSH, of GOI,  Yoga is Dance Therapy aimed to work on cleansing and strengthening the Pancha Koshas. In Dance Therapy we have taken musical numbers for working on each of the Koshas.

Since everything on Earth including our Sthula Sharira is from SUN, we start with a prayer to Sun then, bring coordination between brain and body, next energized the body system by deriving maximum oxygen through Aerobic movements and finally relaxed and submit to Supreme Power - the NATURE.

1.   Surya Beeja Mantra with Namaskar

2.   Next warming up and Brain Exercise to activate our brain cells, practices to Cope with Stress

3. Work out for Annamaya and Pranamaya Koshas starting with Standing aerobic exercises then on floor aerobic exercises to derive maximum oxygen to body parts

4. Work on mind and intellect – Manomaya and Vijnanamaya Koshas to understand the final destiny for this body is ABODE of Paramatma – using Kabir’s song

5.   Finally, try to be in Anandamaya Kosha and get merged with GOD and Nature. 

 

Brief on Dance Therapy 

Sun is ORIGIN of ALL - Pray Sun God -

Suryanamaskar Position V

Warming & Stretching - Veera Bhadrasana

To activate the Brain Cells -
Here Massaging Brain Buttons!

Brain Exercise for Coordinated Movements

COPE with STRESS with Tongue Lock

COPE with STRESS with Simha Mudra
to Drain all Tension

COPE with STRESS with Eye Movements

STRESS relief Eyes connecting Brain Cells

After Cool Mind at One Place, now Workout. Through Aerobic Movements to Get Maximum Oxygen to clean cells, repair tissues, strengthen organs & making systems efficient.

   

        

Next on Floor for All body parts & Joints

Now on Mind, Intellect and GOD with Kabir's Song

and Blissful Music

             

Thanks to our Guruji Padma Shri Nimbalkar

for Blessing and Gracing the occasion 

Benefits Abound

Like any other slow, moderate, low-impact, weight-bearing activities, such as brisk walking, swimming, cycling or aerobics, dancing can help:

• strengthening the muscles without hurting your joints
• empower the nerves
• tone your entire body
• improve posture and balance, which can prevent falls
• increase endurance, stamina, and flexibility
• reduce stress and tension
• build confidence
• provide opportunities to express our mind, and
• ward off illnesses like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, osteoporosis, and depression