{"id":1904,"date":"2015-01-15T06:10:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T06:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2015-01-15T06:10:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T06:10:01","slug":"ballroom-dancing-provides-physical-health-and-emotional-boosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/blog\/uncategorized\/ballroom-dancing-provides-physical-health-and-emotional-boosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballroom Dancing Provides Physical, Health and Emotional Boosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1905 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2015\/04\/Bardonia-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Bardonia\" width=\"297\" height=\"446\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"wrapper\">Ballroom Dancing Provides Physical, Health and Emotional Boosts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Janie Rosman (from Rockland County Times)<\/p>\n<p>Since New City resident Mary Miele, 62, began kicking up her heels three years ago, she\u2019s never felt better. \u201cIt\u2019s like therapy for the body and soul,\u201d Miele, said of her two-to-three-times a-week sessions at Fred Astaire Rockland County Dance Studio in Bardonia.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what mood people bring into the dance studio, she guaranteed they\u2019ll leave smiling. \u201cIt\u2019s a great workout, and practice also develops muscle memory,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have to think about the steps and how you\u2019re moving to the music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senior who regularly took part in ballroom dancing reduced their risk of developing dementia by 76 percent risk reduction in dementia, the highest reduction of any activity in the 20-year project, per the New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>When the stress of medical studies prompted him to seek some relaxation, Victor Russu, then a student at Medical Univesity in Chisinau, Moldova, turned to dance. Eventually he entered competitions and began to use choreography on his patients to help those with scoliosis and arthritis.<\/p>\n<p>Russu, a former general medicine practitioner and owner of the Bardonia studio since 2001, said his training helps him understand more how the body moves, its coordination, and how to assess a new dance student.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsually I try to ask students how they ask health wise,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to make people\u2019s lives better so they became more confident and health wise, give them a chance to reach their (physical) potential.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballroom Dancing Provides Physical, Health and Emotional Boosts by Janie Rosman (from Rockland County Times) Since New City resident Mary Miele, 62, began kicking up her heels three years ago, she\u2019s never felt better. \u201cIt\u2019s like therapy for the body and soul,\u201d Miele, said of her two-to-three-times a-week sessions at Fred Astaire Rockland County Dance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,23,24,26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballroom-dances","category-dance-info-news-trends","category-lifestyle-self-improvement","category-nutrition-health","category-staying-young","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/morristown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}