{"id":966,"date":"2015-08-12T21:34:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T21:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/?p=966"},"modified":"2015-08-12T21:34:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T21:34:35","slug":"ballroom-dancing-provides-physical-health-and-emotional-boosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/blog\/ballroom-dances\/ballroom-dancing-provides-physical-health-and-emotional-boosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballroom Dancing Provides Physical, Health and Emotional Boosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Janie Rosman (from Rockland County Times)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/202\/2015\/08\/schererville-dancing-couple.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-967 size-medium\" style=\"float: left;margin: 5px 15px 0 0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/202\/2015\/08\/schererville-dancing-couple-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"schererville dancing couple\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/202\/2015\/08\/schererville-dancing-couple-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/202\/2015\/08\/schererville-dancing-couple-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/202\/2015\/08\/schererville-dancing-couple-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/202\/2015\/08\/schererville-dancing-couple.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/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<p><em>*Photo:\u00a0Ann Singer with Michael Moraru, \u201csmooth dance\u201d teacher. Photo credit: Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Bardonia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocklandtimes.com\/2015\/01\/15\/ballroom-dancing-provides-physical-health-and-emotional-boosts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read the entire article and find out more about the health benefits of dancing!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Janie Rosman (from Rockland County Times) 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 Senior who regularly took part in ballroom [&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":[18,23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballroom-dances","category-lifestyle-self-improvement","category-nutrition-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/valparaiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}