Staying physically active helps seniors boost energy, improve mood, and strengthen the mind-body connection. (Leslie Sokol's Dance photo) The connection between your physical and mental well-being is ...
The graceful movements of dance offer seniors a unique opportunity to enhance their stability. Regular participation in dance classes helps older adults maintain and improve their balance—a critical ...
The Sassy Steppers line dancers took silver in the Greater New Orleans Senior Olympics. Under the direction of Linda Bienvenu, this advanced line-dance exercise class meets twice a week at Ochsner ...
Other than the rhythmic counting, the clicking of shoes tapping and sliding across the hardwood floor, and country music playing softly, the most dominant sound at the Black Hills Dance Festival in ...
Flowers and fancy dinners are Valentine’s Day staples, but for 40 senior women at Eastway Regional Recreation Center, a line dancing class was the activity of choice. Instructor Sean Corbus began the ...
Lakeside/Best Years Center line dance instructor Kay Jordan started learning tap and ballet when she was eight years. In sixth or seventh grade, she started dancing with a partner, and as she got ...
They come for the exercise and learn to dance from a state champion in country western dancing. They are in their 70s and 80s and are dancing to Shaboozey and Beyoncé. Mike Bendavid, who has been ...
WASHINGTON - Let's face it, a solid resistance exercise routine can be tedious, but effective. When it comes to cardio exercise, you have more freedom. You need to raise your heart rate, get your ...
Alice Sakaye, whose mom Maria Liang owns the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, says that dancing always made her mother and fellow studio patrons the happiest. Liang was “always making ...