Do you like dancing? Are you doing it regularly?
It can be a wonderful complex exercise, if you like moving
to music.
It involves physical movement, coordination, balance, and the emotional
component of letting music be expressed and visualized as movements of your
body.
It always is the best to do the kind of work-out that you
really like and are waiting for the next opportunity to do.
That means there is
a great chance you will do it regularly and for a long period of time. And that
is what you want, right?
With time, dancing can become much more than just a physical
workout and have deeply spiritual and quite therapeutic effects.
Especially, if it is Argentine Tango. Even if it is not the deepest and most traditional one it can still be very beneficial for you.
In the deepest version, it unravels and puts you together at
each tanda (a sequence of 4 tangos danced with one partner).
And it happens in
an extremely close embrace with a person of the opposite sex.
In the best
version, it is an improvisation moment by moment inspired by the emotional music
of Argentine Tango, translated by the leader (man) and consummated by the follower
(woman).
During a good tanda with the right partner, it can be a whole life lived in 10 to 15 minutes.
One of the crucial aspects is that the most important part
of this conversation without words happens in the upper part of the body, on
the level of heart, where the connection of the two bodies is the closest and
most stable.
Argentine Tango is even used in the psychiatric practice
and,
in
some psychiatric wards, tango classes are organized regularly.
I started learning and practicing Argentine Tango 11 years
ago and was fortunate to learn from
Chan Park and
Ruben Terbalka.
For seven and a half years, after a relationship, that didn't work out, I lived
without this practice.
But, exactly one year ago, I started missing the deep experience again and was happy to find the traditional Argentine Tango still alive in my town.
Now, I am participating in a milonga every Thursday.
It:
1. provides me with a complex physical exercise to a very emotional music,
2. meets my needs for belonging, intimacy, and physical
contact (with the opposite sex),
3. meets my spiritual need for deep moment by
moment meditation witnessed and stimulated by another human being.
Once a month, together with friends, I go to another town to deepen the experience with complete
strangers.
But they don't stay strangers for long as such a deep experience
builds wonderful mature friendships.
Are you interested and want to know more about this practice?
You can leave a comment
here, contact me on
Facebook or over e-mail (ritajc[at]inbox[dot]lv) or
schedule a FREE call and let's talk!
