Dancing with Dee
Earlier this autumn Step One and Live Longer Better co-delivered Jess Slade’s program ‘Live Longer For Better’ campaign. 16 students were booked on to this Fitsteps Session led by Fitsteps Instructor Dee Allbrook, our Recovery Practitioner and course facilitator for Wellbeing Yoga and HOPE groups. Dee also delivers evening classes at PURE gym on Thursdays and Newton Abbot Leisure Centre on Mondays.
“ “It was slightly nerve wracking not knowing the exact demographic I would be teaching other than 50+ and likely to need specialist population alterations, in the end adaptations meant everyone felt at ease. Fitsteps is a lovely combination of Latin and Ballroom with co-founders such as Ian Whaite who recently won Strictly’s Come Dancing in Australia.””
“The session was built up from an initial stage movement to the next stage carefully. Instructions were easy to follow and everyone felt they’d achieved something. Everybody felt they’d managed to do some Ballroom and Latin dancing. We loved the music, and it felt educational, a good cross section of exercise reflecting all abilities.”
Finding ways to move your body has long been touted as a reliable way to improve your mental health and overall wellbeing. Further information can be found in the following Harvard Medical School’s article, Dancing and the Brain.
However you like to do it, move with joy!
“Dance, in fact, has such beneficial effects on the brain that it is now being used to treat people with Parkinson’s disease, a progressive neurological movement disorder.”