Three items this week.

**Hypnosis offer**
A childhood friend of mine is offering discounts on her audio hypnotic products. Her products include:

1. Body reshaping and weight management
2. Smoke Free
3. Anxiety, Fears and Phobias management
4. Deep Sleep – a walk through a forest
5. Deep Sleep – peace by the seaside
6. Recentering and Finding Your Alignment
7. Clearing Energy Channels within the Body
8. Healing through the Heartspace (for women)
9. Cultivating Feminine Energy (for women)

You might find some of them useful for dance – especially the phobia one if you find medals and such challenging – or you might be interested in the others for different reasons.
Either way use the add coupon FREEAUDIO on checkout at https://www.resteasyhypnotherapy.com.au/shop-1 to get the discount.
 
**Some social events**
There are two Sunday social events coming up next month at Carnegie Hall (Dutch Club):

• Fleetwood Rocks OZ Nov 6th 3.30 start
• Standing Room Only Now 13th 3.30 start

Doors open 2.30pm $15 entry
Please let me know you interest in these. If we get enough people, then we can book a Destine Dance table.

**Group classes this week**

• Monday 7:30pm – Merengue
• Tuesday 6:30pm – Rumba
• Wednesday 7:30pm - Lindy Hop
• Thursday 6:30pm – Tango

See you on the dance floor

Clint

As you likely recall, the awards night is coming up. This will be on 31 August 2022. All the best if you are going for yours.
 
If you are not, then note we will not have group classes or private lessons that evening. However, you are more than welcome to come to observe. It will be at 5:30pm for a 6pm start. We usually try to get through this quickly so be there on time to see what it's all like - and support your fellow dancers as they improve their abilities.
 
Speaking of group classes. Due to the difficulty finding teachers and the wedding season being upon us, it is difficult to accommodate more private lessons. Therefore, there is now a change in focus for the group classes:

• Each group class will cover only one dance
• The first half will be dedicated to learning some basic steps
• The second half will be the use of those steps under guidance from teaching staff in a more social manner
• Each class will be self contained so anyone can show up and join in
• If you keep going to group classes, then you will cover a number of dances and steadily improve in your general dance ability
• More experienced dancers, like those who take privates, will be able to work on their technique in the first half and practice more advanced figures in the second half of the lesson

There is a new subscription offering for students who want to do group lesson - https://www.destinedance.com.au/group-lessons.html. This could suit you. Or maybe people you know who are looking for a way to get a lot of dance in for the various health benefits classes offer (fun, fitness, socialising, weight loss). Please share with anyone you think might be interested. It is ideal for anyone wanting to get out of the house and do something fun for greater health and socialisation.

 
See you on the dance floor
 
Clint Steele

We are approaching that time of year where people start to stay inside more and become less active. This is never good for your health – physical or mental. A good solution is to lock in a habit or routine that is both physical and social.

And as I am sure you guessed, dance is indeed both physical and social.

So make sure you make your dance lessons part of your weekly routine now. You can also make the social dances on Monday and Wednesday part of the routine (they are part of the group lesson anyway).
Also, if you are having troubles with your private lesson, then we do have some new options. Check out this page - https://www.destinedance.com.au/lesson-options.html - and look at the special options at the bottom of the page.

The group lesson this week are:

• Monday 7:30pm: Argentine tango and salsa (inc social dance after)
• Tuesday 6:30pm: Jive and Cha cha
• Wednesday 7:30pm: rock and roll and Lindy Hop ​
• Thursday 6:30pm: Quickstep and waltz (inc social dance after)

See you on the dance floor
Clint

Many of us know we need to exercise to lose weight. However, to get right to the point, exercise sucks! We need something that is active, but fun. If you don’t like sport so much or feel that it might be hard on the joints, then you need to look elsewhere.

This leads many of us to consider dance as an avenue to weight loss.

But just how much energy does dancing burn?

The slower types of dance are a lot like walking when it comes to burning energy. The faster dances are a lot like jogging. That means an hour of dancing could be like going for a good walk or a reasonable jog. If you take a couple classes a week and then go out to dance as well, then you have a pretty good weekly work out.

However, that is just the energy burned at the time.

Dance will increase your strength by building muscles and tone. The act of building muscle also burns energy so you will get benefits even when you are not dancing as your body burns energy rebuilding itself.

It is about looking good no?

Most of us want to lose weight so we look better. Dance will improve your posture and your movement. That will mean that as well as losing weight, you will also look better because of the dancers posture you will now have.

But health is important.

Dance, by building muscle, providing cardio exercise and improving posture, will provide health benefits that will augment the benefits that come from losing weight. You can expect grater bone density, grater movement of joints and health from better poise. Dance is thus an ideal part of any weight loss program.

Just feeling better.

Weight loss, buy improving health and appearance, makes us feel better. If you are looking for that general sense of wellness, then dance is again ideal. The social nature of it, it’s opportunity to learn, the endorphins from the activity and its sense of fun, all combine to make dance an ideal hobby for those simply wanting to feel better. When you feel better, weight loss becomes easier too.

Based on the above, dance is indeed going to help with weight loss. Considering how dance is social and fun, it makes it more enticing than many other forms of exercise. So, you are much more likely to stick at dance than you are at the alternatives. However, dance also offers benefits beyond weight loss. Benefits that augment the effects of weight loss.
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If you want to consider dance as a way of losing weight, then try a free trial lesson.