Yes it's great fun, but maybe you might also step your way to improvements in balance and feel, and notice positive changes in both mind and muscle tone.

Research suggests that Line Dancing can benefit an aging brain.  It can improve cognition and delay dementia, increase attention and focus, and reduce depression.

A new report on music from AARP's Global Council on Brain Health (GCBH) reports that dancing offers enormous benefits for your body and brain, from relieving stress to increasing social connections and reducing loneliness. 

The type of dance you choose may be irrelevant.  However, studies show that Line Dancing may protect brain tissue and can provide both mental and social stimulation, both of which may enhance memory.  Together with other forms of dance, Line Dancing may improve spatial analysis (the part of the brain focussed on navigation and remembering layouts), boost skills such as visual recognition and decision-making, stimulate confidence and self esteem and assist in the improvement of posture and balance.

Line Dancing may even reduce the risk of dementia, the GCBH report notes.  In addition, it can provide benefits that other forms of exercise may not, such as improvement of balance. Unlike some workouts and stretching routines, Line Dancing includes rythym and directional change, varying and changing steps moves and altering speed and pattens. Repetitive patterns vary which naturally challenge the brain and stimulate Brain to Body and Body to Brain togetherness.

........ So maybe its a no brainer! Line Dance! Bring your friends!

Let the endorphins flow. Let's chase those incredible feelings of calm, stress reduction and happiness.  Take a chance!  You know you want to!

It's good for you.  Enjoy the new friendships. 😃

"Come Dance with Me"!