Tango: A medicine for many diseases!

Have you thought about doing... tango therapy?

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Maya Angelou, 1928-, African-American poet & author

If, as George Bernard Shaw said, dance is the vertical expression of horizontal desires, then tango is probably the ultimate rhythm of desire. Because this dance is all about “I want”: I want to dance, I want to soar, I want to seduce, I want to be enchanted…

But how would you feel if we told you that tango is also... medicine?

And yet! As psychologists Marina Eleftheriou and Konstantina Karagiozi explain to the Athens News Agency, tango therapy is gaining more and more ground in Greece and the rest of the world.

This is a specially designed therapeutic method that uses music and tango dance in combination with special exercises, with the aim of palliative care or disease prevention.

As research has shown, tango can be a "medicine" for the treatment of heart disease, hypertension, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, depression, anxiety and social phobia.

“Specifically, it is used to help people live a happier life in touch with themselves, with society and with their partner. It helps them discover and resolve conflicts, increase their self-esteem, improve their body image, overcome anxieties and fears, create relationships, and improve their posture,” says Ms. Eleftheriou.

Tango the spa in a psychiatric hospital in Argentina.

Tango therapy has begun to be tested – where else? – in Argentina. At the country’s largest psychiatric institution, Borda, nurses and doctors take off their medical gowns for a while and dance tango with patients! Doctors have found that this helps patients with psychotic syndromes to communicate with the world of other people again, after all… it takes two to tango! While it enhances cognitive functions and memory as people try to learn the steps of each choreography…

… But also in Boston…

Source: www.news.gr/kosmos/episthmonikes-anakalypseis