The Dancing Bug

So did you dance with everyone last week? I’m pretty sure I did. It really is a lot more fun to dance than to not dance. If you want to dance every dance and not sit out all the time, you pretty much have to just not be picky and go for it. So that’s what I did, and I had a great time. How did you all do?

This week’s challenge is the one my dance teacher has been nagging, er, reminding all of her students about in recent weeks. She keeps yelling, er, encouraging all of us to “Breathe! Breathe!”

When we start to think and concentrate too much while we’re dancing, we weirdly forget to breathe. And not breathing is, need I say it? A bad idea.

But remembering to breathe doesn’t mean remembering to inhale. We do that all right. The problem is we don’t breathe out. When we hold our breath, our muscles get tense. We can’t think straight. And then we get out of breath and feel like we’re working a lot harder than we actually need to.

So what I’m challenging you to do is remember to exhale while you’re dancing. Regularly and frequently. In between every exhalation, your lungs will naturally fill up with air, so don’t think about breathing in. Just keep breathing out the whole time. You can try timing it with the music if that helps.

So keep the oxygen flowing this week, and let me know how it goes, okay?