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CHILDREN: Let them dance!

There are good reasons to enroll your child in a dance class.

Local Moms Turn To Belly Dancing To Enhance Pregnancy, Birth Experience

Many first-time moms admit to being a little nervous during their pregnancy and delivery. Now, some are finding reassurance in an unusual and unconventional way: through belly dancing!

Ideas for getting in shape - Think Outside the Gym

Dance studios specializing in hip-hop, ballroom and even line dancing are great ways to sweat

Dancing Stage: Hottest Party - Dancing in your Living Room

Game that demands a lot of movement from the player is the new Dancing Stage: Hottest Party game, that requires a dancing pad.

Tips for Staying Healthy

Quick and easy steps to maintain healthy lifestyle.

Exercises to Stretch before Dancing

To help your body perform its best, stretching will not only improve your flexibility and the ease at which you can move, but it will also help prevent injuries. Consider stretching as an element that is equally important as training for strength, balance and power.

Ballet to Keep Fit

Admit it, a secret part of you wishes Carrie never broke up with Aleksandr Petrovsky, because you were hoping Mikhail Baryshinikov (and his tight butt) would grace the upcoming "Sex and the City" movie. Why? Because ballet dancers are hot. So, rather than indulging in increasingly elaborate fantasies concerning the cast at Lincoln Center, why not practice a couple of pirouettes yourself.

Health Benefits of Dancing

Top ten health and wellness reasons why you should start dancing today.

Exercises to Warm Up Your Hips

We turn to plies, kicks and often retires to warm up the legs before we dance, but how often do we think about warming up our hips? Here are some great, easy and effective exercises to add to your warm-up routine that will be sure to never again leave your hips neglected. After all of the work that our legs put our hips through while we dance, don't you think it's about time we give a little more attention to our oh-so-precious hips?

Exercises for Fabulous Foot Arches

Try these exercises to develop beautifully shaped foot arches.

When in doubt, DANCE!

Getting in shape doesn't have to be boring and repetitive. These days, you can find a way to get fit that matches your personality and keeps your mind engaged and entertained. Two local exercise instructors have wandered away from traditional aerobics and pilates - one choosing a relatively new activity and the other going back to her roots.

Dancing: Stepping up workouts

Find fun and fitness out on the dance floor

Dancing class is upbeat activity for youths

fifty ballroom dancing students who waltzed and cha-cha-ed their way to health and fellowship

New Kids Dance & Fitness Program Opens in Johnston

Beginning April 5, 2008, children ages 5 - 10 can hop into spring with Junior Jazzercise. A new way for kids to enjoy fitness, make friends, and have fun. Junior Jazzercise will improve large motor skills and teaches coordination, strength, endurance, and flexibility. Kids will also learn about nutrition, body systems, and the importance of physical fitness as they dance their way through specially choreographed age-appropriate routines to today's most popular music and participate in fitness games.

Dancing Hearts: A full dance card for seniors

An innovative dance program that gets elders with dementia on their feet is enriching their lives and offering health benefits.

Priscilla Presley’s Dancing With Plastic Surgery

Priscilla Presley will not only be swiveling her hips on the new season of Dancing with the Stars, as the widow of Elvis and the mother of recently pregnant Marie Presley will also be shaking a few plastic surgery enhanced assets.

Billy Blanks Jr, Breathes Life Back into School Fitness with Cardioke Tour

Billy Blanks Jr's Cardioke launches a US public school tour to fight the childhood obesity epidemic. The event will travel to schools across the US educating and inspiring them with a multi-media interactive show/workout. Come and see 500+ students and teachers sing, dance, workout and feel good together!!!

Downtown Trillium grants announced

Community organizations in neighbourhoods across Toronto will receive $4,905,500 in grants from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF). Many of the 39 grants announced in August by Caroline Di Cocco, Ontario's Minister of Culture, will support healthy living and increased physical activity in Toronto.

Pole Dancing to Shed Pounds

From the outside of the sleepy shopping center, you probably wouldn't even notice Goddess Dance Studio. But behind the walls lies a whole different look at fitness. At this dance studio sneakers are out and sexy stilettos are in!

'Your children are too fat. Either they lose weight or we'll take them away'

A COUPLE have been told their children must lose weight – or they could be taken into care.

Turn Out — It’s Good for your Health!

Reprinted from The Healthy Dancer by Dr. Jason Twardowski. Dr. Twardowski is a classically trained dancer. His Chiropractic and Acupuncture clinic is located in Toronto at Bayview and Sheppard. Contact: 416 226 2552