7 Ways How Yoga Can Benefit Dancers
[vc_row enable_arrows_animation=”no” css=”.vc_custom_1489420866538{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Do you know that Yoga has the potential to take your dance to a higher level? It’s a fact, and today an increasing number of dancers are actually taking the Yoga route to be better exponents of their arts. However, this trend is more visible among practitioners of non-Indian dance forms in the West, than in India. The famous Indian dancers who have leveraged Yoga to excel in the dance domain, include veteran Kathak artiste Shovana Narayan and the young Bharatanatyam dancer of global repute, Renjith Babu.
This article is an attempt to give aspiring dancers, in brief, the benefits of practicing Yoga for them – irrespective of their dance genre.
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Inspiration to love your body
Even of you don’t have the best body in the proverbial term, it should not discourage you as a dancer. Even most of the famous dancers, are not body-perfect. They have accomplished what they have, only because they love their body and are confident of how to use it. Yoga is a scientific art that drives you to love your body and the impact that can have on your dance, goes without saying.
Injury prevention
Irrespective of whether you are a professional or an amateur dancer, there is always the fear of injuring your body, especially during rigorous practice sessions. Getting injured just before a big performance can be a dancer’s worst nightmare. Yoga teaches you how to keep your body injury-free even during the most intensive workout sessions.
Balance and flexibility
Yoga is all about body balance, symmetry and flexibility. In dance, probably you gave to attain these, at a less intensity. Practicing Yoga makes it easier to let your body free to execute even the most difficult movements, especially if you need to stretch tight muscles.
Breath control
Controlling your breath is of utmost important for dancers; otherwise the efforts you are taking to perform show on your face. As a dancer, you need to understand and explore the profound connection between breath and physical movements as well as breath and rhythm, to add finesse to your performance. Yoga helps in this
Mental clarity
Mental clarity means knowing your knowing your body’s strengths and weaknesses, and how much pressures it can take. Practicing Yoga makes you comprehensively aware of your body and its capabilities, and this also gives you profound sense of confidence when you perform.
Relieving stress
Dancing is not the only activity that most dancers do. They could be corporate employees, professionals in varied fields, students or even home-makers, and leading a stressful life because of the expectations they nurture. Yoga is known to be a stress buster, and enables a dancer to be calm and mentally alert at all times.
Self-discipline
If you are seriously into practicing Yoga you tend to develop an utmost sense of self-discipline, which can immensely help you in your dance journey.
So it is amply clear that practicing Yoga can move your dance skills and capabilities, several notches higher.
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