Come, kick up your heels with Westsyde Squares Dancers

Dear Editor

Increasingly, the relationship between good health, mobility, and exercise is being emphasized. At all stages of life from childhood through to seniors, exercise is recognized as the major factor that inÁuences healthy and vibrant life-styles.

It is also noteworthy that despite this knowledge, Ànding an activity that can be normalized into one’s life-style to ensure that the exercise actually occurs is challenging.

Often, we tend to go in spurts in Ànding an exercise program such as attending a gym, going for walks, taking up running, or swimming, but are not able to sustain it due to its repetitiveness, because it is often a solitary activity, or the demands of the exercise make it uncomfortable and unsustainable.

For those who may be facing these challenges to being active and working towards Àtness and health, I would like to recommend getting involved with square dancing.

Popularized in the mid-20th century, square dancing is an activity that combines physical movement with music and provides an all-round form of exercise that includes mental attentiveness, memory exercise, listening skills, and the co-ordination of mental and physical aerobic exercise that is fun, allows for developing social relationships, and is sustainable because of the pleasure and rewards square dancing offers.

Square dancing does not require any advanced or technical dancing skills; if you can move you can dance. Square dancing incorporates all types of music from country and western to rock and roll, and is cued-dancing with a person who calls out the moves.

It promotes health, mobility, is alcohol free, and affordable. It can include the whole family and is suitable for anyone 10 years old or above.

The Westsyde Squares Dance club of West Kelowna invites anyone interested in trying this fun and healthy recreation to a free dance session at the Westbank United Church Hall, at 3672 Brown Rd., West Kelowna, on Sept. 12 at 6 p.m.

If you would like more information, please phone Terry and Linda Green at 250 494 1406 or Bill and Bev Holland at 1-250-707-0750. Terry Green, new dancer co-chair Westsyde Squares Dance Club Summerland