Beginning April 7: Tai Chi with Salsa Dance; Improve Your Balance & Mindfulness (and have fun doing it!)

Salsa, as it is done in Latin culture, is fun and dynamic (dramatic even!), but it’s also one reason that people in places like Cuba and Puerto Rico age so well. Their center of gravity is awake and alive. They are aware of themselves in space and time, and paradoxically, lost in a trance-like experience that connects them to the roots of existence, much like ecstatic dance. It is the perfect combination of mind, body, and spirit.

Join Tai Chi instructor Kit West, who will start these classes with breath work and chi gong meditation. Very slow step work will follow, with emphasis on weight shifts. Then participants will partner up — but across the room from one another — concentrating on moving together, taking turns being the leader, and mirroring; it’s called, and is derived from a tai chi practice called “Push Hands.” It’s pure dance: you go forward, I go backwards, etc. Dance partners are encouraged to imagine a cord connecting them, sharing one center of gravity with one another.

This is, in essence, a moving meditation.

Tai Chi w/ Salsa Dance; Improve Your Balance & Mindfulness (and have fun doing it!) with Kit West
Mondays (begining April 7); 10:00 — 11:00 AM)
$12 drop-in; $10 w/ a Lotus class card