Is it Bharatanatyam Helps Our Health Goodness?
How Bharatanatyam Helps Our Health Let's Seeeeeeeee
1. Good eye exercise:
There are various eye movements (drishti bheda) in Bharatanatyam that help in exercising your eyeballs. increasing blood circulation to the organs that we use the most every waking second. These simple movements also ensure that your eyes are not tired from constant use. So bharatanatyam helps maintain health in your visual sense organ.
2. Increased physical fitness:
Children perform songs that are eight to ten minutes long.They act as an effective warm-up exercise and help you dance longer and increase endurance. This increases their stamina. More advanced students perform varnams that are 30 minutes long!
3. Enhanced sense of balance:
With araimundi and muzhu mandi and various postures that challenge you to find your sense of gravity, Bharatanatyam has infinite poses that encourage you to maintain physical as well as mental balance.
4. Chance to learn new languages:
Bharatanatyam songs are set to Sanskrit, Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu songs. When you learn dance steps and enact scenes with full understanding and assimilation of the meaning of the songs in different languages, you feel empowered as well as connected to a wider group of people.
5. Improved flexibility & movement:
Shiro Bheda (head movements), Greeva Bheda (neck movements), Drishti Bheda (eye Movements), araimundi (seated squat), and many more such movements in bharatanatyam ensure that dancers move and exercise different parts of the body – both independently and simultaneously.
6. Enhanced self expression:
Bharatanatyam dancers are trained to be articulate and emotive; they have strong storytelling skills and the beauty is that it is all non-verbal! With their hand gestures and facial expressions, and, in fact, their entire body, dancers can express powerful emotions and evoke strong feelings in the audience.
7. Connection to Indian culture:
Dance is a medium to introduce children to Indian culture and heritage. Why is this important in a globalised and multicultural society? Because as we grow and move in this diverse society, the question Who am I? will strike you often. Who we are becomes a very important question.
8. Base for learning other dance forms:
Bharatanatyam trains you to be versatile and comfortable with other dance forms. You will find yourself at home with contemporary, Bollywood, free style dance, and even other classical dance forms.
9. Improved career prospects:
The National Education Policy (NEP) has given a boost to music and dance as it has included arts in the curriculum in a holistic manner. So, students can now systematically pursue music and dance such as bharatanatyam and make active careers out of them.
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