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Article: Aerobics with soul: listen to the beat, feel it in your heart, and stomp it with your feet. (Let Africa Move You)
- Article from:
- American Fitness
- Article date:
- September 1, 1991
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1991 Aerobics and Fitness Association of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The excitement of African dance is usually not the dance, but the way it is performed, and the degree of participation by the audience. The response of the body to expressions of love, joy, fear, grief, despaire and hope, to the accompaniment of music, song and dance opens up the soul of the dancer to the participants for therapeutic cleansing and nourishment. Therefore the mind, body and spirit are simultaneously engaged during the entire duration of the workout. The participant's soul rather than the style of "soul music" is the essence of Aerobics With Soul.
Aerobics With Soul does not teach anatomy or physiology, "spot" reduction, scientific terminology or ...
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