Psycho Tango & Tango Therapy UK

WHAT IS TANGO THERAPY

Basically, tango therapy is a therapeutic technique that uses the Argentinean tango dance and the candombe, milonga, tango and criollo waltz music integrated with special exercises in order to help people feel happy and to connect with the most healthy aspects of their bodies, their lives.

A powerful technique explores the personal resources and, at the same time, maximizes the aptitudes of the human being.

Because of the combination of this particular music, the capacity of creation in the tango dance, the tango dance as an exercise, and the philosophy of the encounters in Tango it is possible to apply this technique:

To help people to live better as a human being in connexion with themselves, as a part of a society and with its interaction in a couple.

To discover and solve some conflicts.

To increase self esteem

To improve the body image.

To overpass conflicts and fears

To enhance the relation between partners.

To improve body postures and balance

To improve aerobic capacity and coordination

To help in the treatment of some cardiac diseases, hypertension, also Alzheimer and Parkinson’s

To help in the treatment of depression, anxiety and social phobias.

To prevent physiological deficiencies and to delay the natural process of ageing

To maintain a healthy brain in old age

However, not all tango classes can be included in this therapy. As there are many ways to learn and teach tango, it is important to understand that not all the classes will be applied.

Tango Therapy needs to be led by a Teacher / Therapist with experience in understanding the meaning of communications between the participants.

Also not all Tango dances will be applied in Tango Therapy. We need to work, from the beginning with steps and structures that are important for memory and postures.

Then from here to continue with improvisations and the creativity of each person. In addition, it is necessary to separate Tango, Milonga and Criollo waltz as different dances because each of them has different meanings and will be used in different interpretations / exercises in the classes.

Dances of passion, happiness and enchantment, dancing the Tango, Milonga and the Waltz that reawaken these forces of life that are living within your own body and help you to live your life more alive, vital, in a sensuous connection with the cosmos and directly from your heart.