Salsa dancing reduced depression and anxiety in young adults, Oxford study finds
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Do eight weeks of salsa classes sound like an intervention to you? Show up, learn the footwork, rotate partners, move to music with a room full of people you probably don’t know. And at the end of those eight weeks, if you danced as part of this recent study, you would have likely shown measurably lower depression, less social anxiety, and more happiness in daily life than those who didn’t. Researchers at the University of Oxford and Oxford Health NHS Trust r
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