Posts in Tango and spirituality
Marriage Counseling and Argentine Tango: If Your Marriage Is Falling Apart, Can Tango Help?

From the get-go, it’s easy to see how Argentine tango as dance may be a vehicle for repairing marital breakdowns. The dance’s sensual nature and its need for close physical contact can be the first step in bringing couples together into a loving embrace that lasts even after they’ve left the dance floor.

The physical contact that may be absent in the home or in the bedroom can be safely and respectfully re-established through tango, as the dance becomes a space in which trust and cooperation are encouraged.

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The Transformative Power of Tango: Physical, Mental Health, and Educational Benefits

Tango facilitates a safe environment for connection and communication while encouraging physical exercise, promoting STEM learning, and helping to manage the stress epidemic.

Tango, for one, is far from the monotony of the treadmill, making it a more sustainable form of exercise and ideal for weight management across generations. It provides a total body workout – enhancing cardiovascular conditioning, increasing flexibility, and building muscle strength and tone, not to mention stronger bones and reduced risk of osteoporosis.

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Is Tango an Addiction? - Argentine Tango debates

When asked about why they are addicted to Tango, self-proclaimed Tango addicts have a myriad of intriguing responses. Some answered that it was because of the interaction with the opposite sex. Another referred to Tango as his "quasi-religion" and described it as the artistic expression and freedom he needed to cope with all the order and humdrum of his daily life. One even compared Tango to fishing as a form of meditation.

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Tangasm - Have You Had One?

Perhaps, it is the very nature of tango as an improvisational dance that fosters this idea that it is a sensual — even sexual — experience. The freedom with which we can move while dancing the tango is the kind of liberation that is absent in the daily lives of many people, especially to those whose careers demand intense compartmentalization of time and activities.

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“Por Una Cabeza” - Why Everyone Dances To This Song and Why You Might Not Want To

Looking at the translation, “Por Una Cabeza” is a song that compares one’s addiction to horse racing to an addiction to women. It talks about how the man, from whom the song’s perspective is based, is constantly beleaguered by his enchantment of different women whose passing glances and momentary displays of supposed affection are enough to make him swoon and “gamble” away his love.

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Tango Dancing Pope - Argentine Tango in the Vatican

Have you ever joked in a semi-serious manner that Tango is like a church, a religion, a cult? We hear it all the time - most often in reference to the fact that most of our classes and Milonga Ideal are held on Sunday. Every week you attend your Ultimate Tango ‘church’. Keep reading…

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