SALSA DANCING

The Latin-style dance can keep you young—in body and soul.

- KAITLYN PIRIE

DANCING IS A SENSATIONAL WAY TO FEEL YOUNG. Watching a couple spin around the room is joyful, but the real benefits of salsa come when you join in. "Salsa dancing makes people happy," says Martha Santos, Ph.D., a salsa dancer and an associate professor of Latin American History at the University of Akron. "The music is percussive and exciting, and when you combine it with rapid movements from the various Latin American dance traditions salsa encompasses, it's like the dance has a healing quality."