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10 Health benefits of Garba & Dandiya Raas:

 Along with enjoying your passion for dance, you will be happy to know that there are various health benefits of Garba & Dandiya Raas during Navratri.

1. As good as an intense workout: The dance during Navratri is as good as aerobics or cardio workout since it involves the entire body. You are dancing there with your hands swaying and feet dancing making every part of the body move to music.

2. Confidence booster:  When you exercise, your body releases chemicals called endorphins which trigger a positive feeling in the body. So dancing with your friends and enjoying it too acts as a major confidence booster. 

3. Helps in weight loss: Those who dance during these nine nights swear by weight loss at the end of the festivities. The various moves make you lose weight as well as some inches on the waist.Playing Garba for 20 minutes burns about 250 to 300 calories, which makes it easy to lose weight.

4. Makes your body flexible: The daily dance routine helps you stretch all your body muscles making it flexible. It also helps in increasing your stamina. That is because over the nine days, the body becomes more flexible and used to intense moves. 

5. Improves mental health and relieves stress: It helps you sleep better as your body is tired and improves your mood too. The music and rhythmic movements relax your mind and release happy hormones like serotonin which melts away the stress and relaxes the mind, body, and soul.

6. Improves Memory: If people above 35 years of age play Garba with enthusiasm, then their forgetting problem can end. It is believed that playing Garba controls the hippocampal head in the brain and improves memory (protects people from risk of dementia).

7. Garba purifies the mind:  Increases positive energy in a person and removes negative thoughts

8. Brings glow on the face.

9. Garba improves the function of the lungs:  So that the person does not have trouble breathing.

10. Keeps you happy.