Tango Therapist

Yin is the unsung hero of tango's magic.  What people often watch and praise, however, is the Yang-action in tango. Even in life...

Get ready! If you love a subject and you are ready , the teacher will appear -- or so goes the saying.  But it's just not that easy...

He's talking and she's looking for an escape. This blog post focuses on Mindfulness (one of the four M's of Tango). A  ta...

This is what she says each time she goes dancing: "Tonight will be my last ever milonga." But she says it with a smile.  She ma...

A moment of stillness before the International Dance Concourse in Vienna A concourse is an open space where people or paths converg...

Fifteen minutes of commitment is harder than you might think. It's an engagement.  What got me thinking about commitment or engageme...

H ow is your relationship with tango going these days? It will survive if you transition successfully through different phases that all ...

She peered into my eyes and looked concerned after we danced for just two songs of a tanda . I had been dancing at a small weekend t...

A bout four years ago, I came up with a motto for this blog:  "The 3 M's of Tango: M usic / M ovement / e M brace."   B...

Timeless flow is the state of mind that makes tango magical. "Timeless Flow" is a way to describe the wonderful state of mind...

My last blog entry introduced Gretchen Rubin, who had written a New York Times Best Seller, The Four Tendencies . I have a video belo...

At a national conference of therapists, the organizers invited Gretchen Rubin, who had written a New York Times Best Seller, The Four Tend...

She and I are both percussionists.  It may be one of the reasons I love dancing with her. Without exception, she reminds me of our drumm...

I know that from my own dancing, especially with certain milonga tandas, that I feel constrained not by a pre-scripted choreography bu...

I f you would become a true tango artist  in today's world, I believe one must become very much like the Impressionists in Paris, Fr...

Encuentro in Paris, France In Europe , and now more and more in America, organizers have developed little tango festivals ( festivalit...

An allegory on a taboo subject by Mark Word My  meditation teacher and tango partner was not kidding:  "Mind-Travel" she cal...

M y last doctor's appointment in 2017.  I am at Dr. Tango's office in the waiting room. Suddenly an overwhelmingly st...

Tango:  A matter of life and breath. L ife's all about survival.   The way we go about survival can be a range behaviors from egoce...

My wife says she's come to the realization that we are "out-of-status" dancers. My wife had lamented that she hardly...

F ind your "other half" in tango! I do not mean finding someone to accompany you to tonight's milonga.  If you are sea...

A utonomic Dancing is a connection to the music and natural embodiment of music. An example of autonomic dancing is found in Cuba. Dan...

L et's say that one day  I can no longer dance Argentine tango. I feel strongly that the skills I have learned from social tango wou...

"Getting to Zero" is a goal theory with a big hole in the center of it. Getting to Zero and then beyond , however, is the...

There in no cure for dance phobias except by dancing.  The fear of dancing (chorophobia) has no special pill, no easy therapy, no heal...

F or many who dance tango --and I am one of them--tango is like visiting heaven.  But is it tango that makes people happy or something e...

This post may save someone's life.   No matter who you are in life, you will be touched by others for whom you care who will...

Preface: Below is a curriculum for small cities.  Gender balance is a good place to start.  So do it!  I hope this curriculum help...

WMD:  Weapons of Peace WMD is not "Weapons of Mass Destruction" as used here! Tango uses WMD. Words. Music. Dance. Thes...

A fter seven years  many people give up, or reassess what the future should be.  That's the seven year itch.  I am not giving up, b...

The why of the embrace, the music, the movement: Dance survival “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any ...

W hen someone finds out that I love to dance, they nearly always ask, "Do you compete?" My answer is: "Yes, I compete with...

Is your tango "coherent"? "Cardiac Coherence"  is a term you will start hearing regularly. From this new area of stu...

Beginners  need to know a few things that hopefully are already clear to others, but if you are a beginner, just as in life, the ...

Whatever behavior or cognitive skill  developmental psychologists study, only one human behavior does not quite fit into their model...