{"id":781384,"date":"2026-09-24T19:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781384\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T19:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:28:12","slug":"south-yorkshire-seated-dance-therapy-aims-to-help-quality-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781384\/","title":{"rendered":"South Yorkshire Seated dance therapy aims to help quality of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People with a range of medical conditions and those who are facing health struggles are using seated dancing therapy to help improve their quality of life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The free sessions, run by non-profit organisation Dancing for Health CIC, use dance both as a physical and a social activity, and are supported and funded by the Sheffield Hospitals Charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People affected by strokes, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, neurological conditions, trauma, bereavement, injury and other major life changes can all take part in the classes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kay Layton, who has a spinal injury and who attends the sessions, said: &#8220;I absolutely love them. I like to get up and stand up and dance, but I can&#8217;t do it. I love coming here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sessions, funded by Sheffield Hospitals Charity, regularly take place at the Salvation Army premises on Psalter Lane in Sheffield, while Dancing For Health runs other classes in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People with a range of medical conditions and those who are facing health struggles are using seated dancing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-781384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}