Wellness

I think tango improves my health.  It's not a workout, as such.  I don't think it matches up to the gym.

But it's a meditation.  You put yourself somewhere else.  Your attention is focused on a single thing.  There's no spare brainpower to think of anything else.  Not for me, at least.  For a little while, you can't afford to have work worries pop into your brain or money problems barge themselves into your consciousness.  It's meditation for those who think meditation sounds too much like hard work.

Somehow, the burdens seem less heavy and the barriers seem less significant at the end of a milonga than they did at the beginning.