{"id":511,"date":"2006-12-15T15:09:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T09:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/12\/15\/it-professionals-dance-their-way-out-of-stress\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T15:09:27","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T09:39:27","slug":"it-professionals-dance-their-way-out-of-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/12\/15\/it-professionals-dance-their-way-out-of-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"IT professionals dance their way out of stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dance your way out of stress <\/em>&#8212; that is the new <strong>fitness <\/strong>mantra for thousands of young IT and BPO professionals in the country. <\/p>\n<p>After <strong>intense <\/strong>work pressure began taking a toll on their health, an increased fitness awareness has set in, paving the way for mushrooming of dance studios which offer &#8220;<strong>shake-a-leg-to- stay fit<\/strong>&#8221; programmes, say industry insiders. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within a short span, there has been a <strong>steady rise<\/strong> in the number of dance studios and professionals who frequent them, says Lokesh Naik, a senior technical writer with an IT firm and a regular visitor to the <strong>Bangalore arm <\/strong>of dance studio network <strong>&#8216;Swingers&#8217;<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>According to B Murali, noted film choreographer and founder of Chennai-based Swingers, <strong>30 to 40 dance studios have come up in Chennai while around 50 in Bangalore, all within a short span. <\/strong><br \/>\nSwingers has six branches across the country and abroad has over 1,000 students on its rolls, of which more than 50 per cent are IT or BPO professionals, he adds. <\/p>\n<p>Many companies, including <strong>Microsoft, IBM and Club Mahindra <\/strong>had dance trainings and workshops organized by Swingers, Murali says. <\/p>\n<p>Read More @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/004200612150313.htm\">Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dance your way out of stress &#8212; that is the new fitness mantra for thousands of young IT and BPO professionals in the country. After intense work pressure began taking a toll on their health, an increased fitness awareness has set in, paving the way for mushrooming of dance studios which offer &#8220;shake-a-leg-to- stay fit&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-tcs-competitor-it-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}