Line dancing can involve more than just having fun on the dance floor. One man is turning it into therapy. 7’s Heather Walker shows us how in this 7Spotlight.

Darryl Thomas, line dance instructor: “Let’s go, let’s go.”

Step by step, beat by beat, this is much more than a dance class. For Darryl Thomas, who goes by the name Coach D, line dancing is a form of therapy.

Darryl Thomas: “You release endorphins of happiness and joy. I have never, ever, ever seen a mad or angry line dancer; you will never see it.”

He started line dancing after an injury kept him from lifting weights.

Darryl Thomas: “One thing led to another, and next thing you know, I’m a line dance instructor with a whole line dance class, with a line dance team.”

These classes started a few weeks ago in Miami. They are off

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