Why January 2026 Is the Perfect Time to Start Salsa or Bachata Classes
- Rhian
- Jan 9
- 4 min read
✨ 2026 Is Your Year✨ You don’t need experience. You don’t need a partner. You just need to start.
A new year brings fresh energy, new goals, and the perfect opportunity to try something you’ve always wanted to do! If learning to dance has been on your list — January is the best time to start Salsa or Bachata.
Whether you’re looking to move your body more, meet new people, gain confidence, or simply do something for you, Salsa and Bachata dancing ticks all the boxes! And if you’re choosing where to start in Sydney, R&M Latin Dance offers an experience that truly stands out from the crowd.
Why Start Dancing in January?
1. You’re already in “new habits” mode: January is when routines reset. Starting dance classes early in the year helps you build consistency before life gets busy again. Once classes are part of your weekly rhythm, they become easy to maintain.
2. No pressure, just progress: January classes are filled with other beginners. Everyone is learning from zero, which means a supportive, relaxed environment where you can make mistakes, laugh, and grow together.
3. Boost your energy & mood instantly: Salsa and Bachata are more than steps — they’re movement, music, and connection. Dancing improves fitness, coordination, and mental wellbeing while feeling nothing like a workout.
4. Get Social without being awkward: Dance is one of the most natural ways to meet people. No forced small talk, no screens — just music, movement, and shared progress.
Why Salsa or Bachata?
Salsa is energetic, playful, and expressive — perfect if you love fast rhythms and vibrant music.
Bachata is smooth, musical, and deeply connected — ideal if you enjoy flow, connection, and feeling the music.
Both dances complement each other beautifully, and many students end up dancing and loving both.
What Makes R&M Latin Dance Different?
There are many dance schools — but as you can imagine, not all create the same experience. At R&M Latin Dance, we focus on much more than teaching steps.
✨ A Genuine Community
Our classes are welcoming, inclusive, and friendly. Students don’t just come to dance — they come to belong. Many friendships start on our dance floor.
R&M Classes include many extras that go above and beyond other schools, such as our social mixers, nights out together for R&M students that allow our students to connect with other people in their same age group in a comfortable setting, these are held separately from the classes.
As well as R&M practice times which help you improve your dancing in a fun and safe setting but also introduce you step by step to the community so that going to your first social dance night is not overwhelming.
Lifelong friendships have been made in our classes, as well as lifelong partners (yes, we've made quite a few couples in our time teaching!🫶)
🎓 Structured Courses That Actually Work
Why 6 weeks? Let's be honest, in one hour you can't see all your results - it's like going to the gym, in one workout session, you won't go home and see your abs or celebrate on the scales, but after a few weeks you notice your results and even other people see it.
The same for learning to dance, while in two or more sessions you will already start to see your progress, in 6 weeks not only do you build confidence in all the new steps you learn but also you will make so many new friends and connections with R&M's social mixers & events.
Our courses are carefully structured so you:
Build confidence week by week as classes move forward step-by-step DESIGNED for you to enjoy the learning process and get the most out of each class.
Build stamina - slowly, and not just physically but also mentally (dancing is so good for your brain as well!)
R&M Classes have a unique method that targets the best learning pace, we teach you to understand why movements work, not just copy them, this means faster progress and less frustration.
💃 Technique, Connection & Musicality
We teach proper technique, body awareness, and partner connection from day one — so you don’t just dance, you feel the dance. One of the biggest worries for Complete Beginners is entering a dance space with little to zero experience:
R&M classes include specialised methods to help improve non-dancers as quick as possible to allow body awareness to develop that will give you a quicker pass to dancing well sooner!
🌏 Real Global Social Dancing Skills
Our goal isn’t to make you good only in class — it’s to make you confident on the social dance floor. What you learn is practical, transferable, and enjoyable anywhere you dance, in fact you will be able to dance all over the world with anyone, even strangers!
❤️ Passionate, Experienced Instructors
We teach because we genuinely love dancing and teaching. Our instructors care about each student’s journey, confidence, and growth — not just counting steps.
Be taught directly by Rhi and Mariano (R&M), ask questions and see both sides of the partner dancing up close. They are both super approachable, fun and even join you out for a drink and a dance on the dance floor!
🪩 Your Dancing Future?
Need goals to work towards? Love social dancing and parties, but want more? Join our student shows, perform, enter competitions, travel the world dancing at festivals and continuing to learn and grow as a dancer and a person.
If you’ve been waiting for the “right time” — this is it.
January is when confidence is built, habits are formed, and new versions of ourselves begin. Salsa or Bachata might just be the thing that transforms your 2026.
👉 Join our January 2026 Salsa or Bachata courses at R&M Latin Dance and start the year moving, smiling, and connected. We can’t wait to welcome you onto the dance floor. 💃🕺
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