- Fall in love with your curves
- Feel beautiful from within
- Shine from your hips
- Celebrate your femininity
join us to a full body workout ( you gonna sweat)
*Learn the moves that support your female body and extract the best out of you.
*Awake the mysterious powers of the femininity lie in your hips
*Connect deeply with yourself
Work on coordination, separation, shimmies
Find another way to express feelings
Explore sexuality in a female and safe environment
Belly dancing has started as a women ritual dancing for themselves in ceremonies of birth and moon cycles. It was pure healing and spiritual practice. It wasn’t for looking good or seducing it was an expression of the connection for the body and let it express itself. However, when the Belly Dancing, called Ghawazi dance, came out to the world in the 19th century, it developed to be for performances for sheichs and kings. The dancers were very educated dancers that had a vast experience in art, music, singing and acting. They were considerably powerful for women those days. In the 20ththe Ghawazi dance developed to be Raqs Sharqi, the Arabic dance we are more familiar with. When Belly Dance came to the west it got all kind of form like a Tribal Dance. It kept being performance motivated, means the dancer will work on choreography for performance, dance in front of a mirror in class and then to an audience. The focus would often be on how does the dance looks.
I loved Belly Dance from the minute I realized there’s such a thing. I was soon performing wherever I was asked to, wedding, female- bachelor parties, festivals, friend’s birthdays etc. I loved dancing to an audience and it served me well in building my self-esteem and confidence. Those days will be remembered very sweetly in my mind, I have changed, gave birth to Tom and needed something else. Today I use Belly Dance more as a tool to connect to myself, to reconnect with my body, femininity, sexuality, my feelings, my pain. Dancing became more of an inward action.
I’ve started to teach in Nelson, BC my own version of Belly Dance. The big difference is the mindfulness approach and the inward focus. We start every class with coming back to the body meditation, we work on the hip and pelvic floor and just then we start to dance. We dance for about 40 minutes almost non stop, with a break for awareness and correction in the technique, We work on self-expression of feelings and music.