Belly dancing

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I think I'm going to try it... maybe while the kids are at the Y in the winter if I can find a class that coincides with swim lessons. *sigh* can I have a nanny please?
 
Give gracie enough of *her* kind of "cookies," and she'd probably even ignore her dislike of flying enough to commute to Ohio and PA to pick the kids up and drop 'em off. :devil:
 
I think it's beautiful to watch, and very good exercise as well. I had a friend who lost over 20 pounds from it.
 
Belly Dancing is soooo hot. And it's a lot harder than it looks (there is so much coordination happening). Hellava workout too.
I'll volunteer to take care of the little ones if you can get them here. :D
 
Honestly, if I lose all this weight, I was considering taking one of those strip dancing classes. K would LOVE it. :p
 
belly dancing is very fun. i personally hate the gym, i need to find ways that keep my attention and are cheap. belly dancing really helps with core strength and flexibility. i can't remember, but i think you can watch it on netflix instant thing. fun. fun.

i would love to have a steel chain metal belly dancing skirt
with hooks and rings between the chains
can you imagine the neat noise that would make?
:rose:
 
I took a belly dancing class a long time ago, when I was a college student (no, not for credit -- one of those "enrichment" sorts of courses), and it was fun. I felt sorry for our teacher, though. She loved belly dancing and used to do it all the time, but when she got married, her husband said, "No one sees MY wife belly dance" and made her stop. Since only women were allowed to take the class, he let her teach it, which provided some outlet for her love of the dance. But as far as I know, she wasn't a voluntary submissive, she just had an overbearing husband who decided to take one of her loves away to deal with his insecurity.

She impressed me, too, with her ability to observe. The usual class procedure was that she would demonstrate a move at speed, then break it down in pieces and demonstrate how to do them, then have us practice, one student at a time, while she observed that person closely and corrected her technique. It was after only a few moves that she turned to me and said, in her cute Egyptian accent, "We let you go last. Most people can see and then do, but you must see, then think, then do -- we let you go last ... we give you time to think." Smart lady!
 
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