Belly dance

I LOVE Belly dancing!

I found Belly dance a few years ago at a GYM I used to go. I had different teachers and each one gave me something unique.

Belly dancing is a fun and passionate way of celebrating one's unique self.

Belly dancing elevates you to a state of deep Ecstasies: ecstasies with life, with movement, with your body and soul.

When I belly dance I shake away negativity, stress, even pounds. It helps me to get centered and to get in touch with my womanhood.

This is the form of dance, that I have practiced, that I like the most.

With Belly dancing nobody leads me. I find my own way through the rhythm, I am music too with my hips. I lead my own dance, my own way, my own life.

Belly dance is also an awesome work out, it helps you to tone your muscles, to sculpt your body, and helps your posture, like no other exercise.

Belly dance is about woman power, hip power.

Belly dance has helped women to bring children to this world with natural easy for both child and mom.

Belly dance has been danced to celebrate rites of passage like childhood to puberty, puberty to adulthood, marriage, etc.

I belly dance when I am happy, I belly dance when i am grieving, when i need to reconnect with myself, when I am waiting, when I am bored, when I am depressed, when I feel loved, when i feel unloved, when I am looking for answers, when i am clear, when I am not felling beautiful, when I feel beautiful, when I pray, when i am simply enjoying life, when I'm sad, when I'm happy.

Belly dancing centers me, reconnects me with the wise woman inside of me, with the goddess, with the human, with the lover and the mother and with all the aspects of myself that i need to bring into my picture at the moment.

Belly dancing is for every women in his Planet, no matter how old or young, or whole or broken, or thin or heavy, poor or rich...

Belly Dancing in a world that represses women is the ultimate act of irreverence, and is also a sacred dance.
It is a woman dance, it is happy, it allows you to express your self, your soul, your body. It is a private personal dance for no other eyes to see but yours if you choose to do so, or it could be share with others, whether is or not intended to seduce it does, its starts seducing yourself with the joy and the mystery of your own journey.

A belly dancer is not a repressed woman while she dances.

A belly dancer is a powerful being, a beautiful being, a profound and wise being.

A belly dancer is a happy being.

Happiness is a choice and an act of courage, and also can flow so freely from your heart.

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I also love to talk, and because i can not always do it, then i write. My English vocabulary is pretty extensive, i believe, but my spelling sucks, and I keep forgetting to hit the spelling button. oops!
That is why you see mistakes in my first posting.

An artist's life.

My artist's life started around age 3 or 4. Crayons and textiles were my two first loves.
I loved drawing with crayons and I always wanted more time to draw.
I also loved looking at, touching and choosing scraps of fabric that my sister Laila and I sorted out of a box in a fabric shop of the local market where my mom used to go to buy supplies for her fashion industry that started with her doing cute clothes for me and for my sister Laila.
The owner of the shop, Don Miguelito, as we used to called him, always invited us to his side of the counter and would let us pick as many scraps as we wanted. When we came home, while mom sew our dresses, we created clothing for our dolls with the treasures from Don Miguelito's shop.
I also LOVED dolls, and to play with them, first my favorites were baby dolls, and latter on barbies.
Part of my creative process as an artist was spend in front of a mirror where I would create different faces from my own with the help of my awesome eye shadow pallets, and mini lipsticks, gifts from my dad and my dad's sisters, and since my mom do not read English language, i can say without fear of being reprimanded..hahahaha! that I also 'borrowed' from time to time my mom's own collection of makeover stuff.