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What is Belly Dancing?

https://www.bellydance.org

 

Belly dancing is a dance from the Middle East, typically involving undulating movements of the belly and rapid gyration of the hips. It's natural to a woman's bone and muscle structure, with movements emanating from the torso rather than in the legs and feet. The dance often focuses upon isolating different parts of the body, moving them independently.

 

Benefits of Belly Dancing

 

Health Benefits: 

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• Improves balance, posture, coordination, and circulation

• De-stressing, fun workout, and body sculpting

• For all ages, body types, and abilities

• The fluid nature of the dance helps to relax and lubricate joints

• Belly dancing is a weight bearing exercise good for maintaining healthy strong bones

• Exercising the abdominal area, by rolling the belly or swaying the torso, helps food move along the digestive system

• Lively, continuous belly dancing is a form of low impact aerobic exercise that, practiced regularly and in sessions of 20 minutes or more, can aid in weight loss, stress reduction, and management of high blood pressure

• Tones muscles in the abdominal, arms, upper and lower back, hips and thighs

 

Other Positive Aspects:

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• Wonderful for social connection with like-minded individuals

• Provides an outlet for creativity

• Gentler forms of belly dance are useful for pre-natal exercise, strengthening pelvic muscles and relaxing the mother to be

• As with yoga, focus on the breath while moving helps to ground and center the dancer, aiding in a relaxed sense of well being

• Celebrates and honours femininity

• Provides a safe environment for expressing sensuality in a gentle yet powerful way

• Body acceptance, awareness and confidence naturally evolve with this empowering art 
  
  
  
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