My dance teacher told me that a lot of middle-eastern women used to believe that if your friends all came and danced in your room during your labor, it would make your delivery easier. Supposedly it worked, if not for the reason they thought, because they all danced for each other's deliveries so their core muscles were all really strong.
Taxeem: the horizontal figure eight. It's almost the first thing I learned in bellydance. I haven't seen a lot of bellydance stuff online, and unfortunately most websites that have anything to do with it are really badly put together. I think it's because dancers are usually such free spirits that structuring a website so that you can actually navigate it without going insane is not something they're wired to do.
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Date: 2010-02-15 04:22 pm (UTC)Taxeem: the horizontal figure eight. It's almost the first thing I learned in bellydance. I haven't seen a lot of bellydance stuff online, and unfortunately most websites that have anything to do with it are really badly put together. I think it's because dancers are usually such free spirits that structuring a website so that you can actually navigate it without going insane is not something they're wired to do.