Bellydance & Yoga

[this post in progress]

I'll keep editing and updating this. It's a bit of a resource, but also maybe a little pressure/inspiration to myself.

I've danced all my life. Well, most of it. The parts I remember. It got pretty second nature. I'm one of those people who stand with my feet in a V position. I'm standing in first. That's a ballet position. It was hammered into me for nearly 15 years; I can't help it.

But I got disillusioned by mean girls and plagued with headaches so I gave it up for a while. In the course of stuyding yoga I came across Bellydance. Yeah, there were some people I didn't like, but I was a little older and a lot less caring. I've been doing that ever since. Except for a break that has pushed near two years. I really need to change that.

::hip drop shimmy figure 8::

I lost my dancing soul sister and my dad got very ill. Took out my desire to dance. But now I need it, I miss it, I long for it and I'm desperate for it.

These are resources that I frequent. Eventually I'll post a little about each site, because what is dance but poetry in motion?

Bellydance

• Aziza Sa'id's Middle Eastern Belly Dance Site


• Belly Dance Home Page


• Belly Dance Museum


• Bhuz


• Dahlal


• Dawn Devine Brown


• Desert Moon Dance


• Exactly What Is Middle Eastern Dance?


• Helene Eriksen


• Middle Eastern Dance


• Mishaal's Sacred Earth Bellydance


• Omphalo Stepses Bellydance


• Origins of Oriental Dance


• Persian and Middle Eastern Dance


• Professional Bellydance UK


• Robyn's World of Iranian Dance


• Shira's Art of Middle Eastern Dance


• Snakehips - The Book


• The Costume Goddess


• Yasmina's Joy of Belly Dancing

Yoga

• Yoga Basics Asana Index


• Yoga Basics


• Yoga Journal


• Yoga Research and Education Center