You're welcome! Bodies are complicated and you need a dance teacher who's aware of the complicatedness of bodies and how they can be injured.
I have had a great deal of luck strengthening some very specific atrophied muscles with belly dance, so PM or email me if you want info, and it's also good for abdominal and pelvic floor strengthening, but if you don't watch it, you'll fuck your knees (or other parts of you) hard depending on what you do.
Basically, if bodies are complicated, belly dance is best with a doctor and with a teacher who knows complicated bodies. My teacher knows complicated bodies because she has one. Other teachers know complicated bodies because they are massage therapists or are concurrently yoga teachers, or have other qualifications.
It's a beautiful art form and if you google it, most of the big names are super slender (because of course they are), but it really can be done at any size. I can point you at amazingly graceful 300+ pound women who are belly dancers.
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Date: 2018-06-22 04:18 pm (UTC)I have had a great deal of luck strengthening some very specific atrophied muscles with belly dance, so PM or email me if you want info, and it's also good for abdominal and pelvic floor strengthening, but if you don't watch it, you'll fuck your knees (or other parts of you) hard depending on what you do.
Basically, if bodies are complicated, belly dance is best with a doctor and with a teacher who knows complicated bodies. My teacher knows complicated bodies because she has one. Other teachers know complicated bodies because they are massage therapists or are concurrently yoga teachers, or have other qualifications.
It's a beautiful art form and if you google it, most of the big names are super slender (because of course they are), but it really can be done at any size. I can point you at amazingly graceful 300+ pound women who are belly dancers.
The troupe that I would LOVE to try to join (someday), but which is too far away for me to ever join is here:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stygian+sisters+metal+belly+dance
https://stygiansisters.wixsite.com/home
I also found this great article:
How Practicing Contemporary Dance Helps Belly Dancers