Belly Dancing: The Sensual Art of Energy and Spirit

not very detailed but it's a pleasure to read.

This is the most amazing book. You wonder where physical therapy cane from. Here. Some say this book is not advanced enough but from an expert perspective it is the smallest movies and the softest suddle and simple moves that once mastered turn into the cosmic dance. This book teaches you everything. As a female and a human the words trigger something in the soul of me and surely every woman who really reads it. After this book you will know the difference between a belly dancer and a spinning street hippy. More than anything it gives you a real begging and provides a true reason to dance. You’ll understand your body clock and why you feel compelled. I urged you to buy this book maybe one day we will all be on the beach together. (It’s a reference to a story in the book of a time when women would always traditionally gather at the beach for dance this was not dance then though but rather response to Mother Earth. I recommend buying the yin yoga kit with it to help adjust to movement as your fixed position.

I bought this book, looked through it fairly thoroughly (reading every word would clearly be a waste of time in this case), and threw it out.There is precious little instruction or indeed *information* in this book. What little instruction it provides is inadequately illustrated or not illustrated at all; and given my lack of enthusiasm about the book as a whole, I have already bought another book of better value and will instead get my instruction from that (Belly Dancing For Fitness by Tamalyn Dallal).What we have instead is a lot of guff about goddesses, a lot of gratuitous swipes at Western attitudes and history (which the authors of the book clearly don't understand), too much talk about the pelvic floor muscles and female genitalia (we got the idea; no need to belabor it in graphic detail), too much about pregnancy (sort of a niche subject for a book this size) and dancing with snakes (same). On the other hand, I saw nothing about actually playing the zils (finger cymbals). There was instead a totally irrelevant section at the end about chakras and Middle Eastern food, which has nothing at all to do with learning to belly dance.One has to wonder what the publisher was thinking. If this book was simply devised to 'get one in the mood' and revel in the naughty daringness of it all, I suppose the book takes a step in that direction. Personally I found it annoyingly beside-the-point, unhelpful, flaky, and a waste of time and money.

Great read

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