there was decidedly more flesh showing on everyone and almost all the women now have coin hipscarves, which makes the class really fun as we jingle our way through hell.
the class has been very low intensity. rudimentary. but last night she kicked our collective ass. the entire first fifteen minutes of class were hip drops and lifts. weight bearing left leg, right leg perched on the ball of the foot, the hip shoots up and carves a circle to a downward sitting position when left leg bends, repeat for fifteen minutes. switching legs when we got tired on one side. it was brutal but wonderful. it is was the first time i felt free to let go. after the fifteen minutes, we did variations. then a few moments of free dance when all the women went in a great cluster and danced together, but i danced alone. i always dance alone. facing the wall is my norm. i'm not trying to avoid entering in, but i needed my own space to be. and i so enjoyed it.
your hip coins are the percussion, keep it going!our instructor yelled.
then we did chest shimmies, which is simply an alternating forward and backward thrusting of the shoulders, but the thing about it is, everything is extreme, so we bend to a forty five degree angle forward and as far back as possible. very difficult.
i wear a bikini top and long black flowy pants with my blue hip scarf. leaving class, i layered on my standards, and headed for the gym. i can't neglect my workouts just because i'm doing belly dancing, so i went and did a minimalist workout because my body was all ready tired.
changing clothes and to church for lent teaching, it was quite a series of events that i had to push through, but i got a chill and now i'm trying to keep from getting sick. i forget how cold it is here. indoors it is so hot. going from one extreme, bikini and barefoot, to parka and snowboots is just not something i am used to.
so i'll try to remember an extra layer, i've been going out in lighter layers than is probably best, but the outdoor cold is so temporary. the car heater works, inside stores you'd think they were trying to get bread to rise, so i leave off the layers inside. it's just leaving that gets you.
oh, so we were leaving belly dancing class and my new friend said to me,
we really worked tonight. he probably had it the easiest.
didn't even break a sweat,i said,
or maybe he did!
and we laughed. we did hip circles and chest shimmies, and hip shimmies, all very entertaining to watch i'm sure. so many different body types and things going on. not all beautiful by most standards, but that is not what it is about. i hope no more men come to spectate. sheesh.
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Wanna take bets?
on men spectating. they better not. it's rude.
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