mermaid said:Look, everyone who has been on this board for a while kows I will get riled up and then in a few weeks I will defend who riled me in the first place.
No wonder my BF is always frusterated and confused by me.
I know there are dancers who cheapen the dance (that's the burlesque side), when I used belly dance in the club, it was because I wanted to do it, trust me it wasn't meant to entice, because that form is not as "flashy" and therefore not as exciting.
Or so we would think.
I have never failed to be surprised when I decided I wasn't gonna "strip" and just turned around to face the mirror and practiced belly dance and tuned the crowd out. When I got off stage, guys would start asking me where I studied or how they were hoping I was dancing tonight because they came in just to watch me(uhhh, yeah, thanks, cheapo) because I would go off into those little "dance trances". Sometimes I wanted to watch my newer moves, sometimes I just wanted to center myself because it was a hectic night. Whatever. It wasn't for them.
I remember Callanetics. I never tried it but I should look into it again. What with the dancing, babies, sports and plain old genetics, my leg drags, sometimes I can't straighten up all the way and my knee will suddenly get a shot of pain that about takes me to the floor. (See, these would be the CONS I was talking about, lol!).
Lady Moses. I've been called a lot of things, but never that.
In your dance you made the difference.
We both agree on how beautiful and refined Belly Dance really is. We both share something, "The Love of the Dance." and Dancing loves us. Would you like to smile about something? Each day the Lord gives me a word to reflect upon. Look at this and look at the bolded part:
Those who belong to Christ have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. If we are living now by the Holy Spirit, let us follow the Holy Spirit's leading in every part of our lives. Let us not become conceited, or irritate one another, to be jealous of one another. Galatians 5:24-26 NLT
Okay, guilty as charged.
Shimmie irriated someone. I'm sorry it was you. I mean it sincerely. May I share this exercise for your hip? It really does work.
From Callenectics
Mermaid, lie on the floor flat on your back with your hands and arms relaxed beside you.
-with your foot flat on the floor, bend your right knee (still with foot flat on the floor.
-Now, with your back still 'FLAT' on the floor, gently take your raise your right leg, with knee still bent and gently stretch it across the left side of your body.
Now don't force the stretch. Allow your right leg to literally 'fall' to the left side of your body ... in it's own time. It may stretch all the way over, or it may not. But don't force it. Okay?
Mermaid, this will give your body a good stretch and you are definitely going to 'feel' it.
Now just close out and just lie there. The weight of your leg will gradually lower itsself, lower and lower and eventually your knee will touch the floor.
Key: Your back is still flat on the floor with this stretch of your lower body. You may have a slight twist of your waist area...that's okay. This will take care of itsself the more you do this.
Now lie in this position as long as you wish; you may even go to sleep. That's how relaxing it is.
BEFORE you come out of this stretch: You must come out of it as slowly and as gently as possible. Do not jerk or move quickly out of this position. If the phone rings, let it. If someone needs you, just open your eyes, smile at them and say, "Give me a minute."
Slowly roll out of this position until you are lying flat on the floor with both legs straight and relaxed.
Now repeat the bended knee movement with the left leg, knee bent and slowing cross your lower body to the right side.
Arms still relaxed...very relaxed and keeping your back flat on the floor, no jerking, no rushing. Just slowly and relaxed.
The more you do this, the better you will feel. It gives the body a good stretch and it is also lengthening your entire lower torso and your HIP flexors (so to speak).
Before I close out, I thank God for allowing me to meet you. You are a gracious lady and I respect who you are and where you have been. I'm rigid for a purpose, but my heart isn't. My prayers are for your life to be long, happy and rich and healthy. And Mermaid your are going to be a "Lady Moses." For if God could mend an offense taken for all to view, how much more is He not proving to you...how special you are to Him.
He took you by the hand and led you out from a 'foreign land' ... a place where in your heart, you did not want to belong. He's leading you further, Mermaid. You will never be alone.
To You Mermaid...To the Dance...all for the Dance, all for you
:Rofl: I had an Anthro professor(male) who said that all the time too. not the exact same words but that's about it. deep.
..come to think of it, i think i do remember that case. i think get what she's saying now... that the stripper (instead of the gf/wife) saw him last before his death?
