Friday, March 19, 2010

A new kind of dance.....

A while back I was watching a lot of BraveheartWomenTv and ran across Dale Allen, creator of an amazing performance art called In Our Right Minds. She talks about how our culture is completely left-brain oriented and that women can learn to know and love ourselves better by becoming more acquainted with our natural right brain instincts.  For me it was one of those Aha! moments when the voice in the back of my head said "Ok toots, put down the self-help book (left-brain activity) and get on the dance floor (right-brain activity)!

I had taken about a year and a half of belly dance lessons and was loving it, but then I put it on hold while we went through the process of packing and selling a house and moving. I have looked around here and found some good studios that offer classes, but haven't yet made the commitment of time or dollars. Recently it seems like everywhere I turn, the universe is throwing some new aspect of body image, sexuality and the belief systems I've held about it, and the relationship between how healthy my body is and how healthy my spirit is.

The other day I was looking through my wish-list at Amazon.com, editing out things I had put on there years ago and which no longer seemed interesting, and I ran across a book called The S Factor, by actress Sheila Kelley.  (I think I discovered her on Braveheart Women TV too.)  She played a stripper in a movie called Dancing at the Blue Iguana a few years back and tells about how learning to strip completely changed how she thought of and related to her own body (not to mention that it was a killer workout). The book seemed to jump out of the computer screen at me, so I ordered it, then went to Sheila Kelley's website and ordered her first workout DVD.

The workout arrived yesterday and I put it in this morning and followed along as Sheila broke down a smokin' hot strip routine into basic, simple, step by step movements.  What can I say?  It was FUN, made me feel good and girl-howdy am I gonna be sore tomorrow! I felt like me and my body got a foothold on a new relationship today and I look forward to seeing where it takes me. I'm probably not on a new career path, but am looking forward to getting my shimmy on again, and checking out a local ballroom dance company I found online. I'll be back in my right mind again ASAP.

Have the Reddest Day Ever!

In Grace,

Kell

1 comment:

  1. Kell, I just got your comment about Mama Gena on my blog. Thought I would check out what you were writing about these days. I was surprised to find that just yesterday I went ahead and participated in a nude photo shoot at my friends Pole Dancing studio! Talk about parallel tracks. Here's to the Goddess in you!

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