Comments on: The Belly Dance Prescription http://www.mommy-muse.com/blog/2008/10/the-belly-dance-prescription/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-belly-dance-prescription The Official Mommy-Muse.com Blog Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:44:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Weston http://www.mommy-muse.com/blog/2008/10/the-belly-dance-prescription/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Weston Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:22:17 +0000 http://www.mommy-muse.com/blog/?p=41#comment-7 It's true. I took dance classes as part of my architectural masters program and found it to be a great form of exercise as well as a very effective means for getting 'in' to my body. I found I was feeling exceptionally well balanced and just down-right good. After a life of mostly intellectual pursuits, having the discipline of dance where I was focusing on the physical plane for a change increased my awareness of how I moved in space and of my physical existence. I found I could do things with my body that I had never imagined possible, like climbing a 10' pole and standing on the top while making a stop-action animation film with my friend Howard Hensen. Our bodies are not things, they are us and we are them. Knowing how to be our bodies as opposed to objectifying ourselves is really healthy. It’s true. I took dance classes as part of my architectural masters program and found it to be a great form of exercise as well as a very effective means for getting ‘in’ to my body. I found I was feeling exceptionally well balanced and just down-right good. After a life of mostly intellectual pursuits, having the discipline of dance where I was focusing on the physical plane for a change increased my awareness of how I moved in space and of my physical existence. I found I could do things with my body that I had never imagined possible, like climbing a 10′ pole and standing on the top while making a stop-action animation film with my friend Howard Hensen. Our bodies are not things, they are us and we are them. Knowing how to be our bodies as opposed to objectifying ourselves is really healthy.

]]> By: Kim http://www.mommy-muse.com/blog/2008/10/the-belly-dance-prescription/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Kim Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:58:09 +0000 http://www.mommy-muse.com/blog/?p=41#comment-6 Great website! I have shown it to the other medical professionals I am working with as a resource. Bellydance is a wonderful dance form which serves to strenghten the pelvic floor, and abdominal muscles, (as well as others) thereby helping support a pregnancy. I also believe that through that aspect labor is more effective and ideally one would theink hastened! Hard to do blind studies on that theory however-until someone teaches mice to bellydance! Certainly in the postpartum state belly dance is an excellant exercise for regaining your muscle tone. Then there are all those wonderful endorphins produced which decrease the chances of post partum depression. From another dancing sister who was a lay midwife in a past life! Great website! I have shown it to the other medical professionals I am working with as a resource. Bellydance is a wonderful dance form which serves to strenghten the pelvic floor, and abdominal muscles, (as well as others) thereby helping support a pregnancy. I also believe that through that aspect labor is more effective and ideally one would theink hastened! Hard to do blind studies on that theory however-until someone teaches mice to bellydance! Certainly in the postpartum state belly dance is an excellant exercise for regaining your muscle tone. Then there are all those wonderful endorphins produced which decrease the chances of post partum depression. From another dancing sister who was a lay midwife in a past life!

]]> By: Parimal Patel http://www.mommy-muse.com/blog/2008/10/the-belly-dance-prescription/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Parimal Patel Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:37:59 +0000 http://www.mommy-muse.com/blog/?p=41#comment-5 Great website. Keep it up Thanks http://healthlifestyleforever.com/blog/ Great website.
Keep it up

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]]> By: mmuse http://www.mommy-muse.com/blog/2008/10/the-belly-dance-prescription/comment-page-1/#comment-4 mmuse Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:24:44 +0000 http://www.mommy-muse.com/blog/?p=41#comment-4 Thanks so much for the comment! I am happy to point people in your direction - you're doing wonderful work in the world! Thanks so much for the comment! I am happy to point people in your direction – you’re doing wonderful work in the world!

]]> By: Cathy http://www.mommy-muse.com/blog/2008/10/the-belly-dance-prescription/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Cathy Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:45:22 +0000 http://www.mommy-muse.com/blog/?p=41#comment-3 Yay for belly dance in pregnancy! For your readers in the Boston area, I would point them to my site - www.InTheBellyOfTheGoddess.com. Michelle Maniaci is a former student of mine and doing awesome things down in Florida!! Thanks for your post. Cathy Yay for belly dance in pregnancy!
For your readers in the Boston area, I would point them to my site – http://www.InTheBellyOfTheGoddess.com. Michelle Maniaci is a former student of mine and doing awesome things down in Florida!!

Thanks for your post.

Cathy

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