Welcome to my blog!
Here you will find updates on bellydance shows and classes, fitness and nutrition tips and random rants and nonsense that my husband doesn't care to listen to during football season.
I am also using this blog to help myself become more organized with my thoughts. Creativity takes over logic most days for me. There is something about writing things down that increases my motivation to get creative ideas into action. Please don't expect proper grammer here, however I do know the difference between they're, their and there if it really matters about such things. I often muss up my sentences in conversation so I don't expect it to be any different here and I don't have an editor or an edit button on myself (I've looked)
Bellydance
Let me tell you a bit about myself by answering the questions I most often get from students...
"How did you get into bellydance?"
I was young, bored and needed a hobby. Jogging just wasn't cutting it as I couln't run all day. I had been watching a rerun of Three's Company . It was the episode when Larry (professional creeper) convinced everyone to go to lunch at a greek restaurant so he could gawk at the bellydancer. I remember being much more interested in the dancer's performance than in Jack and Larry's antics and decided that should be my new hobby. I went to the library, got out a couple of really old, worn bellydance books written in the 1970's and did my best to decipher their instructions without any visual help. I must have looked pretty interesting. I soon found local classes and experience working as a dancer in restaurants, weddings and on stage. Dancing is still my favorite thing to do.
Inspiration: Check out the author of one of the original library books I mentioned teaching a 9/8 rhythm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB76_4rSDS8
Fitness
Other than dancing, one of my other passions is health and fitness. It always surprises me when people have no concept on how their body works but knows every function their fancy phone can do. I sometimes get into shouting matches with the audience from the Dr. Oz show when he dedicates an entire segment to the importance of whole foods and exercise and they get his game show questions wrong. I mean "duh?" Shouldn't this be common knowledge? (*side note: I do realize the tv doesn't shout back).
Fitness Tip #1 Learn about your body! Every Friday I go to the library and take out at least a couple Fitness/Health related books. It's free. No excuse.
Fitness Tip #2 Read the book! Even if you just skim through it. Don't just leave it on the coffee table under a pile of mail.
Work Your Wiggle,
Ilona :)
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