Lazy Belly Dancing

For a while I was addicted to working out to Beyonce's latest album, and I particularly liked doing crunches to the song "All the Single Ladies." I now know the lyrics she accidentally dropped off of the chorus to this song:

All the single ladies, all the single ladies

All the single ladies, all the single ladies

All the single ladies, all the single ladies

All the single ladies,

Don't you belly dance!

Oh my god, it is hard to be single and belly dancing. It's very sensual, it turns out, even when you suck at it. Tonight, we were finally doing something where I didn't suck as profoundly as normal and it was quite erotic in feel. Must o' opened up some o' dem chakras tonight!

There are so many things I like about belly dancing, which is utterly surprising to me, because actually I don't like to watch belly dancing. It's embarassing somehow. But, I do a lot of male type working out and was looking for something to make me feel more feminine. Belly dancing is definitely opening up the feminine side of me.

As a beginning belly dancer, you are completely focused on getting it right. You don't have time to look at the people around you, so you feel absolutely no sense of competition in the room. Luckily, the advanced class comes in after us, and like our beginner class, the class is full of all different shapes and size, and we get to watch them really go for it. The most heart-warming thing about belly dancing is that it is absolutely a fact that the skinniest women -- no matter how good they are -- simply don't look as good doing it as the heavier women. And, the heaviest women are just so elegant and lovely, and look to be absolutely "in their skin" and loving their bodies when they are belly dancing. It's womankind at her very best. I'm glad I tried belly dancing even if only for this lovely glimpse at my sisters at a moment of truly loving their bodies, their curves, and the way they just get to move as only women can.

I'm off to go practice my tap now. As much joy as that brings to my heart and body, it somehow does not prove to be a turn on! Phew! Later I shall pray that the man I'm going to be going on a date with this weekend turns out to be the one, so I can continue belly dancing. But, for now the lyrics are:

All the single ladies, all the single ladies
All the single ladies, all the single ladies
All the single ladies, all the single ladies
All the single ladies,
Get your taps on!