How Belly Dance Therapy Empowers Women?

What is evoked within you seeing women move their hips, wombs & bodies in sensuality? While this may evoke curiosity, creativity & passion for some, many react in discomfort, awkwardness, judgement, & shame. Others feel a deep sense of sadness & longing for community, cultural & ancestral connection...Regardless whether or not you consider yourself a dancer, what you experience is a reflection of your own journey to your sensuality, sexuality, femininity, body, vulnerability, & culturality. 

In a way we are all dancers in that the very first sign of life was movement in the womb! This is belly dance, the dance of the womb, the dance of life, the dance of the woman & girls coming of age. However in modern society, us women have become disconnected from our feminine power, our shakti.

REASONS WHY BELLYDANCE IS DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS & WHY EVERY WOMEN SHOULD BELLYDANCE

Belly dance is one of the oldest dances originating from the Romani gypsy dancers of India who travelled throughout eastern Europe into Egypt. It was created by women for women's purposes from first menses & becoming a woman, expressing fertility & sexuality, to aiding in pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, infertility, and to even reconnect to the feminine cycles.  

After the strike of colonization & patriarchy, the healing power of belly dance was degraded into simply a dance of entertainment for men. Every modern woman who has experienced patriarchy, sexual trauma or discrimination, colonization & identity confusion, to all the physical, emotional experiences that come with having a womb, belly dance can be a way for women to reclaim her power once again.

SYMPTOMS OF THE WOUNDED FEMININE & HOW BELLYDANCE CAN HELP

•  Feeling insecure or disconnected from your body

• Feeling oversexualized 

• Hustle Culture doesn't allow you to slow down & reconnect to your body & soul

• Pressure of dancing in a way that is "Socially Acceptable" e.g. partying

• Shame from Conservative Cultures & Extremist Religions

• Painful Past Experiences or Sexual Trauma

• Unable to speak up for yourself or set boundaries

• Unhealed relationships with mother/maternal line, & ancestors or cultural lineage.

• Difficult menstrual cycles, infertility

How Sacred Dance Can Help You

• Increase self & body awareness & healthy relationship to your body as you witness your body moving through intentional movements that have special meaning to you

• Supports girls explore their growing bodies & establish a healthy connection to their sexuality & sensuality

• Allows women to redefine what sexuality & sensuality means to them

• Supports women who want to get pregnant as it promotes bloodflow to the womb

• Helps alleviate symptoms of irregular & difficult menstrual cycles due to healthy bloodflow.

• Dancing as an artform can reignite creativity and remove blockages

• Supports mothers/mothers to be explore their curiosity for motherhood by dancing with the womb. Is welcoming of pregnant women.

• Dancing can help you find your voice as it enables you to express yourself through symbology and metaphors 

• Can support ancestral/maternal healing by dancing the womb, otherwise the energetic ancestral umbilical chord, through Bellydance

• Dance bridges your mind to your body, heart, & womb alleviating symptoms of anxiety, depression, & disconnect from identity.

Perhaps this makes sense in your head, but you are hesitant. As a practicing psychotherapist, I find that those who need the healing powers of belly dance often are resistant at first, which reflects wounded femininity, sexuality, sensuality & creativity. Therefore, I am gifting you my free film, "Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance" which helps you reflect on what the journey of reclaiming womanhood & sexuality would look like for you. Dive deeper into this journey with me through the 1:1 Awaken Your Goddess & Dream Life, individual therapy, women’s group therapy, & couple’s therapy. Book your free 20 minute consult to learn more about which service is right for you.