Pre-Natal Belly Dancing

Bellydancing has been used for fertility and birthing since the dawn of time. So when I got pregnant, I asked my instructor Keti Sherif about continuing dancing.
With similar benefits to yoga, bellydancing is a great pre-natal exercise, according to one of her articles. It strengthens the pelvic muscles used in delivery, relaxes the hips, keeps […]

Filed under: yoga, exercise, beauty, pregnancy, belly dancing on January 24th, 2008 | No Comments »

Hangups in Chicago

While working on an article on inversion therapy, I came across a couple entries from Julie Deardorff’s Chicago Tribune blog about inversion therapy being used in and around the Windy City. One talks about inversion therapy while the other talks about ways of getting wrong-side up through yoga.
While I’ve heard of anti-gravity boots and inversion tables, the strapy […]

Filed under: awareness, yoga, inversion on May 25th, 2007 | No Comments »