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Pass It On! More Than a Movie, It's a Movement!
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The Hippie Shack 2007
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"Oh, She Is Coming, The Dancer Of The Future! The Highest Intelligence In The Freest Body" ~ Isadora Duncan
"TeachingBellydance Is As Much An Art As Performing It ~ Jillina
The AmazingAdore'~ A Woman In Flight ~ Watch and Be Inspired...Galactic Caravan's "Om Om."
Modern "Cabaret" style Bellydance or "American TribalFusion."
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Here's a new member who is developing a resource on the African influences in bellydance,website coming soon ~ Alakwat - A DanceCompany
Top Ten Reasons To Be A Bellydancer
10. So exercise doesn't seem so much like"exercise".
9. So you can entertain yourself and the FedEx man in the truck next to you at stoplights by practicing chestand/or abdominal isolations and head slides.
8. So you can leave a trail of beads, coins, and sequins wherever you go... so pretty! and such a mess!Stepping on beads in bare feet hurts!
7. So you can name your cat Mizmar, Zeina or Baladi and lots of people you know will get the joke.
6. So you can have a perfectly good reason to tote around a sword and brag about the dent in your head.
5. So you can enjoy the improvement in your sex life. =D
4. So you can have yet another excuse for rummaging through thrift shops in search of bargains on gypsystuff.
3. So you can find yourself singing happily along to lyrics in a foreign language with no earthly idea of whatthey mean.
2. So you can get a giggle out of watching people's expressions when you tell them what you do for fun.
And the Number 1 reason to be a belly dancer:
1. Costumes! Costumes! Costumes! Costumes! Costumes! Costumes!
~From Shira.net with a few edits by Alexis andme.
Writing - I've been published in Sage Woman and Llewellyn's2007 Wicca Almanac
Eulogy For A Bellydancer
Music, Art,Jewelrysmithing, Sculpting With Polymer Clay and Wire, Soapmaking
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Dream Interpretation , Motherpeace Tarot , The Goddess Tarot,Runes, Intuitive Stuff, Spirit Messages
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Living With BipolarDisorder
Hummingbird shows us that what seems impossible can be achieved.
Belief + Expectation = Results
Featured Video of the Week ~ The description is in Spanish and I can't translate it, but I think her name is Munique Neith. She's beautiful and an amazing dancer.
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Bellydancers all ages and styles, especially those who started "later" in life, women with chronic health problems who have been dismissed by the health care system, artistic, creative, spiritual folk, writing mentors and publishers, Wendy Rule, Lisa Thiel, Starhawk, M. Macha Nightmare, Susun S. Weed, Stevie Nicks - 5/30/07, Alicia Keys, Natalie Merchant, Cher, Wayne Dyer, Freya Aswynn, Rachel Brice, Sharon Kihara, Michelle Campbell, Sonia - 10/31/06!, Ansuya, Dondi, BellyQueen, Atea, Jillina - 10/31/06!, Colleen - 10/31/06! - hell, all of the BDSS - met most of them on 10/31/06!, including Kami Liddle, Petite Jamila, Hannah Nour and Jayna; Fat Chance Bellydance, Mardi Love, Melodia, Shauna Rai, Morocco, Miles Copeland, Bette Midler, Margaret Cho, Ellen DeGeneres, Martha Stewart, all of the rebels and mavericks from history and ancestry that have influenced our world, such as Margaret Sanger, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, too many to list, other crone, mother and maiden goddesses
"When In Doubt, Shimmy! ~ The Bellydance Superstars
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The Wild Women of the Hippie Shack and The Pagan Rocker
Filmed at The Hippie Shack's March Hafla, March 7, 2007
Almost all types except country and rap, although there are a (very) few songs and artists I do like, Alicia
Keys, Joss Stone, Sade, Sarah McLachlan, Stevie Nicks, Loreena McKennitt, Wendy Rule , Lisa Thiel, Emerald Rose, Desert Wind, David and Steve
Gordon, Hakim, Issam Houshan, Donna DeLory, Gypsy Child , Lee Spitzer! , the great new musicians I'm meeting at MySpace such
as Zenday and Zachary J. Mechlem, World Groove , New Age, Jazz, R&B, soft rock, middle eastern classic/pop/trance, oldies, particularly Motown, Woodstock era, 70's and 80's
music, classic rock and a little Metallica now and then - once infected by the metal, always diseased
Practical Magic, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Steel Magnolias, Waiting to Exhale, Witches of Eastwick, The Waterboy, Moonstruck, Mortal Thoughts, Mask, Resurrection, Girl, Interrupted, too many to list, really..... anything with Adam Sandler, Anne Bancroft, Olympia Dukakis, Sandra Bullock.....
Bellydance DVD's - Rachel Brice's Tribal Fusion, Sonia & Issam's Art of the Drum Solo, Jillina's instructional series, Princess Farhana's Art of Sword and Shamadan, Atea's Magical Motion, Bellydance Supertars Live at the Folies Bergere, Solos From Monte Carlo, The Golden Apple -Bellydance Stars of New York
Will & Grace, Frazier, Golden Girls, The Nanny, History, Biography & Discovery channel stuff, The Comedy Channel, a few badly scripted and horribly acted reality shows when I need a little mindless escape from my real world....
Dorothy Morrison's In Praise Of The Crone, Curott'sBook of Shadows, Michael Howard's Angels on Assignment, Louise Hay, Starhawk, Wayne Dyer, Susun S. Weed,various Pagan genre, books on dream interpretation, jewelry making, especially wire sculpture and polymer clay
techniques
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"And Remember, You Have Everything To Lose And Only Eternity To
Gain" ~
Ian Erickson
Dear Mr. President ~ Pink
Land of the Free ~ Because of the Brave
Me, my sons & grandbabies, my life partner and soulmate who left for the Summerland at Summer Solstice 2005 (it says "single" because there's no choice for 'widowed' but I believe he'll be the last man in my life - I'm done), The Four Strong Women - my ma, granny and two aunts; Parthena Black - my real life great-great grandma who serves as my Great Ancestor, my bellydance instructor Star Zaferis, who literally saved my life with this dance, my bellydance instructor Christy Smith, my troupe sisters in Najmi's Spirit, the Bellydance Superstars for their important work and inspiration, Dorothy Cooke, Stevie Nicks, Janis Joplin, Harriet Tubman, Margaret Sanger, Rosa Parks, The Suffragettes, Saint Teresa, Hillary Clinton
And all of the pioneers throughout history who left it better than they found it, all those who live each day with chronic pain and/or a terminal illness, all of my hospice co-workers, patients and their families and, of course, our soldiers and their families.
This one reminds me of my most recent Indian name ~ "Taught By Crows"
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Which Tarot Card Are You?
You are the Moon card. Entering the Moon we enter the intuitive and psychic realms. This is the stuff dreams are made on. And like dreams the imagery we find here may inspire us or torment us. Understanding the moon requires looking within. Our own bodily rhythms are echoed in this luminary that circles the earth every month and reflects the sun in its progress. Listening to those rhythms may produce visions and lead you towards insight. The Moon is a force that has legends attached to it. It carries with it both romance and insanity. Moonlight reveals itself as an illusion and it is only those willing to work with the force of dreams that are able to withstand this reflective light. Image from: Stevee Postman. http://www.stevee.com/
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You scored as Traveler. You are a Traveler Empath, you come from a time & place far removed from here. You are an innocent, in search of your own kin and have a difficult time understanding this world. You are lost & only want to find your way back home. You bring unique gifts to this world and share them with a loving heart. Although very misunderstood, you are also very forgiving. (from the "Book of Storms" by Jad Alexander at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Empaths/)
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