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"In the last year and a half, belly-dance fitness has become all about the movements rather than the cultural attachments," says Jennifer James-Long, owner and publisher of Habibi, a fast-growing belly-dance magazine, and creator of www.bhuz.com a belly-dance website that gets 750,000 hits a...
While plenty of women are still attracted to the sensuous belly-dance mystique--diaphanous veils, belts hung with coins, finger cymbals and exotic Middle Eastern music--there's a new fan base that sees nothing unusual about executing a hip drop or camel walk to the strains of 21st century...
Even fitness guru Kathy Smith has set aside her free weights to undulate in a new DVD, Flex Appeal: A Belly Dance Workout. Says Smith: "My hope was to bring belly dancing to a person who would be too intimidated to take a class. I saw there was a need...
Just how good a workout is belly dance? That, of course, depends on how you do it--and how often. But practitioners say the precise, rolling movements of belly dance combine aerobic exercise with stretching and strengthening. "Everybody learning the muscle-isolation exercises says they discovered muscles they never knew...
Even hard-core gym rats like Priscilla Silva of Whittier, Calif., have found fitness nirvana in belly dance. A project manager for an entertainment company, Silva says she got bored by her old six-day-a-week weight-training routine at the gym. After 21/2 years of belly dance, she...