Women's Secrets
How belly dancing got it's start ....
Texas dancer Melodee Huey notes belly dancing began as a way to prepare women spiritually and physically for childbirth. When a woman went into labor, a group of women would surround her and belly dance. Their panting breaths and rolling stomachs would coach the pregnant woman through the baby’s delivery. It resembled today’s Lamaze, only more exotic.
(Source: “Belly dancer’s first love is her own body,” by JoLee Hammer of Cox News Service, The News & Observer, Raleigh, NC, Wednesday, May 24, 2000, 4E.)
