I love the color and vibe of this artwork piece by Melia Newman! I seriously want to take some belly dance classes in Seattle! I once read a pregnancy story where woman would gather in a circle around the pregnant woman and do a belly dance that would show the mother how to move the baby down...
A Bedouin Arab girl learns a pelvic dance
during puberty... and will belly dance, when she is in labor.
The belly dance represents the power of women to produce life.'
- Sheila Kitzinger
Arab women, Tahitians and Maoris knew instinctively that they would help themselves if they kept moving through childbirth... they swayed their bodies and swung their hips and pelvis in large circular rotations' - Wendy Buonaventura
I love visualizing birth as the dance of life... as a dance between mother and child!
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