Even if you feel totally unable to move, dancing with the intention to simply feel good about yourself allows a whole different “thinking” and “feeling” to ripple through the body. Dance is the simplest way to allow your body to move at a pace it feels comfortable with and let the mind float.


tions I am giving to the students and my body. The shapes of belly dance are a creative way to play with the muscles, organs and fat, and give your mind dif- ferent ways of appreciating the shapes of your body. Many types of dance are ask- ing the mind to move the body with the intention of play. Play creates a chemis- try in the body that allows your ideal self to play in your life.


Using the mind and imagination to inspire beauty in the body is extremely important to create pleasure, happiness and joy in the body. I want to emphasize the importance of actually using sensu- ality, the five senses, the sense of touch and the imagination to create a freedom in the body. Once you create the feeling of freedom in the body, the neurotrans- mitters of the mind reinforce in the body and mind what is positive, life enhancing and in alignment with your ideal self. As you dance, you connect creative and emotional centers of the brain with different parts of the entire body. Impro- vised dance is one of the most powerful ways to connect your mind and body as you are using motor coordination skills that require you to create motion where there is no “need” for the muscles to respond. When you improvise in dance, you are really asking the body to make something up. Imagine a whole body doodling exercise that allows your imagination to go places you would wish to go. As you imagine this unexplored space with your mind - so you can imagine this space with your body. In a practice of improvised dance you can allow your ideal sense of self, your ideal body to start to move within you. As you dance, you imagine how your ideal body would move. There are no limits to your identity in your imagination. The ideal self needs this sense of no limits - in order for your ideal to meet your flesh. Even if you feel totally unable to


move, dancing with the intention to simply feel good about yourself allows a whole different “thinking” and “feel- ing” to ripple through the body. Dance is the simplest way to allow your body to


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move at a pace it feels comfortable with and let the mind float. Improvised dance allows a whole field of possibility that is directed simply by the music you choose - you and your body. If you enjoy your body, you will


have a good time enjoying yourself no matter how “perfect” or “imperfect” you are. Sensuality is connected to an inner happiness and satisfaction of your cells. It is breathing in the air and savoring the sensations your body feels that are different every day. It is letting the body really feel the pleasure of a racing heart and sweat. Dance is one of the simplest ways to increase pleasure in your body


and exercise how you truly wish yourself to be. Your ideal self is always sensually satisfied physically. Listening to what sensual satisfaction feels like for your body is the most important path to mani- fest your ideal into your reality.


Angela Badolato, originally from


Australia, is a teacher of belly dance, natural movement and sensuality. She has danced with A Magi Entertainment in Florida and is now located in New York. You can keep in touch with her explo- ration on body loving CDs, DVDs and workshops through www.dancewith- angela.com.


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