Living Rawesome June Drum Circle
This month’s drum circle was so much fun again!! D’Adjoa brought her jimbe drums again. I played for a little bit. This month seemed a bit harder to keep up with the other experienced drummers. Most of them are very good. D’ and I have been taking belly dancing classes so we decided to do some dancing with the belly dancers. It was fun to dance with them. We became friends with teacher who is also named Dea. Funny thing was she found my website when she was looking up Crystal River drum circle. I received an email from her that night before I left. I couldn’t wait to meet her and dance with her. She let me borrow one of her belts since I was the only one without a scarf for my belly. Belly dancing is pretty difficult for me. I really have to concentrate and follow the teacher’s lead. I wasn’t really able to just feel the music. I do love dancing, though. We stayed until it got dark. I think next time I will go later. They seemed to really get into the drumming when the sun went down. The time just flies over on the beach at sunset listening to the drums.
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Hey Girl…Just wanted to say hi…I don’t think I’ll be at this month’s drum circle as a couple of my dancers and I are trying to get to a bellydance show in Orlando that just happens to be THAT SAME NIGHT! But we will be back in August and I will bring a special hip scarf for you to wear! Hope we can get some classes going for you guys…I think you all would be a blast to teach. Don’t worry about not feeling the music yet…dancing is all about having fun and bellydance is so ‘natural’ to our normal body movements, unlike other dance forms like ballet or jazz (which I love) but those dance styles force you to do rather unnatural things to your body like forcing a turnout (ballet) or whipping your head around (jazz and yes I have injured myself doing this!). Also bellydance has helped my very poor posture more than any other dance form. We do a lot of yoga poses/stretches/balances and I incorporate Pilates core strengthening into my classes because, after all, your core muscles ARE your belly (area). I’ll send you some of my notes that I hand out to my students so you can read about how I feel about the dance and how I teach it!
Can’t wait to try some of your raw food!
Keep dancin’…
Dea