Movement of the day - Belly Dance with Spinal cord injury

For me-a huge part of my ambulatory exercise has been belly dance. I’ve been a belly dancer since I saw Shakira and just started moving my hips non stop-‘whenever-wherever’

I’ve been a dancer since two years old, unless it was documented I came out of the womb dancing

I decided in 2012 to pursue belly dance and perfected my dance at home, by the seaside, on the mountain top and in areas that were supportive and I didn’t feel self conscious.

I am grateful for belly dance because it is one of the reasons I stayed alive and ambulatory with a spinal cord injury caused by blunt force trauma-domestic abuse

I can’t dance how I used to-

I can’t hike how I used to

I can’t live how I used to-

But I refuse to let him take away one of my favorite things! DANCE!

Todays movement of the day-

Hip lift and drop

Pictures below with description