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Monday, August 07, 2006

Living Life and Loving It!

After coming from Egypt and two spiritual retreats I must say that I do appreciate life a lot more. I love my life and I am so happy that I am doing what I love. Life is very precious and I appreciate every moment I get to spend with my family and friends. My two new little kittens Rufio and Zena have truly blessed my life and filled my heart with love. I am enjoying every moment with them.

Zena has a little eye infection, but she will be fine. She is a little distant, and very much a loner. The other day she actually layed on my lap and let me pet her and love her. I was so happy to have her on my lap. So she is coming around and getting a little more affectionate. Every time I pet Mojo or Zena Rufio comes running and screaming because he wants all of the attention. He gets very jealous. When I call his name he always responds with a very loud and long Meow. He is quite a character. Mojo is very happy he has company now. I call him papa Mojo and Rufio is my lover boy. Zena well she is still adjusting.

I have never danced so much in my life. The drum circles at these retreats I went to were so high in energy and going into a trance under the moon and stars was more than I ever dreamed of. I danced into the morning almost every night for one week. All of the drummers were just as inspired as I was. The energy exchange between the drummers and the dancers was just so intense. There were two drummers that drummed until morning for me . Dorian which is a wonderful close friend of mine and I think the other drummers name is David was just incredible. It was 9:00am and I had been dancing since 3:00am they ended up being the last drummers that could actually keep up with me. We just could not stop it felt soooo good. Dorian, and David were still able to play so precisely even though hours had passed they were both still incredible. Thank you Dorian and David for sharing your wonderful energy and love of life! It was truly a gift to have you there under the stars drumming for me as I was the only dancer left I feel truly blessed to share those moments with you.

I am a little bit overwhelmed with work and a little behind. I am teaching so many classes and performing so much that I barely have time for myself. I really need to change that. I would like to just teach two classes a week instead of four. I need some time to take workshops myself. I love taking classed and dancing 10 times or more a week between performing and teaching just seems to take up all of my tim. So for the new year I need to make some serious changes. I have not been to a movie in a long time, and although I love dancing I need to create some down time also. Having a sense of balance in life is not easy especially for me, since I am deffinatley a high energy person.

My six week vacation all revolved around dancing, classes, and performing. My love of dancing has me very inspired to continue on this wonderful journey and fly with it. It is never too much, and I hope to excel in this art as far as it will take me. I love my life and I feel so fortunate to have found dance which has inspired me in my life unlike anything I have every experienced.

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