BellyDancing barefoot is good for you
From the origins of BellyDance, in Ancient Pharaohnic times, BellyDancers where performing barefoot, and since 100 years ago started to perform with shoes.
Nowadays many perform with isolated shoes, just because they feel more femenine to dance with them or because they do´t make their feet dirty, but they don´t undestand the deep therapeutical meaning of dancing barefoot.
My mother, Alia Shams, taught me the real authentic BellyDance, she become a BellyDancer on the 1980´s been one of the pioneer BellyDancers in Spain, leaving her work as a flamenco performer, she was a spiritual investigator in the origins of this dance and become a world known archeologist BellyDancer.
She told me to dance always barefoot, because was good for balancing my energy, and never understood totally well, until I stopped dancing regularry, my health got damaged, I thought that was because of something I eat or an allergy, but now I understood why.
In Asian culture and tradition, in their natural therapeutic medicine, they work with the basement of the foot because they say each part ir corresponds with an organ of the body, therefore when we dance barefoot we are also massaging our body, litteraly from the basement of our body.
Which is the health difference between performing BellyDance barefoot and with shoes?
Nowadays more than never, is needed to perform barefoot, because since ancient times, the tribes know that to walk with shoes makes us sick, because we don´t connect with Mother Earth. We become like a tree, connecting our roots to the ground, and in that moment also our hands become connected in that moment to the cosmos, when we dance with isolated shoes this dosen’t happen, the connection is lost, that is why Classical Ballet dancers dance with lether or cloth shoes.
We never understood so clear until nowadays because with so much technology all over, there is an overcharge electronic energy flowing in the environment, and we need to dance barefoot to be connected to Nature, which is the balancer of our own energy. When we dance barefoot we discharge bad energies down to Mother Earth, specially if we are in the ground, not over a building, but over the grass or the dirt, doing what nowadays is known as ”grounding”,
Not only that, if we dance with the correct techniqueswith our emotional concentration, we can also flow the God energy flow up through all our chakras, voltic spots energies, and then is when a dancer feels powerfull inside her soul, the connection between her and Mother Earth, always thinking positive when dancing, and making respectful movements to the public, we can all achieve that feeling of full power, without the need of drugs or getting into a sect, just by the concentration of the now, not the before or the after.
Plus with the techniques that you need from someone like me, otherwise you will never achieve the feeling of this power that we can all develop but is not taught to students, because is secret and sagred, and not many teachers know this, because only comes to those who are prepared.
Why we have to think always positive?
When we allow negative thoughts invade our mind, we enter into the world of the dark, sick and death, as simple as that.
We need to smile, even in the hard times, don’t allow the demons of the others to hurt you, and specially when you perform publicly.
People think to be a performer is easy, but is not, is a blessing career if you are positive thinker, but if you are in the bad mood, noneone will contract you as a dancer or as a teacher, noneone wants someone to give bad mood to their costumers or family members.
Also when you work with the correct energy, the protonic energy, when you smile you make all the bad energies flow away of your golden energy, is like we become a natural repelent of the bad energies, we relax our facial muslces, and all our body feels relax.
Some times you will make mistakes when you are perfoning, those mistakes you can convert them in your tool to make it not look like mistakes, but look like done in purpose, so even so in the bad moments, when you are facing public and everyone is staring at you, are those moments that the magic can come, and make a special moment for everyone included yourself to remember as unique and happens only once in a time.
I myself, smile when i make a mistake, none one notes my mistake because I keep smiling, I never loose the smile, unless the music is in the mood of been spiritual or a serious rithual. And never fake the smile.
What happens when we do releve barefoot?
I studied Classical Ballet since I was 4 until 9, then I entered the Professional Conservatory of Dance when I was 12 and studied there through 10 long years. I become a BellyDancer and teacher when I was 17, since then I have been 30 years teaching BellyDance.
Due to what I learned from my mother, and I experienced during all the years dancing, teaching and choreographing, I can speak in synthesis way.
When we do releve, which in french means ”develop up”, we are going over our toes, normally students tend to put all the weight over their toes, but that creates a lot of pain, specially if you were ballet points, because all that weight is painful.
The correct techniques makes all that weight dissapear, there is non weight over the toes, when you do it correctly.
Also the same when walking, if you don’t have the correct body posture, all the weight of your body goes against your knees, and the column tends to turn into a front deforation, specially for western women, who tend to hide their breast when growing up, instead of eastern women that are proud of been women. Probably is because they marry earlier so they are taught to act as women since child, so they are not afraid of walking and standing with correct body posture.
There is a technique that it has to be done the developping of the energy going up conciously, otherwise is impossible to achieve it, because naturally everything let it go down due following the gravity law, so when you go against what is ”normal”, you become superior connecting easily to the power that helps you to develop to a higher level as a dancer and as a person.
How long time you need to learn the correct therapeutical?
At the beginning is hard work, but when you learn to do it correcly, becomes easy. You can not get a book and know all about the book until you read it, study it, and understand it, you will not know well the book.
The same with dance, you need first to learn it studying correctly the techniques, then understand the meaning of it, how the energy flows, how to make it flow through your body, then you start to have resoults.
But first you need your mashine which is your body to function properly, if you have a bad body posture, you will never achieve it, and also you will need all your emotions concentrated in the movements and correct techniques to make it flow, and then you will not only give it up to the crown chakra, you will have to give it to the audience through the hands, otherwise what is good for you, if you block it within you, will hurt you, you must give it to the public, and giving it to them you also make everyone happy, because they will feel what you feel, is a kind of vibration that makes your hair go up like ”goosebumps”.
Normally student studying from me the BBDC program, take face to face a one week course to correct their incorrect movements, and when coming as absolute beginners also one week, studying a total of 15 hours in 5 very intensive days, studying online they can achieve the same in 1 month studying twice per week, I teach this on Level 1 of the course.
Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it is transformed
There are in the Universe 3 types of energies:
Protonic positive energy
Electronic negative energy
Neutronic neutral energy
Just like the 3 energies of the atoms, and in christianity is known as the trinity.
When we perform publicly, not dancing at home, if we have the right energy in our mind, soul, and body, we create in the face to face public a reaction accordingly to our emotions.
The emotions can be positive, negative or neutral, that is why as dancers, specially BellyDancers we have to be careful with many things, not only costume but also how you look to your public, becuase BellyDancers should express to the public hapinnes, not lust, that is what they have been contracted for centuries, even if in old times were contracted also for other ceremonies such as mortuary in Pharaohnic times.
As dancers we can, with our intentions, emotions, techniques and dancing barefoot, all together, we can create a good atmosphere in our performance, using the correct energy, the protonic energy, the positive energy and balance the bad energies, the negative energies around our selfs.
That is why this dance was considered a rithual dance in it’s beginning and has been in the past a must to have a BellyDancer for a wedding, a birth and in a birthday in the Egyptian Tradition, which has been spreeded into the Arabian world to dance in their restaurants and events with families.
But none of that can be achieved if the basement, the human body, is not correcly installed, this is why I base my course first correcting to students, who some are already performing, and to those who are absolute beginners the correct therapeutic movements, first the base, after the rest.
From Level 2 they don’t need to think more in techniques, because all movements have been taught and now are ready to learn all what is needed to dance traditionally to music instruments by improvisation, music structures, items or props to use, so anyone can learn to perform powerful, knowning what you are doingg, respecting tradition, become a good teacher, a great improviser, a good choreographer and even winning in BellyDance competitions.
Article written by Prof. Amora Shams on 15/04/2023
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