I’ve been dancing since I was a kid when I did modern and contemporary dance. I then studied performing arts at sixth form majoring in dance (you’d know why if you heard me sing lol). I then didn’t do any formal dance lessons until 2008 when I started to learn bellydance and became hooked on the variety and expression that it provides. What I didn’t expect was the body acceptance that I found in bellydance and have gone from hating my then comparatively thin body to loving it whatever size it is.

Most recently I’ve been dancing in a tribal fusion trio called Shani and we usually dance to non-traditional bellydance music such as rock or alternative music. We love to design crazy costumes to wear on stage.

Bellydance is expressive and inclusive and a really good low impact cardio workout.