{"product_id":"grandmothers-secrets-the-ancient-rituals-and-healing-power-of-belly-dancing","title":"Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals And Healing Power Of Belly Dancing","description":"\u003cb\u003e25th anniversary edition of a bestselling classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Come, sit by me,” \u003c\/i\u003esays Grandmother. \u003ci\u003e\"Take this chalk in your hand. Now draw a dot and concentrate all your energy into this one dot. It is the beginning and the end, the navel of the world.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo Fawzia Al-Rawi describes her grandmother's first lesson about the ancient craft of Oriental dance. \u003ci\u003eGrandmother's Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e always circles back to this grandmother and this young girl, echoing the circular movements of the dance itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAl-Rawi has written a strikingly graceful and original book that blends personal memoir with the history and theory of the dance known in the West as\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“belly dancing.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the story of a young Arab girl as she is initiated into womanhood. It is a history of the dance from the earliest times through the days of the Pharaohs, the Roman Empire, to the Arab world of the last three centuries. It is a personal investigation into the effects of the dance's movements on individual parts of the body and the whole psyche. It is a guide to the actual techniques of the dance for those who are inspired to put down the book and move.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAl-Rawi conveys in this book not only the history and technique of grieving and mourning dances, pregnancy and birth dances, but the spirit of these age-old rituals, and their possibilities for healing and empowering women today.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002817368255,"sku":"9781623715366","price":42.29,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/popweasel.co.nz\/products\/grandmothers-secrets-the-ancient-rituals-and-healing-power-of-belly-dancing","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}