By Josslyn Streett, Reiki Master/Teacher for Rain Shadow Reiki in Sequim, WA
The Peninsula Healers Circle is a circle of holistic/integrative healing practitioners living and working on the north Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. We meet on the third Friday of each month to learn from each other and meet and get to know other healers.
Our goals are:
- to build a mutually supportive community of healers
- to develop a more in-depth understanding of the different healing modalities offered by members of the circle
- to offer a site where people can locate healing practitioners of various modalities in our areanetworking and referral base
- to offer appropriate integrative care to our clients
March Madness- Belly Dancing!!
Something new for the Peninsula Healers Circle, to accommodate more healers who work Friday mornings, we will meet in the evening for the change of season months; March, June, September and December. We are hoping to get to know a more diverse group of healers this way. For March our evening presenter was changed at the last-minute due to illness. Rena Raymond and Barb stepped up one night before and organized a belly dancing class and henna night for all of us. It was a blast.
Rena and Barb have been belly dancing for thirty years and much of that together as a team.
I was surprised but happy to learn that until approximately fifty years ago, belly dancing was a dance by women, for women. The woman created the dances and danced them for their health and happiness, not for the men. The men were not allowed in the women’s chambers and this is one way they stayed healthy and active and expressed themselves. Each dance has a purpose, tells a story, much like the Hawaiian dances.
But, not so easy for me personally to accomplish in the beginning. For me, not being a dancer or very graceful either, I could see this would be a somewhat long learning curve, but, a fun one! I can’t think of a better way to get a workout and I really did feel better simply by wearing the beautiful jingling out fits they wear. Those are the most fun. I have to say, after practicing some of the figure eight moves with my hips, my lower back did feel much better the next day. And, the most important part, it was a BLAST!!
THANK YOU RENA AND BARB!! WE HAD SO MUCH FUN!!
