Back to bellydance

[mekyria]

This afternoon I drove the fifteen minutes to the prenatal yoga place for a meet up with the other women and their babies. It was great to talk about labour and giving birth with all the gory details because we have all been there.

I have been trying to get my belly muscles back in control while walking around with Eliza on my arm. I did not anticipate having to relearn an omi, but here we are. Next wednesday my fakyma dance group is coming to visit the baby and we're going to get our first dance meeting done.

Next Friday is a rehearsal for the april hafla, including a 'photoshoot' for promo pictures. I haven't taken a good long look in the mirror yet, as long as I engage my abs I look sort of like prepregnancy me. There are a lot of crunches and planks in my near future.

On the 31th, I'm performing in the hafla to honor Dunya, the dancer that passed away one year ago. A week after that, my weekly classes start. So many things to do, so little time! I am jaleous of E who is at a rehearsal tonight and tomorrow. He can walk out of the door and be his old self, while I am physically a changed person and emotionally inclined to all things that remind me of Eliza.

Yet I will try to get my groove back! I have january and Februari to reclaim my bellydance self, and march and april to get my IT security identity back on the road.

Comments

[abbie-normel.livejournal.com]

after baby #1 I was back in shape after about 6 months if not better shape because I had never worked out. I still looked different though.

baby #2 was a 'nother issue.

after surgery my stomach doesn't do torso work well or it hurts. I have no oblique scrunch. I felt like a newb in class.

you'll get there!

[mekyria.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up! As long as I engage my core, I look okay I think, a bit rounder in the tunmy area.