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“I had very special treatment at Charlotte Women’s Pavilion. I felt more a part of a big PUBLICATION: Charlotte the family, than just another patient. Dr. Cityrather Magazin e DATE: August 2006 Anikwue and his staff gave me great, proARTICLE: Eat, Drink fessional care…and help in Spanish as well! During my pregnancy, I felt confident that everything was going to be all right with Dr. Anikwue’s help.”
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Wilson, who is the mother of a 3-year-old daughter, says many people have misconceptions about the art and exercise of belly dancing, associating it with entertainment for men. But belly dance, in its truest sense, is a way to celebrate women. “It’s for and about women,” she says. This Middle Eastern dance stretches back to ancient times, and is believed to help women with childbirth. The mother and friends of the woman in labor would dance around a woman in childbirth to help her remember the movements that would make giving birth easier, Wilson says. Wilson danced through her eighth month of pregnancy, and feels that it also aided her to quickly restore her abdominal muscles and to rebuild and strengthen the pelvic floor. “Many students who discover belly dancing after pregnancy wish they would have known about it sooner,” she says. She believes it can even help women overcome depression and grief. She describes students who have come in facing difficult problems, and, through the movement and the exuberance, danced away grief, anger, and frustration. Wilson notes that the dance form offers women the possibility to find freedom from the world around them, and gives them a place to focus on themselves instead of their roles as mother, sister, wife, or employee. “If I come here tired from work, I dance and feel better,” Wilson says. “I just feel much better if I can dance.” TCW
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niques. “I realized that my tummy is good,” Fowler says. “And, with belly dance, the smaller you are, the harder you have to work to make the moves seen!” Wilson also touts the power of the dance to boost self-esteem. “I had some self-confidence issues when I started out,” she says. “I was 30 pounds heavier than I am today. But this transformed my life. I loved the dancing, and I finally felt good about myself when I looked in the mirror.” She says the confidence she gained boosted her self-esteem in other areas of her life. In her own Spirit of the Lotus professional dance troupe, she performs on stage throughout the Southeast.
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