The Best Pre-Pregnancy Exercise

As a former belly dancer, people (both men and women) were always in awe that my husband "allowed me" to "dance for other men." This is where their belly dance education began. The term 'belly dance' is a distortion of the Arabic term raqs al baladi, meaning 'dance of the people.' When a dancer named Little Egypt performed at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Victorian audiences were appalled by her rapid hip movements and uncorseted (although fully clothed) body and determined that baladi simpl...