a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GVi5NXGe_lY/S2n__2n4gLI/AAAAAAAAACo/eANgVL4giTo/s1600-h/belt.jpg"target="_blank"img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 161px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 109px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434155897858850994" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GVi5NXGe_lY/S2n__2n4gLI/AAAAAAAAACo/eANgVL4giTo/s200/belt.jpg" //a With Chrisa href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GVi5NXGe_lY/S2n_oPm9TdI/AAAAAAAAACg/uh6m0490sX8/s1600-h/belt.jpg"/atmas and New Year festivities already behind us, and spring still a way ahead, February may seem a grey month for those of us living in the Northern hemisphere. I hate winter, but I find that hobbies, such as belly dancing, help me keep busy and in a good mood during the coldest month.br /br /My regular belly dance practice and teaching oriental dance every week are things that help me stay active and positive. It is sometimes hard to motivate myself, especially on the coldest days, but it is always worth the effort. Belly dancing is known to provide several a href="http://www.worldbellydance.com/benefits.html"health benefits/a, for the body as well as for the mind. Just like every other form of physical exercise, practising belly dance causes the release of endorphins. In addition to this, the social aspect of dance helps improve people’s mood. This is also the subject of a relatively new discipline, called a href="http://www.worldbellydance.com/therapy.html"Dance Therapy/a, which I find fascinating.br /br /Do you also find that belly dancing improves your mood and joy of living? Please feel free to send comments with your experiences.br /br /br /br /------br /Now on World Belly Dance - a href="http://www.worldbellydance.com/events.html"Belly dance events/a and a href="http://www.worldbellydance.com/guides/"Dancing guides/a.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29399419-3337423913636235826?l=www.worldbellydancer.org' alt='' //divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BellyDanceWorld/~4/ESwI3GIECZY" height="1" width="1"/ More...