When I think of yoga, I think of a relaxing routine that improves flexibility and decreases stress. For most people, yoga provides a calming experience. Buti yoga, on the other hand, does almost the ...

In a fitness studio in Saudi Arabia, dozens of women sway to Arabic music as they practise belly dancing -- an activity that many feel compelled to keep secret. Despite their enthusiasm, none of them ...

Despite getting a teaching degree to appease her mother, Sherry Brier never saw herself as being a teacher. But when the Tiburon resident stumbled upon a belly dance troupe performing at a summer fair ...

You won't find any free weights or workout machines lined up inside the Yoga Hound Yoga building in Decatur. Area residents looking for a new kind of workout need only the padded floor and several ...

Something clicked for Julie Elliot as an undergraduate at the University of Iowa in the late 1970s. The young Strawberry Point student joined a folk dancing club and the Scottish Highlanders, then ...

There were no hand cymbals or sequined harem pants, and no Middle Eastern music was playing in the background. And yet the rhythmic, wavy movements of an Iraqi woman's abdominal wall muscles resembled ...

With this modern hectic lifestyle, lack of exercise, poor dieting and stress, the belly fat is one of the reasons many people worry about today. Although spot reduction is not a myth, yoga practice ...

Gemma Marin, 30, is a Spanish actress and dancer based in Los Angeles. Having danced since she could walk, she didn't even consider taking to the sidelines when she got pregnant with her first child, ...