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62

Youthful 62 y/o DWM, semi-retired, liberated Christian, aspiring belly dancer, Middle Eastern drummer, and student of tantra yoga, especially as it relates to belly dancing, sacred dance and sacred sexuality, and integrating and balancing the male and female natures within each of us, regardless of gender. I am also fun-loving, considerate, creative, and versatile and considerd by others to be a true gentleman.

Live in North San Luis Obispo County in the Central Coast region of CA.

I have had a burn to belly dance since 1984. I learned to belly dance at home using Atea's video and a few belly dance books. I also took some lessons from local teachers off and on for a few years in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but the challenges of life hindered my progress. One of my teachers in the early 1990s told me I was an advanced beginner at a time when I was re-starting my lessons after several years. Job and family health issues stalled me once again. I am now free to pursue my dream of becoming a competent belly dancer and M.E. drummer.

The burn to belly dance and also play M.E. drums is still with me after all these years and has intensified in recent years. Unfortunately, several injuries have disrupted my plans to resume lessons until now.

About a year ago I discovered the power, beauty, fluidity, and sensuality of tribal fusion belly dance and decided I want to learn that style when I begin lessons again.

My interest in tribal fusion as well as tantra yoga and tantra dance has added a whole new dimension to my vision of how I want to express my inner being through belly dance.

As a result of this new vision, I have experienced a major paradigm shift in my worldview, leading to new ways of being, living, and loving and a sense of liberation and contentment . I have finally realized I am on the path to becoming the person I have always been in the core of my being, but didn't know it.

God has revealed to me the person He intended me to be all along. He made both male and female in His image; therefore, God is both male and female, God and Goddess, Divine Father and Divine Mother, who created in His/Her image all people, including those considered by our society and culture to be sexually and/or gender variant.

The trend to combine belly dance and tantra yoga as well as other forms of yoga has given me one those breakthrough AH-HAH moments. This powerful, holistic combination uses the body to manifest one's spirituality as well as balance and integrate the male/female natures within each of us, leading to spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical healing, wholeness, contentment , peace, joy, and pure love.

I now understand from my research the combination of belly dance and tantra is a spiritual path compatible with all religious and spiritual teachings and beliefs, a tool to complement each individual's faith journey, including Christianity.

Accordingly, as a Liberated Christian, Progressive Christianity, belly dancing, drumming, and tantra yoga will each contribute to my personal growth, health, vitality, balance, integration, wholeness, and contentment and I am excited about the future.

There is so much to learn. I saw someone wearing a hoodie two years ago with a surfboard logo on the back, which had a message that said, "Old guys rule. The older I get, the better I was." When I was lamenting about me being a late bloomer recently, a friend told me, "It is never too late to become who you really are." Carpe deum!!!

I welcome any encouragement and insight from tribe members with similar interests and also look forward to developing friendships.