As I was growing up I never took dance lessons, but in 1999 I embarked on a road less traveled in my life and started classes in American Belly Dance style learning from top Seattle Instructors like Delilah, Nadira, Elisa Gamal and Aleili. I later moved to Tribal Fusion Belly Dance studying with the likes of Sharon Moore of inFusion Tribal troupe and ATS with Adriene Rice. I learned that American Belly Dance, while embodying Egyptian, Turkish and Lebanese belly dance, was the way to cultivate the creativeness and self expression I longed for in my dancing. My dancing today reflects all I have learned from these empowering Women and their instruction.