kaouthar' feedback on the lessons

Kaouthar’s Women Empowerment: United we (belly)dance!

Feedback from participants...

I'd like to tell you something that's been in my mind during the time I've been coming to your classes: you're a great dancer, but above all you are an amazing teacher! Whatever expectations I had when starting the classes, you've exceded at least ten times! You have the ability to break down every movement into every detail, explaining it so thoroughly, that even the choreography challenged people like me, manage to (sooner or later) understand it! It's a real delight to come to class every time.

Another thing that I love, is the fact that you take bellydance the way it should be taken: seriously (without this meaning that it is not playful or great fun). I'm so proud of my classes that I added them to my CV!

Kaouthar, I just want to tell you that last night I was at a very low ebb and your class was like a gift from above for me. You really picked me up so much! I had been meaning to come along for such a long time - actually for more than a year but I let everything get in the way. Now that I've planted the seed I want to keep the ball rolling! Can't tell you how thankful I am to have discovered your class.

Beste Kaouthar,

Lees laatste tijd veel over jou. Ik vind het heel erg goed wat je doet voor het buikdansen en vrouwen in het algemeen in Nederland. Ik ben het met je eens dat buikdansen je echt verder helpt in dit leven. Buikdansen is echt goed voor je lijf en je geest. Sinds ik buikdans voel ik mij veelvrouwelijker en mooier, en dat maakt mij gelukkig. Ook komt het buikdansen gelukkig een beetje uit die ordiniare sfeer...

I have been a feminist all my adult life but it took only one bellydance lesson for me to realise how empowering it is. But you can only FEEL that when you are DOING it. What you are doing is much more what we need now, and I think also it is closer to what young women today are about.

'I am still impressed, after over a year, by the way you teach. It is not only very enjoyable, but also very effective. During the workshop I looked at some of the people who are relatively new in your lessons - and I realised: this is how I felt and struggled and tried a year ago, and now a lot of it just comes by itself. And with that, I have become able to enter,almost at a precious and joyful and powerful space and tap into a very powerful source of energy.I am grateful to you for giving me this opportunity, for opening all this up to me'.

Allereerst wil ik je nogmaals danken voor een fantastische workshop. Ik heb genoten!! zowel van de manier van bewegen, de muziek, als van jouw dynamische, krachtige en toch zeer vrouwelijke manier van presenteren. Mijn spierpijn herinnert mij er nog dagelijks aan. Belly dance is echter wel een manier van bewegen die mij enorm aanstaat en graag wil ik ...

'At first I felt worried about my belly hanging over my trousers (all of the others seemed to be so thin!) but after a while this feeling just left me. I really felt the freedom of just being able to move to the music. Your enthusiasm is very inspiring, as your energy. Most of all, for me, the dance gave me an opening onto a part of myself that I realise I had lost: my sensuality...'

'Ik heb genoten van de workshop. Veel leuker dan ik dacht.

Ik ga zeker lessen nemen na de zomer.

Lijkt me heerlijk zo soepel en vrij te kunnen bewegen en die geweldige heupbewegingen onder de knie te krijgen.

Mijn complimenten voor de manier waarop je les geeft'.

'...Your lesson is creating miracles for me, step by step I know where to put my focus and energy on and to be good to myself. And to take away my fears. You truly bring out the best in me. Thank you so much. I feel so happy and fulfilled after your lesson. As if I can move mountains...'

trefwoorden: buikdans, oriental dance, zwangerschap, pregnancy dance, belly dance, pregnancy, show, event, danscursus kinderen, children dance, girls belly dance, women empowerment, vrijgezelfeest, vrijgezel, feest, trouwenfeest, verjaardagfeest, kinderfeest,