What's more, belly dancing offers humanity an opportunity to connect with the divine feminine inherent in nature and all of life. Both women and men often repress and devalue their intuitions, emotions, and subconscious dream messages, their body's innate wisdom and their latent creative/healing powers. It doesn't matter who we are, every human is equal and we are in need of owning our feelings. In owning these attributes, we reclaim an ancient female spirituality sorely lacking in our culture.

Through this dance form, a woman gives herself the opportunity to become more sensual, spontaneous, creative and to experience greater control over her often devalued body. This latter phenomenon, to gain control over one's body, is particularly appealing to women who live within the larger patriarchal social system. It is appealing to women who are constantly inundated with the mass media's unrealistic and unhealthy, anorexic image of the "ideal" woman.

Fortunately, unlike many other dance forms, belly dance celebrates the natural feminine form in all its shapes, sizes and colors. It hearkens back to a matrifocal era when women and men lived in a more peaceful, egalitarian and accepting culture. Because it is a dance that honors the earth, nature, animals and the sacredness of the natural female body, it has the inherent capacity to be a healing art leading to personal transformation.