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Want to Get Fit? Then Take Up Belly Dancing!Council to Fund Classes

Posted on: Monday, 2 May 2005, 15:00 CDT

FREE belly dancing classes funded from council coffers have been launched to get women across Glasgow fit.

The city council stepped in with the cash so women of all shapes and sizes could take part in the lessons in Drumchapel, which normally cost pounds-4 a person.

Belly dance instructor Laura Monteith, 32, runs the free weekly classes which aim to attract unfit women turned off by more conventional forms of exercise.

The new classes in the Donald Dewar Leisure Centre on Garscadden Road are proving popular - in just five weeks the class size has more than doubled.

Laura, who has been involved in belly dancing for five years, said:

"Aerobics may be a turn-off. But you can be drawn to belly dancing because it is something a bit different and you don't have to have a perfect body shape to try it."

The dancer, who works as a project manager at a computer firm, believes women who feel intimidated by traditional exercise classes will benefit.

She added: "It's very gentle although it works the muscles and gradually increases fitness as well as boosting self-confidence."

Laura's free classes are held at the dance studio in the Donald Dewar Leisure Centre, 220 Garscadden Road on Sunday from 3pm to 4pm.

Source: Evening Times; Glasgow (UK)

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