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Then try joining horizontal and vertical figures of eight together; one arm draws a horizontal figure of eight while the other draws a vertical figure of eight. Do the same on the other side.

This technique harmonizes both cerebral hemispheres. Hands and arms act as the main instruments for the brain’s development and these movements develop both hemispheres.

This is a dance and dance always stands for freedom of movement. Close your eyes. Listen to the music and move in time with the rhythm. Don’t forget about the fluidity and smoothness of each movement. Your baby will help you feel how you should move.

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One day I found myself with a group of pregnant women at an ethnic dance class. First I sat and observed for a long time how each woman was moving and birthing her dance; it would come to her body and light the spark of life in it. I didn’t think I would dance that evening until the drums started playing and my body raised itself off the floor. My baby girl was calling me to dance.

Mexican healers say that the drum is the voice of Mother Earth – an ancient instrument that has come to us from the depths of time which conveys the heartbeat of our planet and the heartbeat of a baby in its mother’s womb. That must be why my baby girl liked the drum rhythms so much.

I was standing among everyone and moving as I had never moved before. I had done ballroom dancing, gone to ballet at Todes dance school, done pantomime but this was nothing like any of those dances. It was the baby who had given me this dance as a gift – it had burst out of my body as a geyser shoots out of Earth’s bowels. I went into a trance. Everything around me started vibrating and became a unified web of shimmering energy. My arms were moving spontaneously of their own accord lifting Earth’s energy upwards and flinging it onto my body, my lower centres, stomach, chest, shoulders. My body was being nurtured by earthly maternal energy. This practice had been given to me, a future mother, by my baby and the Mother of all mothers – Earth.

Lotus unfolding on a lake

This is another beautiful movement (part of the Water Dance), which I would like to share with you. Wonderful flowers of life.

Imagine that you are the smooth surface of a lake on which a wondrous lotus is unfolding… You can do this exercise lying down, just after you have woken up, or standing up. Do it as part of your dance, your morning, day or even evening warm up sessions. Yes, a pregnant woman’s warm up sessions can start even after 6 pm…