About us
Want to Learn how to shimmy? Connect to your feminine creativity? Move in new healthy ways? Develop your spiritual side? Enjoy different cultures? We do all of this whilst making new friends & boosting confidence in a fun and supportive sisterhood!
...If you like the sound of regular bellydance lessons, workshops & parties organised by Edinburgh's full time professional bellydancer with almost 2 decades of experience, the “Edinburgh Belly Dance Lessons Meetup” might just be for you!
Women of all ages, shapes and sizes are encouraged to join us in this gorgeous goddess engaging meet up group.
Oh, and we meet both ONLINE and at our own SAFE SACRED SPACE, the only Bellydance venue in the UK, SAHARA STUDIO in Edinburgh.
WE’RE MAKING HISTORY TOGETHER!
INCLUSIVITY: Whilst traditionally this is a women's group, in the interest of inclusion some meets will be mixed/non gender and clearly specified in advance.
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...WOW!!! We are over 900 Bellydancers!!! We’ve been having an INCREDIBLE SHIMMYING TIME TOGETHER!
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Secure your spaces in our classes & events directly via our venue website WWW.SAHARA.STUDIO
Join the movement!
Exciting times! See you soon...
Shimmies,
Lindsey Xx.
Upcoming events
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WILDER WOMAN RETREAT
The Big Shed, Tombreck,, Aberfeldy, GBWe women have become tamed, conditioned, dulled, tired. Yet deep inside something is stirring...
❤️🔥 3 nights, 4 days, 1 life changing journey of initiation.
Join us this coming Celtic Lughnasadh (first harvest) to shake loose and shimmy, set free and flow. Unleashing the WILD WOMAN in pure, raw, unspoiled nature and femininity. 💃
😻 Following the immense positive feedback from our 2025 Wild Woman Retreat, you asked, we responded... 3 nights WILDER WOMAN RETREAT on the banks of Loch Tay, Summer 2026... 8 spaces booked in 24 hours!............ Secure your space now!
🌿 Replenish your soul around our sacred ritual altar, warm your heart at our roaring community fire, wander rolling hills and woodlands, swim the fresh cleansing waters of our own private beach all on the banks of stunning Loch Tay, Aberfeldy. Supported by a carefully crafted program of workshops, set against the backdrop of the Ben Lawers mountains.
🏕️ 4 days, 3 nights, camping under the summer stars. Low in the highlands, high in the lowlands.
🥗 Lunches and dinners are community pot luck style gatherings, breakfasts are your own - with a large well equipped commercial kitchen for our private use. Herbal teas and coffees anytime you like and treats only limited by what we bring! There is a local produce farm shop onsite stocking a variety of in season fruits and vegetables and my friends handmade cacao chocolate bars!
💓 This retreat is probably not for you if you have no respect for nature. This retreat is for women of all ages and backgrounds who want to feel more connected to themselves and nurture their loving, reverential connection to Mother Earth. It falls within the Celtic celebration of “Lughnasa” - First Harvest. Collective themes of this time are: Ripening into fullness - what is ripe and ready to be picked? Gathering & celebrating - what is to be celebrated and savoured? What are the learnings? Where have be grown?
📄 The schedule is being finalised and will remain fluid to the needs of the group in realtime…
Here's an Example schedule (from 2024):
FRIDAY
Arrivals - 4pm
Welcome & opening circle
Community Celebration Hafla Party with performances & potluck dinner
Collective cleanse and relaxationSATURDAY
Meditation & Progressive Muscular Relaxation
Lunara Moon Circle
Food share lunch
Cacao Ceremony
Bellydance Workshop
Ecstatic Dance
Food share dinner/free time
Sacred Oil Blending Workshop
Annointing Ceremony
Short film/free timeSUNDAY
Silent Awakening & Nature Walk
Community Offered Shares
Vipassana Meditation
Lunara Moon Cycle Bracelet Beading Workshop
6 Hands Massage Experience
Womb Healing Session
Food Share/free time
Fire CeremonyMONDAY
Wild swimming & picnic on the beach
Crystal healing soundbath
Closing ceremony
Departures ~ 4pmThere will also be lots of opportunities for free time in nature for soul expansion.
🥰 'positively life changing' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💫 Book your space, mark your calendar, tell your friends. You deserve to be held in nature in this unique sisterhood experience.
Oh, and since it’s a bank holiday weekend some of us might stay in the area afterwards to visit Cluny Gardens or the world’s oldest Yew tree! 🌳
SPACES ARE NOW LIMITED - MAKE ONE YOURS!
Secure your space today 👉 BOOKING PAGE at www.sahara.studioBooking options available at checkout:
- Pay in full
- Pay-in-3
- Interest free credit
Earlybird bookings have now closed. Price will increase as the event fills.
All proceeds towards the Sahara Studio Community. Ensuring more community events in future.
Booking & more details 👇
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