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Ansuya Rathor teaches a basic belly dance class on a recent Wednesday night. Ansuya's Bellydance Studio opened July 19 and offered free lessons for the first two weeks. The studio offers classes for all experience levels every Monday through Thursday. Rathor, 33, has been belly dancing since she was 3-years-old and has danced professionally all over the world. 'When watching belly dance, it's as though women recognize something within themselves,' Rathor said. 'I wanted to create a great environment for them to discover that.' Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff

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Ansuya Rathor teaches a basic belly dance class on a recent Wednesday night. Ansuya's Bellydance Studio opened July 19 and offered free lessons for the first two weeks. The studio offers classes for all experience levels every Monday through Thursday. Rathor, 33, has been belly dancing since she was 3-years-old and has danced professionally all over the world. "When watching belly dance, it's as though women recognize something within themselves," Rathor said. "I wanted to create a great environment for them to discover that." Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff

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  • Ansuya Rathor teaches a basic belly dance class on a recent Wednesday night. Ansuya's Bellydance Studio opened July 19 and offered free lessons for the first two weeks. The studio offers classes for all experience levels every Monday through Thursday. Rathor, 33, has been belly dancing since she was 3-years-old and has danced professionally all over the world. 'When watching belly dance, it's as though women recognize something within themselves,' Rathor said. 'I wanted to create a great environment for them to discover that.' Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
  • Ansuya Rathor teaches a basic belly dance class on a recent Wednesday night. Ansuya's Bellydance Studio opened July 19 and offered free lessons for the first two weeks. The studio offers classes for all experience levels every Monday through Thursday. Rathor, 33, has been belly dancing since she was 3-years-old and has danced professionally all over the world. 'When watching belly dance, it's as though women recognize something within themselves,' Rathor said. 'I wanted to create a great environment for them to discover that.' Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
  • Ansuya Rathor teaches a basic belly dance class on a recent Wednesday night. Ansuya's Bellydance Studio opened July 19 and offered free lessons for the first two weeks. The studio offers classes for all experience levels every Monday through Thursday. Rathor, 33, has been belly dancing since she was 3-years-old and has danced professionally all over the world. 'When watching belly dance, it's as though women recognize something within themselves,' Rathor said. 'I wanted to create a great environment for them to discover that.' Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
  • Ansuya Rathor, 33, right, dances with her mother Janaeni Rathor, 63, during a basic belly dance class on a recent Wednesday night. Janaeni began dancing professionally when she was 18-years-old. 'When I was 16 I saw a belly dancer and it just swept me away,' she said. Ansuya's Bellydance Studio opened July 19 and offered free lessons for the first two weeks. The studio offers classes for all experience levels every Monday through Thursday. Rathor, 33, has been belly dancing since she was 3-years-old and has danced professionally all over the world. 'When watching belly dance, it's as though women recognize something within themselves,' Rathor said. 'I wanted to create a great environment for them to discover that.' Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
  • Ansuya Rathor teaches a basic belly dance class on a recent Wednesday night. Ansuya's Bellydance Studio opened July 19 and offered free lessons for the first two weeks. The studio offers classes for all experience levels every Monday through Thursday. Rathor, 33, has been belly dancing since she was 3-years-old and has danced professionally all over the world. 'When watching belly dance, it's as though women recognize something within themselves,' Rathor said. 'I wanted to create a great environment for them to discover that.' Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
  • Ansuya Rathor teaches a basic belly dance class on a recent Wednesday night. Ansuya's Bellydance Studio opened July 19 and offered free lessons for the first two weeks. The studio offers classes for all experience levels every Monday through Thursday. Rathor, 33, has been belly dancing since she was 3-years-old and has danced professionally all over the world. 'When watching belly dance, it's as though women recognize something within themselves,' Rathor said. 'I wanted to create a great environment for them to discover that.' Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
  • Janaeni Rathor, 63, watches her daughter Ansuya teach a basic belly dance class on a recent Wednesday night. Janaeni began dancing professionally when she was 18-years-old. 'When I was 16 I saw a belly dancer and it just swept me away,' she said. Ansuya's Bellydance Studio opened July 19 and offered free lessons for the first two weeks. The studio offers classes for all experience levels every Monday through Thursday. Rathor, 33, has been belly dancing since she was 3-years-old and has danced professionally all over the world. 'When watching belly dance, it's as though women recognize something within themselves,' Rathor said. 'I wanted to create a great environment for them to discover that.' Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
  • Ansuya Rathor teaches a basic belly dance class on a recent Wednesday night. Ansuya's Bellydance Studio opened July 19 and offered free lessons for the first two weeks. The studio offers classes for all experience levels every Monday through Thursday. Rathor, 33, has been belly dancing since she was 3-years-old and has danced professionally all over the world. 'When watching belly dance, it's as though women recognize something within themselves,' Rathor said. 'I wanted to create a great environment for them to discover that.' Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
  • Belly dance instructor Tamrah DeLaurentis, right, participates in a basic belly dancing class at Ansuya's Bellydance Studio on Fifth Ave. N. in Naples. DeLaurentis and her daughter Leila Dolwick, 11, teach a Mommy & Me class on Wednesday nights at 5 p.m. for mothers and girls between seven and 10-years-old. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
  • Carrie Barfield, who dances as 'Saphira,' wears jewelry and a traditional scrarf adorned with coins while she dances during class at Ansuya's Bellydance Studio on a recent Wednesday evening on Fifth Ave. N. in Naples. The studio opened July 19 and offered free lessons for the first two weeks. The studio offers classes for all experience levels every Monday through Thursday. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
  • Ansuya Rathor teaches a basic belly dance class on a recent Wednesday night. Ansuya's Bellydance Studio opened July 19 and offered free lessons for the first two weeks. The studio offers classes for all experience levels every Monday through Thursday. Rathor, 33, has been belly dancing since she was 3-years-old and has danced professionally all over the world. 'When watching belly dance, it's as though women recognize something within themselves,' Rathor said. 'I wanted to create a great environment for them to discover that.' Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff

International dancer Ansuyah Rathor opens Ansuyah's Bellydance Studio opened July 19 and offered free lessons for the first two weeks. The studio, on Fifth Ave. N. in Naples, offers classes for all experience levels every Monday through Thursday.

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