Kasey Smith has been dancing for 11 years and teaching bellydance for 8 years throughout the Illawarra & southern & eastern Sydney areas. Kasey is a well-respected & known instructor who is ever-present on the Sydney bellydance performance circuit. She is also the founder & head instructor of the Ishtar Bellydance Academy.

Today, Kasey is healthy, happy & engaged in life dynamically, helping other women to realise that they too can be happy & healthy & engaged in life. She is living proof that a woman can turn her life around. Coming out of an abusive marriage with NO self-esteem or self-worth & approaching 46 & a single mum, Kasey had become very ill with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Finding bellydance through a friend who danced for enjoyment, Kasey's first experience immediately engaged her imagination & emotions. She felt she had come home.

Delivering courses across all age groups & demographics (with a specialisation in senior classes) Kasey offers a diverse & always fun & enjoyable teaching program encapsulating theory, practical, self-esteem & body-image building with an emphasis on a safe learning environment. Kasey also helps women find the positive in life & to re-imagine their body image as one of beauty & originality, not as socially judged by attitudes of media/advertising or as defined by men.

Discovering Pulse8 Fitness has been an exciting & empowering evolution in Kasey's dance life & the opportunity to become an instructor of, & to deliver Pulse8 classes, is a perfect addition to her teaching. The colour, music & movement/poses of the Pulse8 repertoire gifts upliftment, well-being & energises & balances the individual. Kasey is thrilled to be an instructor of this new training system of dance & honoured to be a part of Keti's creative community.