Aini Hiyam Asfoor is a professional Egyptian Style Belly Dancer. She has lived in Cairo, Egypt where she learned Arabic and Belly Dancing. She travels to Egypt as many times as she can and takes intensive seminars and learns the real Baladi. She has also been to The "Ahlan Wa Sahlan" Festival from Madam Raqia Hassan from whom she has been certified and very proud of. For now she is sponsored by Cardio Mixes, a company for Fitness Music and Hoba™ HobaDance.com and others.

Aini is also a Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer, Spinning Certified Instructor, Hula and Tahitian Instructor and Hip Hop Dancer. She started dancing professionally Hula, Tahitian, Tap, Flamenco and Mexican Folklore since she was six years old. Hip Hop and African Moves-Grooves Dance when she was a young adult - then after the years she started Classical Ballet. Aini is proud for having learned Hip Hop, one of the dances she was teaching and performing before she became a professional belly dancer by the popular international hip hop dancer and instructor Angie Bunch from Culture Shock and Jabbawockeez, 2008's America's Best Dance Crew. Aini Hiyam has been sponsored by: Frito Lay, Adidas, Coke, Nestle and a few others. For now she is sponsored by Cardio Mixes, a company for Fitness Music.

Aini has competed in: Fitness Competitions in Mexico City, Egypt for The Gold Crown in June 2006 where, for the first time CNN News was in Cairo and transmitted part of the Competition here in The United States and in "How to Inspire the World to Fitness" on April and May 2007, from "IDEA Fitness and Health Association" where Aini has been inspired and has been a member for seventeen years taking Fitness and Personal Training Conferences and worked with them as needed.

She's very active in performances and has performed in Charleston, SC and its areas in very important Festivals like: Cypress Gardens Cultural Dance Festival, Spoleto, Ion, and the North Charleston Arts Festival, in Las Vegas for an International Fitness Conference, for a cruise on The Nile in Cairo, Egypt and also in Cairo, for weddings and private functions like Birthdays. She has collaborated with a Fitness Conference in Atlanta, GA for two Zumba classes, where she found herself very happy to be part of that.

Aini has worked in TV Commercials and for TV shows in Mexico, City as here in the United Sates such as MTV reality shows teaching Hula, etc… and continues collaborating on her image in popular magazines and newspapers. She is also a choreographer. The locals also consider her a professional dancer and as she toured with Germans and Asians. Aini has found that Egyptians and Hawaiians have something in common in their dances, like movements. Aini enjoys her dances and to teach and tell others to dance with happy, tasteful and respectful moves. She loves to teach seminars in the U.S. and other countries as Mexico. Aini has considered Mexicans, Egyptians and Hawaiians share related cultures and she believes that these three may be related because of each others ancestors.

Aini is proud for writing articles for The National American Belly Dancing Magazine: "Zaghareet" who has the most information about this beautiful dance.

Aini feels that Belly Dancing is a wonderful dance that shows the feminine part of all flowering women so it has to be respected. Belly Dancing can show fragile and strong feelings and is a good resource for health. Never stop Dancing! Enjoy the freedom to dance... it is the way you can express yourself and demonstrate cultures and thoughts to the many people around the world or as close as in your own town.

Aini