How To Warm Up For Belly Dancing Video

Belly dancing might require a warm up or stretching period to warm and loosen muscles. Learn to belly dance for fitness or art in this belly dancing video.

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Bring arms over head
Reach through one side of body
Inhale on reach up
Exhale moving center
Double pulse

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Nadia Moussa has been belly-dancing for fifteen years. She began dancing ballet and modern dance at a young age, but after discovering belly-dancing Nadia quickly fell in love with this eclectic art form. She currently teaches at Lotus Music and Dance in New York City.

NADIA MOUSSA: Hello, my name is Nadia Moussa and I am an instructor here at Lotus Music and Dance in New York City. In this clip, let us learn how to warm-up for belly dance. One of my favorite ways to warm-up is to simply bring my arms up over my head and reach up through one side of the body, really reach to the fingertips and come center. Inhale, reach up, exhale, center. Inhale, reach up, exhale, center. Really stretching the sides of the body, creating length and space. To intensify the stretch, we can bend one knee. So inhale, bend, reach, exhale, center, inhale, bend and reach, exhale, center. We are bending the same leg as the arm that we are reaching up. A little faster. Reach, reach, reach and reach. Double pulse. One, two and one, two. One, two and one, two. Reaching your heels into the floor and reaching your fingertips up to the ceiling. And one, two and one, two. And this is how we warm-up for belly dance.

How to Warm Up for Belly Dancing Video

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