How to Belly Dance

Belly dancing has many conflicting origin stories, with dancers claiming many true lines of tradition. Learn to belly dance for fitness or art in this belly dancing video.

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Isolate hips
Use legs, the backs of legs, & inner thighs
Use abdominals for smooth stomach movements

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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'm an instructor here at Lotus Music and Dance in New York City. In this clip, I'm going to show you how to belly dance and why it's such a great workout. The thing that makes belly dance a great workout is that we really have to isolate all the different parts of our body. Mainly, we're isolating our hips. So in order to isolate the hips, we really have to have a strong core. We're really going to use our legs, the backs of the legs, the inner thighs. And for the smooth movements of belly dance, we're really using our abdominals. And it's great for really opening up the spine and finding tight places in your spine that you need to breathe into. There are also some great arm movements in belly dance that tone and sculpt your arms and shoulders. If you do this for a little while, you'll feel it right away. We isolate the head. We isolate the rib cage, which also works your core muscles.

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