How to Belly Dance

Video Transcript

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.