How To Maintain Posture In Belly Dancing Video

Posture is a key element in belly dancing. Keep the torso upright and learn to belly dance for fitness or art in this video.

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Feet slightly apart
Draw in through core
Engage pelvic muscles
Breathe in & up, lifting back
Shoulders wide
Head up towards top of ceiling

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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'll show you how to maintain a good posture for belly dance. This posture is good for any movements that you do, just walking down the street, doing any other sports activities. So, we're going to have our feet just slightly apart, really allow the feet to spread in to the floor. Make sure you're on the center of your foot. We're going to reach our hip bones down towards the heel. We're going to gently draw in through our core, engage the pelvic floor muscles, breathe in and up and lift the back, shoulders wide, and we're going to visualize a string lifting our heads up towards the top of the ceiling. So we have a nice long spine. So no matter what movements we do, we're thinking of all of those things to maintain a nice, strong, centered posture, whether we're doing a hip lift or a drop or a figure eight. And that's how you maintain a nice posture in belly dance.

How to Maintain Posture in Belly Dancing Video

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