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Cassiopeia has many instructional videos on YouTube for all abilities. This is one of her beginners’ videos aimed at showing some basic moves - in this case hip lifts while pointing your foot in front of you and while moving, plus some arm movement.

You can learn more about Cassiopeia at her website http://bellyrolls.com/index.html and I hope to bring you more of her videos soon.

Now that you have the correct posture, it’s time to learn some more simple belly dance steps.

Aubre shows you how to do both static and moving hip raises:

If you are new to Belly Dancing it is important to remember to isolate the upper and lower parts of your body. That means that when you are performing a move in the lower part of your body - such as these hip raises - it does not impact on your upper half and vice versa. You can see that Aubre is moving her hips but her torso remains still. Evetually you will be able to perform separate moves at the same time in isolation from each other.

As with many Belly Dance moves you may hear these called different names. In this case they are often called Hip Snaps, or Hip Accents.