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Another Great Belly Dance Warm-up

Lisa — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:51:41 +0000

Here’s another great belly dance warm-up video as well as another video from Everybody Bellydance:

This is a nice and gentle way to warm-up your muscles before dancing.

Don’t forget to check out Everybody Bellydance’s blog: http://www.everybodybellydance.com/

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Lower Body Warm Up

Lisa — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:18:16 +0000

Next we move onto Kimber’s lower body warm up for belly dancers.

Again the movements are beautiful and fluid – gentle figure of eights, small hip circles, bends, amd lunges.

To view more of Kimber’s videos on YouTube visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/kimbrgsm1

The music in the videos is The Seventh Veil by Aradia and DJ Zen from Sensual Belly Dance.

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Upper Body Warm Up

Lisa — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:18:15 +0000

Thanks to Kimber from Anchorage for these more comprehensive warm up videos for belly dancers.

Let’s start with the upper body warm up.

As you can see, the aim is not to over stretch or strain during the warm-up but to gently ease your muscles into exercise. All the movements are soft, gentle and fluid and are focused particularly on the areas and isolations you will use during main part of your belly dancing lessons.

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Belly Dancing Lessons: Warm Up

Lisa — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:45:24 +0000

I am often asked to suggest warm-up and cool down exercises for belly dancers. It’s vital before you begin all your belly dancing lessons that you always warm-up your muscles, even if you are only dancing gently, as you are using muscles you do not tend to use in everyday life. If your teacher does not encourage you to warm-up before a class or teach you a safe and effective routine to do so, they are not doing their job properly.

Let’s start with warm-ups. Expert village provide some great “how to” videos, and I love Zahira’s belly dancing videos. Unfortunately, her warm-up video is a bit short but the advice she gives is great:

For a more practical, comprehensive warm-up keep watching – I’ve got more where that came from.

Lisa

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