Welcome to a new year of Bellydance!

I'm delighted to be teaching you bellydance for another year!

For those who are new, thank you for giving this a try. I hope I can make you fall in love with bellydance! 

For those who are coming back, it's lovely to see you again! I hope I can move your skills forward and make you love bellydance even more. 

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Tonight's class is starting with basics. I know the more experienced students can't be there tonight, so I can focus fully on the new starters.

We worked on some foundation moves: Hip Circles, Side to Sides (sometimes I call them Hip Hits), Figure 8s and Shimmy. 

I have set up a YouTube Playlist with practice videos for the techniques we cover in class. For Home Practice you can pick one and watch it through and work with it, several times over. They're only short videos. But work on one thing at a time, to give your body the chance to get used to the move.

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If you want some music to practise to, you could try this song, for more flowing technique (circles, figure 8s):

 

Or this one for more percussive sharp moves: 

 

And the music I used for the Shimmy practice was this one: 

 

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For the more experienced ones, who were not here tonight, here's some inspiration for you - the wonderful Sahar Samara...

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