
Master the gritty tribal from the trap style in this beginner tribal fusion belly dance course, learning Sidewinder technique, isolations, undulations, hip work, and a practical warm-up routine.
Explore tribal from a trap, a modern tribal fusion born from tapping into inner energy and harmonizing it with music, movement, and the amalgamation of self.
Discover the robot stage as the mechanics of movement, learn to feel the motion before seeing it, and use the ladder of progression to overcome frustrations in belly dance.
Engage in the tribal from the trap 2 warm-up to stretch, mobilize, and practice fascia-focused movement, shimmy options, and shoulder work for dance readiness.
Learn how to engage and protect your glutes in belly dance, including the gluteus maximus, medius, and minimus, through sharp and soft contractions and a knee drop sequence.
Master small, isolated shoulder rolls and sharp knee drops in absolute beginner tribal fusion belly dance, using breakdowns, wall drills, and precise shoulder socket alignment to cultivate space and grace.
Learn to execute the mbd sidewinder with head-to-arm coordination and hip slides, keep the chest lifted and ribs still, and practice to tribal from the trap music.
Join a follow-along checkpoint to practice tribal fusion from the trap moves learned so far, including hip circles, hip slides, undulations, chest states, and arm patterns.
Master massage hip circles and sidewinder arms with hip slides and thrusts to massage internal organs and digestive system, building fluid, upright proprioception.
Learn the MBD tribal sidewinder with head and chest, combining a deliberate chest figure of eight with the heavy taxi to create a grounded tribal fusion belly dance flow.
Master the internal hip circle massage with rotating circles and learn the full sidewinder, combining two-arm chest, hip, and arm mechanics through guided drills, revisions, and practice.
Celebrate completing your course, reflect on what you learned and the challenges you faced, and connect with me on social media or my website to take your learning further.
Melissa's music (Tribal From The Trap) is available on all streaming platforms.
Explore Melissa's tribal fusion belly dance from the trap performance, designed for beginners to learn trap-inspired movement within tribal fusion.
Welcome to my introduction to Tribal From The Trap course. Tribal From The Trap is my style tribal fusion.
You can think of Tribal From The Trap being the grittier, darker side of belly dance that taps into our primal instincts.
In the course you will learn how to do the famous sidewinder - Tribal From The Trap style and all of the mechanics behind it as well as other key movements.
You'll learn my slinky feline style, muscle control and some of my signature movements and techniques all broken down to their most basic elements.
Learn the what , when's, and how's of each movement.
Learn how to access your inner self for grace, power and internal control .
Tribal From The Trap is about learning how to access ourselves on a primal level, harnessing the inner interplay of masculine and feminine energies, our own internal power and channeling them through movement.
In this introductory course we cover;
• Tribal From The Trap techniques and stylisation
• Important development exercises in the warm up
• The warm up
• Chest figure 8's
• Glutes and their relevance to belly dance
• Knee drops
• Shoulder isolation's
• Undulations and the 4th dimension Undulations signature to Tribal From The Trap
• Hip slides
• Sidewinder breakdown and technique
• Internal massage hip circles
• The heavy taqsim (vertical hip 8)
• The 8 winder
• Horizontal chest circles
• Tribal From The Trap walk
• And a detailed stretch class based on my own stretching method for dancers to assist in in the feline type movements of Tribal From The Trap.
Discover muscles you never thought you had, and learn to move in ways you never thought you could in my supportive, encouraging and informative belly dance classes.
My belly dance classes are a great challenge. Build your fitness, tone your body, and improve your confidence in my self-empowering online courses.
I'm well known for my modern style, and mentor style teaching methods.
Once signed up to the course you can contact me for help and advice, or to simply share your progress.
I look forward to teaching you!
Melissa BellyDance