
Explore the awaken belly dance journey through neuroplasticity, senses, and intuition, focusing on how we learn, journaling progress, and applying technique, Baladi rhythm, drills, and meditation to integrate practice.
Explore neuroplasticity and learning in belly dance, with senses, intuition, and awareness, live zoom classes, coffee break videos, challenges, and a log book across two connected parts.
Develop senses and intuition in week 1 of awaken belly dance by grounding with buoyancy and earth energy, then master rib cage slides, chest lifts and drops, and Baladi rhythm.
Learn how we learn through senses and awareness, embracing smart, growth mindset practice. Explore the stages from robot to embodiment and log your progress for unlimited potential.
Engage senses and intuition to learn earth-based belly dance technique, building buoyancy, grounded footwork, and figure-of-eight hip shifts through Baladi drills and a drum-solo rhythm.
Explore how belly dance ties breath, buoyancy, and earth grounding to train the senses and intuition, with belly contractions, chest isolations, hip circles, and progressive learning stages.
Explore the stages of learning belly dance—from the robot stage to conscious competence and embodied unconscious competence—aligning practice through the 1% rule and mindful, incremental improvement.
Explore week four senses and how we learn in belly dance, mastering hip circles, rib cage slides, isolations, and a 1% improvement mindset for focused practice.
View obstacles as gifts that reveal what to work on, helping you level up your belly dance technique and deepen your understanding through embracing challenges.
Explore senses and learning strategies in week five of the belly dance course, guiding buoyancy, floor connection, rib isolation, and 1% improvement cues to deepen Baladi and Maya movements.
Awaken senses and intuition in belly dance through guided warm-ups, hip and chest isolations, the Timothée Maia sequence, and a 1% improvement approach to learning.
Celebrate completing awakened belly dance for neuroplasticity, senses, and intuition part one. Continue in part two to deepen senses, intuition, awareness, meditation, and rhythm work.
Hi and welcome to the wonderful world of belly dance with me, Melissa BellyDance.
This course is titled
Awaken Belly Dance P1 - Senses | Intuition | Neuroplasticity
This is a 2 part course based on my belly dance online classes with a focus on the elements of "how we learn", neuroplasticity, senses and intuition which is taken from my self development programme.
This is part 1.
This is a general level belly dance course open to all levels, lots of options are provided in each class to cater for all levels, and techniques are broken down in detail using my own unique method to really help you learn and understand, but it's not recommended for complete beginners.
This awaken belly dance course for neuroplasticity, senses and intuition takes a deep dive into the learning process WHILST learning, combining senses and intuition based on my unique method.
Part 1 includes:
The 6 week course taken from my live online classes.
Coffee break videos explaining the theory and concepts that we explore in classes
The "how we learn"/ neuroplasticity challenge
Journalling and logging your progress
Warm ups
Belly dance technique using my method
Arabic Rhythm work of baladi in part 1 and saiidi in part 2
Belly dance Drills
Belly dance Combinations
"How we learn" (neuroplasticity) challenges
Meditations
PART 2
This course is a continuation of part 1 and should ideally be taken straight after you have completed part 1.
In part 2 we begin to apply and focus on our senses and intuition as part of our belly dance learning journey, and the "how we learn" neuroplasticity challenge.
Awaken belly dance for neuroplasticity, senses and intuition Part 2 includes:
The 5 week course taken from my live online classes
A Coffee break video explaining the theory and concepts that we explore in class
A continuation of the "how we learn"/ neuroplasticity challenge.
Warm ups
Belly dance technique using my method
Belly dance Drills
Belly dance Combinations
"How we learn" (neuroplasticity) challenges
Key movement meditations
Journalling and logging your progress
For this course you will need :
• A journal / logbook to bring to each class and log your progress
I very much look forward to teaching you and sharing some of my self development programme with you!
See you soon!
Melissa BellyDance