Belly Dance! - A Total Body Workout for Beginners
What you'll learn
- Gain a 25 minute belly dance, cardio workout
- Strengthen your core, tone overall body muscles
- Gain a repertoire of basic belly dance moves: hip circles, figure 8s, upper body moves, arms, hands, shimmies & traveling steps
- Shed pounds dancing graceful, belly dance moves
- Gain confidence, posture, grace and coordination
- Become the most fit and beautiful you
Requirements
- No previous dance experience necessary
- A sincere desire to become fit and have fun!
- Wear comfortable gym attire; suggest you wrap a simple scarf around your hips.
- Have a bottle of water and a towel with you
- Need a space in which to practice and workout
Description
This course is organized in three major sections:
In the first section, you will increase your strength, tone, posture and coordination, while gaining a repertoire of basic belly dance movements
By the end of the second section, you will be dancing 8 different traveling combinations
Once you are dancing the first two section moves with relative ease, you will graduate to the third and final, Cardio Section of the workout. Here you will belly dance non-stop to gain cardio endurance
By the end of this course, you will gain in fitness through a great belly dance Cardio Workout, while simultaneously gaining artful skills in the beautiful, time-honored art of the belly dance
Who this course is for:
- Beginners who are willing to commit to a 20-25 minute workout, 3-5 days a week will see results within 2-4 weeks.
- Individuals who don't have time to go to the gym, but would like the encouragement of a teacher.
- Individuals who prefer to exercise in the privacy of their own homes.
- Beginners who wish to learn the basics of a beautiful, sensual art.
Instructor
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 52 Reviews
- 321 Students
- 1 Course
Daleela Morad has been teaching the time-honored art of the belly dance for over 20 years and performing for almost 30 years. She is the recipient of the prestigious "Elly Award" which honors outstanding achievement in the Dramatic Arts. She has trained with various master teachers in Egypt, the motherland of the belly dance. Daleela holds a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and a Minor in Music. In her classes, books and DVDs, she fuses her expertise in both psychology and dance to present belly dance as therapy for body, mind and soul.
Daleela started belly dancing as a freshman at the University of California, Davis. This ancient art helped her balance a heavy academic workload with a low impact physical activity that she soon discovered was more than meets the eye. She discovered that this dance form was also emotionally and psychologically therapeutic, because it helped to counteract the masculinizing effects of what is still in essence a patriarchal culture. Daleela discovered the opportunity to connect to her feminine curves, a sensuality she didn't know she possessed, and to an ancient past when women danced with other women in a culture that nurtured sisterhood. This brought considerable balance and fun to the otherwise stressful effects of living in a fast paced world.