Here are some advanced belly dance movements for you. You should be comfortable enough with your movements by now to be able to manage and learn these movements. Have fun and don’t forget to practice.
Remember that nothing can replace the benefits actual belly dance classes can offer you.
Reverse lifted 8
- This movement is based on your figure 8 movement but now you are going to do it in a vertical manner
- Starting on the right hip, lift onto your right toes and lift your right hip up towards your ribcage.
- Push your right hip out to the right and come down at the same time.
- Now lift onto your left toes and lift your left hip up towards your rib cage
- Push your left hip out to the left and come down at the same time
- Repeat the steps above one to each side and smooth it out into a more flowing movement
Reverse Undulation
- Feet are flat and are next to each other. Think of rolling up the spine with this movement.
- Start this movement as follows:
- Push your pelvis forward
- Then push your stomach forward
- Follow this through by pushing your chest forward last.
- You must follow these steps one after the other in one flowing movement to perform it correctly
- Repeat these movements in that order until you smooth it out.
- Do not lean back to far when you roll up your spine as this might cause back pain. Do the steps very gently at first.
Dangling 8
- This movement is done on one hip only at any time
- It is a combination of one backward hip roll followed by one forward hip roll.
- On your right hip, position your foot as you would stand when you do a hip drop
- Now draw one backward hip roll in the space at the front half of your hip
- Now come back and draw one forward hip roll in the space at the back half of your hip.
- Now repeat.
Shimmy lunge
- You are doing a normal lunge as you would do in a gym
- Right leg in front of the left leg
- Bend your legs and go straight down until your knee touches the floor
- When you start lunging down to the floor start to your Turkish hip shimmy until you knee touches the floor
- Remember that when you reach the floor you must be sitting up straight. Hunching over is going to hide what you are doing with this movement and you will be telling everyone to look at your cleavage. You will also be transferring the weight to your knees and cause that your knees pull you up instead of your legs.
- You may stay in the seated lunge position and continue to shimmy for a while or do arm movements or simply come back up soon after your knee touches the floor
- Shimmy yourself up from the floor. You must not use your hands to help you off the floor.
- NB: This movement requires a lot of thigh muscle strength to get you to the floor as well as to get you back up. If you are not comfortable going to the floor just as yet, simply go down as far you can go and work your way up to going lower every time you practice this movement.
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