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Step 1
Find a private room or space with a mirror. Your first few attempts to recreate the sensual allure of the dance are best performed with no more than a mirror as an audience. Do some stretching exercises to limber up your muscles.
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Step 2
Hold your abdomen in as much as possible. Keep your chest high and head up. Hold your arms out in front of you, nice and rounded. Your hands should be about 12 inches apart. Stand with your most of your weight on your right leg, with the right knee very slightly bent. Put your left leg out as if you are taking a step. This will make your left hip the one which you will lead your wiggle with.
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Step 3
Do the hip thrust: As with all belly-dancing moves, try to isolate each part of the body. Use your tummy muscles to lead your hip movement. Keep the upper body still as you move your hips back and forwards, twisting at the waist. Push your left hip forward and right hip back. Do it again the other way round. Your movements can be as slow or as fast as you wish.
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Step 4
Do the shoulder thrust! Slowly and sensuously move your left shoulder forward, and thrust the right one back. Repeat on the other side. While this is a very simple move, you can infuse it with loads of sex appeal. Because it involves your upper body, can involve eye contact. This shoulder movement can also be sped up and turned into a shimmy.
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Step 5
Do the pelvic tilt–this takes some practice. Mentally imagine a line drawn vertically down the center of your torso. Now tilt one of your hips up and down or back and forth–while the other half of your body is dead still. (OK, at least as still as possible). With practice, you will be able to "draw" circles, arcs or even figure eights with your hip. It will always be easier to do this with one hip than the other.
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Step 6
Do the belly roll. This is another basic move that takes a little practice. First, let your belly relax, and push it out slightly. Now, pull your belly in. Lift your ribcage. Next, drop your ribcage and let your belly out again. When you keep repeating this and get into a rhythm, you can merge a number of belly rolls into one flowing movement. Keep practicing to make the belly roll more pronounced and fluid.
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Step 7
Mix and match these basic moves, once you have a grasp of how to do each one. Make up your own sequence. For example, you could take a few steps forward and backwards with a hip thrust at each step, or face the opposite direction and look over your shoulder whilst doing your hip thrust and pelvic tilts. Your arms can be either on your hips, in the air, one of each or where ever you feel comfortable–and sexy.
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Step 8
Add some music ,and match your new moves to the tempo.
