Video: Belly Dancing Buddha Arms

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Belly dancing is a very expressive form of dance. Learn how to do Buddha arms in this free video clip on Egyptian dancing.

- The Turkish Belly Dancing Move
- The Belly Dancing Press Down

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This arm position we call Buddha arms. Now it's important to note that when we belly dance we often want our hands away from our body; opening to the space letting our audience see our moves. We never want our hands to be blocking our, our; what are body is doing. But in this position we actually do bring the hands in front of the body. We're going to bring the palms together, elbows out to the sides. Now it's important here not to close in, don't close the body in; keep the elbows lifted, don't let the shoulders come up; keep the shoulder blades down. And the palms press in; the forearm should be parallel with the floor. Now as the hands touch don't close in the hands here. See that. You want to keep that energy pushing up, so the energies coming up from your center and rising up. So this is a great position to use when you're just starting your dance as an opening, and then moving into other movement. You can also close with this movement. It's a very nice meditative closing. You can also do a couple movements here; I wouldn't recommend any chest movements again because you're blocking your body. But for any hip movements that it does create a nice frame.

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Belly Dancing Buddha Arms

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