Video: Belly Dancing Temple Arms

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

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

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In belly dance we often want to keep our arms away from our body. Keeping our body clear so that our audience can see what we're doing. In this arm position, temple arms, the arms come up above the head. Now, it's important to remember when you lift your arms not to let your back arch, make sure your knees are bent, your belly button is pulled in, your chest is lifted, and your shoulders are down so you don't lose that space around your neck. So, the arms are going to be up here and the wrists are going to cross. So, we can cross them here with the palms out. Be careful with this move because it often tends to creep in around your face and now suddenly you're blocking yourself. So, make sure you really pull those shoulder blades down and pull those elbows back. Keep the wrists lifted. Often people will do this move here and you want to keep it extended up. So palms are facing out, palms are facing in, palms are together. Again, very subtle variations but create very different feels with your dance. Now, this is a great position to do some head slides and a little bit of work here because it frames your head nicely. To come in and out of this move, or out of this arm position you can use the wrist weave which we've covered; we will cover in a different clip.

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Belly Dancing Temple Arms

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