Egyptian Belly Dancing : Warm Ups

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Sahira and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village to tell you all about belly dancing. As with any exercise program, in belly dance is very much an exercise you need to warm up and cool down when you are going to be practicing and performing. The warm ups that I'm can typically do for belly dance are your simple belly dance isolation. You want to warm up your hips, slide nice and slow to warm up the body. You want to also warm up your arms perhaps your snake arms or your shoulder rolls. The most important thing is to get the blood moving which you don't want to do is really heavy stretching before you dance because your muscles are cold. So you want to take the time to make the muscles warm. Perhaps use your hips circles this is a really good warm up. Something to get the blood pumping, something like your shimmy is a very good warm up as well. So if you take these basic isolations your slide, your lifts and your drops both in the hip and in the chest, this would get the body moving. It would get the muscles warmed up and get you ready to dance. "