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Belly Dance Posture

In belly dancing it is important to keep your feet spread and your body centered. Learn more about belly dance posture with tips from a professional dancer in this free dance lesson video.

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In this clip, I'm going to show you how to maintain a good posture for Belly Dance. First of all you want to feel your feet underneath yourself, allow your feet to spread into the earth, feel yourself on the center of your foot. We're going to reach our sit bones towards our heels. We're going to gently engage the core muscles and the abdominals by pulling in and up, keeping the shoulders wide and think of the top of the head reaching towards the ceiling. So we're creating an opposition of the head going up and the feet pressing down into the earth. Connecting the heaven and the earth together. Most belly dance movements, you're going to have your legs slightly relaxed. You don't want to lock your knees back, you don't want to be stuck in a deep position. So you want to be able to move the knees and the legs in whatever plane of motion that you like. So the knees are relaxed, not locked and stiff. We're going to maintain this posture throughout our movements. So, breathe and relax and connect to your core.

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