Belly Dancing Choo Choo Shimmy: Horizontal Circles

Video Transcript

"Let's try our Choo Choo Shimmy in a circle. And this is going to be a horizontal circle. So let's first review what a horizontal circle feels like, looks like. Have your feet slightly apart, you're going to have your knees soft, pull your belly button in to your spine, lift your chest and we're going to be bringing our hips, keeping them parallel to the floor. We should feel the weight of our hips shifting in our feet, going around the front of our foot, the side and the back. Good. So that's how you want to, this is the kind of circle, we're going to our choo choo with. Now, let's get our choo choo going. Make sure the hips are coming up toward the rib cage, keep your chest lifted and keep your belly button pulled in toward your spine. Now we're going to make, with our feet we're going to make a little tiny circle and our hips are going to make a bigger circle outside that. If someone was looking at you from above, your head would be holding still and everything would be moving around you. So let's give it a try. Bring it around to side, the front, back, side and back. Side, front, side and back. A little faster. So you're just going to keep your feet nice and together and take little teeny, tiny steps, shifting your weight, keeping the hips nice and even. Be sure to practice this in the mirror and make sure your posture is nice."