Video: How to Do Leg Circle Exercise for Belly Dance

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Do a leg-circle exercise for belly dancing by bringing one leg in the air and making tiny circles. Stretch the hip and legs using leg-circle exercises with tips from a professional belly dancer in this free video about learning to belly dance.

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So how else can we prepare our body for belly dancing? Hi! I'm Johanna Krynytzky with Hip Expressions Belly Dance Studio in St Petersburg, Florida. Let's work on some leg circles to help strengthen our core and prepare our body for belly dance. So first, let's lay down on the ground. And you want to make sure that your back is flat on the floor. So don't let it arch up, at all. Press your belly button into your spine. Your arms are out to your side for stability. And soften your knees, don't let them come all the way down. Again, to keep that low back, down. And then you're going to bring one leg, up in the air. Good. And then do small, tiny circles. Now you want to keep your hips stable for this. You don't want your hips to start rocking back and forth, with your leg circles. So you want to slowly make those leg circles, bigger and bigger. Pull the belly button in and stabilize the pelvis. This is going to not only warm up your hip joint and your leg joint, for belly dancing. But also help stabilize your core. To help with the different belly dance isolations. Good. Bring the foot down and let's try the other side. Leg straight up. Pull that belly button in. Suck down all in here. Stabilize the core. So you don't let those hips rock and forth with the. Back and forth with the leg. And then work on your leg circles. You can work both directions with your circles. As long as you're keeping those hips even on the floor. And stabilizing your body. Hi, I'm Johanna with Hip Expressions Belly Dance Studio. Helping you, prepare your body for belly dance.

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How to Do Leg Circle Exercise for Belly Dance

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