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Summary: In this instructional belly dancing video, you will learn how to perform undulation.

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Contact: sahira.cc

Sahira Sahira began her career as a Middle Eastern dancer in Houston under the direction of Thalia and Shakira Masood-Ali. In the summer of 2004, Sahira began perfor... read more

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by pretinha

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by TheKeeper

Thank you! I find your particular breakdown of the undulation the easiest one for me to perform, so far. I had tried the visualization method on my DVD, and I had gotten so frustrated that I couldn't make myself move like the instructors on my monitor that I abandoned the proper posture and began swaying my tailbone back in my practice. I woke up this morning with a sore lower back, of course. Stupid, but like I said, I had gotten frustrated. I had found another explanation on YouTube, earlier today, which helped, a lot. With a bit more practice, I would have finally been able to do a passable undulation. But your explanation, so far, has helped me even more than the other clip, as I was finally, finally, able to execute the move properly, if a little slowly and inexpertly! Thank you, so much, for taking the time to make these well-made clips to post, for free, online! You have no idea how grateful I am to have found them!

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by Icreate

I love these clips. They have been so helpful. I wish there were more. I also like how she breaks things down.

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Egyptian Belly Dancing : Undulation

Hi! My name is Sahira and I’m here on behalf of Expert Village to tell you all about belly dancing. Another common belly dance movement is the undulation. There’s a couple ways to think about the undulation but it’s a very snaky movement, that’s very common to many styles of belly dance. The first way I’ll break it down is this, you want to think about a chest circle in the top that moves forward, up and then back, that’s the first half of your undulation. After you move the chest forward, up and back, imagine you’re standing about one inch or two inches in front of a wall, that’s behind you, your shoulders are not touching the wall, because you’ve moved them back, you want to engage the muscles in your torso to slowly push your back up against the wall, it’s actually a really good way to practice it too in front of a wall, bring the chest forward, up, back, shoulders are against the wall, engage the muscles to move the upper back against the wall, the center of your back against the wall, engage the abs to push your lower back against the wall and then in order to get your hips up against the wall you have to bend your knees at the end and tuck. You can also think of this movement in four parts, you can think of it as a chest lift and then a chest drop, a pelvic tuck, so bend the knees and tuck your pelvis in using your muscles that’s just a couple inches below your navel and then a release, so you can lift, tuck, tuck, release and if you smooth these together it also gives you the same idea, the same motion, so either lift tuck, tuck release or think of the chest coming forward, up, back and slowing pushing your abs down the wall.

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