6-10 minutes

This warm up emphasizes oppositional movement to increase muscular control and core stabilization. The body is prepared to move with quick aerobic steps then transitions into exercises that target the abdominal muscles, challenging endurance and increasing strength. This sequence is great for developing core strength, useful for all types of belly dance movement, and results in abdominal awareness and definition. This spotlight is from Colette's Tribal Basic Series #6 class.

This short spotlight will clearly break down the technique of the Egyptian style shimmy. We will hold the shimmy non-stop for five minutes with various speed and intensity. With consistent practice this drill will help you achieve a gorgeous powerful shimmy.

This spotlight is from Sedona's "Super Shimmies & Shimmy Layers" workshop.

This short but effective yoga practice relaxes the deep and superficial muscles on either side of the spine, and supports and hips and low back. This sequence can be used for your belly dance practice or on it's own. This yoga sequence is part of Rachel's class, "Up Tempo Locks and Isolations".

This cool down is designed to stretch and open the hips. It's a wonderful cool down to do after any belly dance practice and especially for those who tend to experience tightness and tension in the hips. It will be helpful to have a yoga mat for this cool down.

This brief cool down is wonderful to do after an extended shimmy session or any vigorous belly dance practice.

A brief yoga cool down to stretch out the hips, legs, sides, and back. Have a yoga mat handy. This spotlight is from Ashley's "The 3/4 Shimmy" workshop.

A simple cool down, which includes spinal twists, hip openers, and hamstring stretch. It's advisable to have padding for the knees.

This practice will bring you from a sweaty, heart-pounding state to a relaxed, loose, open and focused presence. You can practice this after a dance practice, or a long day of work.

Taking content from Unmata's Slow ITS Lesson 1 (low, mid, high taxeems, taxeem transitions, and 1/8, 1/4, and 1/2 turns) and drillin' it.

A strong little phrase to keep your down-hip work nice and clean. Also includes hip circles and an undulation from the lowest-low belly to keep those abdominal isolations articulated and easy.

This shimmy drill warm-up will get you ready for dancing in a hurry, while still being carefully sequenced. First we'll warm up the spine, then the joints, then move to hip work before our shimmy drill. Good to practice with other dance videos or practice, or just to keep your shimmies big and relaxed. Enjoy!

In this class we will break down and drill the technique for lovely, loose shoulder shimmies standard to Cabaret style belly dance. Once we have a nice, strong shoulder shimmy we will begin to layer them with different step patterns, level changes, and chest isolations.

This spotlight is from Sedona's "Super Shimmies & Shimmy Layers" workshop.

This brief, simple dance warm up requires no mat, and is designed to warm up the legs, arms, abdominals, and back. This spotlight is from Ashley's workshop, "3/4 Shimmy Variations & Layers".

The rigorous spotlight breaks down and drills the choo choo shimmy, a challenging, fun, and dynamic traveling shimmy. This spotlight is from Sedona's "Shimmy Quartet" workshop.

The Eagle's Shame warm up is a yoga based sport flow, designed to bring your heart rate up and add flexibility to your practice.

This segment breaks down and drills the Waggle Shimmy, a large and lovely rocking style hip shimmy. This spotlight is from Sedona's full 4-shimmy workshop: "Shimmy Quartet".

This brief class provides tips and techniques for working on drilling your undulations for greater clarity and ease of execution.

Sedona Soulfire covers classic veil movements including toga, flag, arabian princess, hourglass, untuck, hip frame, and front to back toss. This is section one of her 20 part Sublime Veil Technique and Choreography workshop.

Sedona Soulfire covers classic veil movements including scoops, flourishes, back to front toss, sillouette, and the necklace. This is section two of her 20 part veil workshop, "Sublime Veil Technique and Choreography".

Sedona Soulfire covers classic veil movements including butterfly, frame 1, frame 2, tulip, barrel, helicopter, back butterfly, up and over, and the superstar. This is section three of her 20 part veil workshop: "Sublime Veil Technique and Choreography".

Sedona Soulfire covers classic veil movements including turns, delilah swish, chase, single wing, tidal wave, and the claudia. All moves demonstrated will strung together to create a pleasing short sequence.

This is section four of her 20 part veil workshop, "Sublime Veil Technique + Choreography".

Zils add a wonderful dimension to any belly dance performance, providing excitement and a celebratory feel while highlighting the rhythms in the music. As with any musical instrument, it takes time to develop a level of proficiency and technique to allow you to play while dancing.

This spotlight introduces three zil patterns used in all styles of belly dance: Triplets or Longa, Military or 3-3-7, and Alternating. They are drilled individually then played together in a fun and challenging zil drill. This spotlight is from Colette's Beginner's ATS® Series.

Zils add a wonderful dimension to any belly dance performance, providing excitement and a celebratory feel while highlighting the rhythms in the music. As with any musical instrument, it takes time to develop a level of proficiency and technique to allow you to play while dancing. This spotlight reviews the basic Triplets or Longa pattern, then introduces two zil patterns that may be used while dancing or while riffing with the music: the 3-1-3-1-3, which matches perfectly with Saiidi or Beledi rhythms and the 3-5-5, a fun syncopated rhythm. They are drilled individually then played together in a fun and challenging zil drill.

This spotlight is from Colette's Beginning ATS® Series.

Zils add a wonderful dimension to any belly dance performance, providing excitement and a celebratory feel while highlighting the rhythms in the music. As with any musical instrument, it takes time to develop a level of proficiency and technique to allow you to play while dancing. This spotlight reviews the basic Triplets or Longa pattern, then introduces two zil patterns that may be used while dancing or while riffing with the music: the 3-1-3-1-3, which matches perfectly with Saiidi or Beledi rhythms and the 3-3-7. They are drilled individually then played together in a fun and challenging zil drill.

This spotlight is from Colette's Beginning ATS® Series.