DIGITAL DOWNLOAD: Tips from the Hip, Melina's Belly Dance Foundations #1

Tips from the Hip: Melina’s Belly Dance Foundations #1

A 5-paged DIGITAL visual learning aid featuring notes and hyperlinked video material on:

• Foundational posture

• Feet & ankle exercises and warm up

• Melina’s vocabulary for arm positions and pathways

• Notes on two basic movements - choo choos and step, hip

It is normal to feel awkward when you are learning anything new - especially a new movement language! So smile! Have patience!Don’t panic! Approach your practice with diligence, self-compassion and a light heart. Little by little you will gain muscle memory and feel more at ease. This is a dance for everybody.

This Foundations 1 manual was created for beginning students of belly dance at my studio, Moody Street Circus, as a supplement to their regular training with me. It reiterates and illustrates concepts I lay out in classes. I hope it is a helpful aid to all people starting out or wanting to refresh some basics. It may even be of use to teachers who are looking for new ideas & imagery for their own work.

Look out for Foundations #2 Digital Manual. It will include basic shimmies and more traveling steps. Foundations #3 will contain undulations, figure 8 hip work and more.

The automatic download link for this PDF manual expires 24 hours after the first download. Make sure to save the book to your desktop or phone for continuous access. Corresponding videos for the drills and foundational postures/ positions in this book are hyperlinked throughout the document.

Upon purchase of this E-manual you will get an email with the password to access the hyperlinked material. You will need to save this password either in a note on your phone, computer or just commit it to memory!