Bellydance for Core Fitness - A Belly Dance Workou...

Ayshe combines her love of exotic movement and her academic knowledge of the human body. Her college degree in Human Movement involved studies in anatomy, kinesiology, corrective exercise, analysis of movement, motor learning, and dance therapy. Early on, as a dancer, she observed there were some subtle, yet surprisingly difficult and highly unusual torso and pelvic movement isolations in Middle Eastern dance. She experienced that the journey toward the accomplishment of these coordinations, through careful and patient strengthening and stretching of deep internal pelvic and back muscles, would give the practitioner an unusual and powerful body awareness. Along with this would come a physical centeredness and a sense of personal inner strength that would bring forth physical health and relief from mental stress. In her classes Ayshe has developed a series of simple exercises that will put the student on the road to a better understanding of her/his body in space and set the foundations for the individual to seek self expression through movement. Bellydance emphasizes movements of the abdomen and pelvis, and is an ideal way to develop deep abdominal core strength.? Passed down from mother to daughter, this ancient celebratory dance became the traditional method for imparting body awareness, techniques of posture and movement, both natural and beneficial to the female body, as well as preparation for and recovery from childbirth. In our age of sedentary lifestyles and stress-in...