Belly Dancing Level Changing Exercise

Video Transcript

"Next thing I'm going to show you is an exercise for you to practice up and down and for your level changes. Later on you can add moves to these level changes, but you want to make sure to get a good strong grip on the ground, and good strong legs, and you won't get wobbly. Your balance will help with this too. So make sure you do your balance exercises for this. So again, you want to start by just bending at the knees, coming back up, keeping your back very flat, keeping yourself tucked under. This will help strengthen your thigh muscles. And down and up, down and up, down and up. Then later on when we gradually go all the way down to the floor with moves, what you want to do is you want to go ahead about here, all the way down, you're going to come up on the toes and continue down until you're almost, you're sitting on your heels. And you want to come up, up. Just at all the time make sure you're keeping yourself straight up and down. Don't come forward, don't come back. Practicing your balance moves will help you with this a lot. So again, upper to just bend, bend and bend, then go all the way down, bend, up on the toes and down, keeping the back straight, and back up. And one more time. Bend, up on the toes, and straight back up."