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    Bellydancing is a low-impact exercise that involves isolating abdominal muscles to move the hips and torso. It originated as a form of dance performed by wandering dancers in Egypt in the 18th century. Some basic belly dancing steps include hip lifts, shimmies, hip drops, belly rolls, and chest lifts - all of which involve isolating and contracting specific abdominal muscles to smoothly move different parts of the torso and hips.

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    Belly Dancing

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    Bellydancing is a low-impact exercise that involves isolating abdominal muscles to move the hips and torso. It originated as a form of dance performed by wandering dancers in Egypt in the 18th century. Some basic belly dancing steps include hip lifts, shimmies, hip drops, belly rolls, and chest lifts - all of which involve isolating and contracting specific abdominal muscles to smoothly move different parts of the torso and hips.

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    Bellydancing is a low-impact exercise that involves isolating abdominal muscles to move the hips and torso. It originated as a form of dance performed by wandering dancers in Egypt in the 18th century. Some basic belly dancing steps include hip lifts, shimmies, hip drops, belly rolls, and chest lifts - all of which involve isolating and contracting specific abdominal muscles to smoothly move different parts of the torso and hips.

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    Belly Dancing

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    Bellydancing is a low-impact exercise that involves isolating abdominal muscles to move the hips and torso. It originated as a form of dance performed by wandering dancers in Egypt in the 18th century. Some basic belly dancing steps include hip lifts, shimmies, hip drops, belly rolls, and chest lifts - all of which involve isolating and contracting specific abdominal muscles to smoothly move different parts of the torso and hips.

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    1. What is Belly Dancing?

    Bellydancing is a centuries-old dance discipline that includes isolating muscles for movements like
    twisting the abdomen and hip movements. Bellydancing is a low-impact exercise that can help
    people lose weight, tone muscles, improve posture, and relax. It is mostly done by women.

    2. Define it’s history.

    The first belly dancers were the ghawazee, a troupe of wandering dancers. In the 18th century,
    these ladies were considered gypsies in Egypt, and they were expelled from Cairo in the 1830s, but
    they continued to perform across Upper Egypt and later in the Middle East and Europe.

    3. What are the basic steps in Belly Dancing?

    • Stand with your feet flat and your arms at your sides. Make sure your hips are level and your legs
    are right under your hip bones. Bend your knees slightly and keep your chest lifted. This is the
    standard starting position for any belly dancing move. You should also tuck your lower abdominal
    muscles and engage your core. This will help to strengthen your abdominals and make your belly
    dancing moves more fluid.

    • Do a "hip lift" or "shimmy." Bend both knees. Then, straighten your right leg. This should raise
    your right hip, lifting it upward. The hip bone should shoot up toward your rib cage. Keep your heels
    flat on the ground as you do the lift. Do not move your upper body at all. This is a hip lift on the right
    side. Bring your right hip back down to center and try the same movement on the other side.
    Straighten your left leg and raise your left hip upward. This is a hip lift on the left side.

    • Repeat the hip lift on both sides at a faster pace. Skip the break in the middle between sides. It
    should look like your hips are lifting on the right and then on the left smoothly and fluidly. At full
    speed, your hips will shimmy from side to side at a quick pace. This is known as the "shimmy" move.

    • Practice a "hip drop." Start with your right foot flat on the ground. Place your left foot a few
    inches in front of you with the heel lifted. Bend both knees. Keep your chest up and your arms out.
    Then, straighten your left leg, lifting your left hip. Release your left hip down so it falls to the level of
    your right hip. Keep your right leg bent as you do this. This is a hip drop. Repeat these movements at
    a faster pace. Over time, they should look fluid with no pauses or breaks.

    • Do a "belly roll." Begin with your feet flat on the ground and your upper body lifted, with your
    arms relaxed at your sides. Bend your knees. Contract just your upper abdominal muscles, drawing
    them into your spine. Then, contract just your lower abdominal muscles, drawing them inward. Push
    out your upper abs and then push out your lower abs. This is a belly roll. Repeat these movements
    in sequence. Try to make the contracting in and the pushing out of your abdominal muscles fluid,
    with no pauses or breaks.

    • Try a "chest lift." Assume the basic belly dance position with your chest up and your arms out at
    your sides. Keep your knees together and your feet flat on the floor. Lift your rib cage all the way up.
    Let your shoulder blades slide down your back as you do this. Then, release your rib cage back
    down. This is a chest lift. Repeat these movements at a faster pace, lifting your rib cage all the way
    up and then back down. Contract the abdominal muscles below your chest bones as you lift up and
    then release them as you come back down.

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