Moments with Yaya

Belly Dance

Yaya swings and sways her hips from left to right, trying to concentrate on jiggling her little belly in time with the music in her head. Belly dancers is actually a dance from the Middle East. It involves moving your body and your hips and the rest of your body in time with the music in a circular movement. Yaya giggles with delight as she mimics the energetic dancers that she has heard about and seen on the television.

Belly Dance is a translation of many terms but the French term “danse du ventre”it was applied to some dance in the Victorian era, and is still probably originally referred to the Arabic tribe Ouled Nail dancers of Algeria which sounds great, whose dance used more abdominal movements, hip sways than the dances described today as “belly dance”.

LEARN ABOUT BELLY DANCING

Belly Dance
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It is somewhat of a misnomer, and every part of the body has to be involved in the dance because the most featured body part is most cases usually the hips. Moments with Yaya do it different, Yaya does it with her own motion in the ocean. Belly dance is a fully non-impact, weight-bearing strong exercise and is thus suitable for all ages. It is a great exercise for the prevention of osteoporosis in older people and always a great way to help lose the muscles. Many of the moves involve isolation’s and movement, which improves flexibility of the torso and hips.

Belly dancing has actually become one of the most popular exercises throughout the world. With proven health benefits, women are finding exercising to be fun whilst still dressing up and looking beautiful. The wonderful thing about belly dancing, is that anyone and everyone can give it a try. This kind of exercise is good for weight loss, muscle movement and stress relief. But kids can do it just for the fun of it! Belly dancer usually wear outfits that are bright and colourful, with dangling bells and trinkets that make a joyful noise in time with their body movement and music. You can’t help but smile when taking part in this fun form of dance.

Belly dance moves are so beneficial to most of the body like the spine, hips and torso, as the full-body undulation moves lengthens & strengthens the entire column of spinal & abdominal muscles in a gentle yet calm way. Yaya decided in Moments with Yaya belly dance wanted to try it herself and it just was so funny to see her doing this at her age.