How to Do a Vertical Figure 8 | Belly Dancing

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Belly dancing is sexy, fun, and burns up a lot of calories to boot! In this video, belly dancer Irina Akulenko teaches you how to do the belly dance move known as a vertical figure 8. You'll be shaking it like Shakira in no time.

Now let's try Vertical Figures on both hips form up to down. Keeping the knees bent we're going to lift the right heel off the floor, push away into the right hip. Now we're going to slide it out, drop the heel down, bring the hip down and contracted back in towards the centre. Now we're going to switch our attention from this side to the other side the body, lifting the left hip up, pushing out, dropping the heel down contracting back in. Lifting right, right heel comes up the floor, pushing up, coming down, pulling back to centre, lifting the left side out, heel down and in. Now you want to be careful, when you're pushing out, make sure you're keeping the way on the inside of the foot, you don't want to roll the ankle at all, so you want to stay centred. So once again, you want to keep the chest really havering up, chin up, and this movement should not your upper body whatsoever. So let's try that with music. [music playing] Stepping right, stepping left. Let's try it a little bit faster. So you want to make sure your tail bones are pointing down no matter what and your lower are still engaged and there is no twisting to this motion so it's actually happening just from side to side there is no front or back dimension to it, and the tail bone's tucked down. Once again. For now, I will recommend keeping this out of your chest hyper isolating but sometimes you want to let your chest involved and let it travel into your upper body. So that's how you're doing an up to down vertical figure 8.

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I LOVE her skirt. This is a great workout for scoliosis patients. My back was frozen between the shoulder blades where my curvature is. I can move now!

rockabillychola

You're a fine teacher, so clear and well paced. As one teacher to another, brava!

nilekat

I'm really new to all this but I've been wanting to learn this move for years. Now I see HOW to do it and it's not as complicated or impossible like I thought. My question is, how long does it take before I can do this with ease? How manny minutes a day & days a week should I practice? And is there any warmups or exercises you recommend that would help me with this? I'm a couch potato and I have scoliosis so I never exercise (I haven't done a single exercise since high school) but I'm finally going to change that so I can feel better about myself again.

JadeVamp

Wow! You're a beautiful woman, I love your outfit. Your dance movements are so fluid and sensual, I hope that with practice my movements will be as fluid. This video was a great help.

beautybumb

@Handgun777 Belly dancing was never meant to be "sexy." Belly dancing was invented to celebrate the woman figure, and boost a woman's self-esteem. But because men and some women find the woman body "sexy" in all, anything involving a woman's body is sexy. If you were to tell a professional belly dancer her performance was "sexy, " she would tell you the exact same thing i just did.

Spiderwebs

thank you so much for making this video. i've been wanting to learn how to do that move for years but i never knew what it was called or anything. now i can learn and cross another thing off my bucket list :)

bethmoreland

Great videos thank you, they've been very helpful. As I hoop I have found one side is a lot stronger than the other so this will be really good for me!

LottieLucid