How to Do a Reverse Vertical Figure 8 | Belly Dancing

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 reverse vertical figure 8. You'll be shaking it like Shakira in no time.

Now let's try the Reverse Figure 8 going down-to-up. So keeping the knees bent, tailbone down, chest up. We're going to drop the hip down, reach hip out, lift it up and you're going to lift the heel off the floor, contract the hip back in and release it back down to neutral. Bend in your left knee a little bit more to drop the hip down, sliding out, lifting the heel up to bring the hip up, and you're also gonna feel a contraction in your obliques and coming back to center, drop in to neutral. Down, up, up, heel up, In. Down, up, in, release. You're going to feel a shift of weight from foot to foot. As you reach all the way out the highest point here is when you're going to switch your attention to the other side to bring the heel down and up. So it's a continuous motion going from one side to the other. Let's try that with music [music starts]. Keep the chest hovering up and a little bit faster. And that's how you do a down-to-up figure 8.

[rabbittobacco]

My hips don't lie but now they definitely hurt.

[tonidieumerci]

I am going to leaen this dance and I will dance this for my husband for our tenth wedding anniversary next year.

[Kayla-fyxr]

I like these videos! They make it simple and easy to do and you look like her when she's doing it.

[valentinam.]

You need to try build stomach muscles so they are stronger and so you can control them easier and be able to move them more rapidly and stronger so the moves look more fluent. Also it helps you to focus on the muscle you want to move since it is more visible and you can feel it more while contracting. Be one with your body, dedicate your focus and mind.

[anfal]

Hi belly

I followed you when I was 14 years old
There were no explanations of belly dancing on Arabic YouTube

I loved dancing very much, but I didn't know anything about it
When I found you explaining in a simple and smooth way
This was the stuff of a dream

I don't know if you'll read this or not
But rest assured that I love you very much, thanks to God, and thanks to you, I learned to dance

Thank you for your presence. I am grateful to God for your existence. I love you, the best belly dancing instructor I have ever seen🧡🧡

[vernilove]

I look like a snake in an ice bucket having a grand mal seizure

[sea_lavender]

Thanks you so much form all you tutorials! Now my dreams about loving myslef come true❤

[HajduDIGITAL]

I don't know how much females are watching but I have learned so much about belly dance..

[lisadixon]

Thank you- I thought Iwas doing a figure 8 till my teacher told me I was actually doing a reverse figure 8! Ive watched both now with you and now I get it! ( now I just have to practise!)

[kiahjana]

the best way to learn belly dance, she is a good

[reapermistress]

Of all the moves she doing this one finally got it!!!!

[rentasticu]

Thank you for wonderful lessons. I have started to learn now. ❤

[nicolexlove]

This is the first howcast video that i actually like o:

[pattyxo]

my sides hurt so bad now haha but im not giving up great vid xD

[torshadas]

it really worked and I can it more easily now a lot howcast

[jorothbaum]

wonderful! your control is mesmerising!!

[whitneyparker]

Yall standing up doing this while im laying in bed doing this at 4am

[anneallison]

this makes me so mad. I'm doing what she's doing exactly but it doesn't look like that! I'm doing it and it just doesn't look natural

[Krishna_Thacker]

i got to learn a lot from your video thank you so much mam☺️☺️

[amysquie]

I love how people always comment middle eastern girls can automatically do this, there are plenty at my class and they start the same as everyone else, some people get the hang of it quicker than others but it has nothing to do with race! Why do people have to bring racial differences into everything, that's how this world got so messed up!