Bellydance for Beginners with Suhaila: Fitness Fusion Yoga
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List Price: $4.98
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Manufacturer: Cerebellum Corporation
Starring: Suhaila Salimpour
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0743452187027
Format: Color
Label: Cerebellum Corporation
Manufacturer: Cerebellum Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Cerebellum Corporation
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-01-18
Running Time: 50
Studio: Cerebellum Corporation
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Suhaila Salimpour is a renowned, international performer and teacher of bellydance. Her Suhaila Salimpour School of Dance was the first to offer a progressive, five-level certification program in Middle Eastern dance. She is director of the Suhaila Dance Company, and has performed in 16 instructional and performance videos. Get ready to work your mind, body and spirit!
This fusion of classic yoga and bellydance moves will give you a long, lean body and an all-over glow. Suhaila combines two ancient art forms into a highly effective, challenging workout. She'll show you how to shape and tone your entire body, increase energy levels, and feel strong. Program Features: - Easy-to-follow moves
- Increase energy & flexibility
- Safe & effective routines for all ages
- Work abs, arms, buns and thighs
- Easy-to-follow workout routine
- Burns calories
- A total body workout Fusing classic yoga and sexy bellydance moves Special Features: - Dolby Digital 5.1
- Bonus Workout
- Chapter Selections
- Photo Gallery Also available in series: Bellydance Fussion For Beginners: Pilates, Jazz, and Buns Presented in Normal and Widescreen (Anamorphic Widescreen)
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Summary: Nice blending of yoga and bellydance
Comment: This is indeed a tape for beginners. Suhaila gives wonderful instruction on starting undulations, starting from yoga's cat-cow combo, into seated cat-cow and beyond. If you are doing cat-cow correctly, then the transition to undulations should be easy to understand. That doesn't mean it's easy to do. I'm in my 40s, obese, with arthritis and fibromyalgia, and I can do all these moves: undulations, gluteal squeezes, hip figure 8s. I just do them at my own pace, with however many repeats I can, working towards the suggested pacing and repeats. If I can do it, then... ;)
It is natural for your muscles to be stronger for some movements. That is why she has you reverse the direction for the different moves, to vary the motions so the muscles get stronger for all movements. Suhaila and her cast are obviously all in great shape and experienced, but if you watch them carefully, you'll see they aren't all doing it the same, and they don't always do the moves perfectly. Work at your own pace, be patient with yourself, and this routine should work great for you.
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Summary: Maybe good yoga, but not for beginning bellydancers
Comment: I thought the yoga was ok, but the bellydance moves were not for beginners! Not too many beginners can do bellyrolls with no more instructions than she gives! But I did like watching her performance!
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Summary: With beginners like these.......
Comment: .....who needs professionals???? Seriously, this is NOT for beginners to yoga or bellydancing. You MUST have some experience (especially with undulations) or you'll be a little confused or completely lost and discouraged. I can get through the yoga well enough, in fact, I LOVE the yoga section....but when she starts using undulations there is little explanation. She incorporates them interestingly with cat & cow, but I wound up just pushing my stomach in and out. It is tough to isolate your upper and lower abs from one another and if you can't do that already to some degree, you may find this DVD frustrating. Though I can see that it's wonderful exercise and practice!! Suhaila doesn't only expect you to undulate, but she also expects you to switch the direction of the undulation at the drop of a dime while layering it on top of figure 8s and later on top of some crazy gluteal squeezes. I know things like this improve over time and with practice, but to call this a beginner video when it lacks detailed instruction on how to do ADVANCED moves is just wrong. It is a great video, though, and if I were an intermediate or advanced bellydance student who could undulate even only a little I would have given this more stars. A little side note: Suhaila is beautiful and inspiring and I watch her bonus performances while I sweat it out on my elliptical machine!
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Summary: Relaxing and Spiritually Healing
Comment: Yoga is relaxing and strengthening, while Pilates can shape your entire body very quickly. Bellydance is where your soul is free to express its creativity in a swirling of sounds and bodily expression. This is an internal and external workout to prepare you for such adventures.
Suhaila is sensual and spiritual as she moves through a dance-preparation workout designed to strengthen and tone through the use of Yoga and Pilates essentials. This is not a dance routine, nor is bellydance the focus. Instead, you can relax into the flowing movements or focus on your stomach in more subtle undulations or experience the relaxing stretching yoga postures.
Suhaila draws on dance exercises from Pilates, but enhances the movements with her innate sensuality. I love all her workouts and this is one of the essential and more relaxing workouts in the series. For beginners this would be an excellent point to start from because Suhaila does teach some figure 8s which relax the hips and give you a good workout.
There are balance exercises that would be enjoyed by intermediate bellydancers. Advanced bellydancers might enjoy the relaxing postures. I like the cat/cow stretching from Yoga. The undulations are easier to do while standing, so during some exercises you may prefer to just stretch or modify various positions to suit your strength level.
~The Rebecca Review
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Summary: Yoga with a difference
Comment: While I am not a fan of neither Suhaila nor Yoga, this is a great DVD. I don't dislike Suhaila, she has a style of dance that I cannot relate to, while she has some marvellous hip moves and stuff, her arms are not my type.... Anyway Yoga, I don't like Yoga either because I'm a move, move, move type of person.
I recently suffered a little bit of stress and thought that Yoga would be the go and me being a bellydancer I thought that a Yoga/Bellydance fusion would certainly be the go and this is it.... I really do like this Yoga workout, get breathing and undulating, great for the Glutes and after I've done all the work, I can relax, which is why I got it, so I could move away from stress related feelings to the slow pace of Yoga. Suhaila's Yoga/Bellydance fusion is a great way to relieve stress.
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