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Are you ready to add some central arms to your shimmy? My name's Karen and this is Johanna.
We're with Hip Expressions Belly Dance Studio, in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Let's add the
nice arm outline to our shimmy. So the arms are going to start up above, and they're going
to kind of wave in and out sort of to get the nice outline of your figure, okay? So,
we're going to keep them nice and soft, and they're just going to float down, and we're
going to use sunrise arms to come up, so we can repeat it and drill it, good. Now, we're
going to have our feet slightly apart, and let's get our shimmy going. Make sure you
practice the two moves separately before you put em' together, so that they're nice and
clean. All right, so sunrise arms up, and let them float down and outline your body,
nice and soft, and up; keep that shimmy going nice and powerful. This is really good when
you have different instruments blaring on top of each other, when you have a nice drum
beat, and maybe some flutes on top of that. Make sure your belly button stays pulled in,
keep those heels down on the floor, keep breathing, and keep the arms nice and steady and soft.
Practice this in the mirror, and you'll have some nice sensual arms on top of your belly
dance shimmy.