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EntertainmentHow to Belly Dance

How to Balance Something on Your Head

Transcript

So the first step of learning how to balance things on your head is finding your balancing point.

So you want to stand nice and tall and keep your chin lifted at a natural angle parallel to the floor, not too far up, not too far down. And this is where you want to keep your head as you practice putting something like a book or a small box and just starting to find the spot where you can let go.

So at the beginning maybe you just wanna stand there and move your head around a little bit, move around a teeny bit just to find that sensation. So you should be able to feel whatever it is you’re balancing on your head, I recommend a book.

And when you feel a little bit more comfortable, turn on music and try walking around to the beat.

In the beginning it might be a relaxed walk so you might be just walking around.

Then maybe you want to try to speed up a little bit.

Then later if you’re comfortable try some of the belly-dance moves we’ve learned a little bit.

Some [inaudible 1:23] maybe. Maybe some hip drops. Maybe hip circles. Or upper body isolations.


Lessons in this Guide

How to Do the Veil Lift into a Butterfly Move

How to Do the Envelope & Butterfly Move with a Veil

How to Balance Something on Your Head

How to Belly Dance with a Veil

How to Play the Gallop & Doubles on Finger Cymbals

How to Do the Envelope with a Veil

How to Play the Gallop on Finger Cymbals

How to Do Level Changes

How to Play Doubles on Finger Cymbals

How to Do Stationary Hip Circles

How to Combine Egyptian Basic & Hip Double Hip Lock

How to Do Egyptian Basic & Hip Lock & Hip Drop

How to Combine Hip Drop & Kick with Traveling Hip Circles

How to Combine Shoulder Circles w/ Chest Circles, Lifts, Drops

How to Combine Mayas, Belly Pops & Reverse Undulation

Combine Shoulder Circle Combo w/ Big Hip Circle into Maya

How to Combine the Maya Combo with the 3-Point Turn Combo

How to Do Shoulder Shimmy & Hip Slide Moves

How to Combine Vertical Hip Circles with Hand Undulations

How to Do a Veil Switch

How to Combine Snake Arms with Piston Hips

How to Combine Traveling Hip Lift Combo w/ Vertical Hip Lift

How to Combine Hip Slides & Horizontal Figure 8s with Twist

How to Combine Snake Arm Walk into Hip Slides & Hip Lifts

How to Do a Veil Switch & Sway

How to Do Hip Shimmy & Hip Slide Moves

How to Sway with a Veil

How to Combine Snake Arm Combo with Hip Slide with a Twist

How to Combine Double Hip Locks with Undulations

How to Do Shoulder Shimmy & Chest Lift Moves

How to Add the Hip Shimmy to Chest Slides & Lifts

How to Do a Figure 8 with a Twist

How to Combine Shoulder Circle Series w/ Big Hip Circle

How to Combine Vertical Hip Circles with Hip Drop Combo

How to Do the Egyptian Basic & Shimmy Moves

How to Combine Big Hip Circles into Head Slides

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