Finding Groundedness in Belly Dance
BE MORE GROUNDED! 🤔 Have you ever heard this comment from your teacher? - I definitely did! 😂👉But what does it mean, and how to achieve it? Groundedness is an important concept in belly dance. But it’s not an actual movement. It’s more like a quality, mood, impression…. Call it whatever you want, but it’s something that you can’t touch, point or separate. Yet, you definitely see it’s absence if a belly dancer is not grounded. 😳 But it gets even tricker when you try to teach it to someone. You can come up with as many metaphors as you want (“feel heavy in your hips”, “initiate movements from your pelvis”, etc) , but if it’s only in a student’s mind, it won’t make any difference for her dance skills. Creating an intensive on Finding Groundedness required more than just recording classes and combos. 👉That’s why I also included there a whole 20-min meditation practice dedicated to connecting with your body and finding the feeling of groundedness. It’s a 3-week guided plan to help you find new understanding of movements, and finally stop hearing from your teacher: “BE MORE GROUNDED”, lol. 😄 Check the carousel for some exercise ideas, and enjoy the full intensive inside the Iana Dance Club. 😘 Do you understand the concept of being grounded in your belly dance movements? -
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About Iana
Iana Komarnytska is a professional dancer, teacher, choreographer, and passionate content creator helping dancers navigate their dance lives.
She is a graduate from the professional dance program at York University (Canada), host of the Belly Dance Life podcast, creator of the Iana Dance Club, author of numerous articles, and winner of Star Bellydancer Canada 2014 among other international competitions.
Along with belly dance, Iana performs and teaches Persian Classical and Turkish Romani dancing. She is the first choreographer to start using Triple Isis wings, and since 2012 this is one of her style signatures.
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