Welcome to Belly Dancing,Your New Unique Fitness
Professional Guidance
What Is Belly Dancing?
Welcome to an ancient sensual grounded dance practised for thousands of years.
Middle Eastern dancing will make you feel confident in your own skin and get fit at the same time. It is for all women of all different shapes and sizes.
A traditional dance that is a mystery still to this day. Historians believe that belly dance began as a childbirth ritual in ancient times. As belly dance movements are centred around the pelvic and abdominal area, it made sense that women would strengthen muscles to make childbirth easier. Others believe it is a ritual to the woman's goddess, which spread through the middle eastern world. The term belly dance comes from the word “Beledi” meaning “of the people”. Beledi is used to refer to music and costuming. Beledi has always been a dance of feminine expression originally performed among women and out of sight of men. But over time women began to dance in front of sultans. Men are fascinated by belly dance and had to respect the women as they were not allowed to see the women before or after the dance. Traditionally belly dance clothes are chiffon fabrics as they look stunning when twirling and spinning around and they sit on the body nicer. Belly dancers also wear coin jewellery and costume jewellery around the ankles, neck and ears. Belts are wrapped around the waist and bra's are covered in jingly coins or bells so when the hips/chest are shaken the sound is enticing.
My Story
A Natural Belly Dancing Instructor
Bronwyn has been belly dancing since she was 16 years old and learnt the basics at her highschool Physical Education class in Nsw Australia. It is from there she became passionate. Wanting to learn more about this sensual dance she completed an intermediate course in Brisbane. She will be teaching the basics & beginner moves of Middle Eastern Dance leaning more toward Egyptian style. She also has done yoga since 16 and incorporates in yoga stretches in her warm ups & warm downs.
Her Belly Dance Name is Bronwyn Amar - Amar means: Moon.
What Inspired me to start belly dancing?
Funny beginnings... When I was 16 at high school, they hired a belly dance teacher. Who taught us the basics for our physical education class, not your typical sport class!!. That's exactly when I fell in love with the dance.
I then moved to Brisbane and ate at a local restaurant at the age of 18 and saw a professional belly dancer there. Feeling inspired again I decided to take intermediate classes with a belly dance teacher and began more advanced learning. I also saw a belly dancer in a nightclub dancing in Brisbane.
I later went on a cultural quest travelling to Egypt on a Nile cruise to see the temples and other exotics of the land. There of course was an Egyptian belly dancer performing on our cruise ship, which inspired me to more to the Egyptian style dance.
From an early age, belly dancing has always found its way across my path. Once you learn belly dancing it never leaves you and it becomes apart of your normal dance pattern. It comes out through the rhythms and beats.
Lizzie Wren
"I had a fantastic time doing belly dancing with Bronwyn. Awesome teacher and easy to understand the moves she showed us. Felt good about myself for once"
Bronwyn Amar demonstrates.....
The Parallel position......
Veil work......
Cymbals (Zills)
&...
Snake Arms......
One Leg Shimmy......
