Weekly Belly Dance Classes

Shahina teaches Middle Eastern dance lessons at her Glen Ellyn studio in Chicago's western suburbs. Not sure which class is right for you? Follow the links below for more detailed descriptions of each class.

• Belly Dance 101—Starts at the very beginning. Focuses on stretching, strengthening and isolations, and basic moves which are the foundation of Middle Eastern dance. Lots of individual help and precise instruction.  description
  
  
• Belly Dance 102—Continues with stretching and strengthening, adding more isolations and putting moves together into short combinations. We introduce veils, improvisation and simple choreography.   description
  
  
• Dance Conditioning Intensive—Shahina's toughest class yet. Intense work on splits and backbends, plus a thirty minute drum solo aerobic workout. Structured for serious dancers who are already fit and who may have reached a plateau. description
  
  
• Intermediate Techniques and Drills—Takes moves learned at the beginner level and turns them into dance. We increase the intensity of stretching and strengthening, add ballet basics and more drills. Learn longer combinations, choreography, layering, turns, traveling moves, transitions, veils, floor work, and cane dance.  description
  
  
• Bellydance for Maidens—For young ladies ages 7-12. We will learn basic yoga stretches, learn to tell a story in dance, learn drumming and percussion, and dye our own silks for a costume.  description
  
  
• Belly Dance Performance—Focus on performance, including veil work, more complex combinations, layering,  improvisation, balancing, soloing, costuming.  description
  
  
• The Art of Seduction—Focus on improving your romantic relationships through belly dance. Lots of improvisation, veil work, floor work, and energy work. We will also touch on costuming and creating an atmosphere.  description
  
  
• Pre- and Post-Natal Dance—Focus on flexibility and strengthening of the back, pelvis and abdominal regions, as well as visualization and meditation to feel like the strong and loving goddess-mothers that we are! Mothers of newborns are welcome to bring babies along.  description
  
  
• Mother/Daughter Belly Dance— This special version of Shahina's popular  Bellydance 101 class is especially structured so mothers and their grown or teenage daughters can learn the basics of belly dance together!  101 description

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