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Originally Posted by Adishakti
It's hard to tell without seeing the posture, Lauren...
Her advice for proper alignment is with weight distributed evenly on the arch of your feet, and lining up the following points... Center of ear, center of shoulder, top and side of hip, midpoint of knee and center of ankle. Basically regular, good posture.
Take the course if you can, Lauren... If anyone would appreciate it, it'd be you - for sure!
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And from what I got...there is NO such thing as "basic belly dance posture" a term that became really popular over the last couple of years with a certain group of dancers. Hadia prefers the word alignment to posture...this is because as soon as we say posture, people stand as tall and erect as they possibly can. Thus eliminating the muscles we need for our movements. And really, when you dance, sometimes your pelvis is out, sometimes it's in, sometimes your knee's have a bend to them, other times they're straight...which is where Adi's explanation comes in.
Even though I already took 1 and 2 I'm going to try to get together enough $$$ to go back and do them again in Toronto in August before I head to Mexico to do level 3 (might as well go for a vacation too!)
As there is just SO much information to digest and I'm a firm believer in repetition!