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Varuza: Core Fitness focuses on the use of the psoas muscles as internal muscular movement. Both Bellydance Movement Foundation and Arms and Torso explore the movements within the movements through the legs, pelvis, and torso to create torso undulations (without being psoas specific), if you want to sway up, sway down, sway the entire torso, sway just a little bit of the torso, sway slow, sway fast, sway in place, sway through different body angles, sway while moving, I would recommend those two, as well as Yasmina Ramzy's Bellydance Technique Volume 1, which focuses on "walking undulations, body waves, walking forward and backward figure 8's , walking fish and maya (vertical hip figure eights) and undulating fish, walking hip circles and six kinds of hip kicks, with variations" and dances presented of each these steps. Bellydance Movement Foundation presents "an in depth explanation of the elements of Bellydance movement. It includes ten kinds of isolation accents, chest and hip shimmies, undualtions, body waves, hands, four kinds of figure eights, two travel steps and three kinds of hip and chest circles" again, she includes a dance presentation with each movement taught. Sahra Saeeda's video presents dance concepts, muscular versus skeletal movement throughout the torso, an extended practice session with a drummer, and cues on how to see what a dancer is doing so that you may continue to teach yourself by watching other dancers.

Three videos is in the one hundred dollar range; for me, they have been worth it.