Product Description
Glamour, mystery, a supple, sleek body and hypnotic, sinuous moves. All the benefits of bellydance can be yours in this new video! Melissa has taken her professional experience as a personal trainer, Pilates instructor, performing bellydancer and belly dance teacher and created the BellycoreTM system to help dancers, students, and regular women get in touch with their bodies on a totally new level. In her classes, students have gone from rank beginners to graceful bellydancers in a little as 8 weeks, using the BellycoreTM combination of Pilates exercises and Middle Eastern belly dance moves. Now you too can reinvent yourself into a chic and glamorous bellydancer and get a great workout in the process!
Review
This is a cardio workout from a physical trainer/bellydancer using bellydance as the fundamentals.The warm up segment is pilates and not too complicated. The 4 level breathing technique is interesting and taught well.Some yoga poses are included. Undulating traveling steps were fun to do. Some steps as the Turkish 2 step are repeated too much. Cool down seems a bit too much like a second workout. The studio setting is good, the trainer pleasant just a bit unconnected with her viewer- moving too fast appearing more like a physical trainer than a dancer, but then is that so bad for a cardio workout? Overall this seems to be a compilation of bellydance,pilates, yoga. There is a nice performance at the end by the trainer herself. The music is great by Gypsy Caravan, Jehan, Knossos. --amazon.com (US)
About the Actor
Melissa is a personal trainer, Pilates instructor, professonal bellydancer, belly dance teacher, and creator of the BellycoreÂTM method of teaching. She holds certifications from NASM, AFAA, AAAI, IM=X Pilates, and the Kane School of Core Integration, among others. Melissa s students benefit from her rich background in physical fitness, exercise science, and dance, and her audiences are consistently charmed by her energy and playfulness. Melissa lives, teaches, and dances in New York City.
