Classes ....

NEW 2010 Class Information   (allow pop ups for links to the maps)

PROMOTIONAL OFFERS

If you attend more than one class per week, you get £1 off of the second class.

Classes are conducted in a friendly, relaxed environment and all ladies are welcome! No experience necessary.

Do come along and see exactly why more & more women are taking up Bellydance classes. Come for fitness, strength & stamina building, plus it's a fun way to keep fit - and for those who would like to develop performance skills and take their dancing further, opportunities are there. 

QUICK CLASS GUIDE & HOLIDAY DATES

Mum's BELLYDANCE CLASS at:

9.30am - 10.30am

Marks Gate Community Complex, 

Rose Lane,

Chadwell Heath, RM6 5NJ

Mums, you can bring your children to this class, no need for babysitters.(This class has now finished but they are very keen to have me back for another term of bellydancing around Spring 2010 after the newfitness class is finished, so watch this space or 'Blog, News & Events' page

Monday afternoons: HOOPERCISE CLASS at:

12pm - 12.45pm

New Leaf Cafe

Vicarage Fields Shopping Centre

Barking  This is another fun fitness class that will get rid of those winter blues, whittle away the waistline and tone those legs, buns & tums. Hoops provided.

Tuesday Evenings, at Robert Clack Leisure Centre

Beginners & Improvers Bellydance Fitness

7pm - 8pm Cost £4.50

Gosfield Road, Dagenham

RM8 1JU

Parking on site

Bus Routes 5, 103, 128, 173, 175, 673,

For details on all buses click here.

Tuesday Mornings at the New Leaf Cafe 

Beginners Bellydance

12.45pm - 1.45pm Cost £3.50

53a Vicarage Fields Shopping Centre

Ripple Road, Barking, IG118DQ

There is pay parking at the shopping centre and

other local parking.

Excellent Public Transport to the New Leaf Cafe in

 Vicarage Fields 

Why not try something completely different - Also at the New Leaf studio is Poi Spinning on

Tuesdays Mornings at 11.30am 12.30am

Sock Poi are provided for you! Click the links to find out more about Poi

Cost £3

History of Poi

Wednesdays at DagenhamVillage Community Hall,

Absolute Beginners

1pm - 2pm Cost £4.00

Village Community Hall

Vicarage Road (off Church Elm Lane)

Dagenham

Tube Trains: Dagenham Heathway, Dagenham East

Bus Route 145 passing through Church Elm Lane

All Bus Routes

Ample local street parking available outside.

Thursdays at GymActive 

Bellydance, Fitness & Body Shaping - All Levels

7pm - 8pm Cost £4.50

298-310, Green Lane, Ilford, Essex, IG1 1XT

junction of South Park Drive and Green Lane

opposite the Tesco Express Garage

on site parking - bus routes 128, 145 & 150

Train station: Goodmayes Railway Station

All Belly Dance Lessons are with your Teacher & Performer, Electra (or Elaine if you prefer!).

Come along & learn the foundation moves & beyond of the Art of Bellydance.

I am qualified in anatomy & physiology and will tell you each muscle you need to use & how bellydance moves will trim, tone & strengthen your body - you are also likely to have fun - all whilst learning this beautiful form of dance.

The classes are based on Cabaret Style Bellydance, but you will also explore other styles too including Egyptian Oriental, North African and American Tribal Style. I teach the basics of Middle Eastern rhythms & how to dance to them. In my classes you will learn how to improvise, as well as learning choreography & combinations.

We will be using bodyshaping & flexibility techniques to keep fit & improve our dance ability.  When you reach the stage where you know the basic moves and want to push yourself a bit further, there is the bi-monthly 2 hour intensive class where we learn choreographies to perform. We are also lucky enough to be able to experience dancing to live music, as our percussionist,

Wade, will come along and drum for us by special request - there's nothing quite like dancing to live music & drumming.

I have been teaching bellydance in Dagenham & Ilford for some years now and the new daytime classes in Dagenham and Barking began in January 2009 ( both of which are for complete beginners).  Look for updates here and in the blog/news section.

 

call me on 07906836337 or 07508975999 for any more details and questions you may have. Alternatively, email me.

Belly dancing: the sacred art

If you longed for a physical fitness, regime that would be more fun than push-ups and sit-ups, more gentle on the body than running, and more accessible and inviting to you right now in the shape you are in than--say--going to a health-club full of already pumped up and slimmed down bodies, don't despair: there is an option for you. Bellydance is an incredibly fun and surprisingly intensive workout, engaging core muscles while encouraging whole-body strength and flexibility. As bellydance is essentially creative and non-competetive, it allows for personal style and embellishment, making it very accessible to people of all ages, sizes, and health conditions. The objective in the dance is to internalize the music you are moving with and let that unfold through articulated movements in whatever way feels most satisfying to you, the dancer.

It's not about pain: it's about pleasure. If something gives us pleasure we will tend to do it more often; if that something happens to be a good workout disguised as a good time, surely the results over time will be improved health and vigor! READ MORE........

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