Belly Dance Classes London

Who has the best belly dance classes in London?

Melissa Belly Dance is a Professional Belly Dancer. Based in London, belly dancing and teaching others to belly dance for over 15 years. She is a trained safe professional with an infectious personality. Her belly dance classes in London are full of energy.

She has an expert approach not seen in the belly dancing industry. Melissa Belly Dance brings an academic approach to technique and stylisation. This ranges throughout her many belly dancing and fusion classes every week. Who has the best belly dance classes in London? Melissa Belly Dance does!

Other Belly Dance Schools In London

While other Belly Dance Schools in London will have other teachers and instructors teach the classes for them, Melissa teaches all her London classes herself. So you know you are guaranteed the quality and dedication necessary to achieve your goals every week! Other schools do not offer the care and attention Melissa prides herself on.

You can speak to her face to face and directly during any class rather than have to pass on a message through an employee or email a member of staff. You are dealing with Melissa directly and being someone who has trained many of the teachers now teaching belly dance classes, going to the source will always be the best thing for you.

Belly Dance Classes

Melissa Belly Dance is known for her amazing ability to adapt her teaching methods to cater to different learning styles. While making them fun, safe and technically correct Melissa's approach is intuitive and challenging. Belly dancing is sexy, builds your fitness, tones you up, improves your confidence and very empowering.

Melissa Belly Dance believes meaningful change happens over time, with consistency and positive reinforcement, along with enjoyment and personal support.  Her courses reflect this investment in yourself and are structured in once-a-week 12 week courses that build on your progress and reflect your own commitment to a “best version of you”. 

Whether you are looking to really learn to belly dance properly from an expert or get fit with a belly dance work out you can expect both delivered to the highest standards. She teaches Belly Dance from Beginners all the way to Advanced and Professional. Also her own original belly dance fusion creations now copied by others.

A Variety Of Dance Classes And Fusions

• Belly Dance Levels 1-4
• Belly Dance Drum Solo
• Turkish Belly Dance
• Latin Belly Dance Hip Hop.
• Ori Polynesia Tahitian Dance.
• Belly Dance Jam Fest
• Vinyasa Yoga
• Belly Dance Chakra Fusion
• Tribal From The Trap

She puts on a student theatre styled storylined show at the end of her courses to celebrate and display all the fun, learning and the journey her pupils have been on during their 12 week belly dance course. It is not only exciting to get involved in but extremely entertaining to watch. To find out more check out the rest of her website to get details on her classes and courses. Take a free class with her from home watching one of her free videos or sign up to her free belly dance taster workshops and dance with her in person!

Melissa Credits

Melissa’s credits include : The 5 O’clock Show with Lenny Henry. Sadie Frost, BBC2’s Strictly Come Dancing It Takes 2. BBC3’s Don’t Tell the Bride and MOVIDA. She been a featured performer at the Asian Music Awards. Zee Cine awards & Nike. She has also featured in a Hip-hop fitness DVD, ‘Hip Hop Body’ and recently released 2 DVD’s of her own!

Melissa has 2 DVD’S out now:

Belly Dance Essentials and Belly Dance Hip-hop Fusion

As a professional belly dancer Melissa has made her mark captivating and inspiring the world.

Reputation

As a teacher she is well known for her approach and teaching methods with a reputation of making you sweat!

Melissa’s unique style, radiant performances and dynamic choreography have earned her a positive reputation and an ever growing following. She is well known for her energy, charisma and passion for what she does best!

Why are belly dance classes in London so popular?

Belly dancing is a fantastic low impact way of learning a beautiful dancing art form. You also get fit, tone up and get healthier. It has been known to reduce back and joint pain through the correct application of belly dance technique and the low impact nature of the dance. During belly dance, the action of hip drops, shimmies, figure eights, and circles move the joints and ligaments in the lower back and hip through a full range of repetitive motion. The motion assists in the increased flow of synovial fluid (nature's lubricant) in these joints. When movements are correctly done, the pelvis is tipped forward/tucked; a neutral position that can assist in preventing lower back problems.

Belly Dance And The Body

Belly dance classes with Melissa can help relieve stress to the back. Countering the nearly constant compression of disks and vertebrae that occurs from sitting and a sedentary lifestyle. The increase in belly dance popularity has a lot to do with expert professional teachers like Melissa. Combining her scientific knowledge of the human anatomy with her long experience in the art of belly dance.

Benefits to belly dance

Belly dance classes have many benefits. Some benefits include greater body awareness, improved coordination, greater self esteem and increased concentration.

Greater body awareness:

Belly dance has given many a greater body awareness as it puts you in touch with your muscles through movement. Belly dance classes offer a wide variety of movements and choreography. This comes from cultures that understand the relationship between the body and the mind. So asking yourself the question; will belly dance classes in London get me these results? The answer is yes.

Improved coordination:

Will belly dance classes in London be able to offer improved coordination? Absolutely, yes. Belly dance classes are known to develop improved coordination. Through repetition of these majestic movements and belly dancing choreography the brains neurotransmitters are engaged and new synaptic pathways emerge. Increased hand eye coordination through arm and hand gestures. Also, training the hips and chest to move independently and in synergy leads to improved coordination.

Greater self esteem:

The increase in endorphin activity and dopamine levels triggered during aerobic activity lead to greater self esteem. The act of belly dance in classes, learning dance movements and using your brain to remember techniques all contribute to a greater self esteem. If your wondering whether Melissa's belly dance classes are up to that challenge the answer is yes. Melissa has a reputation of creating an environment that encourages huge development in self esteem. Melissa's intuitive nature understands her students individual journeys in self development and this is facilitated in the activities in classes.

Increased concentration:

There are parts of the brain that contribute to belly dance learning and performance. The parts include the motor cortex, basal ganglia, somatosensory cortex, and cerebellum. The motor cortex is in charge of the planning, management, and the execution of movements. The basal ganglia, which is located deep in the brain, works in connection with other brain areas to smoothly regulate movement. The somatosensory cortex, located in the mid area of the brain, is in charge of motor function. The cerebellum operates input from the brain and spine assisting in the planning of fine and complex motor actions.

Belly dance and The Brain

Some studies have shown which areas of the brain are activated by dance. Others have explored how the physical and expressive elements of belly dance alter brain function and improve concentration. Melissa's regular students have reported that they have found they have improved concentration levels at work and at home. Learning new techniques, choreography and finding joy in movement almost tricks the brain into thinking you are not concentrating for such long periods as you are having so much fun at the time!

Join Melissa Belly Dance classes and courses today! Located in Studio 339, 339 Euston Road, London, NW1 3AD (near Warren St W1) Many Trains, London Underground and Bus connections very near. Go to https://melissabellydance.com for evening belly dance classes in London. Go to https://www.studio339.co.uk for daytime belly dance classes in London