I share this with belly dance intermediate 3 's ' students last night.

Less is more, when in intermediate class, l want my students to feel this. When perform belly dancing, we should know how to bring the universe 's energy to our body, and not throwing our energy out from the body. It is all about our core and  chakra's power. I did a workshop before, talking of chakra in belly dancing, it is about our inner strength. If your inner strength is strong enough, you are able to show a 'clean', sharp and amazing movements even you just move a little bit. This can be seen especially in doing undulation, it looks so soft and smooth, but the inner power is very strong. If you don't practise inner power, you will move like a duck for undulation! 

Graceful in appearance, but inside is strong, this is belly dancing, and what a woman should have for character.

A lady from other state approched me for her private lesson in belly dancing. She wants to start teaching but her experience in belly dance is very limited. She is very nervous, she wants to finish the course in short time and keep asking me how long can she finish the course and start teaching........

I told her, l cannot give you an answer. A person without dance experience need to practise belly dance at least three years for the techniques. If the person has talent in dance or she has very strong dance background , then may be one and a half  year.We cannot rush for that.

But l know many ladies from Northern Region ' don't care ' whether they are joining a proper belly dance class or not. They only go for pricing, that place is cheaper mah so join lo, despite of the teacher is with big tummy and moving like a duck, or even doing all wrong techniques to cause injuiry. They pay less now, but gain more pain in the future-----Less is MORE also hoh.........

Some told me never mind la, l just want to sweat out. Then why don't go to workout class? You will sweat like falling into a pond . Then some will say, we want to wear the coin scalf mah, ding ding dang dang, cool ! So they put on  a coin scalf , wear sport shoes [ or with barefooted also ], and then follow the big tummy teachers, one two three, shake shake shake, shake your whole body ! [ A professional belly dance teacher will not ask you to shake whole body, instead it is about isolation, and how to control other parts of your body when doing shimmy ].

If this is the standard of belly dancing in Northern Region, when Egyptians came to visit us and found that their culture has been twisted seriously like this, l think they will cry !

Please be professional a bit la, both teachers and students, it is not like going to pasar to buy fish [ even buy fish also must go for quality isn't it ? ]. But this is our enviroment----' cin cai ' la, anything also ok la, as long as it is cheap la. So in the end we all become cheap cheap lo.

sigh..................................................................................

Do you want your next generation become that cheap also ?