. I have a couple of other AM themed yoga programs, and I really will try a different one some time soon, but I enjoy the familiarity of doing this same program every day. Also, I need something to slowly wake me up, which this one does, some of the others I have are a bit more vigorous. At lunch time, I decided not to do yoga and to only do bellydance as I had issues during my AM practice with downward dog in particular because my left arm and shoulder are sore from being knocked over by one of my cats on Sunday and the 15 minute results DVD
is heavy on arm supported poses. So I did Bellydance Fitness for Weight Loss: Cardio Shimmy
. The 30 minute workout uses Egyptian shimmy, shoulder shimmy, choochoo shimmy. Most of the moves are taught in my beginner level classes, the exceptions being the Egyptian shimmy and the gush (King Tut walk). Also, Rania does not name her hip shimmy, so beginner level students might not realize it is different from the hip lift shimmy taught in class. Beginner level students could use this video if they substituted the hip lift shimmy for the Egyptian shimmy. This video has a lot of hopping in it, something I don't care for, but is certainly effective in getting the heart rate up and makes a good workout. More advanced dancers could change it up by changing the type of shimmy they use each time they use the video, for example, replace the hip shimmy with a twist shimmy, replace the shoulder shimmy with the 3/4 shoulder shimmy. The bonus features are a 10 minute “waist cincher” workout (rib and hip slides, horizontal and vertical hip figure 8, up to down undulations and vertical rib cage circles) which I did not add in to my lunch time practice and two costumed performances which I watched while eating my lunch.I was supposed to go to yoga class Monday evening, but because of my arm and shoulder decided to stay home and rest the muscles and joint. After all, over doing it will only make it worse and take that much longer to heal.
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