Goals better than resolutions. Love the 5 day idea

I saved this weeks ago when you sent it out, but only just got to watching...and it's amazing! What an incredible story! I love how you disabused anyone of the notion it was glamorous, lol. The love you have for it though, so evident. So awesome to see the footage. Thank you for sharing <3

I did half this lesson holding my heavy toddler. She giggled and enjoyed the movements. Thanks for the lesson.

I loved seeing this!

And add: "hare hare Krishna! Hare hare Krishna!"

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This was very helpful. Thank you! Could you please make a video about spotting and turning?

I am over months struggling with this mov. I cannot isolate the upper and bottom parts.

Hermoso mensaje. Muchas gracias. 💌

Such a great video! Each day that I GET to dance is amazing!!!❤

Love you sexy bellydancer 🙏🤗❤️💃🥰😍😘😘😘😘

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Wonderful video! I thought you did a great job with the tutorial on how to belly roll! I do want to ask: does your tummy always make sounds when you belly roll?

Hi Sahira I have just started out with zils and find since I'm right-handed I will be right hand lead but I force myself to learn playing Left Hand lead and continuous I enjoy the challenge.

Hey Sahira, Would u mind making a videos that cover the following? 1. Unwanted advances - while performing and while just out with your chicas dancing. 2. History of belly dance /regional difference - I'm sure you've covered it, but I'm not seeing it 3. Protection online posting -KZbin, Instagram, ect. Thanks for your videos. It's refreshing to see someone take the art form seriously

Yes, belly dance is a beautiful art!❤ I love zills, and I always start with my dominant right hand leading, but if the music starts to take me away…I find myself alternating.😊

Estaba buscando hace bastante este movimiento. Gracias por explicarlo tan bien. ♡

Fun drill, thanks

TOTALLY LOVE YOU!!!

I wish i could send u a video! Im so excited to learn this!!

I'm 71 and have been dancing for 50 years, i have performed professionally, for charity and taught the art of belly dance right up until covid...in all my years of performing i encountered ageism only one time out of thousands of performances, racism only once... the majority of audiences were enthralled by the dance and in awe...it is the joy the dancer brings to the performance that surpasses the age and race of the dancer...

Happy i found your video bcse im trying to learn layering and its was a struggle. Thanks

Sound is a bit off than usual. Still great content anyways~💕

Beautiful video... Il be doing this over the weekend 🤗👍

Lindíssima

I started dancing when i was 40. I'm still dancing and I'm going to turn 57 this November. I dance in restaurant, parties and any places I can but people love a older person with the love for this dance still perform. I know I'm not young and thin but my love to this beautiful dance is so much i want to keep sharing it until I can't 😊

very informative and valuable message to share and recommend!❤‍🔥

Thank you for your guidance! Unfortunately several of your top five favourites are not available on the Soryan website.

Stop worrying what others think. Keep dancing professionally. I had two 75 year olds in my troupe. Yes, they were having a hard time keeping up with the bollywood songs, but most people loved seeing them up there. Make age on stage normal!

LOVES it. Starting my day with it.

Can I lift my heels up a little bit while shimmy? My teacher tells me to glue my heels on the floor at all time

Brilliant conversation to have. I started in my 20s. I'm now 46. I run my own fat chance Troupe plus a festival in Austria where youth and beauty is prized. Look at the Salimpours. Carolena Nericcio. It's about time 'western' world culture caught up on how magickal older women are. Look at Kirah Mazin in Egypt. Try telling her not to perform. She'd shoo you off with her cane. There's room for us all and I'll cheer on anyone brave enough to go on stage and dance. It's hard. Sahira, you're blooming gorgeous. I'd love to see you dance. X

I was a professional dancer in LA in the 1980s and back then I NEVER saw a dancer over 35. So when a back injury and a move to rural Northern California put a stop to my dancing I walked away for almost 40 years and moved instead to other stage work---Fast forward to 5 years ago and an accidental chance to dance, and since then, even though I'm now 66 years old, I've never been the oldest dancer on stage at any of the performance I've performed in. Do I take the "Greek Restaurant" gigs, nope, but not because I haven't been asked but because I don't want to. Hey, sure, there are plenty of moves I can't do anymore, and I might lack the flexibility that I had 40 years ago, but I make up for that limitation in stage presence and the sheer joy I bring to my performances----or at least that's what the venues that keep hiring me say. I love playing with my audience and my audiences seem to enjoy playing along with me, and as long as people want to hire me, and I'm still having fun---I'll keep dancing. Currently, I have a dance partner who's ten years older than me, when she was recovering from a partial hip replacement, we participated in a Belly Dance Nutcracker performance. To accommodate her need to use a cane, we did a duet as dancing candy canes, and the audience ate it up (yes, pun intended). It's been my experience that whether or not my age (and wrinkles) are an issue depends on the venue (so now I only perform where the organizers ask me and not the other way around) and how much I give a damn about what some naysayers might think. And since I left my "give a damn" in the rearview mirror a very long time ago, I will continue to dance as long as I'm having fun. If some people think I'm too old---that's their problem, not mine---if you don't like it, don't watch. At this point, I think I have two goals in my dancing: to have fun and encourage young people to explore and enjoy this art form. And second to model empowered aging to all women. Thanks for the forum.

Abd just to add, Sahira, you do not look Like you are in your 40s! Some of us Like watching older women performing! You are more experienced and there are all ages of ppl in the audience watching us older performers! Don't feel your dancing is now bound to only the studio !

I'm 44 and am still a very active dancer. I also do all kinds of styles, not just ones "appropriate" for my age. I always cater my costumes and acts to each event. My troupe similarly has many dancers around my age and we get lots of repeat clients. When I read comments and hear commentary on this topic from other dancers, a lot of the time it's our own internalized ageism that is projecting. On your comment about whether we cater to requests for younger or more fit dancers, we used to do that a long time ago, but now have taken a stance that we won't entertain any sort of ageist or racist or fat-shaming requests anymore (not that it occurred very often, only a couple of times in about 20 years). I'm lucky to say we have amazing clientele!

I started belly dance in a studio setting at 50. I'm now 51. I danced kind of on my own at home for 10 years. I'm from a really small town and there's never been opportunity til now. I would have had to travel 2 hrs to dance. I'm disabled, suffering with a bad back. I'm an oral head and neck cancer survivor. Belly dance allows me to stay active and feel good. Through all my struggles, I definitely don't look 50 and im a darn good dancer too ! Get out there ladies and move it !! 🎉🎉

Love your video today! As I dance my way through my 50s I find I am having to change and adjust the way I do things to account for decreasing flexibility, mobility and endurance, but I still love it and plan to keep on moving through this new stage in my dance journey.

Serena Wilson known as Serena danced professionally until her early 70's until she then unfortunately passed away. She had her own dance studio, taught, booked dancers and actually had her own TV show on middle eastern dance. She paved the way for this dance form to be respected and acknowledged for it culture and history. She was my teacher. Sahira, you remind me of her in your skill, knowledge and passion.

Just turned 70, started bellydance 44 yrs ago...just danced last week at an event.

I'm 37 and performing in restaurants and at private parties and care homes and I do it very classy and kind of holden era style. I feel older dancers do it better and are being accepted more now as I do see alot of younger dancers it's more of a fake look and the costumes are not very traditional looking anymore and alot of places will prefer an older lady who looks elegant and beautiful classic belly dance moves and using zills and veils ect and not just moving their chest around... You get where I am going with that lol. I train hard everyday and it's upsetting to see sometimes restaurant taking a dancer on with no proper costume or veil and doesn't know what she is doing. And that I see alot these days. It's a real shame. I will still be dancing when I'm 60s 💃💃🤗🤗

I'm not sure how old Phyllidia was when she retired from dancing but she was in her late 60s at least. Mid 70s I'm guessing

Beautiful

Oh my gosh you can totally still perform at any gig out there. You look amazing. And I’m saying that even for the mainstream muggle community. As sad as the stereotypes are, you still fit the standard they would expect. Even though I don’t buy into this or think we should- just sayin 😂

I swear that Rompi Rompi is the only 9/8 song that readily findable! I learned a routine to a version of it, a few years ago. I agree, that once you get that groove, it has a nice bounce.

No I do not know what drum part it is haha 😅

Thank you ❤ this is like the only choreograph tutorial that I can find

I am so happy to watch your new belly dance teaching video and must say that you are a beautiful dancer

Very informative, thank you so much!!

Can you ring my bell 🔔?