Seminars&Workshops

Welcome to the magical world of bellydance in Raleigh, North Carolina.
More fun than you've had since you were 3 years old !

Private, semi-private, and group lessons
(No regular classes at present, but workshops, seminars & lessons at your request)

A new student said: "I love the music, the dance, the rhythm, the spirit ... and being with a group of women sharing our talents, and our spirit, and beauty with each other. I felt a sense of comfort with who I am and my body. I was never really comfortable with myself, especially my body and outward appearance. But this experience gave me a sense of pride or satisfaction of who I am inside and out."

Each workshop, seminar, or class features distinctions among bellydance styles, with examples, plus history and culture; a thorough warm-up and cool-down/stretch, plus a continuing emphasis on bellydancer stance, being grounded with grace and love. Of course, other things come up, and we pursue them with humor, grace, and zest! There is always an emphasis on the folk dance roots of bellydance, and its accessibity to everybody. Every Body. You.

Cost
private lesson, $40/hour
2 students, $60/hour
3 students, $70/hour
4 students, $80/hour
5 or more students, $15/class

Click here for Student FAQs. (drop in, contact, experience, safety, fitness, style, age, size; also what to wear, what to bring, how to register, and other questions). If you still have questions, give Qadria a call at 919-786-9895, or e-mail her at Qadria.

Introductory Bellydance Workshops for Women's Groups:
2- & 4-hour delightfully fun sessions for your social, neighborhood, educational, religious groups, at the appropriate level for you and your group:

Beginners
The content is flexible according to the students’ ability. Basics include hip & ribcage slides & circles, shoulder rolls & accents, snake arms, beledi hips (Ghawazee), hip lifts & drops, Egyptians, Arabics, horizontal and vertical hip figure 8s, traveling moves, shimmies, undulations, combinations, choreography, props. We’ll start at the very beginning and you’ll be dancing in a flash. Soon you'll be progressing to shimmies, & undulations; choreography, zils & veils.

Continuing/Intermediate
There will be the same emphasis on stance and grace, with less explanation/demonstration of the basics. Workshops include hip & ribcage slides, circles, & figure 8s in 3 dimensions; umis, shoulder rolls & accents, snake arms & variations, hand & wrist circles, beledi hips (Ghawazee) and variations, hip lifts & drops & variations, Egyptians, Arabics, grapevine & other traveling moves, shimmies, side & forward undulations, combinations & choreography, and props as requested: zils, veil, cane, sword, tambourine, candles.

Other Workshops for Bellydancers:
- Zils for beginning and experienced bellydancers
- Veil for beginning and experienced bellydancers
- Turkish 9/8 for experienced bellydancers
- Sword for experienced bellydancers
- Writing your own choreography for experienced bellydancers
- Being a bellydance troupe for experienced bellydancers

Come dance with us! You have my personal guarantee that you will be bellydancing within 30 minutes; that you'll look and feel better, and you'll become much more comfortable living and dancing in your body in a very short time.

You are perfect, whole, and complete - body, mind, & spirit -
just the way you are and just the way you are not.
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Also available:

DVD "Bellydance Moves & Combinations Anyone Can Do"
Order DVD/Video online or call or write Qadria.
"Anyone" means YOU, your friends, and your family. Bellydance is based on folkdance, which means anyone can do it. Really.

Video "Warm-Ups & Cool-Downs for Bellydancers"
Order online, call/write, or come to a class or workshop and ask for either DVD or video, order DVD/Video. This video is just warm-ups and cool-down, no bellydance instruction.

Performance for parties, showers, & other special events (short lesson included, if you like).

For information about inviting Qadria to enliven your holiday event, click Celebrations .

"Enchanting Winter Solstice Bellydance”
Bellydance Workshop with Qadria
OR
Summer Solstice, Vernal Equinox, Autumnal Equinox, you name it!

Celebrate the winter in the magical world of bellydance, the "Strong Women in Community” empowering world that is bellydance. Qadria will have you bellydancing within 30 minutes, even without any previous dance experience. You will find yourself delightedly grounded and lovingly open to the universe, in body, mind, and spirit. You will have the experience of being gloriously in love with your body, mind and spirit, just the way you are and just the way you are not. Men are welcome, and we’ll distinguish between the masculine and feminine aspects of bellydance and the folkdance from which it derives. We might also play with zils (finger cymbals) and veils, and we'll learn a short choreography. If you've been looking for a jump-start for your bellydance career, this is it!
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Our thoughts create our attitudes;
Our attitudes become our behavior;
Our behavior is how we treat others;
How we treat others is what we think of ourselves.
~~~~ Kaylan Pickford