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Belly Dance Classes

  • • Belly Dancing Instructor for BBC
  • • Private lessons: £70 per hour

Drop-in classes

All Levels Warm Welcome!

Seymour Belly Dancing and Hula Hooping classes

  • Thursdays 9:30 - 11:00AM
  • Saturdays 3:00 - 4:30PM
  • Location: SEYMOUR LEISURE CENTRE (click to see map)
  • Seymour Place, London W1H 5TJ
  • Tube: Edgware Rd, Marylebone Rd, Baker St, Marble Arch
  • Buses: 6, 7, 15, 16, 18, 23, 27, 36, 98
  • Price:  £10

You can simply DROP-IN and PAY AS YOU GO!

Portobello BELLY DANCING CLASSes

  • Thursdays 7:00 - 8:00 PM
  • Sundays 12:00 - 1:00 PM
  • Tube: Ladbroke Grove (2 min walk)
    Buses: 7, 18, 23,28, 52, 70, 295, 316, 452.

Price: £8

You can simply DROP-IN and PAY AS YOU GO!

 

CLASSES AT LONDON'S LEADING HEALTH CLUBS:

  • • Esporta Swiss Cottage
  • • Virgin Active Hammersmith
  • • Kensington Leisure Centre

What to wear?

  • • Bare feet, non slippery socks, ballet/jazz shoes
  • • If high heels for you are like fast cars for men, start with straps that cross over the ankle and the bridge of the foot to hold the shoe in. (Something like ballroom dance shoes). But please remember, the only people who can stand on heels all day, every day are mannequins, and they are plastic! Always give your feet a day off.
  • • Stretch dance trousers, leggings, tracksuits, long skirts.
  • • Hip scarves, coin belt if you have one.
  • • Push up, padded bra or sport bra.
  • • Short or long top.
  • • Whatever is comfortable and makes you FEEL GOOD!

FOR BELLY DANCE MERCHANDISE CHECK OUT THE SHOP PAGE!

MERCHANDISE IS AVAILABLE IN CLASSES.

PLEASE, EMAIL OR TEXT YOUR REQUESTS

(QUANTITY, SIZE, COLOUR) BEFOREHAND

Students comments

  • "Thank you so much for bringing belly dance to my life! A year ago or so I never could imagine myself doing anything soft or feminine. What I love about belly dance is not only that it involves both movement and emotions at the same time, but also because of the gentleness and the sense of flow that it touches in me. Belly dancing for me is almost like a door that allow me to get in touch with the feminine part of myself which have been somehow neglected by me for a long time. Your dancing, your character and your sensitive soul and the way you put your heart and soul into the classes that is truly beautiful and
    inspiring. Sometimes when I dance I feel much more connected to my soul, much more connected to something deep inside me that is delicate and soft, but also powerful at the same time. And there are times I felt my spirit slowly soaring above the earthly worries as I started dancing. There are times
    or days where there isn't a class I would just put on the music and dance or try and do the movements at home either early in the day or late at night, it keeps me quite grounded in myself and in the moment.
    Thank you so much for being such a lovely and inspiring teacher and dancer!"

  • - Michelle, architecture student at Cambridge University


  • "Jalya is the most graceful and beautiful belly dancer and teacher. It is an experience rather than a class when she teachers, which takes one on a journey of getting in touch with their feminine side. Jalya has a unique way of leading her classes where you can learn and improve the technique like you are at a formal dance school but it happens in a fun way and then by the end of the lesson you would feel like Scheherazade performing a dance."

  • - Aliya Mamedova


  • "Someone asked me recently why I keep doing this. Maybe because I always wanted a flat stomach, but about ten years and millions of crunches later I realized that flat stomach is just not for some people. However a few months of belly dancing – and I finally have it! Or maybe because the instructor is so radiant and positively charged that each class is like a short trip to a warm country – sunny, happy and mood uplifting."

  • - Anna