Om Laila and Seven Waves

Our goal at Om Laila is two-fold:

1.   To teach excellent bellydance technique grounded in but not limited to the Egyptian style.  The Om Laila approach is very organic and highly applicable to tribal and folkloric styles of bellydance.  You will learn strong, earthy hip accents, shimmering shimmies, juicy undulations, circles and figure eights, and gorgeous veilwork.  Whether you seek training as a performer, or bellydance as form of exercise, self-love and comraderie with other women, these classes will deliver the goods in a warm, relaxed and open-hearted environment.   All Om Laila classes include a Seven Waves Movement component for a warm-up.  The waves serve as a primer to help the dance vocabulary take root, and to free and condition the body for safe, healthy movement.  Read more about Seven Waves below.

 2.   To transmit and evolve Seven Waves Movement, Roula Said's unique dance-infused movement meditation and fluid work-out.  Seven Waves Movement is comprised of a series of specific movement sequences inspired by the flow of energy through the body either from the bottom up or from the top down.  This energy or life force is tracked through shifting the three weights of the spine (head, ribs, pelvis), and through bringing awareness to the seven chakras (where the brain resides in the body in the form of concentrated nerve bundles).  Rather than isolating a shape like a circle or a figure eight (as we do in bellydance), we resonate the shape throughout the body.  By isolating a wave or pathway rather than a body part, we create an experience that is exquisitely relaxing, comforting and nourishing.  Only from a place of dynamic relaxation, is it truly possible to strengthen the core - and from a strong and conncted core, all things flow with greater ease and grace.  The awareness, deep strength and freedom gained from these movement sequences will enhance and deepen not only your dance practice but all areas of your life.  Think of it as a kind of “brain-gym” to awaken your intuitive body intelligence.  Nevermind boot camp, Seven Waves is juice camp!

Om Laila Bellydance and Seven Waves Movement are unique and inspired and truly distinguish us from more conventionial schools.  You must experience our classes first-hand to feel the magic.