I agree it is a great place for beginners. I had never done belly dance before but it sounded fun/scary and my friend had a groupon so we checked it out. We did a drop-in on a beginner Sat morning class (normally $10 drop-in) and it was really fun!

The environment is very chill and encouraging. They didn't even mind when people came in late (the class starts off with yoga-like moves for warm-up). A dog was walking around our class (just for a bit - it was amusing). You can wear whatever you want - belly dance clothes or yoga/workout clothes, anything goes (it's very California in that way). It was nice to see people of all body types in the class, which I don't normally see in other dance/yoga/workout classes.

It was easy to follow the teacher and she sometimes came around and gave pointers for adjustments, but she was very laidback. She gave encouragement like telling us it's hard to get certain moves right the first time (or even the first few years) like the hip gyrating thing I couldn't get right. It was surprising how much arm strength is used in belly dancing. Luckily we also learned an Egyptian booty shaking dance move that was super easy and fun and at least made you think you were accomplishing some basic dancing.

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