Product Details

• Actors: Suhaila Salimpour
• Format: Box set, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 4
• Studio: Goldhill Home Media
• VHS Release Date: December 28, 2004
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00069FKT6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #324,914 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ow. Owwww. But fantastically so., August 29, 2005

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BellyAndWings "Belly dance instructor" (MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bellydance for Beginners with Suhaila: Fitness Fusion - 4 Volume Gift Set (Buns, Jazz, Pilates, Yoga) (DVD)

I took a Rachel Brice 4 day intensive workshop, and she said that Suhaila's buns and abdominal exercises were the best out there for locks and isolations. So, I found a great deal on the VHS tapes, and ever so skeptically, popped them in. I was amazed, and in awe of HOW she moves her glutes and abs like that! Sure, it's frustrating that I can't keep up the fast rolls and LRL/RLR combinations, but it gives me something to work towards.
So from a true skeptic, and professional dancer, I do highly recommend these, especially to ATS and fusion dancers. In fact, I'm going back and buying them on DVD now.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars REALLY great training exercises for serious bellydancers, August 6, 2006

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Azadi (Greensbororo, NC USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bellydance for Beginners with Suhaila: Fitness Fusion - 4 Volume Gift Set (Buns, Jazz, Pilates, Yoga) (DVD)

I love these DVDs even though they have some very difficult exercises on them. I know from my continuing classes that strength & control are needed to do well and the only way to get both is by practice & exercise. These DVDs are definitely, as I saw mentioned in another review, exercises for belly dancers. I really like Suhaila's instruction too.

Each DVD has a focus, but all parts of the body are worked to some extent. She also adds layering in with all 4 DVDs, which is something I am working hard on right now. I skip between the Yoga, Buns, & Pilates in my home practice. There are some periods where the moves are way too fast for me to keep up, but I figure if the women in the video can do it, I should be able to do it too, so I keep on working at it. I can definitely see the value in this!

1. The Yoga DVD is the least intensive workout and focuses on belly exercises (undulations).

2. The Buns DVD has some very difficult exercises & some not so bad. Focus is on shimmies & hip work, standing still & moving. If I could get 2 of these, this would be my 2nd choice.

3. The Pilates DVD seemed to be more all-over, with some very difficult (for me) leg work & good stretches. If I could only get one of these, this would be it.

4. The Jazz DVD is too difficult for me now, but I'll try it again in a few months to see if I can do it.

If you are looking for choreography and a wide selection of belly dance moves, look elsewhere. If you are looking for some intense exercises to help you with strength & control in your belly dance - these are GREAT!

69 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exercise for belly dancers (not belly dance for exercisers), February 24, 2005

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CASSANDRE LEE (ROSEDALE, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bellydance for Beginners with Suhaila: Fitness Fusion - 4 Volume Gift Set (Buns, Jazz, Pilates, Yoga) (DVD)

Belly dance has come into vogue again, so of course there's been a rush of belly-dance fitness videos. Most market the same simple moves, performed to cheesy music--a kind of belly-aerobic crossbreed complete with fixed smiles and devoid of art.

Salimpour's videos go beyond those beginner moves to the isolations and exercises that will improve the viewer's dance. In other words, she doesn't offer the usual hip-twist, chest-lift routine meant for someone who's taken six weeks of belly dance class at the gym. Instead, these videos include drills meant both to exercise those muscles most pertinent to belly dance and to develop mastery of the shimmy and undulation. A beginner might benefit from following along, but this isn't the usual mechanical review of basics.

As a bonus the videos offer some great performances by Salimpour, a uniquely expressive and powerful dancer, and some inspiring advice and anecdotes about her weight gain and loss, motherhood, career pressures, and time management.