Product Details

• Actors: Suhaila Salimpour
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Cerebellum Corporation
• DVD Release Date: January 18, 2005
• Run Time: 160 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0006H31OY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,578 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This top-selling boxed set includes four outstanding bellydance workout DVDs starring the lovely Suhaila (titles are also available separately):

Bellydance for Beginners FitnessFusion BUNS

Bellydance your way to tighter buns! Work your buns and lower body to the max with this fun and exotic workout. Join Suhaila as she shows you how to isolate your glutes using original bellydance-style moves. Effective routines will challenge your lower body in a totally new way. This intense butt workout is designed for all ages and fitness levels.

• Get bellydance buns with unique moves
• Isolate glutes for intense workout
• Strengthen & shape
• Challenging routines
• Burns fat & calories
• Shimmy your way to tight buns
• 40 minutes of fun!
• Bellydance your way to sexier buns

Bellydance for Beginners FitnessFusion JAZZ

YouÆll never stop moving in this exotic fusion of jazz and bellydance moves. This easy-to-learn program teaches you fresh new routines that you can take to the dance floor. YouÆll lose weight, feel fit and challenge all muscle groups. Suhaila breaks down the steps, and combines them into a full-cardio workout that will leave you sweating for more

• High-energy workout
• Easy-to-follow routines
• 40 minutes of fun!
• Shed unwanted pounds & fat
• Exotic moves you can take to the clubs
• Cut calories with hot Jazz routines!
• Complete cardio workout
• Exotic fusion of bellydance and jazz moves

Bellydance for Beginners FitnessFusion PILATES

Power your way to a sexy, shapely body! Combine two of the hottest fitness routines for a challenging workout. Suhaila fuses Pilates stretching routines and bellydance moves to strengthen and tone the body. YouÆll learn to isolate different muscle groups to work the abs, buns and arms. Feel more confident and increase stamina with this dynamic program.

• Stretching routines increase flexibility
• Challenging program for all abilities
• Get motivated to achieve maximum results
• Powerful workout energizes mind and body
• Firm buns, tone stomach
• Complete cardio workout
• Exotic fusion of bellydance and jazz moves
  

Bellydance for Beginners FitnessFusion YOGA

Get ready to work your mind, body and spirit! This fusion of classic yoga and bellydance moves will give you a long, lean body and an all-over glow. Suhaila combines two ancient art forms into a highly effective, challenging workout. SheÆll show you how to shape and tone your entire body, increase energy levels, and feel strong.

• Easy-to-follow moves
• Increase energy & flexibility
• Safe & effective routines for all ages
• Challenge your heart, soul and sensuality
• Work abs, arms, buns and thighs
• Easy-to-follow workout routine
• Burns calories
• A total body workout fusing classic yoga and sexy bellydance moves

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

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.