Belly dance workshop with Isidora Bushkovski

In March 2009, during Majma (a belly dance weekend organised every year in Glastonbury, UK), I had the opportunity to attend some workshops with Isidora Bushkovski. She is a belly dancer from Colorado, USA, who is famous for her neat and strong movements and technique. I also saw Isidora perform and she was absolutely fantastic.

One of the workshops I attended was about Isidora’s belly dance bootcamp, a series of drills which aim at strengthening the muscle groups involved in belly dance movements and at rebalancing the body. Isidora developed these drills after a serious car accident she had, following which she was told she would have not been able to dance again. By practising these drills, however, Isidora managed to condition her muscles to the point that she was able to start dancing again.

There are different levels of difficulty for the belly dance bootcamp drills, of which I had a taster during Isidora’s workshop at Majma. These drills require a lot of stamina and I can understand why they are called belly dance bootcamp!

Isidora is a lovely teacher and full of energy. I was amazed by how lively and energetic she was even in spite of the jet lag, having just arrived to the UK from America! She has filmed her belly dance boot camp drills in three different DVDs, which will come out soon and I am looking forward to buying them.