Finally the Launch of Our Online Studio!
Wow… We did it. We launched the online bellydance classes. I’m kinda in shock about it all. It was a dream for so long and now we have a online dance studio. Not just a class here and there….. no…. we have the whole belly dance studio online for people to learn, grow, and experience. Now there are really no excuses.
What I’m most excited about is being able to bring my mother around the world without her leaving the studio. My mom will not get on a freeway, fly, or go over a bridge, so being able to bring her to each and every home is such a joy. How lucky we are to be able to still have Jamila Salimpour teach you every day.
And the other component that was a huge factor in investing in online bellydance classes was that I felt it was the responsible move for my certification program. My format is hard and very demanding. It is a format you must practice like any other dance form – multiple times a week. The levels are clear, but you must do the work and put in the time. So if I’m not there to “push” you wont be as motivated to push yourself. It is just human nature. I have had my certification program developing for over 2 and a half decades and the one thing that was always an issue was people living far and not being able to have me train them. Now there are no excuses.
I had tried many times to make DVD’s of my format and over and over again came up the issue of “we need drills”. If I made drills of my format it would take me 2 years of filming every day to maybe finish. So the only logical answer to this issue was to have my weekly bellydance classes filmed since I don’t teach the same class twice in any level.
I got an email today from someone that said that they were so happy to have the online dnce classes so now they can see if I am as scary as “they say”. I laughed and laughed to myself ’cause I then thought well now I have no excuses either.
