So you want to teach belly dance? Where to start?

[mahsati_janan]

So you want to teach belly dance? Where to start?

This is a document I wrote a few years ago and have received some requests for recently, so I am posting it here for reference. I am often approached by dancers who are thinking about becoming a teacher and I wanted to have a handy way to share what I consider to be some of the important

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[beafarhana]

Is it ok to link to this when someone posts on bhuz about wanting to start teaching? Or is it available elsewhere?

[mahsati_janan]

Absolutely - please feel free to share at will. I will eventually be putting it up on my website as an article, but not until I finish the redesign in a few months. :) I just hope people find it helpful! Sometimes it can be difficult to see where to start, so I wanted to give people a starting point for their thoughts on teaching.