Shape Up Your Shimmy

Anatomy, Technique and Drills

Drills with DeAnna Freeman

Shape Up Your Shimmy

Anatomy, Technique and Drills

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Shape up your shimmies with this fun drill session!
This class is designed to help you find your biggest, bounciest 3/4 shimmy by tapping into the key elements like:
- Better balance on the balls of your feet
- Learning to relax your glutes
- Contracting in all the right places
- Finding that magical shimmy mindset!
Class includes a warm up, anatomy, technique a variety of drills and a cool down.
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Course Curriculum


  Shimmy Drills
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Your Instructor


DeAnna Freeman
DeAnna Freeman

DeAnna has studied and taught FCBD®Style belly dance (formerly American Tribal Style, or ATS®) and yoga for over 20 years. She owns and runs FatChanceBellyDance®University, the official learning source for FCBD®Style, where she oversees certification and continuing education and mentors teachers around the world.

Her dance journey began in 2004, when she met Megha, Director of Devyani Dance Company, and fell in love with FCBD®Style. She was among the very first to receive Sister Studio and Teacher Certification outside of FatChanceBellyDance®, is one of only a handful of FCBD®Style Continuing Education Instructors in the world, and was part of the inaugural FCBD®Style Advanced Teacher Training group. She has taught and performed on stages and in studios worldwide.

DeAnna is also a 500 hour Registered Yoga Teacher, a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider, and a Therapeutic Yoga Specialist through Yoga Medicine®. Her classes draw on both the scientific, structural and functional elements of movement and its holistic and artistic side, in a relaxed, professional environment where students can elevate their skills safely and have fun doing it.