The School to Become a respectable BellyDancer in time record
Amora Shams videos
Amora Shams mentor her mother Alia Shams only videos online
Amora Shams Course students after ending successfully
the BBDC won on BellyDance Competitions
BBDC 2011 student Zara Abdelrahman won first prize as best BellyDancer of the United Kingdom on 2012, after this success she created her online magazine Zameen, and after she build her career organizing events, promoting other dancers, even making music CDs, working in Cairo since some years ago
BBDC March 2012 students: Carmella, Yasmin & Sera from Malta, won on different BellyDance Competitions after the Course
BBDC 2012 student Carmella after the course became a teacher in a yearly Egyptian BellyDance Festival in Cairo, Egypt and performing in Egyptian weddings
Amora Shams Course students
Study the BBDC "Become a BellyDance Course" to be an elegant high quality BellyDancer, Teacher, Choreographer and open your own BellyDance School achieving the highest Level international certification in BellyDance.
Course designed for all starting levels & only female students.
This is a 4 levels program originally created as a 3-months program by the archeologist BellyDancer Alia Shams on year 1993.
Developed and improved during 15 years since 1993 until 2008 by her daughter Amora Shams teaching internationally.
Taught since 2008 as a 20-day intensive program by while living in Cairo, Egypt.
UNESCO Dance Department member since 2012, & equity member of the Professional Association of Dancers of Spain since 1999, Prof. Amora Shams teaching BellyDance internationally since 1993.
The Formation Course
If you are planning to study the BBDC Online check this poster:
The Show Test:
Is the final exam of the course, where students are required to perform in a private party for an Egyptian/Arabian family with the teachers of the workshops during the professional level program, they are the ones who evaluate if the student achieved the professional level, or not. It is not Amora Shams who decides if the student achieved the performing professional level, is the experts in BellyDance & her public
Which Level is Right For You?
Whether you are starting fresh at Level 1 or looking to polish your skills for a competition at the Pro Level, Amora Shams private intensives will get you there safely, authentically, and fast.
Bookings:
About Us
Discover the Sacred Secrets of BellyDance
Philosophy, Therapeutic techniques, how to dance traditionally with the different props and Pharaohnic rythuals.
Amora & Alia Shams are specialist in the Ancient & Traditional Old School of BellyDance and developed a special revolutionary teaching techniques were they create BellyDancers in a miracle incredible way in just few days, which non other BellyDance school can achieve from their students in such a short time.
Prof. Amora Shams is a Master Teacher, who has been teaching BellyDance since 1993 in a very exceptional and intensive way, she developed the teaching methodology learned from her mom, first BellyDance formation course in Spain created in 1993.
With Amora, her face to face private students, no matter their starting level, they achieve the difficult movements in the first 15 teaching hours of the course, following her rules, with her methodology, you can become a BellyDance performer, teacher & choreographer in just 20 intensive days, plus revisions & exams, as it's so intensive is why it's recommend to study it in 28 days, rather than 20 days program.
From August 2026 she has open the option to teach half of this 20 days program, in just 4-day super intensive (18 teaching hours, 3 hours of revissions session, plus another 3 hours for exams) teaching 6 hours per day.
Our School teachers only teach female students
On the photo below taken in 1989, is Alia Shams, Amora Shams & Shukry Mohammed.
We teach the Authentic Pharaohnic Therapeutic Egyptian Ancestral Dance
Therapeutic Healing Techniques
🕊️ The Healing Art: Somatic Trauma Recovery Through the BBDC
Classical Egyptian dance is inherently therapeutic, but the BBDC program takes this a step further by providing a structured, anatomically safe framework that aligns perfectly with modern psychology. Because my methodology focuses heavily on correcting structural posture, releasing deep-seated muscular tension, and surrendering to unforced emotional expression, it serves as a powerful somatic (body-centered) bridge for psychological healing.
Some of Amora Shams outstanding students, who are also professional psychologists, recognized this profound connection and explicitly used the BBDC curriculum to help traumatized women reclaim their bodies and minds:
🧠 Menatella Shawsky (BBDC 2009)
As a psychologist practicing right in Egypt and also in Canada, Menatella saw a massive need for somatic healing among women carrying deep emotional trauma. She utilized the specific tools from Level 1 and Level 2 of the BBDC to create an innovative therapeutic approach:
* Releasing Muscle-Stored Trauma (Level 1 Mechanics): Trauma is deeply stored in the muscles and nervous system—particularly in the hips and pelvic region. Menatella used the precise, micro-anatomical isolations of Level 1 to help women safely unlock these areas, gently moving their nervous systems out of a chronic "fight-or-flight" state.
* Emotional Catharsis (Level 2 Tarab Improvisation): Trauma often leaves women feeling disconnected from their emotions or unable to articulate their pain. By implementing the BBDC method of Tarab improvisation, Menatella guided women to stop over-intellectualizing their feelings and instead let their raw, unforced emotions flow out through the music. This gave them a profound, non-verbal outlet to process grief, pain, and joy.
🌸 Gia Sandal (BBDC 2016)
Gia fully integrated the holistic and historical elements of the BBDC directly into her professional psychological practice, focusing on ancestral and structural healing for women recovering from trauma:
* Reclaiming Empowerment (Level 1 Therapeutic Pharaonic Dance): Gia heavily utilized the Therapeutic Pharaonic Dance module from Level 1. By teaching the grounded, powerful, and sacred postures of ancient Egyptian lineage, she helped traumatized women rebuild their shattered self-esteem, correct collapsed postures caused by anxiety, and step back into a sense of personal sovereignty and strength.
* Somatic Boundary Rebuilding (Level 2 & 3 Prop Symbology): Gia used the cultural symbology and spatial awareness taught in the intermediate & advance levels of the BBDC (such as working with veils and capes) as a therapeutic metaphor. It allowed her clients to physically practice taking up space, establishing personal boundaries, and safely experiencing a sense of protection and freedom within their own bodies.
🩹 Mirjam Vas (BBDD 2018)
Before her training with Amora, Mirjam was already an established Turkish-style BellyDancer in London. However, her life changed overnight after a devastating accident in London, where she came incredibly close to losing both of her legs. Knowing that her existing dance technique was something wrong, this is when she booked Amora Shams course.
Anatomical Rehabilitation (Level 1 Mechanics): Mirjam utilized the strict, precise micro-mechanics of Level 1 to completely retrain her body from scratch. Amora’s emphasis on safe, anatomically correct structural alignment allowed Mirjam to safely isolate her movements without putting dangerous strain on her recovering limbs.
Paying It Forward: Having literally put herself back together using the BBDC, Mirjam recognized the profound therapeutic power of this work. She went on to use the Level 1 of the course, to help other women who had suffered severe physical trauma and accidents, guiding them through her YouTube channel to rebuild their physical coordinates, reclaim their mobility, and find joy in movement once again.
🤍 Are you a therapist, healer, or an individual seeking deep somatic reconnection?
The BBDC proves that this dance is not just for the stage—it is medicine for the soul. Whether you want to learn how to apply these structural healing movement principles to your own clinical practice, or you are on your own personal journey of trauma recovery, Amora Shams private sessions offer a completely customized, confidential space tailored entirely to your emotional and physical needs.
Photos with her Course Students
Amora Shams is a bit shy with photos, because she has a very simple personality, never showing off, so is difficult to find her on social media making photos with her students, and not all students want to appear online.
Here is a spontaneous event happened in the pyramids of Giza which had to be shared:
Certification Levels recogniszed in more than 150 countries world-wide.
Get the highest Official UNESCO BellyDance level certificate in 20-days intensive face to face program, or by online divided in more days program.
When completing the Course, successfully passing all exams, students get a Level Certificate, and if they pass successfully the Show Test, then also the registration in the UNESCO Dance Department as Teachers in BellyDance & school owners.
Some of the international certification levels that our students achieved, and you could also get it if you study hard:
Why the BBDC Works for Everyone, from Beginners to Professionals:
Because this is a private, one-on-one intensive, the pace of the course is custom-tailored entirely to your body, your starting point, and your goals.
* For Absolute Beginners: You will skip the bad habits that take years to unlearn. We start from absolute scratch, building your muscle memory correctly from day one.
* For Experienced Dancers: We will strip away incorrect postures that cause physical strain and fine-tune your technique. We dive deep into the exact micro-mechanics of classical Egyptian isolations, making your dance regenerative, graceful, and sustainable for a lifetime.
Amora Shams is a well-known master teacher in the international belly dance (Raks Sharki) community, particularly celebrated for her structured Become a BellyDancer Course (BBDC). Originally developed in Cairo in 2008 as a 60-hour intensive, her curriculum represents a second-generation lineage of Egyptian classical style inherited from her mother, Alia Shams (a pioneer who established Andalusia's first belly dance school in 1995).
An evaluation of Amora Shams' teaching methodology reveals a rigorous approach focused heavily on technical precision, historical correction, and intensive student accountability.
1. The Core Pillars of Her Methodology
| Pillars | Focus Area | Pedagogical Approach |
Technique-Energetic: Physical Alignment | Deep anatomical breakdown of traditional steps (e.g., the iconic Suheir Zaki step) to prevent the long-term physical strain caused by incorrect posture.
Historical & Aesthetic Realism: Classical Traditions | Actively "cleansing" modern commercialized styles. She focuses on the Golden Age of Egyptian dance, emphasizing grace over overt hyper-sexualization. |
Intensive Structure: Accountability & Pace | Utilizes an intensive format paired with mandated daily homework, requiring both written logs and physical practice to achieve rapid muscle-memory retention. |
2. Strengths of the Technique
Anatomical Correctness: Unlike many contemporary commercial classes that focus purely on choreography sequencing, Shams prioritizes the micro-mechanics of isolated hip movements. Her approach emphasizes that correctly executed movements physically regenerate the body rather than causing joint strain.
Rapid Transformation: The curriculum is built for high-intensity immersion. Her methodology is explicitly structured to take dedicated students to an internationally certifiable standard in condensed multi-week timelines.
Lineage-Based Pedagogy: Instruction carries direct authority from the classical Cairo style, offering students explicit rules regarding spatial awareness, classical posture, and authentic emotional expression.
3. Potential Constraints for Learners
Rigid Accountability Requirements: Because the methodology depends heavily on written and practical daily homework, it can be intimidating or overly taxing for casual hobbyists who prefer a relaxed "follow-the-leader" learning environment.
Strict Traditional Bounds: Her pedagogy is deeply traditionalist. Dancers looking for fusion, modern experimental styles, or highly athletic acrobatics may find the classical Egyptian boundaries of the Shams methodology restrictive.
Summary:
Amora Shams utilizes a traditional, rigorous master-apprentice style adapted into an intensive educational curriculum. It is highly effective for dancers seeking technical mastery, physical longevity, and historical authenticity, but requires high dedication and a structured investment of time.
To see her structural breakdown of movement and historical style, you can watch Amora Shams teaching classical Egyptian steps which showcases her explicit focus on posture, isolation, and traditional styling.
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Our methodology bridges the gap between physical precision and deep cultural intuition.
When you book a private course with us, we focus on:
* The Teaching Methodology:
1- Step by step explained very clearly in different ways adapting to each student ability to learn
2- Daily written & practical homework
3- Complete information, not hiding anything
4- Clarifications & correcting errors
5- Sharing our version of the original of BellyDance affecting it's History based in our investigations
6- Weekly revisions and exams
7- Intensive lessons full of useful experiences
8- Taking notes during all lessons, & checking them if taken correctly
9- Private one to one personalized training
10- Providing International UNESCO BellyDance Certification Levels to successful Course students
11- Teaching the traditional BellyDance Golden Era styles of the greatest dancers in Egyptian history since 1993
12- Teaching the BBDC in just 20 to 28 days to female private students, or already formed groups.
* The Power of Pure Feeling:
You do not need to be an academic or a lifelong athlete to dance traditional Egyptian style. For over 15 years, Amora Shams performed successfully in Arabian restaurants & venues in Europe & Morocco knowing only a few core words (Habibi, Shukran, Allah, Omri, Sucar).
Amora will teach you how to stop over-intellectualizing, listen to the instruments, and let the music move through your soul exactly as tradition dictates.
* Street-Smart Egyptian Arabic: While fluent Arabic isn't required to dance, connection is everything. She will teach you the colloquial, everyday Ammiya (street Arabic) of Cairo that she learned day-by-day directly from the Egyptian people. This will give you the confidence to communicate, laugh, and connect with locals and musicians just like she did.
Amora Shams’ teaching methodology is a highly structured, conservatory-style approach that strips away the superficial fitness elements often associated with modern belly dance to focus on the authentic, lineage-correct art of classical Egyptian Raks Sharki.
Passed down generationally through her mother, Alia Shams, and refined during her 15-year career in Cairo, Amora’s method bridges rigorous anatomical science with raw, intuitive cultural feeling.
Her methodology is built upon four core pillars:
1. Micro-Anatomical Isolation & Alignment
Amora treats the body as a precise instrument. Rather than teaching students to simply copy a shape, her method deconstructs movements down to their exact muscular coordinates.
* Safety & Longevity: She emphasizes structural alignment and skeletal posture to protect the lower back and joints. This allows the dance to be regenerative rather than destructive—a paradigm shift that famously helped dancers like Mirjam Vas rebuild their bodies after severe physical trauma.
* The "Clean" Baseline: She forces students to strip away extraneous movement and "bad habits" to master clean, isolated, and effortlessly heavy Egyptian coordinates.
2. De-Intellectualizing the Music (The Power of Pure Feeling)
While the curriculum is highly organized, Amora strictly teaches that authentic Egyptian dance cannot be over-intellectualized.
* Surrender to Tarab: She trains students to move away from rigid, overly counted choreography and instead tap into Tarab (the emotional ecstasy or rapture induced by Arabic music).
* Organic Improvisation: Students are taught to listen deeply to individual instruments, letting the music move through the soul and dictate the movement naturally, mimicking how traditional Egyptian dancers naturally interact with live musicians.
3. Cultural and Linguistic Immersion
Amora’s methodology dictates that you cannot truly dance the style without understanding the people who created it.
* Street-Smart Arabic (*Ammiya*):
A signature aspect of her Cairo-born BBDC program is teaching the colloquial street Arabic of Cairo. Students learn the emotional weight of key words used in classic songs, allowing them to express the genuine spirit, humor, and depth of the culture rather than putting on a performative caricature.
* Symbology & Folklore: Props (like the Saidi cane, veils, or the ritualistic candelabrum) are never treated as mere stage decorations. She teaches the strict historical traditions, ancestral meanings, and traditional rules governing each element.
4. Custom-Paced, Safe Container
Because she delivers her curriculum through exclusive, private one-on-one intensives, her methodology adapts dynamically to the student. She creates a deeply confidential, safe, and custom-paced container that honors both the physical and emotional state of the dancer. This unique combination of strict physical safety and deep emotional vulnerability is precisely why her method serves as a profound somatic tool for clinical psychologists treating trauma.
Testimonials & Feedbacks by Class Students of Amora Shams
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Dineska - video clip and photo session
This is the Amora Shams private course student Dineska, after ending the Show Test getting honoured by the Association of Marrocains without Borders with a Certificate, as achieved Professional Level in BellyDance, created this video clip for her to start a successful BellyDance career.
Business cards
These are 3 business cards that Amora Shams designed for free for her BBDC students of the 2011 edition, Samia, Zara and Azin. These cards were printed in Cairo and they took them back to their countries and all of them started their BellyDance career since then.
When Amora feels inspired by a good student who respects her, and got a successful result from the audience of their Show Test, dancing how should be, how she taught the student to dance, and she sees a strong potential in the future dancer, she feels she must help her with a push to start her dance career as soon as possible, so this is why Amora can take some of her time and creativity to produce free of charge some photos, videos and designs for her successful course students.
Amora Shams a part of a BellyDancer, dance teacher, choreographer, and a member of the International Dance Council, she is also an Qualified Interior Architect, a Graphic Designer, a Qualified Tourist Animator, and an artist in different fields, painter, drawer, sculpture, crafts, organic agriculture, etc.. So Amora designs and produces video clips, flyers and business cards for her course students. In Cairo has her printing office. Here are some examples:
What do you need to know about the course
If studying the course in Egypt
If coming to study in Egypt, then Amora will take you to the costume designers, depending on your budget will take you to one or the other one, and take you to the BellyDancing shops, so you will choose your favourite colours and models with the lowest fee you can get, because Amora Shams is known in the Khan el Khalili area for not getting the commissions that all other BellyDance teachers charge, so the prices she gets for her students are the cheapest in Egypt.
When the course is taught somewhere else, in another country, then the show test is done publicly in an Arabian restaurant or event, like the case of Jaycee Gossett which she had to perform in a Lebanese restaurant in Marbella, Spain, or the case of Dineska that she had to perform in a public event in the House of Morocco in Fuengirola, Spain. Both students got a public recognition by the owners and the other BellyDancers as great performance and very professional, they couldn’t believe that these two students just started 20 days ago the course to become a bellydancer starting from any level in bellydance.
Below the show test of Dineshga or more know as Dineska the Diamond of Sri Lanka.
"No matter your starting level, what matters is your willingness to learn."
Amora Shams
When the students of this course make the booking, are registered at the UNESCO Internationally Certified System as students of our School, and when ending the course, are given the highest level achieved.
This international certification is sent by mail to the student provided address on the SRF, in no more than 6 months.
During the course, we provide with our Private School Level Certificates, when the student passes successfully the written and practical exams of each level.
This course it is not a normal BellyDance course where you will learn some movements and combinations, this course is to BECOME A TRADITIONALIST PROFESSIONAL BELLYDANCER, TEACHER & CHOREOGRAPHER.
Students start learning from absolutely zero, and revolutionary evolves in a few days, when making daily duties (written & practical homework), in a kind of miracle procedure into a professional performance level.
How many hours?
Taught in just 20-day program when learned face to face (3h/day), and in 3 months when is taught Online (6h/week).
Each Level has 15h teaching, 3h revission, 17h for homework per level, plus 3h per level for exams.
A total of 150h full 4-levels course.
What else do you need to know about the course?
It is like University, paying the fee and assisting all the classes is not enough, is also needed from the student to do daily homework, pick up notes during the lectures, and the teacher needs to daily correct all what the student does, to follow up a proper and gradually development of the student. Also to pass the exams of the course, students need to have it clear in their mind, otherwise they will not pass the exams, so the daily homework helps you as the student to develop quicker than if you just had to come twice per week for many years, like standard Dance schools.
UNESCO International BellyDance Certification
For those who want to get the Certification of the UNESCO, is a must to study the Course from scratch, but for those who just want to study the course to know more about BellyDance or for other reason and don't want the international Level Certificate, then can book separately any workshop or level of the course.
During the course, students get a Private School Level Certificate for each level they achieve.
The international certificate level or qualification as a BellyDance teacher & school owner, is sent to the student once the training has arrived to the end, when is known which is the highest level achieved, this certificate will be issued by UNESCO Dance Department and sent to our School. Usually takes about 3 months to 9 months to get it delivered into the student home.
Additional equipment:
Students need to have a laptop, an external hard disc of min. 500 GB and a smart phone.
For the homework’s you will need pen or pencil colours, white printer paper, and a note book.
The student needs to get their own props, veil, cymbals, wings or cape, cane, candelabra and sword.
How was it created?
Prof. Amora Shams created the BBDC intensive 20 days course in Cairo, Egypt in 2008 (known at that time as 60hBDC), after teaching BellyDance for 15 years (since 1993), developing the teaching techniques that she learned from her mother & mentor Alia Shams, who was one of the few pioneer BellyDancers in Spain, known to be a Archeologist spiritual BellyDancer creating BellyDancers in 3 months course.
Where can I learn it or be booked?
The course can take place in Egypt, Spain and in South America.
Amora Shams is traveling with her mother Alia Shams around the World developing a NGO known as ARVIDA, which is translated to English as "Artists Linked to Life", so you can either join to travel with them as a last minute booking or book long time in advance.
Registration & Booking your private course:
All students of this School get registered with filling up the SRF Student Registration Form which is acting at the same time as a contract between you and the teacher.
When you download it either from the website or from the email, you will have to print it, filled up by hand (don't forget to sign with the same as your identity card), scan it with best quality as possible, and send it back by email.
- It's recommended to register before sending any payments, but is a must to register before starting the training.
Fees vary accordingly to how early you book, and in exceptional occasions like this summer 2026 you can book the course to take place in Egypt as a last minute booking.
Bookings by email:
BecomeBellyDancer@gmail.com
or by WhatsApp directly from this website
Classes to learn BellyDance for fun, fitness and improve your techniques
You are not sure yet of booking for studying the course?
Then try with regular single private lessons, you choose what you want to learn, or to get done unique choreographies for you with the song you want!
Our School NGO
If you want to donate to promote social justice, accommodation, food & education for the children of the streets of Egypt, at the same time promote de development of recovering the reputation that BellyDances had in the past, or creating a Professional Dance Company dancing to Traditional BellyDance, not like nowadays styles.
And if you want to provide places in the world for the electro-magneto-sensible people, or for those who want to disconnect from everything getting lost in the jungle without wireless technology, or for those who want to detox from electrosmog pollution, then contact Amora asking about this.
We need volunteers also!
Volunteers are people who have a shared room with other volunteers & full board food included, in exchange of 4 to 5 hours per day helping in constructing houses, making crafts, making agriculture, taking care of animals (feeding & cleaning), etc.
Very important:
To the jungle project is forbidden to take any wireless technology or smart equipments, so we can protect nature in it's full virginity. The equipment will be kept safely in a city location far from the project in the jungle. Once a week, you can go to check your emails or messages.
In this photo is Amora Shams in the Amazonic jungle of Perú developing the Arvida.org NGO environmental project.
The final location of the jungle project has not been bought yet, so could be even in another continent. The 3 years Amora Shams was in the Amazonic jungle was to choose the perfect spot, measuring the energies of each location she visited.
As soon she comes back, Arvida will buy the location and start the project in the jungle.
For ARVIDA projects contact by email:
Contact Amora Shams
When contacting please write which type of training you are interested, where you want to study it, and dates you want to book for.
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