Upper-body Moves

The following are the upper-body moves in the database. Click on one for more information, including a description, photos, and good matches.

• Arms at Sides
• Candle Hands
• back at top, forward at bottom
• forward at top, back at bottom
• Chest Circles
• horizontal, left to right or right to left
• vertical, clockwise or counter-clockwise
• vertical, down in front
• vertical, up in front
• Chest Drops
• Chest Figure Eights
• horizontal, back in center
• horizontal, forward in center
• vertical, down in center
• vertical, up in center
• Chest Lifts
• Chest Slides
• forward and back
• left and right
• Hand Pulses
• Hand Undulations
• See also: Nile Hands
• Hand to Forehead
• Hands Behind Head
• both hands
• one hand
• Head Isolations
• circles
• forward and back
• left and right
• Head Slides
• See also: Head Isolations - left and right
• Head Toss
• Headache (Egyptian, Lebanese, etc.)
• See also: Hand to Forehead
• Kali Arms
• Kali Hands
• See also: Candle Hands
• L Arms
• one arm up, one to the front
• one arm up, one to the side
• Nile Hands
• One hand start vertical, ripple from head to hip
• One hand, horizontal semi-circle clockwise around you
• Only one hand, horizontally, in front of face
• Two hands, horiz.in fr of face, moving away towards sides
• Shoulder Rolls
• One shoulder, travel to side, chest bent to that direction
• While doing cest circles
• With bending of torso forwards then backwards
• Shoulder Shimmies
• Snake Arms
• huge (including a head motion and upper-body slide)
• large (leading with a vertical chest figure eight)
• medium (beginning with a shoulder-shrug)
• small (beginning at elbow)
• Temple Pose
• backs of wrists almost touching
• backs of wrists touching
• fingertips touching
• hands flat almost touching
• hands flat together
• palms in, almost touching
• Upper-body Undulations
• See also: Chest Circles - vertical, up in front
• Wrist Circles
• Writing in the Air