It all started when, back in 2001, I watched a video cassette offered to me by a friend. I knew then that I was witnessing the start of “something big” – an unexpected journey into me. I watched with an enamored soul and felt an unprecedented surge of joy and wellness – the world of Zumba®️ had made its mark on my upcoming transformation.
Fast forward 18 years. I now work as a Zumba®️ Education Specialist. My job – and passion – entails teaching and empowering others towards that fate similar to mine: hooked to the joys Zumba®️ Fitness and the Zumba®️ community created.
In teaching this one-in-a-million, Latin-inspired dance fitness format based on Latin and world rhythms, I have learned to embrace my body as it moves to the music created by passionate songwriters with stories to tell. The music draws you into “a trance of letting yourself go. “
As one shares the feeling of natural exhilaration with others, an immediate bond is created, which, in time, is cemented and becomes another piece of the building block of the Zumba®️ community.
Dancing is one of the most primitive acts of freedom. When it is combined with soul-moving music, the result is total surrender to the Zumba®️ Fitness slogan “Let It Move You” and to willingly – wanting to go to class – exercising instead of experiencing the “having to go to class” feeling.
In addition to the numerous physical benefits of this amazing program, the emotional returns encompass the following:
• An age-defying surge of energy and relinquishing of one’s youthful “craziness.”
• Conscious awareness of being one body and soul.
• A feeling accepted and unconditionally loved by fellow participants.
• Higher self-esteem
• Increased self-confidence
• Obliteration of poor body image brought on by a heightened focus on self-acceptance and expression.
• Release of endorphins leading to natural euphoria.
• A feeling of belonging to a new happy, positive, and outgoing community.
This is what makes Zumba®️ an overall lifestyle change that leads to a transformation. To experience it, I invite you to join a local Zumba®️ community.
