Halloween Thriller!
This year has been a great one for new things, and bucket list items that I have completed. This Halloween I was able to cross off two items from my bucket list. One, to learn to dance Michael Jackson’s Thriller and two, to take part in a flash mob. So when the opportunity came up to join a Thriller flash mob, guess who was front and centre? Read more
My Life as a Fitness Instructor
Wow! Who would’ve thought I would one day be an honest-to-goodness fitness instructor. Certified, Licensed and Professionally employed! Certainly not growing up,! I was the “chubby” sister always getting a little bit of, well, no other way to put it but, grief from my parents (especially my mom) about my junk food addiction and lack of exercise. I always tried to go to the gym but I either went in spurts or just gave up all together. I know I’ve mentioned before how I got inspired by my good friend, Julie, and the creators of the formats that I now teach, Chalene Johnson for Turbo Kick® and Beto Perez for Zumba®, as well as a certain Taiwanese celebrity that I admire but now that my life revolves around fitness I am looking at more ways to improve myself and my classes. I’ve finally found my passion! And it turns out that it’s not a bad one at all! Read more
My Visit to Vancover Salsa Festival
Well, I must say that this latina is very much impressed with the Vancouver International Salsa Festival (a.k.a VIS), with 4 nights of dance parties and 2 full days of workshops I was very tired but happy. Nothing better than a chance to get dolled up and go dancing in a non-threatening environment, knowing that, no matter who you are or what your dance ability is, you can dance with everyone. Yes, it’s the first Salsa Congress that I’ve attended and I have nothing to compare it with but I still think that it was a great time and a great festival. If you have the chance to go to the festival I think it’s a great opportunity to learn new dances and/or improve on your own dancing. It really is a great time!
Zumbadora
I can finally proudly say that I am now a licensed Zumba instructor! I was looking forward to this training for so long and it was over in just one day. Almost sad actually. 
But I’m so glad that I was finally able to take it, I’ve researched so much about this instructor training that I knew from the get go that this was something that I could do, but needed the training to be able to call myself a Zumba instructor. Well… now I am! The day was full of energy and fun and, even though by the end of it we were all exhausted, we were all very happy to be there!
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Dancing for fun and fitness
Summer is in full swing, gotta take advantage of every second of it since we get very short summers here in Winnipeg. That is one of the reasons why I haven’t spent much time cooking lately. I’ve also been spending a lot of time dancing. I was dancing 4 hours in a row twice a week! I was practicing for a dance performance and really wanted it to be perfect. The costumes that the girls chose for this performance where so much more revealing than anything I’ve ever worn in public. Talk about a motivator for exercising and eating well! 
I learned about the performance in early April when I joined the ladies dance group and 2 weeks later I found out about the costumes so, I did what any one would do and kicked my healthy routine up a notch. The first performance was two weeks ago and, even though I haven’t been as diligent in my routine lately I still was able to break through my plateau! I wanted to share some of my tools with everyone, just in case you were looking to kick things up a notch…
