We had so much fun at our Christmas party in December and made good use of the photo booth! Our 80s theme certainly was colourful!

January 2016 I'll be celebrating 6 years of teaching Zumba. I still love every minute :-)

We've already seen some new faces in our first class for the year last night and I'm looking forward to meeting lots more. I occasionally hear mumbles of Zumba dying out but contrary to that we still see new faces who havent tried Zumba before so I reckon we're here to stay.

Bring it on 2016!

Well it's that time of year again when pretty much all of us make resolutions with the best intentions of sticking to them.

And of course one of the most popular resolutions must be to get in shape, especially after the Christmas blow out and possibly being a kilo or 2 heavier than this time last month.

But the fact of the matter is that most of us don't stick to most of our resolutions. I'm certainly in that category and I'm getting to be of the mindset that there's no point setting them cos I'm going to fail anyway.

So let me help you out with a fitness goal that you might actually be doing past Australia Day. Try a Zumba class - no - try a month of Zumba classes. If you like it after a month, the chances are you'll stick to it. Why? Because it's FUN.

Put away those excuses - you're NOT too fat, thin, old, unfit, uncoordinated, busy or whatever else you can think of. If you like to have a boogie, do your body (and mind) a favour and come shake it with us!

See you soon!

Congratulations to the wonderful Deb () for organising the 3rd annual Party in Pink fundraiser at the Blue Gum Rec Centre this month.

There were around 120 people at the event who partied hard and the result was that over $5000 was raised!!

It's amazing to be able to have so much fun with the proceeds going to such a good cause. I look forward to be a part of it again next year!

I feel like I've been inundated recently with stories of people who say they 'should' come to Zumba and never quote get there. If only I had a dollar for every excuse I'd ever heard!

Statements like "I really should come to Zumba" really sadden me. Feeling like you *should* come to Zumba is the *worst* reason ever IMO!

So I've started to change the way I talk to people about my classes. "Come and have fun with me for an hour. Oh and there will be some dancing around to some funky music. Oh yeah and you'll probably feel much better for it too."

And THAT's what makes Zumba different for me.

I used to feel like I *should* go to the gym, or the fitness class, or whatever because it was good for me, or my health or just because I'd paid my monthly subscription. Nowadays I do Zumba classes because they make me feel great and I WANT to go!

So that's why Zumba classes can succeed where other 'fitness' classes fail: It's fun, so chances are you're going to stick to it.

Your biggest hurdle is going to be getting to that first class so that you can discover this for yourself.

So what are you waiting for? Come along because you WANT to find out what you've been missing!

I get asked a lot by people trying Zumba for the first time if there's a 'beginners' class - the answer is no! My usual response is that we learn Zumba the same way that most of us learned the Macarena - jump in with your mates and follow along!

But of course for some of us it's a little intimidating to try and just follow along. So the good news is that zumba have just released some basic moves videos on YouTube.

Here's the one for Salsa - enjoy!

And PS: Stay tuned as I'm currently developing my own YouTube channel where you'll be able to watch and practice some of the songs that we do in class :-)