So what is the #1 reason you don’t exercise? Is it too hard? Is it boring? It never seems to show results? You can’t stick with a program? No motivation? Did you know that there is a way to make exercise exhilarating? How, you might ask.

It’s called Zumba®.

What in the world is Zumba? Zumba is your ticket to success!

Zumba is the new fitness hype all around the world and for good reasons. Zumba fuses hypnotic Latin & international rhythms with easy-to-follow moves, turning a fitness class into a fun dance party at the gym! Zumba is based on the concept that fitness and exercise should be FUN and EASY. This basis breeds success by eliminating the most common failure for most people……..motivation to keep going!

Each Zumba instructor has the liberty of fusing dynamic latin & international music with their original moves and combinations creating a unique fitness experience each time wherever you go.

The high energy, upbeat, and motivating music allows Zumba participants to dance their worries away while getting fit. Zumba creates an extraordinary experience by turning fitness into an event where people go to enjoy an invigorating hour of moving their bodies only to realize at the end, they just did a full hour intense cardio workout!



Beto Perez, the founder of Zumba, didn’t realize he was about to create the most fun, successful, energetic, and internationally popular fitness program when he forgot the music for his aerobics class several years back. That’s right, Zumba was born out of a mishap. Beto was teaching aerobics in Colombia, his native country, in the 90’s and one day he forgot the music for his aerobics class so he improvised with what he had, tapes from his backpack of traditional Latin salsa and merengue. Rising to the challenge and from this last-minute improvisation Beto created a revolutionary new concept in fitness and the Zumba Fitness-Party™ began! The class soon became the most popular class at his fitness facility.

First called “Rumbacize”, Beto brought his fitness party to the United States in 1999 where he was approached by entrepreneurs to create a global company based on the Rumbacize fitness philosophy. It became official with the new name “Zumba”.

Zumba became tremendously popular and remains popular all over Florida, and is now becoming the hottest, fastest growing form of fitness, not only throughout the US, but in other countries around the world!

For those of you that truly want to get fit but have never found anything you like or can stick with, you owe it to yourself to check out the Zumba craze!

There are thousands of certified Zumba instructors, like myself, and most likely one or several are in your home town. I do not receive any kickbacks from this, I just love Zumba, so click on my Zumba link, then click the Find Instructor button and locate your local Zumba instructors, you’ll have the fitness time-of-your-life!!!!!

Life seems to be a complicated web of events for which the human race is constantly trying to figure out.  We are evolving everyday into a more conscious living enlightened state of mind as the veil gradually diminishes and we begin to realize our purpose here on Earth.  What an incredible opportunity for those of us that are living our lives during this transition!

I realize for many, including myself, that although this is an ominous experience, it doesn’t always feel comfortable.  This is due to the resistance our ego creates while True Self is piercing its light through in order to be heard and experienced.

Don’t get me wrong, the ego has a purpose too (which will be the subject of a future post), so be gentle to your ego while this transition is happening or you risk the possibility of creating more resistance, which in turn creates additional struggle and pain.  With that being said, how do Talents and Gifts fit into this equation?  Your Higher Self is striving for a corporeal experience within your life by materializing your talents and gifts here on Earth.  This happens when ego & Higher Self are relatively balanced and working in harmony.

Many of us are aware of our True talents and gifts, while others have not come to know what these are.  Those of you whom are aware but have not yet materialized them into your life’s experience might ask why?  Some of you may answer back with internal chatter that may sound like this: “I’m afraid I’m not good enough”, or “I won’t be successful if I do”, or “I don’t have the time”, or “I’m too old or young to do that”, or “It’s too difficult to overcome the obstacles”, or “Where do I begin, it seems impossible”, or “There’s already too many people with this gift in the world and there’s no room for me”, or “It’s a dead art form to the world and no one appreciates it anymore.”  These are only a few examples of internal chatter which is the resistance to manifestation.  There are several reasons for this internal chatter that exists, for example: the collective social conditions you were born into, your up-bringing, etc.  No matter what the reasons; what you must realize is, we are all waiting and deserve to experience your talents and gifts (as do you too), they are not yours to keep!

Now this may seem harsh to some and rejuvenating to others or both.  Just think for a minute; if all the musicians and songwriters in the world kept their talents and gifts to themselves, we would never have had the illuminating experience of music in our lives!  Can you even imagine life without music?  These people certainly have had to eliminate the counter intentions, or resistance in their lives in order to share their gifts with us, and I can guarantee that it was not easy for any of them.  I am truly grateful for their gifts and inspired by their courage.

You may think that you are being humble or modest or selfless with the non-action of materializing your talents and gifts, I say, your ego has you fooled!  It is a rather fear-centered point of view by holding onto your talents and gifts, and no one has ever said it more eloquently and gently than Marianne Williamson in her book A Return to Love:

“our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.  There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine, as children do.  We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.  It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

If you are aware of your talents and gifts, I invite you to listen to your Higher Self and begin developing or seeking outlets for your talents so that we may experience your Greatness by receiving your gifts!  If you aren’t aware of your talents and gifts, I invite you to reach out by searching for guidance in how to recognize them and then share them with us.  The internet is a great tool for gaining support instantaneously, use it, and share.  Be watchful of those who tell you that you won’t make it; they are listening to their own resistance.  Do not judge them, compassionately recognize that they are in the state of resistance and that they might need a little boost too.

You will find that the greatest joy you receive is by doing exactly what you want and then sharing that with us.  It truly is a win-win experience!

“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.  Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.”  by Richard Bach the author of Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

You are amazing………find your talents and gifts, dedicate your life to them, and share them with the world!!!

For my first blog, I will share a beautiful quote with you by T.S. Elliot;

“What we call the beginning is often the end, And to make an end is to make a beginning.  The end is where we start from…… And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.”

Underneath this statement I believe T.S. Elliot was describing our journey to the physical dimension of form on Earth and the return or awakening to Essence the Source.  Whether it is through death or simply because the veil has diminished enough to experience both Essence and form at the same time.

My journey in the last few years has not been an easy one, while at the same time, I have experienced more joy more Light more Love and more gratitude than ever before; it has awakened me to something I have ignored most my life, my True Self.

I invite you into this journey and hope that it will provide a new surge of energy and passion for you to venture into your own journey of awakening!