Guess what three things Im doing right now? (since amazing women like me are brilliant multitaskers) Watching a JLo music video, doing laundry AND designing my very own Zumba instructor outfit…Im thinking a few feathers and a little glitter wont go astray… Got to dress the part you know. Oh Zumba you!! Why am I cursed with children who insist on stabbing a knife into the heart of all my dreams and aspirations?! I am undeterred. Especially if she shakes it the way I do. Because apparently having a mother who shakes her bootylicious self for money is uncool. They begged me not to be a Zumba instructor. I even busted out a few Zumba moves from my class. I came home on an endorphin-fuelled high and told the Fab Five about my plan. (Okay that sounded a little R rated…but you know what i mean.) Then at night I would transform into this raging hot, confident and bootishakinlicious Zumba woman. I would spend my days blogging/cooking/cleaning/writing/ choreographing and shopping for new Zumba outfits. I could see it all…my future as a Zumba babe. Not to mention, you’ll get disgustingly fit and healthy. I should take a course and be a Zumba instructor! YES! Can you think of a more perfect profession? You get to dance like crazy, have a blast, shout at people to step this way and that, have a room full of people completely fixated on you (because theyre terrified if they blink then they’ll miss a step and be forever Lost) – all that AND you make money. And while I was shakin and swayin and steppin and grindin – I had an epiphany.

You know those people who are smooth and sexy on the dancefloor? Who can execute every step with effortless grace and make it all look so incredibly easy? And who can join the instructor on the front stage and strut, shake and boogie with confidence and style?īut you know those people who’s idea of a great time is to dance non-stop all night (even if nobody else is on the dancefloor…) And when they dance they’re in their own world – a world where they’re JLo’s lead backup dancer OR starring in a Burlesque show with Aguilera OR outshining all the showgirls in Vegas? And so when they go to a Zumba class and the instructor breaks out some complicated steps – they dont care because they just do their own moves anyway? ( I mean heck, who needs an instructor when you’re kickin it with JLo after all?!) It was released on June 21, 2011, as the fourth and final single from the re-release of the groups third studio album Hands All Over (2010). After the frustrating first five minutes of trying to make my hip move vertically whilst dodging the flailing fist of the young woman next to me, I suddenly realized that I was grinning like an idiot and bouncing around with the best of them.Last nite I went to my first Zumba class. 'Moves like Jagger' is a song by American band Maroon 5 featuring American singer Christina Aguilera. But I still couldn’t shake (heh) the feeling that what I was about to do went against everything in the “Sarah Survival Guide,” and that I should run away screaming NOW, and the fact that this scene kept looping in my head probably meant something signficant.īut you know what? I stayed, and it. The room was packed, which I decided was a good thing–more people to hide behind. The kind friend I had harassed into coming with me (bless her heart) assured me we’d get through this together, but that I should probably stop referring to the instructor as a “tanned Goddess” (…oh but she was).

Yet there I was on Monday night, fear-sweating at the back of the Zumba classroom, dignity be damned.

It's normal to test your dance moves on small children, right?

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