Dance like nobody is watching, love like your heart has never been broken...

(in the picture: H&M Garden collection high waist shorts; H&M pink shirt)

There's one thing that I always say, " Dance like nobody is watching, dance to bring out your sensuality and feminity...dance your sexy @ss off... :D"

Lots of my girls in Zumba class come to me and tell me how they enjoy and appreciate the class ( Girls, believe me, I am the lucky one to have you all in my class... <3 ). 

As many of you may have known that I had danced for almost 10 years (from 7-16) and then I "broke up"(yes, that is the word)  with the dance since I couldn't continue as a semi-professional dancer because of my height... when the jury told me that, I heard litteraly the sound of my heart breaking...and then I threw away all my dance costumes, burned all the awards I got in the past...

During the past years, I have hardly talked about dance and even less my past... I needed the time to move on from this "10-year relationship". Somehow there's always a little fire in the very deep inside of me keeps burning and I felt a part of me missing... until one day, I woke up and realized I NEED TO DANCE!

I opened my Zumba class  and almost immediately it had great success... I see so many girls being shy and hardly move when they come for the first time and then transform to a real "dancing queen" after several classes... :-)

The message that I want to spread through my classes is, " Feel comfortable in your heels, bring out the goddess in you! Enjoy yourself, enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the present..."

(source: google, dirty dancing)

Another story, I had a girl talk with my girls in Chinese class about love relationships. We have talked about the book "why men love bitches" (I will write a post about this funny book that I recommand all the girls to read for a good laugh...:D )

Then  we concluded that we should not open our heart and protect ourselves in a relationship... haha, how lame!

I walked home while thinking about this conversation. Suddenly I felt sad that in this urban jungle, people have to pretend & protect... can't we one day be loved just for what we are?

Certainly you can play safe and protect your heart, but if the door is closed, you won't get hurt but nobody can enter in either... keep your mind and heart open is the only way to recieve...

Love is such a gift, do you still remember the feeling of fall in love for the first time...? Heard this song "Baby" by Justin Bieber on the radio and found it on the You Tube and want to share it with you all (ok, I know it is such a cheesy song, but I just love it... :p) the text is so sweet, haven't we all been there some time in our life...? Ok, I may make a choregraphy of this song for next Zumba class... ;-)


"Love like your heart has never been broken... there's no better feeling than giving, loving and enjoying... even you may get hurt, at least you will have lived & loved!"  I told myself last night before falling asleep...

Haha, sorry for the long written post... I am feeling a little bit "Carrie Bradshaw" these days... :p
Enjoy and keep your face to the Sun, smile... :-) as I always say love is the key word...

Zumba like you've never danced before...

Some dancing inspirations for me....

Lots of people asked me how I got into Zumba and became an instructor... Well, my love for dance began at a very young age, I started to dance (comptempory dance, folk dance) at the age of 7 and have participated some solo/group dance competitions... and then for some reason ( I will explain it in another post), I stoped dancing for years... During this period, I felt like a part of me missing. Then one day I saw a Zumba ad on the TV, all of a sudden, I was like "hey, that is what I want to do... combine the dance with fitness!"

Everything happened so fast, I registered for the instructor workshop and obtained my certificate... now I have my own Zumba class every Saturday morning at 11 a.m. with a group of enthousiast girls (hello to all my Zumba girls who are reading this post!!! :-) ).

The greatest thing with Zumba is that each instructor has his own style... Zumba started with some latin basic dance steps (salsa, sambao, merengue, cumbia ...) and it has been extended to all the dances from all around the World: belly dance, reggaeton etc...

The most requently asked question is what shoes should I wear to Zumba. So I have made a little selection of dance shoes I love:

Nike shox influential

These are the ones I actually wear to my Zumba class... very comfortable and stylish. They are my all time favorite shox... and I own like 10 pairs.

You can buy them here for much cheaper, I paid more than 130€ for mine :-(

http://www.amazon.fr/Chaussures-Nike-Shox-infuential-taille/dp/B0014Z4QXC/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&s=shoes&qid=1271706797&sr=8-27

Nike Q'Vida

These are a similer design to the influential, I have never tried them but they look kinda cool... I am trying to find a pair of my size.

Found them here:

http://www.amazon.fr/Chaussures-Nike-Shox-vida-taille/dp/B002QQIELS/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1271707381&sr=1-1-fkmr0

Adidas Yatra ballerina

These are perfect for a warmer weather... very light and can be worn as ballerina flats everyday as well... love.

From adidas online:

http://www.adidas.com/campaigns/performance/wt_ss10/content/products-detail.aspx?article=G18326&collection=yatra

Nike air divine

These shoes are a classic from Nike, they look great as casual shoes as well, and the price is pretty good too...they come in lots of colors as well. :-)

Buy them from Nike shop online:

http://store.nike.com/index.jsp?country=BE&lang_locale=en_GB&sitesrc=FRLP&l=shop,women#l=shop,pdp,ctr-inline/cid-300/pid-304990/pgid-280080

Puma drift cat:

These shoes are so cool, I would like to put my hands on a pair in my size...but this edition is pretty rare and hard to find. The design is pretty identical to the speed cat which I adore and I use very often as dance shoes, supply and thin sole very soft upper leather.

There's only one pair left on here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Puma-Ferrari-Junior-Lace-up-Trainers/dp/B00373LYQQ/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=shoes&qid=1271709771&sr=8-12

Hope you ladies have found the pair you like among my little selection... Come and join us every Saturday morning, move your body, free your mind and bring out the sensuality in you!

Source: Nike, Adidas, Puma