Zumbayawan

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

IT'S time to take the workout of working-out! Let's do the Zumbayawan! When the music starts pumping, people forget they're exercising.

Zumbayawan is a word coined from Zumba and Kadayawan for this year's celebration of Kadayawan sa Dabaw at MetroLifestyle Fitness Center & Spa from August 8 to 13, 2011.

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Zumba is an exhilarating, effective, easy-to-follow, Latin-inspired, calorie-burning dance fitness-party that involves all sorts of Latin dances: samba, cumbia, merengue, reggaeton, salsa, calypso, with some jazz, bellydancing and kickboxing moves thrown in.

One doesn't have to be born in the hip-hop generation because the moves come seamlessly when dancing Zumba, transitioning breezily to different moves accompanied by pulse-quickening music.

The rhythm is part-Latin, part-contemporary and all upbeat so that each class is not called a class, but it’s called a party!

Zumbayawan is fun, happy, and dancing out loud with certified instructors Mary Grace Pelayo Clariza and Charmain Pardue from the Zumba Instructors Network (ZIN).

Mary Grace Pelayo Clariza is a true-blooded Dabawenya who is now based in Sasebo Japan. Grace is a Latin Ballroom Dancer, Dance Choreographer and Certified Zumba Fitness Instructor-ZIN Member and Afaa or the Aerobics Fitness Association of America.

She's been teaching aerobics since she was 18-years-old. "Dancing is always my passion...Teaching Zumba is fun and way different from other workout, you got a variety of Latin dances in just one class, you are not only learning the basic merengue or salsa but a lot more! Zumba is the kind of work out you want to do…! I love it. it's unique, it's fun, very sexy, and I love the music," Grace from her ZIN profile, said.

Zumba Special Classes are currently offered at MetroLifestyle for FREE to fitness members.

Charmain Pardue from the USA loves teaching Zumba classes for simple reason: "Every class feels like a party! Come join me and you'll see what I mean. You don't even have to know how to dance. Just move your body and follow my lead. It's easy!.Come try it, I guarantee you will have a blast! I look forward to meeting you!"

Charmain is a certified member of Afaa, Certified Zumba Fitness Instructor - ZIN member, Yoga Instructor and Fitness and Aquatics Manager MWR, Sasebo, Japan.