A large part of who I am is missing from this blog. That is my job as a Zumba instructor. It has become a key part of who I am and how I live my life, so I feel compelled to write something about it here. Yesterday was a good exemplar of it's impact. I had some admin to do, emails, changing website etc, and got on with it in the morning whilst the kids happily played. I have always seen my work as implicit to our lives, and the kids just see it as part of life. Yesterday was unusual, as I rarely spend a morning doing admin work, most of my Zumba work involves dancing or listening to music, or both. The kids see me loving my work, and letting it just be a part of my life, and not really stopping me do other things, or being with them (well not too much anyway). Having a working life outside of the kids is by no means essential to who I am, but it certainly has become a part of my life I would hate to give up. I am in the lucky position that my job works in such a way that I can pick and choose how much, when and where I work, meaning that I can work it so my husband is (nearly) always home when I go out to work. I do have to take advantage of some wonderful friends when that doesn't quite work as as expected though.
I found Zumba when my daughter was about 1 and we had a short term gym membership. After a few sessions, I completely fell in love with the buzz and sense of joy it gave me every single moment of every single class. Having danced (a bit) as a child, having taught a variety of things, and having run successful businesses, I saw it as a perfect fit to become a zumba instructor myself. I spent a few months building up my confidence and plucking up the courage to book myself in to the training course, but I did, and just over 1 month after the course, less than a year after taking my first class, I was in front of over 30 people running my own class.
