{"id":17709,"date":"2017-08-29T18:16:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T23:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=17709"},"modified":"2017-08-29T11:12:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T16:12:50","slug":"zumba-for-faagw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=17709","title":{"rendered":"Zumba for FAAGW"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago I volunteered to teach a Zumba class for the Filipino-American Association of Greater Wichita<\/a> (FAAGW) group. Basically, they’re getting together every Thursday for different activities. The cost to participate is a $5 donation. You can also pay $15 for access to all of the events that month. The money raised goes toward funding FAAGW community projects.<\/p>\n

So far they’ve had a couple of Zumba classes, some line dancing lessons, and most recently arnis<\/em>, a form of martial art using sticks. Arnis<\/a><\/em>, also commonly known as eskrima<\/em>, is the national martial art of the Philippines.<\/p>\n

I had a work dinner on Thursday night; otherwise, Brian and I would have been there. I hope they offer it again because arnis<\/em> is right up Brian’s alley. I think he would totally enjoy learning it.<\/p>\n

The Thursday night before that was my night to teach Zumba. It was my first time leading a class for the group and only a couple of people had taken my Zumba class before so I asked my friend Gina for advice. She recommended using lower impact songs because she said there are a lot of older women, many of whom have never taken Zumba or any other exercise class before.<\/p>\n

I created a playlist according to Gina’s suggestions but Brian said it still looked pretty intense for some. Nevertheless, it looked like they were all having a great time (judging from the smiles). And, no one passed out. LOL. They even had enough energy for post-workout photos at the end.<\/p>\n

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My friend Andrea helped me out by leading a couple of songs.<\/p>\n

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Here are a couple of the pictures we took during and after class. <\/p>\n

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The group asked me to offer the class once a month but I originally only agreed to do one class because of my crazy schedule. We had such a great time that I agreed to do another one in September. It will be on the third Thursday of the month again. I hope you can join us for a booty-shakin’ good time on September 21. We try to start right at 6:30 pm and then go for a full hour. <\/p>\n

Until then, keep on dancin’! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago I volunteered to teach a Zumba class for the Filipino-American Association of Greater Wichita (FAAGW) group. Basically, they’re getting together every Thursday for different activities. The cost to participate is a $5 donation. You can also pay $15 for access to all of the events that month. The money raised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2385,1617],"tags":[2971,2969,2968,2970,943],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17709"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17718,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17709\/revisions\/17718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}