Hi! I'm Lorraine Ladish.
And today, we're going to do a ten-
minute easy Zumba-inspired routine.
All you need are to wear a pair
of shoes, comfy clothes and have a
little bit of space in your living
room or any part of the house.
Also, it's important to have a good
attitude of having fun. You can also
repeat this on your own afterwards
if you use, for example, salsa music
or any music that has a beat count
of eight. And you should be fine and
you can practice on your
own without a video.
So now we're going to get started
and simply by inhaling and exhaling.
We're keeping our knees very soft.
We're just warming our body, keeping
that blood flowing, and having an
attitude of gratitude but also, as I
said, fun. I would like –we're rolling
our shoulders back and have just
the attitude that you're not
learning something; that you're just
leaning into something that is going
to be fun and that you are
going to make your own.
So from here, we're going to just
roll those shoulders back and speed
it up a bit
and smile,
and remember this is fun.
It's a little bit of footwork
but it's simple.
And if ever you are tired or you feel
like you got lost, no big deal,
we're just going to walk it out or
hip it out in the center right here.
Once in a while, I'm going to be
recalibrating the beat.
I'mcounting in eights. Three,
four, five, six, seven, eight.
Okay. Now, this is a basic move for
the hips. You can exaggerate it or
you can make it smaller. The whole
point is that we are trying to
isolate those hips and not move the
shoulders. But my husband moves his
shoulders all the time and I still
dance with him so that's fine.
And from here, we're going to take
some little steps to the sides and
then we will repeat them, and add a
little bit more stuff as we go on.
So now, we're going to go to this side,
five, six, seven,and take it up.
Remember that you make the movements
your own,
have fun with it. Move those
hips, and then forward. We're
bringing the bodyweight forward and
back, forward and stepping into that,
forward, and hips if you want to,
then back, back, smile, smile, smile,
smile
and in place. One, two, three, forward
then bring the arms. One, two, three,
and four.Do whatever you want
with your arms; make it your own.
Where are you from? I'm half
Spanish. So I like to incorporate
these arms. Now, forward, three
and four, five, six, seven. Make all
these movements yours. Backwards,
one, two, three and four, five, six,
seven, eight. One, two, three and
four. If you're[sweating and] out of
breath, that's always good.
Dancing is fun and it's like an
[unstretcher] form of movement.
Now, we're going to take these steps
forward and back in quarter turns.
Back, forward and back, forward, the
other way, bring it in, move that
hip to the back and forward. Remember
we're displacing the body weight.
We're going to stay. And now, we're
going to take the quarter turns in
one step. Five, six, seven, eight and
hip, hip, hip, hip, and five, six,
seven, to the other side, and hip,
hip, hip, hip, and five, six, seven.
Now, we're going to add the arms.
Five, six, seven, first we're doing –
stepping in, out or out – actually
in, back, out—and remember to make
those arms your own—forward and
back, forward and back, forward and
back, forward and back,
and adding the arms to
the one, four and five, six,
seven, the other way, one, two,
the arms are two I'm using right now,
these are up, six, seven, in place,
one, two, three, four, smile.
And now, we're going to do movements
of two in one side, two steps, two
steps. You want to make it more
exaggerated, that is up to you.
Same
place, five, six, we're going to have
the arms, one and two, three and
four, only four, two, six, seven and
eight, and stay. Three, four, five, six.
Now, we're going to go forward and
back, rocking from the tip of our
toe to the heel. Forward, two,
three, four—that's really easy—five,
six, seven, and stay. One, two,
three, four, five, breathe, the
other leg, forward, and bring it
forward, back, three, we have to
remember to stay in my little space,
seven, and backwards, one, two,
three, four, five, six, seven, make
it yours. The other leg, two, three,
four, five, six, have fun with it.
Center, one, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight.
Now, we're taking it from the top.
One, two, three and four,
just in ones now.
Forward, forward, back,
and back. We're adding the arms,
adding the arms, and breathe—have
fun—and back, smile and smile. We'll
do it again. Side and forward.
Remember, you can rock your hips
enough, it's up to you.
And stay,
two, three,four. We're going to
take those quarter turns again.
One,
three, four, seven, eight, three and
four, five, six, seven. The center,
one, two—you can also lift your arms—
seven, eight, and one, two, three,
four, five, six, to the other side,
and one, two, rock it back,
rock it back, rock it back.
Now, the arms in ones, two, three,
four and five, six, seven, the other
side, these are just little steps,
two, you can take up the arms
if you like
but have fun with it. Maybe you bring
your grandkids and if they're
with you at home.
Now, we're going to wind it down.
And one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight. If you'd like to, you
can reach and reach and reach and
reach, five, six, seven and eight.
And back to the beginning
and inhale.
I'm so kind of [being] with the music.
Inhale
and exhale
and inhale
and exhale
Now, we're going to relax the arms
by bringing one arm across
and holding;
just hold, we're not pulling
it towards us.
The other arm
and breathe, breathe, breathe,
and smile and
inhale,
and exhale.
I know it's not yoga but it's
dancing is my kind of yoga too.
I hope that you enjoyed this simple,
short routine. And you use dance in
your life to pump yourself up and
feel that you can take on the world.
I'm all sweaty, I hope you are too.
See you soon.