Incredible Saturday afternoon in The Liffey Trust Studios just gone…
This years Dublin Autumn Day was associated with DisC’onvention by Gil Lopes in Rome February 26th-28th 2016. And as it goes this Brazilian born Fitness Presenter, who has been around for more than two decades, tours around the world promoting prior to this one of a kind event and the first stop of the tour happened to be in Dublin this year.
I’m sure you are dying to see what happened on Saturday so please feel welcome to view the videos below and take a minute to leave a comment whether it’s about the event or future fitness days with us.
Gil Lopes HiLopes Dance
Erle Liivak Reggaeton
Erle Liivak & Gil Lopes GlamDance
On the day of our event we didn’t get a chance to do the raffle so I’ve done it yesterday with the help of my local health food store The Punnet Health Hub owner and manager James and the lucky winners for DisC’onvention 2016 FREE ENTRY are Milada Kristofikova and Zsuzsanna Kovács. Congratulations girls and please contact me for more information!
For anyone else who would like to know more about this event, here is the link to get information.
On Saturday the 19th of September for the very first time in Ireland there will a fitness festival called WellFest held in Herbert Park.
WHAT IS WELLFEST?
WellFest is a unique one day festival in Herbert Park, Dublin offering a wide range of health and fitness activities to attendees.
WHAT DO YOU GET?
Your ticket gives you the opportunity to hand pick a day of wellness from the large selection of classes, workshops and seminars on offer at the festival.
WHO IS IT FOR?
WellFest can be a day out to either kick start a fitness regime or to simply expand the knowledge of those who love to exercise but are eager to learn new skills from top professionals.
This time I will be teaching Reggaeton. You don’t know what it is? Take a look below
Book your place today and join us for this unique one day @ WellFest!
And we are back with the new fitness season and as such with new and exciting events also. One in particular I would like to talk about is our annual Dublin Autumn Day and this year with a different angle in association with DISC’ONVENTION by one of my fellow colleague, an international fitness presenter – Gil Lopes.
You are probably wondering what exactly is DISC’ONVENTION? Well Gil has been organising his fantastic events for more than 10 years now in the city where this Brazilian born fitness guru has settled – in a good ancient Rome. For number of years he has put a theme to it though and in 2016 it will be DISCO themed (hence to that unusual name).
Take a look at one my earlier blog posts to read about the history of Gil Lopes Conventions.
And as it has formed over some period of time, Gil will be touring Europe to promote this one of a kind event, which will be held in the end of February 2016 and this year we are the lucky ones to be able to kick off his sensational tour in Dublin.
So without further ado I would like to invite you all to our Saturday afternoon event on the 17th of October in The Liffey Trust Centre.
I am extremely happy to be blogging about our next dance and fitness event, which will be held in Liffey Trust Centre on the 21st of March and this time with me and Nike Master Trainer Sandra Raju from Estonia.
We’ve decided to make our event slightly different this time and on top our good old Reggaeton adding a serious workout from Nike called Nike Training Club as well as combining the one and only Glam – with Cheerleaders Dance. You are probably wondering, what the hell is this? Well stop wondering and book your place to find out! A beautiful opportunity to spend the Saturday afternoon full of dance and fitness and get motivated and inspired with me and Sandra!
For those, who haven’t yet had an opportunity to take Reggaeton classes with me, take a look at the video below to see what it’s all about and look no further than joining our event on the 21st of March.
Now… Meet the next rising fitness star and Nike Master Trainer Sandra Raju from Estonia.
With over 8 years of professional coaching experience in dance and fitness areas, Sandra’s work varies from coaching, motivating and inspiring people from all levels of fitness and different sporting backgrounds. She has been co-coaching and managing the best cheerleading team (TTÜ Tantsutüdrukud/TUT Cheerleaders) in Estonia and Baltics for 7 years and as she likes to call it – her hobby is her work is her hobby. Her training style is Functional Training because she believes that challenging the whole body will get results the fastest, and help develop everyday strength to live a healthy life. Her main goal as a trainer is to provide safe and effective classes/programs that are challenging enough to make you a standout in your everyday life, sport or training, and enjoyable enough to keep you coming back for more. Sandra is a Nike Master Trainer for Baltic countries and will be spreading the word about NTC wherever and whenever she can. ”There are seven days in a week and ‘someday’ isn’t one of them. If you love what you do and do what you believe in, then the rest will just come together naturally. Just get up and start doing!”
So you are wondering what exactly is NTC? Here is a short description to put your mind at ease. Nike Training Club is a full body training created for women by world-class trainers and specially designed for You to Make Yourself whatever you want to be. NTC gives you the opportunity to train like a Pro with workouts created by and for the biggest sports stars today like Serena Williams, Gabby Douglas, Maria Sharapova, Marie Purvis, Alex Morgan, Paula Radcliffe and so on. It focuses strongly on functional training and how human body is supposed move and work naturally. In NTC class, your trainer will be your best friend and your biggest enemy – both at the same time but trust us – you’ll ask for more!
Here is a video from Sandra’s NTC class on Võru Aeroobika Õhtu in December just gone demonstrating extremely well what lies ahead of you.
And to sum up this Saturday afternoon me and Sandra will be surprising you with a different type of dance class. Want to find out what it is? Join our event to see what we have planned for you!
I am just back from Japan and I decided to write a little bit about my wonderful trip to share those moments with you as well. First few days were spent in Hamamatsu more specifically in Popstar Club, where I had a super nice group of people to work with for Euroeducation Urban Reggaeton course. All these lovely people below were sensational to work with over 2 long days and they seem more than happy with the certificates received. Even that much that I got a huge sloppy kiss
It was actually a very interesting experience as I got to teach this course in Spanish. My first time ever in another language besides my mother tongue Estonian and English of course. The reason being Popstar Club Katia Nishimura is actually half Brazilian half Japanese yet we communicate in Spanish. This snap is taken half way through our first day.
After 2 days of hard work and a lot of fun of course was time for even more fun as Popstar Club had planned a charity event full of classes like Reggaeton, GlamDance, Zumba and more. Twice during the day the classes were held with a live band and I actually got to teach the Reggaeton team class with Katia with a very funky looking Cuban trio Los Cativos. Of course they had their very own stage yet we managed to get the boys to join us for the final show and cool down and the screams from the dance floor made it clear that it was the only way to finish the day.
Up next was Tokyo. In a great little dance studio I got to work with many great teachers as well as dance lovers and also experience an earthquake. Did you know that there is an earthquake in Japan in every 2-3 days? This one fortunately lasted only several minutes making the lights of the studio visibly move and we were all ready to run out in case it continued or got stronger. Another first for me during this trip
Of course we had to get several selfies taken and this one was for finishing up our 2nd UR course in Tokyo.
Goodbye to Katia and her beautiful daughter Brenda, who by the way put on a stunning popping-locking show on Hamamatsu Charity Event, was short and sweet as these 2 beautiful ladies had to leave us for the last night in Tokyo.
Yet again I had a great week in Japan with many beautiful moments, a lot of hard work and mouthwatering food and I really hope to be back there soon again as this country is seriously interesting experience in so many ways.
Thank you to Popstar Club and Katia for such an amazing trip and of course to everyone, who took part of UR courses and charity event and loads of love from good old Dublin to you!
