Jacqui Wong So excited to introduce our newest Hip Shake Fitness instructor, Jacqui Wong. She will be teaching our Belly Dance series that we will start shooting this weekend! She is also a professional photographer and has graced many magazine pages and covers.
We are beyond excited to welcome Brazilian Warrior Workout to our dance category. This is a fitness workout version of an Afro-Brazilian dance, Maculele, that uses sticks or grimas which the dancers rhythmically strikes together. We can’t wait to see what our adventurous users choose as their grimas! For now, let’s go back to our…
Jessica Carla De Lima-Moran Meet our Brazilian Warrior Workout instructor, Jessica or Pavão, a first generation Brazilian-American who fell deeply in love with Capoeira. As a result, she is the lead teacher at Capoeira Brasil Los Angeles and often travels to teach and perform her craft. What do you love about dance? I love the…
Dancing can make you feel young. These beautiful ladies feel like a million bucks just doing their thing! Get inspired to move and learn the lesson that age is NOTHING but a dang number. I assure you that by the end of this article, you’ll be grinning from ear to ear.
We are so lucky to work with strong and inspirational women here at Hip Shake Fitness. One of them is Ashley Chatman who was willing to share her transformation story to inspire others. Check it out:
Broadway style dance will always have room in my heart and with the success of Hamilton, it is now getting a Hip Hop makeover. I was very excited to take a Broadway style dance class and what better day to take it than the day after the Tony Awards. I got even more excited when…
We had a big weekend of workout video shoots at the awesome Beat Box Studios in Culver City and we started with Bollywood Abs with Ashley. It was a cloudy Saturday morning, but we were ready to make it a hot one! We had our schedule for the day set, our outfits organized and our…
Have you ever wanted to let your inner diva out? Well, do we have a class for you! Flirty Hip Hop with Nicole Steen is a non stop cardio workout that will surely get you feelin’ sassy and get you sweating those calories away.
At home fitness is convenient, private & a lot of fun. This list is from personal experience and may or may not relate to you. I live in a one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles with my boyfriend and my dog and they can either help or hinder my attitude towards getting the best workout…
We wouldn’t be here without our moms. They go through so much to give us a good life and work hard so that we can live comfortably. Moms are good at loving unconditionally and of course, taking care of their families.
Mimi is one of our awesome Hip Shake Fitness Dancers. If you can believe it, she is 61 years old, but she can definitely out dance anyone of us.
Meet Ashley Chatman Ashley is a very passionate, proud and professional dance fitness instructor. She started dancing at a young age and has had training in Jazz, Modern, Hip Hop, Latin and African Dance. She was awarded “Best Zumba Instructor in Los Angeles†in 2013.
It was a beautiful Sunday morning in Manhattan Beach and we were excited to film Lori‘s scenes. Lori is a Clinical Program Supervisor and is currently in school to get her Doctorate Degree. She was joined by her two sons, Mason and Laird who were truly wonderful and were natural actors just like their mom!
I met Nya through Capoeira classes. I was immediately struck by her fierce no-nonsense attitude and cool demeanor. I eventually learned that she was a software engineer and I though that was so cool because as any women in technology will tell you, there’s not a lot of us! Since then her and I have been talking about…
Meet Zen Rashed Born and raised in Jamaica, Queens NY, Zen is a passionate dancer, choreographer and business woman. Her love for dance started at 3 years old when her mother put her into dance school and she immediately felt at home.