Get Fit Without Leaving Home Dancing With Killer Bodies

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

During Hispanic Heritage Month we not only celebrate the great Latino icons, it is also time to meet new talents and entrepreneurs in different areas such as fashion, beauty, art or feeling good. This is the case of Meliza Fernández, a Dominican born in New York who discovered her profession in her passion for dance and fitness.

He reinvented himself by creating Killer Bodies, a company that seeks to empower women through dance as physical exercise. A different method to get fit and get the desired body. Fernández combines her role as an entrepreneur with that of mom, proving that although difficult, it is not impossible to lead an active life.

What is Killer Bodies and how did you come up with it?

I was dancing professionally, I wanted to be an actress, I needed a job … So I started working on fitness. I didn't think I was going to fall in love with work, but when I met the girls in my class, knew how they felt … I suffered body dysmorphia when I was growing up, eating disorders … And the best solution for me was movement therapy.

Was it like an escape route for the insecurity you felt for your body?

Yes. What I saw working in fitness is that there was not enough representation of the full-bodied Latina woman. We are not all small, there are also curvy Latinas. How are we going to feel safe if we don't see our bodies represented? First I created the bootcamp to ignore what we saw but what we felt. It's about training with the heart connecting the mind with the soul, using the body as an escape. We have to work hard on it. We do not realize that what we think of ourselves is because of what we are seeing around, on TV, at work …

Do we compare ourselves with other people?

So is. When I started that I didn't think it was going to be a hit. But the girls' energy was incredible. For example, those who had no money to dance when they were young and now that passion was reborn. That is what gives me the courage to continue. In reality, the class tries to accept oneself as one is and dance. And through that love, developing it inside, one is going to see changes outside. It's the other way around. We exercise focused on the physical, but my method is to do the things that you feel in your heart, that you put it right and when you already create a respect for your body, the body changes if necessary.

We saw on your social networks that you are a mother, a very important stage in your life. What has been the challenge of maintaining your company as an activist of the body, your culture and music and dedicating time to your baby?

It is super difficult but possible. So I love teaching people that it is possible. I never thought I was going to be a mom. But it is something that I love. The most difficult job. So work is necessary for me, to keep balance. By day I am a mom.

I am with the children, I take them to school, I prepare food for them … At night it is my opportunity to connect with women like me. They need that time for themselves and not be a mother, forget about the other titles, know who you are today. You are the one who defines you, but today you can be another. As a woman it is very important to give us permission that today I want to be someone else. lSo it's important to get up, do something for me, and show it to my babies.

Dancing an hour can transform your life. You dance and leave all worries, stress, problems. So here are a few steps for you to rehearse at home and go out to eat the world!