Zumba4London

I’ve only been to Maria’s classes twice, as I live pretty much on the opposite side of town from where most of her teaching takes place (Fulham). But if you check out her calendar on her webpage, she also has classes at Virgin Actives, in Kensington, and in Holborn.
Anyhow, I am a big Zumba snob. Embarassingly so. And I have also taken dozens of classes in London with different instuctors, and I can safely say Maria is one of my absolute favourites. She is a great dancer, is sexy as hell (which, consequently helps you magically, if not falsely feel like a sexy fabulous dancer as well, even if the accurate description is probably more like ‘awkward cat in tutu’) and definitely makes you break a sweat.
She picks great music, is friendly and encouraging, and conveys (through, um, expression and movement) that she loves her job. Plus, since she is so gorgeous, hers is one of the few Zumba classes I’ve been to that regularly have straight men involved. You can tell that she has a really dedicated group of ‘regulars’ who follow her. Too bad its too far away for me.