How to Get Certified to Teach Zumba

A Zumba workout featuring rhythms that make you feel good and easy to learn dance steps provides and excellent and addictive means to get into shape and dance your problems away. It’s not hard to understand how, in its short lifespan, Zumba has gained so much popularity, now having approximately 20,000 instructors worldwide. As you gain proficiency with the steps and get to the point where you are trying to choreograph your own routines, you may begin to wonder how you can become certified to teach your own class. There are a few things which you must do to complete certification.

Instructions

1. Take Zumba classes. You can’t teach if you don’t even know what it is you’re teaching, right? Enroll in Zumba and learn the basics. Get familiar with the routines and memorize several, so that you can practice them on your own.

2. Visit multiple teachers’ classes. By doing this, you get to experience various teaching styles, which will help you begin to formulate your own.

3. Register for an instructor’s class. Once you feel comfortable with the steps and dances and have decided that you would be a good fit as a Zumba instructor go to the Zumba website and register for an instructor certification class.

4. After the eight-hour seminar, you will receive your instructor certification. You will now be able to officially teach Zumba. Some facilities also require that you be group fitness certified in order to teach classes. You will have to discuss this with the facility fitness director.

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish
• Official Zumba website