Origin of Rajita’s passion for dance

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At the age 32, Rajita attended Bollywood dance classes in England. She instantly liked dance, because the intensity perfectly matched Rajita’s high energy needs while dancing. During her journey to become healthy, Rajita had been going through different experiments with her diet and her workout habits. She experienced tremendous weight loss 20 pounds exactly within six months by dancing.

Because of this, Rajita took this knowledge, when she moved to the USA, and procured a great opportunity. This new opportunity gave Rajita a chance to give a presentation the incorporated an interactive and experiential dance workshop on the health benefits of dance to groups of doctors and staff members at the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Jersey. As a result, Rajita received an Honorarium award from the hospital.

In 2014 Rajita started to work as a Chef at a rehabilitation centre, Harbour Light in Kingston Ontario, Canada. In this role, Rajita started playing Bollywood music while cooking her food in the kitchen. Clients who were assigned to work with Rajita in the kitchen like the music and slowly Rajita began to teach them Bollywood dance steps, fostering a love of dance.

In order to inspire and motivate participation, Rajita had to show genuine joy within the dance. This joy evolved into a commitment to teach dance to others. Rajita began to feel very happy when she saw her challenged clients having fun and smiling by dancing out of their comfort zone. Clients continuously began to ask Rajita to teach dance classes regularly, because they felt dance is the best therapy and stress relief for them. She took encouragement of her clients and staff and she became a fitness instructor. She started teaching dance at YMCA. She got many opportunities to conduct dance workshops at St Lawrence College, Queens University, Loyola College, Secondary schools, rehab centers, after school programs and various organizations in the Kingston community.

As a result, Rajita’s Joy was infectious to her participants and they began to dance. Rajita continued to share her passion and empower her audience to feel like getting up and leaving the comfort zone starting to dance.

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