Westcott Country Christmas

Casey & Caitlan (Jazzercise a Westcott Instructors) Had a great day at the Westcott Country Christmas thank you to everyone who popped by our table to say hello!! The 12 Days of Fitness Bags were a great hit! 

Winter Attendance Game is ON!!

Attend 20 classes between Nov 15 - Dec 24 to win this cute sparkly cosmetic bag! Ready. Set. Sparkle. While supplies last. 

12 Days of Fitness!

The perfect gift!  These cute sparkly bags are for sale in class now!  $20 plus gst gets you the bag and 12 classes to give to a friend. What a fabulous deal. Classes must be activated by Jan 10th and used within 30 days of activation. Limited quantities available. Get them while you can!!

Lordy Lordy look who's 40!

Happy 40th Birthday to fellow Jazzercise instructor Tina Mencarelli today!  To celebrate we surprised her lastnight by adding 5 instructors as back up dancers to the stage. She put together a bunch of her fav routines dance party style. We also celebrated with some cupcakes and punch, a photo board and she got to wear a cute tank that said Last Time at 39 with a picture of Adam Levine on it!  So much fun. Fit & fabulous at 40! Happy birthday girl! 

Junior Jazzercise in Crossfield

Tonight we kicked off another 8 week session of Junior Jazzercise - Halloween style. We had a spooky warm up, costume circle time, howling hula break and a dark and dangerous dance off!  Here's a sneak peek at our latest group that will soon be performing on the stage!

GNO Breast Cancer Fundraiser

Whoo Hoo!  Another out of this world event was held this past Sat in Olds. Our annual Breast Cancer Fundraiser had a full house of ladies and a wide array of vendors to shop from at the shopping expo. Our teaching team of 12 led an amazing set choreographed by Tim Roberts, professional dancer and choreographer. Thank you to everyone who helped make this event such a success!!!  See you next year :)

Only 5 more sleeps until GNO Event

We are so excited for our upcoming Girls Night Out Breast Cancer Fundraiser class. This year it will be held at The Holy Trinity School in Olds on Sat, October 25th. Doors open at 6:30pm arrive on time to get some shopping done at our Shopping Expo and to get your name in for all of the fabulous door prizes. Around a dozen local instructors will be performing a specialty set made up of mostly Tim Roberts routines. Tim is a professional dancer, teacher, choreographer and aerobic champion. Last July long some of us instructors were fortunate to attend his love class and it was beyond amazing!  You ladies will love this class and it is for such a great cause also. Hope to see you there and please bring a friend!

Congratulations Dana!!!!

A huge congratulations goes out to Dana Vance who recently became a certified Jazzercise instructor this past weekend up in Red Deer. She has worked so hard and we are so excited to be adding her to our team of fabulous instructors. 

Referral Tees

Here are just a couple of our Crossfield customers who scored the super cute referral tees after bringing a registering friend to class during Free Days. Thank you so much ladies your referrals mean the world to us and the success of our classes! 

Crave Tees!

Congrats to Leannder and Krista who have each done 150 classes already this year. That is amazing!!! As a reward they receive this cute Crave tee!!  Wear them proud girls you have worked so hard for these and we are do proud of you. We wonder who will be next?!? 

Special Team Teach Class Oct 9-14

Didsbury instructor Jena Day and her husband Josh are expecting a little turkey in Feb and Crossfield instructor Kristen Dahl and hubby Clay are expecting a little turkey in April!  What better way to announce the news to our customers then at a special team taught Cardio Dance Party!  We all taught 4 routines each and one "Baby or Mamma" themed song. Our shirts all had cute sayings: Heather - "I Don't Sweat I Sparkle" Jena & Kristen "Training for Two" and Casey "Gym Now. Wine Later". Congratulations ladies - we are so excited for you!  Thank you to everyone for coming it was a class full of energy with over 30 ladies in attendance! 

FREE DAYS!!!

Don't miss your chance to try a FREE class!  We are offering free drop ins at all locations this week only.  No strings attached!  So bring a friend.  If your friend registers then you will get a FREE tee for your referral.  If they join we will offer Start for $0 and get Oct FREE.  That's an $80 savings. It's WIN WIN!  Classes left this week at my 3 locations are TONIGHT @ Crossfield 7pm Cardio Dance Party with Casey, Kristen, Heather and Jena.  TONIGHT @ Airdrie 8:15pm Hip Hop Fusion.  TONIGHT @ Westcott 7pm Jazzercise.  TOMORROW @ Crossfield 9:30am Club Strength60 and SAT @ Airdrie 9am Dancing Abs!  Come check it out. 

Rehearsal Day!

It's been a busy jazz day starting with me subbing a Strength45 class in Didsbury then into Red Deer for a rehearsal with our instructors in training Chantry and Dana. These ladies are working so hard and we are so proud of all of their progress!  Workshop is coming up on the 17th. We are so excited - can't wait. Great job girls and happy birthday to Chantry today!!!

Crossfield Fun Run

The kids and I had a great time warming up the runners - Jazzercise style last Sat for the Crossfield Fun Run in support of the Fire Departments Christmas Food Hamper Program!  It was also great to see so many of our customers there participating in the event with their families!  It's great to stay fit and help the community at the same time!

Diva Day!

Well after rocking the stage for two classes today and all the excitement of our Grand Re-Opening at our new location in Airdrie, we are all diva'd out! What an amazing day - we had so much fun meeting you all and shimmying those tata's!  Welcome to Jazzercise everyone and hope to see you back tomorrow at 8:15pm for Fusion class. A huge thank you to all of our helpers and to those who donated door prizes also ;)

HOT new music coming to classes soon!!!

Airdrie Grand Re-Opening!

Calling all DIVA's!  

We are MOVING and EXPANDING our schedule and adding DROP IN child minding services!  So exciting!  Join us for one or both classes to kick off our grand re-opening. There will be tons of prize give aways :)

New digs!!! Sneak a peek!

Eeekk we got the keys to our new Jazzercise Airdrie space today and we couldn't be more excited. We will now be renting class space from The Boys and Girls Club of Airdrie (beside Ron Ebbensen arena right behind the Wendy's). This space is awesome. There is tons of room to park, tons of room to dance, a built in stage, room for drop in childcare and best of all we are able to bring you MORE class times!  New schedule as of Oct 1 is Mon/Wed/Sat 9am and Tue/Wed/Thur 8:15pm. Child minding is available Mon & Wed ams for a small fee. Stay tuned for Grand Re-opening Event details....

Airdrie Family Fall Fair

We had so much fun meeting you all at the Family Fall Fair and what a beautiful day for it. We showcased a half an hour of our amazing routines. We showed some cardio as well as strength training routines using handheld weights and resistance tubes. We are so excited about our NEW location and NEW class times starting Oct 1st. We really hope you will come and see for yourself how amazing a full class is. 60 minutes. One HOT dance floor!

Airdrie Fall Family Fair - JOIN US

JOIN US - For some Family Fun! 
We will be rocking the Main Stage - Nose Creek Park this Sunday September 14th 12:15-12:45pm.  Come and see for yourself how fun and easy Jazzercise is to do! 
This program is for all ages and all fitness levels.  We always show low impact modifications for those just starting out or who may be working around an injury. Come and try a class any time.
Please like us on facebook at "Jazzercise Airdrie" for more information.

Jazzercise Airdrie NEW LOCATION - NEW CLASSES!! start OCT 1st!

BREAKING NEWS!!!! SPREAD THE WORD!

Jazzercise Airdrie is pleased to announce that we are moving to an amazing NEW LOCATION starting Oct 1st!! We will also be EXPANDING our class schedule and offering DROP-IN childcare at affordable rates. Stay tuned for details on our Grand Re-opening!!!

 

Airdrie Fest 2014

We never stop!  We were lucky to be able to get a table and demo spot on the Main Stage today at Airdrie Fest at City Hall. We love getting out in the community and meeting new people. We hope to see some of you at class soon. You never know until you try. You might just LOVE it!  A huge thank you to my business partner Alisa, sub associate Kristen for showing low impact and to our class managers Donna and Courtney for coming to help out! What a beautiful day. My kids got their faces painted as Iron Man and Draculaura from Monster High and got to meet Anna and Elsa. Great day!

Jazzercise In The Park

It was a perfect day in the park for a workout for mommy and play date for the kids. While we rocked our routines to today's hottest music the kids enjoyed free face painting and activities in Nose Creek Park. Afterwards we had a Junior Jazzercise demo because kids love to dance too!  Coffee and registration specials followed. A huge thank you to everyone for joining us and to our helpers. You know who you are! We couldn't pull off these amazing events without you!

Crossfield Farmers Market Demo

We rocked our moves again this year at the market. Thanks to Kristen and Heather for joining me and a huge congrats to Sara Nowosad the winner if our door prize. She wins a 10 class pass, water bottle and sparkly change purse. Looking forward to seeing you in class Sara :) 

Westcott Classes are Back!

Fall Session is running Sept 1 - Dec 1

Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30pm

At The Westcott Community Hall. 

Join anytime and drop ins are always welcome. We had an awesome first class back with a triple team teach Casey, Jena and Caitlan style! So great to see everyone again!

ALS #IceBucketChallenge Team Teach Class

Thank you to everyone for coming, to those who donated in class or online, to those who participated in the challenge, to those who dumped buckets, took videos and photos. You are all part of an amazing team working towards an amazing cause and we are so proud. So far we have raised over $100 and there is still time to donate at www.alsa.org

Jazzercise Westcott

I am happy to announce that classes will be resuming after summer break at our Westcott Hall location!  We will be running a three month session Tue & Thur at 7:30pm starting Sept 1 - Dec 1. Then taking a break for the holiday season. Please contact Casey by Sept 1st to register at 403-615-9914 or like our Facebook page Jazzercise Westcott for more info! 

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

One of our local instructors a Heather at Jazzercise Crossfield has been nominated for the ALS #IceBucketChallenge that has gone viral!  This will happen this Friday, Aug 22nd at the 9:30am class at The Crossfield Community Hall we hope you can join the fun or if you can't make it and would like to donate to the cause please go to http://www.alsa.org

Instructor in Training!

I'm thrilled to announce that Crossfield customer Dana Vance is going through the process to become an instructor along with another gal from Didsbury!  You will see Dana rocking some training routines in both Crossfield and Airdrie locations and we are really looking forward to adding the girls to our team in late October :). Here's a great photo of Dana and her family! 

Jazzercise in the Park

Please join us for this fabulous event!  Everyone welcome. 

Earn Your Stripes!

Handed out the last striped tote beach bag tonight!  Congratulations to all of my customers at all of my locations who worked so hard for these bags.  70 classes between two people in two months is no easy task. Ps I have been getting a ton of use out of my bag this summer. Such an awesome tote. Enjoy girls - you deserve it! 

Training for Two!

A huge congratulations to fellow Jazzercise instructor and friend the gorgeous Jena Day on her pregnancy.  Jena and her husband already have 2 beautiful daughters and can't wait to add another to their family.  She made the big announcement on stage at Jazzercise Didsbury after team teaching a secret "Baby" set where all of the songs had the title or words like "Baby" "Mama" etc.  Two of the girls wore pink and two of them wore blue then at the end of the class the customers had to guess at what was going on!  So FUN!! Congrats Jena!!!

New music list!

Our new DVDs are in the mail and we cannot wait to get them - especially those of us who were in DC!  There are some GREAT routines coming up!!!

Jazzy tops!

A huge shout out to my one of my fav customers/friend and Jazzercise groupies Miss.Rachel for the little gift she brought me to class the other day. So sweet!  She's knows me so well. Gym now. Wine later! Lol. Thank you Rachel.  

Speaking of new shirts!  I just have to mention how excited I am about my latest lulu purchases. The Water Singlet in aquamarine that I rocked in class today in a size 2!!! I can't even believe it. Once upon a time I wore size 12 lulu. Thank you Jazzercise!!!  And thank you lulu for this style that let's me wear a 2 - down 10 clothing sizes. Amazing!  You can do it too. Come and try a class today!!

Jazzercise Washington DC Live Event!

 

By Blogger & Jazzercise Owner/Certified Instructor: Casey Yousph

Well I have to admit, last year when the announcement was made in Palm Springs that the next event would be held in Washington, DC none of us Canadian girls knew what to expect.  Let me tell you Jazzercise Washington DC Live did not disappoint!

Day 1 - After a long day of travel and a pretty wild ride on the Super Shuttle from BWI, we arrived at the Washington Hilton.  This hotel is located right in the heart of the city and situated close to many trendy neighborhoods.  This venue had a contemporary urban feel to it and has been the host of many fabulous events such as the annual dinners of The White House Correspondents Association, Radio Television Correspondents Association and the National Prayer Breakfast.  It has also been host to many musical acts such as The Doors and Jimi Hendrix!  This hotel was also the location of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981.  We set out to explore shortly after checking in and once we laid eyes on the ballroom we were in love and could not wait to dance there the next morning. 

Day 2 – Some of us were a little slow moving after having found a few glasses of wine the evening before but we gained some spring in our step after grabbing a cup of joe from The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf then headed down to the Jazzercise Shopping Expo.  Jazzercise Apparel and other vendors had all of the hottest styles and collections there for purchase.  Of course all of us Canadian girls got all excited about the sweaters.  It gets cold up here in the Great White North!  The shopping didn’t end there.  Next stop was Lululemon – as the saying goes “Old Habit’s Die Hard”. 

 

Pictured above from left to right:  The best group of instructors to travel with a girl could ask for! 

Alisa Bisschop (Airdrie/Didsbury), Kim Thompson (Delia), Casey Yousph (Airdrie/Crossfield/Westcott). Tina Mencarelli (Didsbury/Carstairs) & Kendra Visser (Olds)

Next up was the DC Dance Party with Shanna Missett Nelson (Jazzercise President) at 5:30pm then a Conversation with Judi Sheppard Missett (Jazzercise CEO) at 6:30pm.  The energy in the ballroom was unbelievable as some 1500 fitness enthusiasts rocked the dance floor.  We were way towards the back and had little room to move, could barely hear or see what was going on but still had fun every single minute of it.  Tonight we were hitting the hay early in hopes of getting up early to get a spot near the front for the Live DVD taping in the morning. 

Pictured above: Dance Party Instructors Ashley McConnell, Shanna Missett Nelson and Young McCarthy

Day 3 – Schedule of events;

9am - Live Taping with Judi Sheppard Missett, Shanna Missett Nelson & Taping Team

2pm – Metro Mix with Tim Roberts

3pm – On Pointe with Ashley McConnell

4pm – Dance HiiT Remix

Our alarms were going off at 6:45am to hit the line up by 7am hoping to get closer to the front and maybe even get spotted by one of the camera men to make it onto the training DVD!  The hallways were packed wall to wall and at 9am when the opened the doors everyone sprinted on to the dance floor.  We landed the perfect spot and stayed there for the rest of the day.  Some highlights are some of the hot new routines Fancy by Iggy – performed by Shanna (check out this video clip for a sneak peek).  Summer by Calvin Harris

 

 

 

 

 

and Marry Me by Magic just to name a few.   The camera totally came our way, so we will be awaiting the new DVD to see if we made the final footage!  The Tim Roberts class was AMAZING we mixed it up to his signature style and sexy combination of dance genres.  He gave us a sequence of choreography to Booty by JLo.  It was so much fun - you have to listen to this song.  If you do… be forewarned that it will get stuck in your head.  Check it out at http://youtu.be/NkenztcYloo. 

Ashley McConnell’s class was also very challenging unless you were a classically trained ballerina!  The Dance HiiT Remix was full of high intensity dance based routines and Nancy damn near killed us with her forward planking sequence but we made it!  Judi asked everyone to get their cell phones during one song and wouldn’t you know it… next was #Selfie by The Chainsmokers http://youtu.be/kdemFfbS5H0 

she had us all take selfies while doing the routine.  Again too much fun!  You just never know what they will come up with next.  We finished up the day doing an interview with a reporter from The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com.  We will be watching the July 10^th edition to see if she made mention of our group.  It was the most amazing day ever! 

 

Pictured above: Alisa Bisschop, Kendra Visser, Casey Yousph, Kim Thompson, Tina Mencarelli

Day 4 – This day was dedicated to mostly sight-seeing with a little bit of shopping.  We put on a ton of miles walking for about 7 hours (as if our legs weren’t sore enough from the day before) but there was just so much to see and do.  We saw The White House, The Lincoln Memorial, The National Monument, Korean War Memorial, Reflective Pool and Macy’s (oh yeah that’s not a tourist attraction) just to name a few.  We tried to see The Declaration of Independence but the line was pretty lengthy.

Photo above is of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Statue.  Inside the building the Gettysburg Address is scripted on the wall as is the Angel of Truth mural.  Order of photo from left to right Alisa, Kendra, Casey, Tina and Kim.

 

 

Pictured above: Kim, Casey, Tina, Kendra and Alisa in front of The White House

This trip was full of memories being made with a group of exceptional women.  Thank you to Jazzercise Inc for putting on such a memorable event.  We also were very fortunate in meeting some of the key people within the organization.  We were photographed with Judi Sheppard Missett (Jazzercise CEO) – see below, Shanna Missett Nelson (Jazzercise President), Young McCarthy (Manager of Instructor Development and Taping Team Member), Rich Mundy (District Manager, Owner of multiple Premier Centers and Taping Team Member) and Emily Tyson (Junior Jazzercise Coordinator).  We were so fortunate to get to meet and chat with them all face to face!

 

Photo above: Tina, Alisa, Judi Sheppard Missett (Jazzercise CEO), Casey, Kendra and Kim

All in all a jazz dream come true!  Hope to see everyone again next year in Dallas, Texas.  We can’t even imagine the stops they will pull out next year as you know what they say – Everything is Bigger in Texas. 

 

Thanks for the memories DC!  Much love from the Canadian Girls!