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The 2010 Tour

krashnik — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:26:58 +0000

It’s been awhile since you’ve seen an update here at the personal site. We’ve completely revamped the entire MOVFitness.com website and turned it into a thriving social network. This was in preparation for our next movement: The Tour or 2010. I traveled among over 20 states during 2009 and have already been across the country once for the new year. But this doesn’t compare to the all out tour scheduled for 2010. Below you can see travel dates and the cities I’ll be in.

In these cities, I will be hosting dance workshops at various ballroom studios and also be giving corporate wellness seminars at Fortune 500 corporations.

To learn more about each, I’d advise to check out my videos on both.

Corporate Wellness Seminars
Ballroom Dance Workshps

Looking forward to teaching others about health, fitness, dance, and business. It’s been a pleasure building our business into the empire it now is. We have plans to extend our travel into Asia for 2011.

2010 Travel Schedule

March 12-16 – Las Vegas
March 15-16 – San Diego
March 17-18 – Los Angeles

April 5-7 – New York
April 8-9 – Pittsburg
April 12-13 – Los Angeles
April 14-18 – Hawaii
April 19-20 – Seattle
April 21 – Portland
April 22 – San Francisco
April 23 – Santa Barbara

May – Europe

June 1-3 – Atlanta
June 7-8 – Miami
June 10-11 – Washington, DC
June 16-17 – Columbus, OH

July 6-7 – Las Vegas
July 8 – Phoenix
July 9 – Scottsdale
July 12-13 – Los Angeles

August 3-4 – New York
August 6 – Washington DC
August 10 – Seattle
August 12 – Portland
August 13 – San Francisco

September 1-2 – San Diego
September 6-7 – Dallas
September 8 – New Orleans
September 9 – Atlanta
September 10-11 – Miami

October 4 – Los Angeles
October 6-10 – Hawaii

November 3 – Las Vegas
November 4 – Phoenix

December 1-2 – New York
December 3 – New Jersey
December 6 – Washington DC
December 15 – San Francisco

Ballroom Yoga

krashnik — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:29:07 +0000

One DVD for 2009 is complete with MOVFitness. Ballroom Yoga: Alignment & Technique for Ballroom Dancers was just filmed this week with MOVFitness instructor Christina Castelanelli. This DVD introduces a sequence of Anusara poses to ballroom dancers and helps them understand and develop better alignment while in dips and frame.

Filmed in picturesque Santa Barbara with the American Riveria and the Pacific Ocean as backdrops, MOVFitness is known for bringing beautiful fitness videos where proceeds benefit local charties.

I am glad to have the opportunity to work with Christina on this project. As a ballroom coach for years, it has always been a concern to me when working with professional dancers that they don’t have proper alignment. Practicing this series can give a dancer confidence that they can be streamlined while in correct form. I’m excited to be a part of this project and hope it is accepted well among the ballroom dancing community.

Ballroom DVDs

krashnik — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:16:27 +0000

Many of our DVDs are for Ballroom Dancers or fitness professionals. After publishing books, calendars, and websites for so long, I decided it was time to expand into DVDs. I’m really happy to be able to offer this to the ballroom community. I am heavily involved in the creation of all of these videos. They will have a nice blend of fitness, ballroom dancing, and whichever speciality the teacher brings to the picture.

HardMagic is now producing Fitness DVDs for Ballroom Dancers.

We have the following upcoming productions:

Yoga Alignment – Christina Castelanelli of YogaPuri
KettleDance – Aubreigh & Kelly
PIlates for Ballroom Dancers – Angelica Ochoa
Sword Fighting – Matt Hackney
Boxing – Matt Hackney
The Figure 8 – Matt Hackney

Ballroom Dancing

krashnik — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:03:05 +0000

Here’s a video of Erica Colvin & I doing a foxtrot.

I’m a professional ballroom dancer. I’d love to learn other forms of dance. Please contact me if you want to trade styles – I’m always interested in learning new things.