When you think about turning up the music and dancing until you’re so exhausted that your mind finally slows down, how do you feel?

Relieved.

Rejoiced.

Free.

This is exactly what Tara Newbigging aims to achieve with her fitness program, BooTy.

As Tara and I got on Skype to talk about her journey to develop BooTy, she was all smiles. I’ve taken classes with Tara and she seriously never stops smiling. Her energy is fierce, and her passion for empowering and liberating women seeps through her pores. Her happiness is kind of contagious.

So when I decided to start a podcast for new yoga teachers to help guide them in a direction that makes them happy, I immediately thought of Tara.

She’s been in the fitness industry teaching and training people for over 10 years. She began as a personal trainer, and then got trained to teach Zumba, and finally took her yoga teacher training. She spent quite a few years doing personal training, and teaching Zumba, but she has never really been a “yoga teacher” as most people define it. She has taken the elements that she learned through her personal training, her Zumba training and her yoga teacher training and created something completely outside of the box.

“I was going through a lot of personal stuff, and one day I went to the studio, cranked the music and just moved. Two hours later, I realized I was onto something,” she told me.

She ran with the idea, and began creating choreography with workouts and yoga poses intertwined throughout to songs that are catchy, fun, and inspiring. She called it BooTy.

Something that started as one woman’s emotional release is now something that is being taught in multiple locations in Canada by various teachers, who are seeking to smile, sweat and have fun through movement. Each class is filled with women who want to move, dance and workout in a safe environment, and Tara has created just that.

Tara is the perfect example of someone who is asking “why not?” instead of “why?”. She wants something more out of life, and she isn’t afraid to chase her dreams, take risks and step outside of her comfort zone.

Just because you are a personal trainer or you’ve completed a yoga teacher training doesn’t mean that you are restricted to teaching within the confines of what you’ve learned.

Don’t believe me? Hear it from Tara yourself! Check out the episode here.