As Told by Dani

Monday night, I filmed for BodyBalance. Needless to say, it was pretty eventful but let’s start from the beginning.

First, what is BodyBalance? BodyBalance is a pre-choreographed yoga based fitness class that blends yoga moves, Tai Chi, and Pilates. There’s a process to becoming an instructor, which you can learn more about here. Long story short, to become certified you must go through a weekend training (virtual/in person) and then film yourself teaching in front of a class.

The morning of filming, I was a nervous WRECK (I’m starting to feel like this is a common theme of mine). Normally, I don’t get nervous teaching/talking in front of people; however shove a camera in my face – game over!

I obsessed about filming all day – it was to the point where I thought about pushing it back completely. However, I knew I was prepared and had to trust the practice I put in was enough to get me through.

Nighttime came and the countdown officially began. Before filming for BodyBalance, I had to teach BodyCombat (which I will delve into in a different post). My insanely crazy self decided to choose the most lethal tracks that I surely regretted afterwards – I mean I taught a jam packed 58 min class.

After BodyCombat, I had to rush downstairs to set up for filming. If I had one word to describe how I felt: FRAZZLED. I was a hot A%$ mess drenched in sweat and hair an absolute catastrophe (you just had to be there).

I had 5 minutes to get it together but anxiety started kicking in. The music starts and internally I’m thinking a million thoughts at once. And then the worst thing that could possibly happen during filming happened: my phone stops recording during track 2 (shout out to Steve for catching it). So I had to start from the beginning using my mom’s phone (shout out to momma dukes for the constant support).

To be honest, I’m so lucky for that mishap – it allowed for my nerves to subside and determination take over to get through filming. By the end, I was so relieved to finish and the second take did what needed to be done. I was so proud, I wanted to cry because this program is so out of my wheelhouse.

Now, is probably the hardest part – waiting for feedback and finding out whether I passed, which can take up to 2 weeks. Until then, check out some still shots I captured from filming.