Deral Weir ~ Leeton, NSW, which is near Wagga Wagga ( the largest inland city in NSW ).
A Quick Fun Unique Fact About Deral:
I am a crazy Zumba instructor, who loves to inspire other women to accept themselves in the here & now with lots of booty shakin' fun! I love jumping on the trampoline with my three beautiful but very wild boys ( who keep me on my toes!), so I can feel like a kid again!
Why Deral LOVES to GROOVE/Why she loves The GROOVE Method:
I love The Groove Method because I feel it stands for everything I have spent the past three years working out for myself. I have danced all my life, as my mother owned a ballet school. From about the age of twelve, when I started to develop, my mother desperately tried to make me into the anorexic ballet dancer I was never meant to be. Up until eighteen months ago, I have endured an immense struggle with my body image & who the real me is meant to be. I have always thought, if only I was skinny, my life would be happy. By the age of eighteen, I joined the fitness industry and spent ten years obsessed with binging, spewing and slogging my guts out in the gym. At the age of twenty six I had my first child, at twenty nine my second, and at thirty three my third. I had given up slogging my guts out exercising, and was the over weight depressed house wife seeing no light at the end of the tunnel. When my youngest child turned one I discovered I was having another baby. Holy crap!!!! At twenty two weeks discovered the baby had chromosome abnormalities and was faced with having to make the gut wrenching decision. This was my slap in the face, my wake up call, my message from God. We called our little boy Malachi, cause it means messenger of God, and I know he is always with us. He was never meant for this world, but was here to put me on the road to self discovery & acceptance. You don't go threw something like that without doing a hell of a lot of soul searching. And soul searching I did, & did, & did!! I cried rivers, & rivers, & rivers. During this time I sort help from different healers such as kinesiologist and quantum bio healer with amazing incites into why I had to go threw what I went threw. During this process I have learned whole heartedly to love myself and accept myself just the way I am. I AM an amazing, beautiful women regardless of how thin or fat I am, how saggy my boobs are or how wide my arse is!!!! That does NOT define who I am. I am a soulful, spiritual woman who has learned to have compassion and empathy for myself and in doing so have realized that everyone else IS me. Our stories may be not be the same but we all feel the same pain. Once the light bulb turned on in my head and I got it, LOOK OUT cause there was no stopping me. Got my shit together and started helping others that I could see the same pain that I had felt in myself, only there were lots of different stories. From the woman at my kids school who was going threw a divorce with three young children, one of whom had cancer, to the school teacher who lost her husband ( I organized a meal roster for them and many others), to the little boy in Kenya who we now sponsor. The compassion I felt towards people who I didn't even really like was overwhelming. I wonted to save the world!! And then came ZUMBA!! Talk about the law of attraction! They came in the hundreds!! This was awesome because I felt I could kind of spread the message about loving and accepting yourself threw allowing the woman in my classes to let themselves go and instead of not wanting anything to wobble or wiggle and shake just letting do exactly that! How liberating! My husband and I have just purchased a gym and were going for a holistic approach. Get your mind and spirit healthy first and the rest will follow. That is why I love The Groove Method!
Why Deral LOVES her local community (what makes it unique and awesome?):
I love my community because they are always up for trying something new! They are generous people with not only their time but money, which I think makes them pretty unique and awesome. They love to have a great community spirit.
Deral's vision for where shed like to take the GROOVE in her local community:
I would like very much to see the Groove Method in my centre of course, but would love for every woman to get the Groove message. As I have taught dance myself for the past twenty years and in my area dance is BIG! Most girls dance. Both our school and the other dance school in the area have had students that have gone onto to make professional careers in dance, so it is huge. Lots also have eating disorders, so the Groove Method needs to get here and quick!! I also live at a boarding school and see first hand the other side of the spectrum. These kids ( those who don't have the drive and discipline to aspire to be fit and healthy or anorexic thin! ),are lazy and not interested in doing the hard slog. They need to know it doesn't have to be. The Groove Method makes it fun and for everyone which is awesome. It will teach both sides of the spectrum that there is a balance. I have worked at one of the doctors surgery's in my area and have seen first hand, we need to cater for the really overweight and unfit. Those that would never walk into a gym. I can see SO many area's the Groove Method will come into play and be the missing link to get people moving,be healthier and live much better lives because of it.
Why Deral wants to be a GROOVE Ambassador and two actions she forsees herself taking to help promote and spread awareness about The GROOVE Method:
I would like to be a Groove Ambassador because I am passionate about people, but more so women, learning to love and accept themselves as they are. I know that once they can look in the mirror and love themselves flaws and all they will discover who they really are and isn't that what we are all looking for? To let go of the " I'll be happy when"........ doesn't everyone wont to be happy NOW!!!!! if only they realized they can be happy NOW, when they let go of what they "think" they should be!! I have this passion for the world to get it. To let go and just MOVE any way they want too!! I would implement this in the gym, at the dance studio, at the boarding school, get the Dr's on board and travel as far and wide as I need to to spread THE GROOVE METHODS LOVE, cause I think this might just be my calling!!!! :)
