I was an instructor with Zumba for almost nine years and I just felt as though I wanted to be involved with something more faith-based and so instead of just finding my own music and my own choreography, I wanted to be surrounded by a community who felt the same way.

I got to teach Revelation Wellness classes

for my friends that are in special needs classes. I get to go to them in their

own facilities or they come to me in a class that I have created for them.

And it's just so nice to be able to talk about these things

about identity and where our hope comes from

with this group of people who might not even know that and might be told differently by the world around them.

I think my friends with special needs, they often go through the day feeling excluded.

They, people might focus on their weaknesses,

whether it's physical or social.

And when we get to come together and have a rev class, we are including everyone and they all

know that they are a child of God and that they are loved and valued.

And so once we put that into motion, it just brings it about in a new way that just being in a classroom or just sitting there telling them that they're loved,

it's so much different

what you put in the movement, which most of them love to do anyways.

And it's just so good for our brains and our hearts and our bodies.

So you get to put it all in together.

So we're bringing the body and the spirit into one experience.

There's so much support so if you wanted to teach a class with people with

special needs there are other people in the family who are

doing that as well so we can bounce ideas off of each other. But if you want to have say a

meet-up those materials are available to you.

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