Aulakh, Rahat, MD

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Physicians & Surgeons, Mental Health Services, Physicians & Surgeons, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism

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Aulakh, Rahat, MD

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It was my 15-year sobriety birthday, so you know what happened in the past. And, I joined a gym. I spent so much of my time destroying my body that I said, yah, after fifteen years of sobriety, why not start taking care of it! I tried all the fitness classes, including yoga. Zumba was probably the worst one. The other things were basic exercise, cross-fit, boot camp, all that stuff I could do, but Zumba I couldn’t. It’s a long story but something happened in that class, besides the shame of being the only male and that I couldn’t do it, something happened. I felt joy, like I felt when I was high. So, I thought I have to go back, it’s got to get easier, now that I did it once, I know what to expect. But it was actually worse. And, my whole life was all about if I couldn’t do something the first time, I didn’t do it. I majored in truancy and all these crazy things. But something drove me to keep trying. I you-tubed some Salsa videos. There was a certain move called the Beto Shuffle (single, single, double), and I just couldn’t do it, drove me crazy. I have no idea why. What I used to tell people is that what I lack in skill I make up for in enthusiasm. It felt like a party. The other classes just faded away, Zumba stayed. Zumba is sort of an evolution of Jazzercise. But there’s something about Zumba that even to this day, I notice that is so different from other fitness programs. Besides that element of joy, it’s that everyone is an expert on themselves and there is no limit on what you can do. What Zumba does as a whole, globally, is a thing called Zumba Love, literally trying to change the world and make the world a better place. One “single-single double” at a time. There are some “negative” side-effects of Zumba, like chronic happiness, weight loss, increased community, increased energy – so if you want any of those things, do it! If you don’t, stay away. And, again, it’s really changed a lot, it’s changed me completely. It’s kind of doing the same thing for other people.

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