Zumba at Paradise Fitness brings physical and mental health benefits

I chose to move last year to a city I had never seen: Fallbrook.

I was still grieving, depressed and stuck in my life. My girlfriend had died two years earlier of breast cancer. I picked an apartment in walking distance to Club Paradise Fitness. Six months later, I had enough of the depression and walked into a Zumba class that helped bring me back to the living.

Though I had danced with some of the best in Hollywood, I wasn't prepared for this Zumba teacher's class. Her name is Perla. Her energy and smile let me know she was not an ordinary Zumba teacher and this was not an ordinary Zumba cla...