Stephanie Brown Kegler of Fayetteville has lengthy used faith-centered dance health to maneuver the neighborhood. She’s taught 1000’s of lessons at space recreation facilities, native church buildings and on-line — however now she has a spot of her personal.
Kegler’s Dancing With out Sin Motion Middle opened March 2 at 208 Campbell Ave., a 2,500-square-foot residence inbuilt 1910. Kegler, 53, leads teams of as much as 50 folks in dance and resistance coaching to a mixture of conventional gospel songs, gospel hip-hop and rap, she stated. She additionally gives private coaching periods and meal preparation companies.
Kegler plans to host a slew of occasions on the heart: small enterprise Saturdays, the place attendees can store native distributors after a exercise; a lip-synching competitors; and a proper dance the place attendees can dress up for a enjoyable night time out.
Kegler, who’s a full-time housing property supervisor at Fort Bragg when she’s not on the dance ground, stated she began as a Zumba teacher in 2009. Six years later, she began her enterprise, Dancing With out Sin, to advertise wellness within the Christian neighborhood, she stated.
“It’s to attempt to get extra of our church of us shifting,” Kegler stated. “If you give them gospel music, they’ll do something they should do to get wholesome.”
Her lessons, nonetheless, are open to anybody who desires to placed on their dancing footwear and shake their hips in a constructive atmosphere with out alcohol and expletives, she stated. Kegler has led blind folks, kids, seniors and Muslim girls in motion, she stated.
Kegler, who’s a member of New Beginnings Christian Church on Reilly Highway, plans to supply a certification program for “motion ministers,” to deliver Dancing With out Sin-style health lessons everywhere in the state and the nation, she stated.
“The aim is to get the entire world shifting,” Kegler stated.
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Transferring the neighborhood
Kegler stated her hashtag and mantra #MovePeople has a double which means — it encourages folks to get off the sofa and transfer their our bodies, but additionally to take motion to enhance their communities, she stated.
“There’s all the time one thing you are able to do,” she stated.
Dancing With out Sin holds an annual September occasion, Well being & Health Most cancers Consciousness, she stated. Final 12 months, it raised $2,800 for Most cancers Phi Free, a company that helps girls with breast most cancers and their households, she stated. This 12 months, the occasion shall be held Sept. 16 at John D. Fuller Recreation Middle.
Kegler stated she additionally reveals up for her neighborhood by means of meals.
Since 2010, she has cooked a Thanksgiving meal for residents of Randolph Pointe, the Fort Bragg condo complicated for single troopers that she manages. Not too long ago, she stated, she cooked a meal for 20 of Dancing With out Sin’s closest supporters.
“I don’t like to prepare dinner, however I like to serve,” she stated.
With a location of her personal and help for her mission, she plans to maintain shifting the neighborhood, she stated.
“I thank God,” she stated. “It’s simply superb I used to be capable of pull this off.”
Reporter Taylor Shook could be reached at[email protected].