Today we’d like to introduce you to Betsy Dopico Hernandez.
Betsy Dopico is a Zumba® Education Specialist.
Since the early age of four, Betsy has been studying and performing dance focusing on modern, classic and Latin rhythms. Born in Cuba, she participated in countless Dance Competitions and Festivals. She also holds a degree in music (Piano) and has won many awards for her musical talent. Betsy studied Philosophy and Literature at the UCLV, in Santa Clara, her hometown city in Cuba. Betsy Dopico and Zumba creator Beto Perez own B2 Studio Boutique™ in Miami, Florida and from 2015 she was leading B2xpress / The House of Happiness, her own Studio. She believes that the challenges will create and improve new concepts and ideas. She is an active influencer in her Community and her plan is making trendy the happiness in a global movement.
Now she is redirecting her interest into the life and spiritual Coaching field and she is learning healing techniques as Reiki and Su-jok. Based on this, she is working in her Project: Movement & Intention, a new capsule focused on bringing tools to elevate the awareness of our physical, emotional and spiritual bodies and how to manage the energy to the next level in every single corporal activity. Her goal is to make people feel and understand how the body can manifest itself, achieves better results and balance, using the power of intention during workouts, dance activities or any type of movement. Creating then, with this powerful awakening, connectors all over the world. As a dreamer, she works hard every day to make her dreams come true.
Betsy has been featured in shows as CNN, Despierta America, Premios Lo Nuestro, Billboard Award Alma Awards, amongst others. She is featured in several ZIN™ Volumes and has performed at several Fitness-Concert™ events with artists such as Pitbull, Wyclef Jean, Wisin, Don Omar, Sean Paul, Gente de Zona, Daddy Yankee, amongst others. She has presented at several conventions and expos and now she travels the world as a Zumba® Education Specialist and International Presenter.
LICENSED TO TEACH:
– ZUMBA BASIC 1
– ZUMBA BASIC 2
– ZUMBA KIDS
– ZUMBA SENTAO
– ZUMBA STEP
– ZUMBA TONING
– ZUMBA GOLD
– ZUMBA PRO SKILLS
– ZUMBA CONVENTION PRESENTER (2009 – 2019)
PERFORMANCES:
ZUMBA ZIN (30, 33, 38, 39, 41, 59,86)
ZUMBA FITNESS CONCERT – ORLANDO (2008 – 2019)
ZUMBA FITNESS CONCERT – LONDON – 2011
ZUMBA FITNESS CONCERT – LOS ANGELES – 2013
CARNAVAL CALLE 8 2011 – UNIVISION
ALMA AWARDS – 2011
PREMIOS LO NUESTRO – 2013
PREMIOS BILLBOARD – 2013
TV SHOWS at UNIVISION, TELEMUNDO, TELEVISA, CNN.
FITNESS CONVENTIONS & FAIRS (MAXIMA CONVENTION, IHRSA, FRANCE, MEDELLIN, AFIC, ETC)
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
No, I don’t think it has been smooth but blessed for sure. I left my country with 19 years old. I never saw my grandma (second mom) again. I was separated from my family for many years because of political laws. I have being a migrant and that is hard in every country you start a Life. I had to start many times and I think I continue restarting today. I had my first baby, Pablo, in 2002. My mom was in Cuba so, alone in Mexico, I learned to be a mom thanks to magazines, calls and instincts. I lost a baby in 2004. In 2007 I crossed the borders pregnant of my second child, my daughter Camila, I crossed to US because of the insecurity in Mexico (I got some really threatening calls). I had to start working from zero in US one more time.
My parents both of them were in Mexico, finally! Now they needed to do the same to come to US with me. I got divorced in 2010, being practically a mom and dad for my kids all those years, it haven’t been easy but always a big bless. My “not very good looking” English has seem as a big limitation but at the same time, it forced me to be brave and believe in what I have to say instead of how I am going to say it. For four times, I’ve changed my Studio location and I had struggled with many walls that could make me quick but my passion and motivation keep me going forward. I finally closed the studio because I found the house of happiness moves with me everywhere I go. I have to learn a lot yet and despite that, my priority is my family and being a mom, I feel a clear purpose through my work: making the happiness trendy for everyone and make everyone aware of how we can heal through movement with intent. So here we go…
We’d love to hear more about your work and what you are currently focused on. What else should we know?
I have been a Zumba Education Specialist for 15 years. I studied Life Coaching, Reiki and now I learned from the best teacher I could find on this trip: Meenakshy Suri. Writing I am Movement and intention (moving our physical body we are also moving our electromagnetic field and if we are aware of this and we are aware of what part of our body is related to each of our emotions we can increase the results and obtain a balance that will demonstrate by achieving complete well-being.
Has luck played a meaningful role in your life and business?
Good luck always. Angels vs falls.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.betsydopico.com
- Phone: 3059893743
- Email: betsydopicoweb@gmail.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betsydecuba/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/betsy.dopico/
Image Credit:
Zumba, Scott Chitoff, John Alexander, Picsfotografia, Pablo Rojas
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