Zumba, a cardio workout set to a Latin beat, grows in appeal in L.A.
Friday, April 3, 2015 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
It's Friday evening at the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple in downtown Los Angeles, but there's no Zen quiet here. Instead, Latin-inflected hip-hop thumps from a basement room, where about 30 men and women follow teacher Nelly Villegas through a series of squats, grapevines and box steps.