Carlisle woman raves her way to losing 13 stone after 'Clubbercise'

Aleasha Wallace is a fitness instructor and the owner of 'Clubbercise' in Carlisle.

The classes have been running for almost six years, and it wasn’t long until Aleasha could drop her old job and don her nineties-themed UV Neon classes full time.

She said: "I’m a professional dancer and I was looking for a place to teach adults dance, and was on my own weight journey at the time, the more I looked, the more I realised there was a gap in the market for this.

"A lot of people feel really judged when they start the gym, they feel self-conscious and I feel at times that can hold them back and stop them going all together, sadly.

"That’s when I thought, I’m going to hold my own club dancing completely in the dark, glowsticks only."

"It’s basically like a night out, without the heels and without the hangover.

"It’s all nineties tunes and it doesn’t matter if you think you’re un-coordinated and can’t dance, nobody can see remember! Just go mad and enjoy yourself!"

She continued: "It’s incredible to see people’s confidence as the weeks go on, they usually start at the back all dressed in black, and as the weeks go on they start moving to the front and start wearing nineties neon and UV paint and really getting into it, it’s incredible to watch!

"Our queen of Clubbercise is a lady called Tracey Hewitt who actually lost thirteen stone during the classes.

"Before we knew it she looked like a completely different people, it’s incredible, we’re all so proud of her."

There are at last four rooms in the activity centre that are completely blacked out, and the classes are for people of all levels of fitness, beginners to advanced.