Angie hails from the coastal town of Savannah, Georgia, refreshingly bringing her southern charm and genuine love and enthusiasm for fitness and yoga - right into the heart of Southern California. With over 20 years of teaching experience in the fitness industry, Angie effectively combines her experience as an "eye of the tiger" competitive athlete and as a "peaceful warrior" yogini into her popular style of teaching. Having a master's degree and every gold standard certification for training, Angie is known for "seamlessly weaving elements of athleticism, discipline, strength, flexibility, and grace" into each challenging yoga class and fitness session. She currently trains clients daily in and around the surrounding Los Angeles area specializing in strength and core... Read the profile >>
Growing up in Santa Cruz, CA Andrea Marcum’s earliest career aspiration was to be a fairy-princess. While the other kids at her Montessori school were inside acquiring math skills, she dressed up in frilly costumes and sang on the swings outside. Years later, still lacking math ability, and in search of a sensible career, she moved south to attend USC, and stumbled into her first yoga class in the early 90’s at the local gym. Since then, Andrea has studied with some of the best, including Annie Carpenter, Tim Miller and Vinnie Marino. She enjoys many styles of yoga, but it’s the sweaty intensity of vinyasa that she finds herself most drawn to. Andrea’s class is a rigorous but intelligent flow, with an emphasis on alignment and equal parts sweat and laughter. She proudly opened... Read the profile >>
Chris Chavez, lululemon Elite Ambassador, Yoga Alliance: E-RYT 500, RYT 500, RYS 500, RYS 200; Certified Anusara Instructor 2006-2012 Chris Chavez first began the practice of Iyengar Yoga in Ireland, where he was touring as a professional musician in the mid 1990’s. While traversing the globe playing music and studying various other methods of yoga, Chris imparted the knowledge and the gift of yoga upon everyone he met. In 2001, Chris landed in Los Angeles, California, where he submerged himself into the practice and study of yoga and began to teach and build community. Certified as an Anusara Instructor between 2006 and 2012, Chris is known for his extensive studies, his vast working knowledge of the mind and body, and his great personable demeanor. Chris is... Read the profile >>
Jennifer, originally from Philadelphia then on to NYC, has been practicing yoga for ten years. Starting with Iyengar, she discovered that yoga helped her in healing many aspects of her life: from depression to injuries from being a runner. She combines her love of words and poetry, music, and the healing arts in her classes. Classes are challenging , yet completely personal. Each class is different; depending on the students' energy, mood, level, and time of day/year. Jennifer knows that yoga helped change her life, allowing her to become more compassionate and to simply get quieter in the mind. The transformative quality of it is what intrigues her most. Her first yoga class was with Pagan 10 years ago and she credits him with turning her on to the gift of yoga. Jen knows you have to... Read the profile >>
Juliet Kaska Fitness, Emerson Hall Fitness
Biography Longevity ~ Enjoyment ~ Balance ~ Harmony Growing up in Pennsylvania, Juliet was always active, enjoying outdoor activities like camping, rock climbing, and hiking, as well as more classical studies such as ballet. At age 13, she was accepted into the Shore Ballet Company, an extension of London’s Royal Academy. With her extensive dance background, it was a natural fit for Juliet to become certified in Pilates, a discipline focused on core strength, elongation, and grace. After her stay at American University in Washington DC, she moved to Los Angeles, and became a duel certified personal trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine and the American Council on Exercise, shortly thereafter she became a certified Pilates instructor. Juliet opened Emerson... Read the profile >>
Equinox West Hollywood
Natalie started her life struggling with serious asthma and became very motivated to overcome the ailment. She was so adamant about overcoming the asthma that she started working out intensely, doing martial arts, and wrestling professionally! Today, with 10 years of experience, hundreds of classes, thousands of students, and videos behind her, Natalie is well known across Los Angeles for her very exciting, high energy classes that focus on simple top-notch workouts. Her cardio kickboxing, booty and abdominal, and spin classes are always filled to capacity because of her unique ability to get people to give 100% each and every time. No matter what level of fitness her students are, Natalie's students always excel above and beyond their expectations and achieve their goals - just like she... Read the profile >>
www.rezalutionfitness.com Rezalution Fitness is all about promoting fitness and health in every day life. A healthy mind, body, attitude and sweat are ingredients for a healthy lifestyle. Rezalution fitness is about identifying goals and reaching them, sharing great local instructors, trainers, and health professionals that are contributing to the community. Read the profile >>
Physique57
Sophie Olson is French Canadian from Cornwall Ontario Canada. She began dancing at the early age of 3 and left home at age 15 to study modern dance at De La Salle Performing Arts High School in Ottawa Ontario. She continued her performing arts education at Randolph Academy in Toronto and then The Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria BC. Upon graduation, Sophie worked for Disney Cruise Lines, Tokyo Disneyland and performed internationally in musical theater. Sophie has been a dance teacher for over 15 years, has taught various types of fitness, and holds a teaching certification for Turbo Kick Boxing and Yoga. Sophie is presently a choreographer for Hart Pulse Dance Co. and is the founder of S.O.D.E (Sophie Olson Dance Explosion), a dance company that creates short films using... Read the profile >>
Adversity has the power to reshape our perspective on life, molding us into something more than we were before we faced our challenge. We know everyone faces obstacles, but how we decide to overcome those obstacles helps to measure who we are as a possibility in life. Steve has had a lifelong of obstacles that has helped shape him into his role of America’s Fitness Ambassador. One of Steve’s biggest obstacles in life was while he was earning his degree in Kinesiology at the University of Maryland and experienced a harrowing accident that nearly claimed his life. Nothing can seem more challenging than overcoming brain surgery, facial paralysis, brain damage, hearing loss, and a loss of smell, at the peak of his life, but Steve refused to give up. Steve’s possibility of love and... Read the profile >>
