Houston
Houston Highland Village

Brent & Cassie Gallagher

West U Fitness

Brent and Cassie Gallagher are recognized performance coaches and personal trainers who inspire individuals to become their personal best. They own West U Fitness in Houston Texas, where their world class team focuses on personal training, Pilates, sports performance and nutrition to help transform the bodies, minds and spirits of a broad clientele. Brent travels with the PGA Tour as well. He provides strength and conditioning programs for dozens of the world's top golfers. Cassie enjoys training all clientele, but has a great niche for training women that want to be challenged and pushed to be their best. She wants all women to believe that they can be in great shape after having children and as they age. Cassie instills that feeling great about yourself is not over. You can... Read the profile >>

Hank Richardson

DEFINE: body&mind

Henry “Hank” Richardson is the Senior Instructor for D E F I N E: body & mind. Hank is a former All-American and National Team Member for the sport of Springboard and Platform Diving. After a successful career as a scholarship diver, Hank graduated from the University of Florida and moved to New York City where he joined the program Teach For America to teach 6th grade children in the South Bronx, NY. As a school teacher, Hank was surprised that his old injuries from diving were still causing him discomfort. With the encouragement of a friend, Hank found himself taking his first Pilates/Yoga/Ballet hybrid class, at the spa, exhale, in New York City. Sixty minutes and lots of shaking later, he found a method of exercise he knew would change his life. Six months later, he found... Read the profile >>

Roger and Albina Rippy

YogaOne Studios

Roger Rippy Roger grew up near Fort Worth, Texas, where practicing yoga was not commonplace and where, as a male, it could quite possibly have gotten you beaten up. So, in high school, he played basketball and ran hurdles and messed about with football a bit. As he grew older, he got interested in running and triathlon. He attended his first yoga class (hot yoga!) with Albina in 2001 and has been a passionate student of yoga ever since. His yoga background is in Bikram and Ashtanga. His current yoga crushes are Ashtanga, Forrest Yoga and Vinyasa Flow. He loves music, art, literature, red wine, dark chocolate and the great outdoors and tries not to take himself too seriously. Yoga has changed his entire outlook on life and helped prepare him both for being a husband and a father as... Read the profile >>

Stacey Ramsower

Joy Yoga, Freneticore Dance Company

Stacey Ramsower discovered yoga at the age of 14 on a VHS tape in her living room and has been practicing ever since. Yoga is a means of maintaining a spiritual connection to herself and her surroundings, and also a vehicle for communicating the value of self-love and reflection to others. Read the profile >>