CrossFit Aspire
Justin McGinley is the owner and head coach at CrossFit Aspire in Cherry Hill, NJ. He loves the simplicity, variety, challenge and effectiveness of CrossFit. “We take useful movements, heavy weights, sprints, basic gymnastics, body weight circuits, and Olympic lifting, constantly vary the weights, the reps, the length of workouts, and the movements, and we do them as hard as we can.” He feels the best way to improve someone’s overall fitness is to identify, practice, and improve their weaknesses, and encourages clients to “make their weaknesses their strengths.” He is a Level 1 certified CrossFit Trainer, with additional certifications in Kettlebells, Olympic and Power lifting. Read the profile >>
Club Metro
Kim Jacobs has been in the fitness industry for more than 24 years. She holds certifications as an ACE Personal Trainer, AASDN Nutrition Specialist, & AFAA Group Exercise Instructor (with additional certifications from Johnny G Spin & TRX). Kim’s training style combines resistance and flexibility with cardio - the perfect combination for long, lean, sculpted muscles. She is passionate about fitness and believes we all deserve to be the best version of ourselves we can be. She currently offers private & group personal training sessions and teaches spinning, boxing, body sculpting & TRX. Read the profile >>
Cherokee High School
Marc Pelerin is a high school coach who still competes at various road races. He’s the owner of trainwithmarc.com – as an online running coach. Marc is also a paraprofessional and is going back to school to be a certified special education teacher. Read the profile >>
Anjali Power Yoga
Melanie McGovern was introduced to yoga in 2000 and was immediately hooked. She loved the mental and physical challenge that it gave her. Within a year of regular practice, she knew that her yoga journey would blossom into so much more. She became certified in 2002 and has had the amazing opportunity of teaching in Minnesota, Hawai’i, and New Jersey. Melanie’s natural curiosity has allowed her to take classes in a variety of different styles including Anusara, Bikram, and Vinyasa. This exploration allowed her to find Power Vinyasa Yoga. For Melanie, Power Vinyasa Yoga gave her both the physical and mental workout in a safe, fun, and challenging way. She completed a 200 hour certification with Johnna Smith in 2011. Melanie encourages her students to enjoy the practice as... Read the profile >>
Nicole came to find yoga after a running injury took her off the street, landing with an old friend on an old mat, fumbling through a few down dogs. Slowly, with perseverance, and commitment, she has come to love her asana practice. Looking back on life, Nicole doesn’t know how she survived without it. She trained the past several years with Baron Baptiste and truly appreciates the dialogue and the physicality of the Baptiste practice. It wasn’t until she committed to living her yoga each and every day that her life began to shift. In addition to teaching yoga, Nicole teaches art at Sacred Heart School in Camden, New Jersey. It is there that she truly practices the empowerment that she finds on her mat. Partnering creativity, movement and music make sense to Nicole,... Read the profile >>
Yogi Power Yoga
Piera took her first yoga class as a teenager in 1992, and while it was a memorable experience, she did not begin to practice in earnest until she found Power Yoga in 2006. Once she took that first Power Yoga class, she felt--as many devotees have described the feeling of finding their practice--as though she had come home. Her expressions of the asanas and attempts at pranayama breathing were far from perfect, but the experience as a whole felt incredibly right! Hooked on the body-mind-spirit connection that her yoga practice was fostering, Piera pursued the Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga teacher training program with Bill Raup at Baptiste-affiliate studio Power Yoga Works, hoping to broaden her understanding of yoga technique and philosophy, and to learn how to share that knowledge. ... Read the profile >>
Yogawood
While all of her high school classmates couldn't wait to get to the scrimmage part of field hockey practice, Rachelle quickly learned that she looked forward to the team runs. It wasn't long before she joined the cross country, indoor and outdoor track teams. "I started running with my mom when I was a kid," remembers Rachelle. In her 20's, chilly New Jersey winters drove her indoors for the warmth of a yoga studio. That spring, Rachelle noticed the tremendous benefits that her yoga practice had on her running performance. Within two years she received her Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training from Yogawood in Collingswood, NJ. Rachelle enjoys teaching everyone, especially athletes, the benefits of yoga through active, flowing and strength-building classes. In 2011, the warm New Jersey... Read the profile >>
Wanda’s yoga journey began over 15 years ago when she took her first yoga class from Baron Baptiste in his studio in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. After that she was hooked! Wanda then moved to Charlotte, North Carolina and began the journey to become a Baptiste Yoga teacher. Wanda opened her own yoga center in March 2001 and immersed herself into the community to bring Baptiste Power Yoga to each and every person in it. She became a yoga teacher for the Carolina Panthers, Red Bull Racing Team, NOMAD Aquatics Swim Team & North Mecklenburg Lacrosse team. Wanda offered free yoga classes to the homeless in our community and gave back in every way she could. Wanda loves this style of yoga is its simplicity, it speaks to every body. It is a simple avenue to transformation…..it begins... Read the profile >>
