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Chuck Zebrowski
Chuck began taking yoga class in 2002 and started teaching in 2006. He completed his 200-hour teacher training at Tranquil Space where he teaches today. Chuck loves the outdoors - climbing, biking, and hiking. He has also taken the level 1 and 2 Thai yoga massage training through Lotus Palm school. Read the profile >>
Debbie Miller
Debbie Miller has been dedicated to proactively changing lives through health and fitness for the past 25 years. As a personal trainer, group instructor, fitness consultant and fitness educator, she has inspired clients, students, and fitness colleagues nationwide. Initially involved in medical health management, Debbie focused her training on those with special needs, such as obesity, arthritis, cardiac rehabilitation and the elderly. Currently, she volunteers her time leading exercise classes for those with cancer, and dedicates a large portion of her personal training work toward those battling or recovering from cancer. Selected as a Master Instructor for Spinning® in 1997, Debbie has been a cycling instructor for 15 years and is a close friend of Johnny G, the founder and... Read the profile >>
Ewunike Akpan
Having always been active, adventurous and constantly seeking new challenges, Ewunike decided to enter the 1999 AIDS Ride from Raleigh, NC, to Washington, DC. This bike ride was sure to push her physically, while allowing her the opportunity to participate in a very important cause. In order to prepare herself to meet the physical challenges of the long ride, Ewunike trained for six months with a group of people who were also participating in the event. She signed up for Spinning classes and made a commitment to hit the gym daily. The more she trained, the better she felt, and the more she learned about body conditioning, and weight and endurance training, the more “hooked” she became! Ewunike read books, shadowed experts, and incorporated everything she was learning into my... Read the profile >>
Josh Courage
Josh is a personal trainer and strength and conditioning coach based out of Washington, DC. Using his background of professional baseball, marathons, ultramrathon, climbing, martial arts and yoga, Josh has formed a unique and highly sought after style of training. His training methods have been featured on Fox5 and he trains people of all ages, shapes and sizes. His athletic background and recent partnership with Headfirst Sports has made him the go-to strength coach for high school athletes in the DC area. Specializing in Movement Enhancement, Josh works with clients and groups on proper alignment and building strength, power, flexibility, endurance, balance, stabilization, speed and agility. Josh believes that health, fitness and activity should be a constant journey in... Read the profile >>
Lana Beex
Having practiced different styles of yoga over the years Lana never knew the impact it would eventually have on her life. “I found yoga and then it found me and it keeps finding me - even when I don’t want it to!” A classically trained dancer, Lana left the world of dance to pursue a life in science which eventually brought her to Washington, DC. Unfulfilled by the direction her life was heading, she left graduate school to explore on a deeper level something she had always had an intense curiosity for and connection with, yoga. She received her teaching certification from the Down Dog Yoga Teacher Training program with Patty Ivey this past year. After teaching her first community class she was hooked! “There are so many things in life that interest me and pique my curiosity. I... Read the profile >>
Mimi Rieger
Mimi Rieger is a RYT with Yoga Alliance and the Regional Director of Budokon and the founder of PureFitnessDC. After discovering yoga at as a teenager then re-connecting with it in her twenties, Mimi discovered the source of her physical foundation. After receiving her yoga certification from the Ashtanga Yoga Center in DC in 2002, Mimi continued to explore more challenging and equally invigorating physical paths. Tae Kwon Do then Budokon came into her life and invited in the yang to balance the yin that was ever-present in her practice. With a background in dance and a variety of physical practices, Mimi found her strength and connectivity in her Budokon practice and passionately spreads its valuable message in her community! Mimi has studied with many notable teachers as she travels... Read the profile >>
Runqiao and Erin Du
Runqiao and Erin Du are both dancers with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, a creation of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Runqiao, of Shanghai, China, received his academic and ballet training at Shanghai Dance Academy where he was awarded scholarships and graduated with honors as well as receiving a bronze medal in the junior division of the China National Ballet Competition. In his professional career, he has performed with American Ballet Theater, Chautauqua Dance Company, Cincinnati Ballet, and Ballet Theatre of Lima (Peru). Currently, he is a guest artist with The Washington Ballet where he had an 18 year career as a principal dancer, performing various classical and neoclassical ballets, including the lead roles of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Oberon in A Midsummer... Read the profile >>
Tyrell Heaton
Tyrell Heaton has experience in a multitude of sports including competitive running, triathlon and skiing. In addition to coaching Olympic and NFL athletes he has coached more than 500 novice runners through the marathon and half-marathon distances. “It is the greatest feeling to be part someone’s life, helping them overcome mental and physical challenges and achieve their goals.” Ty has been invited as a guest speaker for marathons and has spoken alongside running legends Bill Rodgers, Frank Shorter, and Dick Beardsley, last fall he was featured on Fox News. He is a certified United States Track & Field Coach (USATF) and has coached at all levels including a 3 year stint as a track & field coach for the University of Minnesota. Currently Ty competes with the... Read the profile >>