Alyson Marlow (Aly)
Aly embodies an authentic style of teaching and her mission is to have you glowing with good vibes after her classes. She is a Zumba instructor with 5 years of experience facilitating different group exercises. Some of those experiences include dancing in Boliva and The Philippines during part of her international social work career. Her classes include a mix of salsa, hip hop, reggaeton, edm and more. She encourages body awareness and facilitates a space to release and have fun while also getting your cardio on. Expect to leave each class with more vibrance in your body and a smile on your face!
Zumba every Tuesday @ 9:30am (in person)
Amina Soubra
Amina is a certified yoga teacher with over 16 years of yoga practice & 25 years in ballet/jazz/modern dance & training expertise in the art of movement. Her yoga training entails nourishing your organs w/ breathing exercises that align w/ yoga poses. She provides a variety of yogic breathing practices, tailored for your needs. She is also trained in Yoga Nidra, a focus on sleep meditation for individuals suffering from insomnia as well as yoga for eating disorders (ED). Her specialty in yoga practice includes Yin & restorative yoga, vinyasa all levels, vin-yin(gentle yoga), Hatha Yoga, & Bhakti yoga.
She currently continues her yoga training to reach her goal as a certified yoga therapist.
As an advocate for healthy body image, holistic health and wellness, she teaches yoga as a way to promote courage, confidence, holistic self-care & healing.
Yin & Restorative Yoga every Sunday @ 5pm (in person)
Carah Herring
Carah has taught Group Exercise classes for over a decade. Her love of fitness stems from her extensive dance background, which includes years of classical ballet, modern, African, tap, jazz and liturgical dance training. Carah also served as the Group Exercise Coordinator at UC Berkeley’s Recreational Sports Facility for nearly 5 years.
Before becoming a bona fide gym rat, Carah earned her bachelor’s degree in Communication from Bennett College for Women (Greensboro, NC). She also completed her master’s degree in Journalism from UC Berkeley. She enjoys traveling, watching documentaries and reading/contributing to personal finance blogs.
Body Performance
Mondays @ 6:15am
Senior Fitness
Wednesday @ 9:45am (online)
Wednesday @ 11:00am (in person)
Emily Park
Emily Park is a seasoned, group fitness instructor whose teaching style is educational and encouraging. She welcomes all ages, body types, and identities in her mixed-level classes; and she is appreciated for offering personalized feedback. Emily coaches her students to integrate awareness, alignment, and core activation for optimal movement.
Emily first encountered Pilates in 1999 as a tool for injury prevention during her professional training as a circus performer. After a car accident in 2003, she experienced the rehabilitative benefits of Pilates and became a fully certified Pilates instructor and personal trainer.
Outside the studio, Emily is a nature enthusiast and performing artist; she is equally at home swimming in the bay and hiking as she is onstage embodying her inner drag king.
Pilates Mat Class
Mondays, Wednesdays @ 9:00am
Fridays @ 9:30am
Heather Alaine Meyer
Heather Alaine is a passionate wellbeing coach who believes deeply in the transformative power of reflection, connection, gratitude, laughter, and movement to live a fuller life.
Growing up in Rota, Spain, she began her professional dance journey and has studied various styles, including modern, ballet, folkloric, and hip-hop. When she moved to the Bay Area in 1997, she expanded her movement practice to include Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing, and more. Over time, Heather developed her own unique fusion of movement expression.
Her commitment to learning and wellness led Heather to become a certified personal trainer, massage practitioner, and yoga teacher. She is currently working on another certification in sleep, stress management, and recovery through Precision Nutrition.
As a wellness enthusiast, she is dedicated to exploring the connections between brain and body and believes that aging can be a journey filled with radical self-love, strength, and grace. Heather’s 84-year-old mom has been a testament to this belief, participating in Heather’s online strength classes for the past four years with great enthusiasm.
In addition to teaching a variety of movement classes, Heather serves as a Wellness Coach and movement teacher for U.C. Berkeley staff, is the creator and leader of Hermosas Retreats, and an author of READY, a book on the journey to self-love.
In her downtime, Heather Alaine enjoys soaking in a hot tub, hiking in the redwoods, and savoring champagne and tapas.
Senior Fitness
Mondays @ 9:30am (online)
Mondays @ 11am (in person)
Jesse Lezama
Bachelor of Science Kinesiology (Human Movement)
NASM Certified Personal Trainer
NASM Senior Fitness Specialist
AAHF Pre/Post Natal Exercise Specialist
Schwinn Certified Cycling Instructor
Professional MMA Fighter
TRX Circuit
Mondays @ 5:30pm (in person)
Jim Eagle
Jim Eagle brings more than 11 years of boxing experience both in and out of the ring. He is a USA Boxing Certified Trainer. For many years, he taught in the SOMA area and then moved over to World Class Boxing Gym. He is now at Hitfitsf.com which is located in the heart of the mission in SF. Jim has taught one on one and group classes. He can teach both technique and cardio intensive. Jim will ensure you learn all aspects of boxing from hand wrapping to sparring.
Boxing BootCamp
Tuesdays @ 6:00pm (in person)
Lisa Fernandez
Lisa Fernandez has been teaching group exercise for 30 years. She teaches spin, sculpt, Aqua, yoga and Pilates. She thinks exercise should be fun and she teaches her classes with enthusiasm and laughter.
When she’s not doing aerobics, Lisa is a journalist at KTVU Channel 2. She lives in Oakland with her husband and has two grown children.
Sweat & Flow
Sundays @ 11am
Mondays @ 4:15pm
Mozell Ward (MoMo)
Mozell Ward, known as “MoMo”, is an Oakland/Vallejo rooted yoga and dance practitioner. MoMo has spent a little over a decade perfecting their authentic expression of movement as an artist. They specialize in Vinyasa, Chair Yoga, and Dance Fitness Cardio. Their first introduction to yoga was during community college during 2012. In 2018, they took a leap into their 200 hr yoga training alongside Breath4Change because of their interest with centering educators. Shortly after, MoMo began teaching community based restorative yoga and Vinyasa flows in St. Louis Missouri during her graduate studies. MoMo returned to the Bay Area and led yoga with dance fitness.
Currently, MoMo is obsessed with mat pilates, somatic embodied dance and storytelling with movement. What makes their classes unique is every class is tailored to their love for pop culture, theater and play. Often MoMo brings dance props to inspire us to get out of our heads and into our bodies. They believe our bodies hold stories, stories that deserve reclamation.
Dance Jam
Saturdays @ 9am
Nikki Verhoff
Nikki Verhoff began her exploration into yoga in 1997, while studying dance in college. A life-long mover, Nikki’s first foray into asana practice was both a support for, and a release from, a very physically demanding lifestyle. At the same time, and for more than a decade, Nikki has trained in traditional Japanese karate, which has brought with it a commitment to seated meditation as an important instrument to understanding the Self. These days, her interest in yoga has evolved to include an ongoing study of pranayama and the subtlety and power of the breath. In class, Nikki taps into the physical and philosophical influences these experiences have brought her to create an integrated practice with a focus on alignment, breath, and mindfulness. Nikki is a recent graduate of the Piedmont Yoga Deep Yoga Undergraduate Program.
Hatha Yoga
Tuesdays @ 8:30am (virtual)
Tim Weekes
Tim Weekes has worked as a fitness instructor in the Bay Area since for over 20 years. He teaches Indoor cycling, Interval-based treadmill workout, Pilates Mat, Bootcamp, Body Conditioning, and Les Mills Body Pump and Core. His philosophy of teaching group fitness classes can be described as engaging members in perfect mix of fun and hard work. Just breathe and smile!
Les Mills CORE
Tuesdays @ 7pm
Vanessa Vasquez
Vanessa resides in Berkeley CA and has a BA degree in Kinesiology with a concentration in Exercise, Wellness, and Nutrition. She has been in the fitness industry for over 10 years and holds a bunch of cool certifications like TRX, Schwinn, indoor rowing, Personal Training (NASM), Yoga and plenty more! Something that people do not know about her is that she is involved in MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), and trains at an MMA gym in South San Francisco under UFC legend and champion Gilbert Melendez called the “El Nino Training Center”. Her commitment to everyone who takes her class is for them to leave feeling like their best self ever, and unleashing a potential that they did not know they were capable of.
Senior Fitness
Wednesdays @ 11am (in-person)
TRX + HIIT
Thursdays @ 5:30 – 6:30pm