Jerry Jefferson, RYT, CYI, CPT, CGEI

Co-founder of Living Fit Today, Inc, Jerry is a Kripalu Certified and Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher. He, also, maintains national certifications in aerobics (AFAA), Pilates Mat (PIA), and Spin© (Johnnie G); in addition to, specialty certifications from Bally Total Fitness in strength training, cardio kickboxing, Powerflex©, Pilates Mat, and Pilates Allegro. He has studied Yoga and meditation with world renowned teachers Seane Corne and Cyndi Lee. And, he has traveled internationally to teach Yoga. Through conferences, publications, and networking, Jerry continues to enhance his training.

Currently, Jerry hosts the TV fitness program, CityFit, aired daily on WPB TV18 in West Palm Beach. He and his co-host Therese designs and instructs half hour fitness programs for people of all fitness levels. He has been featured in the Palm Beach Post for his efforts to bring reasonably priced Yoga classes to the community, as well as for the efforts of Living Fit Today to raise money for breast cancer.

Jerry teaches several styles of Yoga, yet, the Kripalu philosophy of mindfulness is at the heart of every class. He believes that every moment practicing Yoga is an opportunity to become more self aware. “It is through our awareness of the interconnection between breath and movement that we cultivate our awareness of the interconnection we share with all living things.”

Jerry enjoys life no matter what the situation and strives to bring even a small smile to everyone he meets.

Living Fit Today, Inc.
West Palm Beach, FL
561-818-9517
jerry@livingfittoday.com

Therese Abair, RYT, CYI, CPT, CGEI

Therese, co-founder of Living Fit Today is a Certified Kripalu Yoga Instructor, a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher and a Certified Pilates Instructor. She has specialty training from Bally Total Fitness B-Fit University in Pilates Allegro, Pilates Mat, strength training (PowerFlex), cardio kickboxing (Kwando). Therese is also Silver Sneakers trained in Yoga, strength training and cardio for Seniors.

Currently, Therese can be viewed daily on WPTV Channel18, where she and her partner, Jerry, develop and instruct exercise shows for the City of West Palm Beach’s City Fit Program. You may have also seen her teaching Yoga on MTV. Throughout the year, she gives free classes in the community as well as donating time to do warm-ups for charitable organizations. Recently she was featured in the Palm Beach Post for her efforts, through Living Fit Today, to raise money for breast cancer. Continuing with the community in mind, her latest endeavor “West Palm Beach Yoga Day USA,” is shaping up to be her biggest accomplishment to date. As president and head of organization, she has taken “West Palm Beach Yoga Day USA,” a small studio event with 12 in attendance, and turned it into a community event with 125 in attendance the first year with expectations of 500 in the second.

Therese understands the challenges, frustration and need for support when beginning and continuing a fitness/wellness program. In 2002, she took charge of her own personal health in the midst of a challenging, stressful and timeline driven workload. The benefits included stress reduction, strength, increased productivity, self acceptance and a significant weight loss- over 60 pounds!

Her success with balancing both her professional and personal life has spawned a desire to educate and motivate others to do the same. She considers herself a perennial student of the Pilates and Yoga disciplines. She stays on top of the latest information and looks for ways to keep her clients motivated and learn self-awareness. Therese provides an environment that allows the student to delve to a deeper connection within that does not compromise safety or fun. She accomplishes this by utilizing her attention to detail with some humor while maintaining the group dynamics within the class.


Living Fit Today, Inc.
West Palm Beach, FL
561-281-5895;
therese@livingfittoday.com

Katherine Borse, RYT

Katherine began practicing yoga as a contemplative practice while studying Buddhism at Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO in 2000. In 2002 Katherine decided to take her practice deeper by partaking in her first teacher-training program in Nosara, Costa Rica with Don and Amba Stapleton. This one-month interdisciplinary yoga intensive, which emphasized the power of the relationship between breath and movement, was transformational for Katherine, forever altering her relationship to yogasana, as well as to the universe.

Katherine has a B.A. in religion, is a certified Yoga teacher, and is registered with Yoga Alliance. She has a deep interest in the philosophy of yoga and the yoga sutras, truly believing that yoga is an evolutionary practice of self-discovery. In 2006 Katherine journeyed to southern India to continue her study of Ashtanga Yoga, focusing on the Ashtanga vinyasa system, with the intention of bringing yoga into her life more completely. Katherine teaches a creative vinyasa practice that is a combination of yogasana and pranayama, influenced by Ashtanga vinyasa, Jivamukti, Kripalu, and Iyengar. She emphasizes breath and alignment, while allowing space for each individual to find their own fluidity of practice where joy, peace, surrender, and creativity can flourish.

3340 Fairlane Farms Road, Unit 5
Wellington, FL 33414
561-427-1767
cora@mokshayogastudio.com

Laure Carter, LMT, HHC, RYT

Laure began the quest for a holistic approach to wellness while pursuing a graduate degree in the field of linguistics in France thirteen years ago. Thus began the pursuit of knowledge and training that developed into a full-fledged career offering services of massage, yoga, reiki, wellness and nutrition education and coaching.

Though she had been practicing yoga and already become a teacher, Laure experienced her first Forrest Yoga class two years ago and immediately fell passionately in love with the practice. She rapidly witnessed amazing changes in her practice and was able to access poses that had remained ungraspable until then. She also became aware of the changes within herself, her level of self-confidence, faith in herself and Life, definiteness of purpose and decision and immediateness of action grew. Laure attributes all this to her Forrest Yoga practice and the teaching of her teacher Jessica Unmani King. Laure's intention therefore is to emulate her teacher and facilitate for her students the experience of the spectacular gifts this practice has to offer.

The Sanctuary
140 NE 2nd Avenue Studio 24
Delray Beach, FL  33444
1-954-871-6826
laurecarter@comcast.net
www.thesanctuaryholistichealth.com

Trudy (Satori) Ebedes, RYT

Trudy is a Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor and a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher; she is trained in Reiki and Shamanic healing, which has enabled her to positively transform the lives of many. She has evolved her studies with "yoga rock stars" like Shiva Rea and Duncan Wong.

Trudy's light journey began in her early teens when she discovered meditation and the root of her spiritual understanding evolved from studying Hebrew and Kabbalah in Israel.

She is a humanitarian born in Namibia, South West Africa and continues to connect with her homeland thru organizing fundraisers to benefit the children of South Africa. She was the founder of the first Yoga for Wishes, a Yoga event benefiting the kids of the Make A Wish Foundation.

Her unique balanced approach to life has allowed her to joyfully share the knowledge of Physical, Mental and Spiritual transformation. Her focus in on encouraging her student to go within and embrace their own Divinity.

Three things she brings to the world are...compassion, joy and beauty.

918 NE 20th Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL  33304
954-336-6473
info@redpearlyoga.com

Leigh Fountain, RYT

Leigh is a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher and completed his 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training in a month-long immersion program at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health with senior Kripalu instructors. Leigh will complete his 500 hour advanced Kripalu Yoga teacher certification in 2008. Leigh is a registered teacher with the Yoga Alliance (RYT-200) and the Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association. In 2007 Leigh was given the honorary title Acharya which denotes significant spiritual and/or academic achievement in the Kripalu lineage. Leigh also holds both level 1 and level 2 certifications in Positional Therapy and is a teaching assistant with this program at Kripalu.

Leigh Fountain brings a multi-disciplinary holistic approach to working with individuals and companies in 1-on-1 sessions, coaching, training programs, and keynote talks. Leigh has been published in two books on coaching and succession planning; he is currently working on a book focused on yoga and positional therapy. In addition to Leigh’s accomplishments and focus in business and education, he has uncovered ways to create balance in a successful life. Seeking balance within and for his clients has led Leigh on a journey to uncover keys that he now integrates into his work in many ways – from workshops, to 90 minute classes, to Yoga Moments™ - 1 to 5 minute breaks to energize or relax or focus. These provide stand alone tools and, also, create a palate of complimentary modalities that Leigh draws from as he supports people he works with.

Life Force, LLC
431 Oak Ridge Road
Short Hills, NJ  07078
1-888-480-4242
LF@Life-Force.net

Dashama Konah, RYT

Dashama is a lifelong yogini. She began her yoga practice as a child with her mother and sisters at home. She has been certified to teach since 2005, and has quickly become one of the most sought after private yoga teachers in Boca Raton.

Teaching experience ranges from kids yoga ages 2-11, Restorative Yoga at Quail Ridge Country Club, Partner Yoga (fun!), to an Advanced Power Vinyasa Flow practice which emphasizes opening your heart and leading with grace, proper alignment, internal spiritual reflection, deep ujjai breathing to ignite the fire in your powerful core and to become more centered.

She has studied with world renowned teachers including: Shiva Rea (teacher training, Venice Beach, CA) Tripsichore Yoga (vinyasa performance yoga from London, UK), Anna Forrest (the Pleasure of Strength and Healing Naples, FL), Bryan Kest Power Yoga (Santa Monica, CA), Sivananda Yoga (teacher training, Lake Worth, FL), Siddha Yoga Meditation (Miami Beach, FL), Acroyoga (Boulder, CO and Miami, FL), Thai Yoga Bodywork (teacher training, Delray Beach, FL)

Perfect 10 Lifestyle, LLC
301 E Royal Palm Road
Boca Raton, FL 33432
561-445-2145
dashamagordon@gmail.com

Angela Pantaleon, RYT

Always bringing her good humor and encouragement to the yoga class, Angela is dynamic and compassionate in her style of teaching, focusing on her student’s strengths and weaknesses. She has been involved in classical ballet since the age of six, which led her to professional performances with jazz dance companies as well as music video work in Los Angeles.

Angela is a certified yoga instructor with training in Hatha, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Gentle and Restorative and is also trained in yoga therapy with Phoenix Rising Yoga, and Reiki Healing in Brazil.

Her practice is strongly influenced by the tutelage of highly acclaimed master teachers such as: Rodney Yee, Doug Swenson, Tias Little, Shiva Rea, Bryan Kest, Beryl Bender Birch and Baron Baptiste among others. Despite this, Angela is continually training and updating herself in the practice which is a constantly evolving process of learning.

With extensive training in Thai Yoga Body work through countless hours with her master Michael Buck of the Vedic Conservatory, Angela utilizes practical application with her own clients.

As an active yoga therapist, she focuses on the physical healing by helping her students find their own inner balance through the prevention and healing of injuries. Because of certain physical limitations caused from motor vehicle accidents in the past, her avocation to the healing therapy is genuine and real. Angela also holds a high degree in Japanese Karate.

Angela offers private instruction by appointment, in a wide range of yoga practices, including Thai yoga body work.

Root 1 Yoga
11985 US Highway One
Juno Beach, Florida 33408
561-691-8816
acRoot1Yoga@mac.com