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Founder of The Healthy Bride®, and The Healthy Goddess®; Christi's focus is on training women to successfully meet life challenges. An avid, international mountain climber, her professional background includes 11 years of sales and marketing at Starbucks Coffee. Christi's outstanding leadership ability and natural enthusiasm has motivated women to complete triathlons, 10K races, and summit climbs of Mt. Rainier. Not to mention health and fitness goals for pivotal life moments like class reunions-and weddings! Christi's credentials include: ACSM- HFI® and |
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Ruthanne (Ruthie) Naranjo - Instructor An outdoor fitness instructor and personal trainer, Ruthanne has
taught classes in Seattle and on the east side since 2004. Her
classes promote group energy as a fun and dynamic tool to optimize She is a clinical research associate at the UW and has a degree in Geology from Macalester College in St. Paul Minnesota. She ran the Paris Marathon for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in 2006. |
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Angela has a unique approach to helping her patients create new healthier habits, offering customized nutrition programs that inspire and educate, and provides them with an environment of support and accountability to help them become fit and fabulous from the inside out. She combines her education, experience and training to develop behavioral and cognitive based programs that work. “These programs, along with the ongoing support they receive from me, help my patients overcome years of emotional eating and achieve long term weight loss,” says Angela. She founded Nutrition Northwest Co in 2005 (formerly The Nourished Body); the premier provider of sound nutrition and wellness advice in the Northwest with offices in Seattle and Kirkland. She also specializes in healing digestive conditions, helping patients to navigate food sensitivities and runs individual and group detoxification programs. Angela earned a BS in Psychology from the University of Washington and a MS in Nutrition from Bastyr University. While at the University of Washington she attained pre-med status, training in motivational interviewing, with a focus on eating disorders. Angela teaches at Bastyr University, serves on the Cancer Care Auxiliary for Overlake Hospital and is the Detox Program Director for her current project, the documentary Pursuit of a Green Planet.
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Brooke Weitz- InstructorBrooke is joining us to lead several Healthy Goddess programs; including yoga and personal training. We are so excited to have her! Brooke's love for fitness began early as a competitive gymnast. When she grew too tall for gymnastics she turned to Volleyball and Basketball earining a university scholarship in volleyball. Brooke has coached both basketball and volleyball and loves working with groups. She is currently a student at Bastyr Universtiy where she is studying to be a naturopath. Brooke's philosophy is to look at the whole person in discovering what programs to recommend. We are excited to welcome Brooke to The Healthy Goddess team!
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Amy Bohutinsky - Instructor New Mom's Class A long time fitness instructor, collegiate athlete and outdoor enthusiast, Amy Bohutinsky loves just about anything that takes her outside and works up a sweat. Her first "boot camp" type experience came while playing on a nationally-ranked NCAA tennis team in college, and continued as she became an AFAA-certified fitness instructor after graduation, teaching a variety of strength and cardio classes to support her measly starting salary as a journalist. Amy has finished more than a dozen triathlons, one marathon and skydived twice -- but nothing compares to her greatest life athletic achievement that came in November 2007: giving birth to baby Frankie! Having exercised throughout and after her pregnancy, Amy has a tremendous amount of passion for helping moms become and stay healthy for themselves and their families. Realizing it often seems daunting to find the time, get the help, or obtain nearly enough sleep to jump into a postpartum exercise program, Amy's classes are designed with the challenges and joys of modern motherhood in mind. She focuses on finding balance -- and of course getting outside the house for a great workout! In her "day job" she tries to balance, Amy is director of corporate communications for real estate Web site Zillow.com. |
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Breona Gutschmidt - Yoga Instructor Breona is excited to share her love of yoga with the Health Bride/Healthy Goddess community this year. Practicing since 1999, Breona was first drawn to yoga as an athletic pursuit, but she soon discovered that yoga held the way to life balance, mental focus and a new relationship to physical movement, the body and the breath. Providing a sense of stillness in the midst of hectic daily life, yoga also regularly helps her with stress and insomnia. She has studied several styles of yoga, including Iyengar, Hatha Flow and Power Vinyasa and is a certified yoga instructor through Eight Limbs Yoga Centers. A writer and editor by day, she also writes a monthly yoga column for ParentMap.com. |
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Jonna Skokan - Half Marathon and Triathlon Coach Jonna is a Mother, Coach, Teacher, Runner, Tri-athlete and More! Jonna taught art, P.E. and coached volleyball and basketball for 10 years for the Mukilteo School District. After she left teaching she started her own small jewelry business and currently sells Real Estate for Windermere in Seattle. When she is not working you will find Jonna mountaineering, skiing, cycling, swimming, and of course, running. In fact, Jonna has spent the past decade running marathons, competing in triathlons, including two half-iron (wo)mans! She is the mother of two beautiful girls and one amazingly patient husband, whom she adores! Jonna holds a BA, in Education from Gonzaga University and an MA.Ed. from Lesley University
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