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Trains: group-fitness, nutrition, personal-training, pilates, yoga

Angie DeGeronimo, Your Fitness Partner
About the Founder

"I started this company in 1992 with a vision of the future and a passion to assist people in their pursuit of lifestyle balance. I believe fitness is a tool that brings us closer to the mental, emotional and spiritual sense of being. I encourage people to understand themselves as an integrated whole; mind, body and spirit."

Professional Experience
I founded Noxcuses in 1992, out of Westchester County New York. My goal was to create a fitness consulting business specializing in a holistic approach to health & wellness. My responsibilities as founder include fitness coaching, staff development, performance evaluations, program development and media relations. I draw from many years of business experience, my love of fitness training and a bachelors degree in psychology with graduate work in Counseling Psychology. I work hard to provide the highest quality personal service with the utmost attention to individual program design. My service philosophy includes professional education, experience and motivational support in facilitation of progressive behavioral change.

Credentials and Professional Affiliations

* BA Psychology, The Catholic University of America
* Graduate Studies in Fitness Counseling, College of New Rochelle and University of California, Hayward
* Founder, Noxcuses, Your Fitness Partner
* Corporate Fitness Director, AEA /Stanford Executive Training Program
* Creator, The Food Partner, A 10-week Educational Nutrition Program
* Public Speaker on "Nutrition and Weight Control", "Emotional Hunger", "Exercise & Pregnancy"
* Certified Personal Trainer, American Council on Exercise
* Certified Group Fitness Instructor, American Council on Exercise
* American Academy of Health and Fitness Professionals Post Rehabilitation Conditioning Specialist
* Certified Keiser Power Pacing Instructor
* Physical Mind Institute Certification for The Pilates Method
* Certified Peritnatal Exercise Specialist, Positive Pregnancy and Parenting Fitness
* Postural/Structural Professional Training Programs in The Pilates Method, Feldenkrais Method and Alexander Technique

Email: angie@noxcusesfitness.com

Trains: group-fitness, personal-training, pilates

Althea Hondrogen

Althea has 20 years of experience in the health/fitness/wellness industry. She has been featured as a fitness expert on HealthWatch with Dr. Dean Edell, as well as in Women’s Health and SELF magazines. Althea’s experience and contagious energy will beckon you to excel during your Pilates session while improving your posture or rehabilitating your physical injuries. Duets are more than welcome! Stay Flexible!

Email: altheahondrogen@noxcusesfitness.com

Trains: group-fitness, personal-training, pilates, yoga

Carolyn Deakers

Carolyn is a certified personal trainer and fitness instructor. She integrates the beneficial components of yoga, Pilates, weight lifting and calisthenics into her training and small group classes. Correct posture and body alignment is taught to increase awareness and promote adherence to the training program. She emphasizes a holistic approach. Carolyn participated in collegiate sports ranging from swimming, soccer, track and field, lacrosse, and dance. She developed her own major at Whittier College in Mind-Body research and she believes this fosters a balance between life and training. She teache TRX Fitness Systems, Russian Kettlebells, triathlon and marathon training, corrective exercise and youth fitness. Carolyn has specialty training in rehabilitation, muscle activation, strength conditioning, pre and post-natal healthiness, weight loss, cardiovascular endurance and general fitness.

Email: carolyndeakers@noxcusesfitness.com

Website: http://www.care-fit.blogspot.com/

Trains: group-fitness, pilates

Karen Goldstein

Karen Goldstein was first introduced to Pilates when only 18 years old after developing knee problems while studying ballet in NYC. She was sent to the original Pilates studio run by Romana Kryzanowska, a direct disciple of Joseph Pilates. After returning home to the Bay Area, she continued her ballet training with, as her teacher noticed, "much better alignment". Pilates was not as prominent on the west coast for about 10 years, but later, when Karen continued to have alignment and pain issues from dancing, Pilates had luckily become more available, and so she resumed her Pilates training under the guidance of Jennifer Stacey in San Francisco. She completed her Teacher Training Certification under Ellie Herman and has also studied extensively with Lizz Roman learning rehabilitation techniques based on the principals of Janda. Karen likes to teach Pilates with an emphasis on form and how it applies to functional life movement. She likes to educate her students to have more freedom in movement, strength, and to learn ways to help themselves when their body/pain issues arise so that they can get along with more ease in their everyday lives.

Email: karengoldstein@noxcusesfitness.com

Trains: group-fitness, personal-training, pilates

Stephanie Herman

Stephanie Herman, a former Prima Ballerina for George Balanchine’s dance companies in Zurich and Geneva, Stephanie spent her life in ballet’s most rarified circles, training from the age of 12, graduating from School of American Ballet when she was 19 and performing with the greatest dancers and choreographers of the twentieth century including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolph Nureyev, George Balanchine Martha Graham, and Alvin Ailey. Stephanie's fitness method was born from efforts to heal herself. After a debilitating back and knee injury which left her unable to sit or walk for a year, and the failure of doctors to heal her, Stephanie drew upon her training and educated herself about body mechanics and kinetics. Using a program she designed, Stephanie surprised her doctors with a quick and complete recovery that left her stronger than before. During that time, Ms. Herman delved deeply into the philosophy and science of physical expression, psychology and rehabilitation, and working directly with Carola Trier the first disciple of Joseph Pilates, and Julio Horvath himself, the creator of the Gyrotonic Expansion System. Certified by the American College of Sports Medicine (ASCM), Pilates. Ms. Herman is fully versed in the physiology of human musculature. This therapeutic element is present in every workout she creates. After founding and directing her DanceAerobics studio in New York for many years, Ms. Herman founded and operates "Stephanie Herman's Fitness and Pilates" the San Francisco Bay Area. Stephanie Herman is also the award winning producer and host of the infamous, "The Stephanie Herman Show" a tv show that reaches 1 million homes in the Bay area. Ms. Herman has also been featured on other talk shows and in national and international publications for her unique and effective dance fitness programs.

Email: stephanieherman@noxcusesfitness.com

Trains: group-fitness, personal-training, pilates

Wendy Taubler

Wendy Taubler is a Pilates teacher with more than five years of experience and another 10 years as a practitioner of the Pilates method. She trained in Boulder, CO, and has continued her education with various workshops and clinics. Wendy's background in sports (volleyball) and traditional strength training programs adds another dimension to her teaching style. Wendy loves to bring clients up through the different levels of the Pilates exercises and enjoys helping people achieve their health and wellness goals. She has experience working with a variety of ages, fitness levels, pregnancy (pre/post), and rehabilitation needs.

Email: wendytaubler@noxcusesfitness.com

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