Trainers

Capoeira Luanda

The Capoeira Center is located in Downtown New Rochelle, and housed inside The Studios at Pine Brook Fitness. They offer classes on the movement and music of capoeira for adults and children. Their academy provides our community with affordable capoeira classes that promote a healthy mind, body, and soul.

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Professora Coruja (Renée Rinaldi) was first introduced to capoeira while studying abroad in Sao Paulo, Brazil. What originally started as an interesting topic of research, soon became a lifestyle. After graduating from college, Professora Coruja moved to NYC where she started her career as a teacher and also began searching for the right place to train capoeira. After several years of training in Harlem, she met Mestre Bom Jesus and in 2007 decided to start training under his tutelage in New Rochelle.

Professora Coruja has been instrumental in the development and execution of local capoeira arts programs in under-served communities throughout NYC and Westchester County. Working closely with Mestre Bom Jesus, Professora Coruja has helped create curriculum taught in local school arts programs and has also founded several afterschool programs in Harlem and the Bronx, where she is currently an Assistant Principal for the NYC DOE.

In 2010, after studying under the tutelage of Mestre Bom Jesus for 5 years, he honored her with a blue cord and the rank of Graduada. In the summer of 2013, she opened The Capoeira Center, in Downtown New Rochelle, where she currently teaches classes on the Brazilian martial art of Capoeira to adults and children of all ages.

In 2014, Mestre Bom Jesus officially retired from capoeira. It was around the same time that Professora Coruja met several teachers from Capoeira Luanda. These teachers provided her not only with a place to train during what was a huge transition in her capoeira journey, but also with the friendship, encouragement and support that she needed to continue on her path.

In January of 2015, Professora Coruja met Mestre Chuvisco at a workshop, where he told her she was welcome to her stop by his class anytime. A few weeks later, she took him up on that offer and stopped by his Chelsea studio. From the very first class, Mestre Chuvisco made her feel welcome and pushed her both mentally and physically to develop even more as a capoeirista.

In the summer of 2015, Professora Coruja made the decision to officially join Capoeira Luanda and to continue her work at The Capoeira Center under the supervision of Mestre Chuvisco, Mestre Guerreiro and Mestre Jelon. To formalize their new partnership, Coruja and Chuvisco hosted a joint Batizado in New Rochelle and NYC in February 2016. It was at this event that Coruja was honored with the rank of green cord, Instrutora.

In 2022, after 7 years of training under Mestre Chuvisco, Professora Coruja earned the rank of purple cord, Professora, at a batizdao in Brazil.

To book a class:

Email: [email protected] / Phone: 347-880-2127

First class is free and visitors are always welcome!

Stacy Fields Pilates

Stacy is truly passionate and dedicated to helping people live happy, healthy lives. Through daily exercise, avoiding a sedentary life, healthy mindful eating and nutrition.

There are many reasons for her love of Pilates! Pilates truly is for everybody; any level of fitness, any age, any body type, people with injuries or special conditions, pre/post natal.

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To book a session:

Email: [email protected] / Website

Personal Trainer Judy

Judy is a NASM certified personal trainer, registered dietitian, and nutritionist based out of Westchester NY. She holds an MS, RD, CDN, and CPT.

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Judy is one of those trainers who would much rather be at the buffet than the gym. Just keeping it real! She’s a personal trainer and registered dietitian with 12 years of experience working with clients from all walks of life. Her purpose as a trainer is to help you achieve your goals in the most efficient AND sustainable way possible while embracing the learning process/experience.

Judy’s specialties include sports nutrition/dietetics, weight loss and muscle gain. She loves working with clients who struggle with food and diet choices as it relates to their fitness and lifestyle goals. As a registered dietitian, she is also very experienced in working with clients who have medical issues such as diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, recent bypass surgery etc. She will be able to help you overcome those medical issues through proper exercise progression and by developing an optimal meal plan for you.

Judy firmly believes that when it comes to improving your health and fitness, exercise and nutrition go hand in hand. Without consistent exercise, your movement is limited and your quality of life is diminished. Without proper nutrition, your body lacks the fuel it needs to move, perform, recover and think well. Her goal is to help you achieve your fitness potential all the while embracing the process, rediscovering and healing yourself and still eating the foods you love.

Judy is looking forward to helping you achieve your goals and feel/look your best!

To book a session:

Phone: 917-873-0189 / Website / Social DM

KiYah Athletics

Judy is a NASM certified personal trainer, registered dietitian, and nutritionist based out of Westchester NY. She holds an MS, RD, CDN, and CPT.

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As a former pro soccer player, Coach Akeame’s main goal was to change the culture of fitness by introducing his clients to a more fun, engaging and effective way of approaching workouts.

This fitness world can be a bit intimidating and competitive so our mission was always focused on Bringing Life To Fitness.

We do this by implementing our H.E.A.L(Healthy, Eating Active Lifestyle) Program. With this program, we allows clients to not just enjoy the journey of healthy active lifestyle but teaching them how to maintain proper nutrition.

Coach Akeame and his team focuses on preventive nutrition (Preventive nutrition involved adopting eating habits with the aim of preventing or reducing the risk of diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and osteoporosis) as well as cellular nutrition (Cellular nutrition is a proprietary blend of high-quality science based vitamins and nutrients that act at the cellular level to maximize nutrient absorption and provide all the 116 essential nutrients and vitamins the human body needs to function properly, in order to maintain a healthy microbiome and maximize health).

To book a session:

Phone: 914-454-1469 / Email: [email protected] / Social DM

Justified Dynamics Fitness

Fitness + Science = Results

NCSA certified SCS.

ISSA certified PT, Group Coach

8+ Years experience :

Youth Fitness, Personal Training, Athletic Conditioning and General Health.

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Judy is looking forward to helping you achieve your goals and feel/look your best!

To book a session:

Phone: 347-419-8941 / Email: [email protected] / Social DM / Website

Reign All Stars Cheerleading

Reign All-Stars cheerleading program targets youth across all socioeconomic statuses. Our aim is to promote enthusiasm, positive attitude, spirit, empowerment, confidence and positive social development.

Participants will be able to strengthen discipline, leadership, sportsmanship, hard work, team work, health/ physical fitness, social and mental wellbeing. These life skills are aimed at increasing our youth’s outcomes in academic achievement, post-secondary professional, social and emotional skills.

Doherty Petri School of Irish Dancing

Kelly Pappas, TCRG began Irish Dance at age 10 as one of the first students at O'Rourke Irish Dancers when it opened its doors in 1995. Her love of competing led her to become the first student in the O’Rourke School to reach Preliminary Championships, as well as the first to attend the Mid-Altantic Oireachtas as a solo competitor.

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Throughout high school, Kelly was an assistant teacher at O’Rourke and took a short break from teaching to attend college at Fordham University in New York City, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 2007. After returning from college, Kelly joined O’Rourke once again as an assistant teacher. She also competed on the adult 8-Hand and 4-Hand teams, winning both regional and national championships. Kelly earned her T.C.R.G. in 2012, and has taught Adult Solo classes, pre-school and beginner classes.

In 2018 O’Rourke Irish Dancers merged with Doherty Petri Irish Dance.

To book a class:

Phone: 914-629-8385 / Email: [email protected]

Elite Fitness Professionals

Coach Jhunt has the prestigious designation as a Professional Certified Strength and Condition Specialist (C.S.C.S.) provided by the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Individuals who carry this designation have learned to apply scientific knowledge when training their clients to achieve maximum results.

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To achieve this Joseph conducts personalized testing sessions, guidance regarding nutrition and injury prevention programs that result in a safe and effective strength training and conditioning program with maximum results.

He is also certified with the National Academy of Sports as a Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES), Weight Loss Specialist (WLS) and a Sports nutrition coach. Once mastering these certifications, Coach Jhunt gained recognition as an elite professional by expanding his human movement science and abilities.

Develop injury prevention and recovery expertise for today’s deconditioned population. Creates programs around building clients metabolism while assisting with the physical transformation process.

Coach Jhunt also creates coaching programs to help clients with their mindset and emotional resilience to successfully achieve goals but most importantly sustain their accomplishments with a program called the Lifestyler.

As of late, Coach Jhunt has taken his animal flow expertise and creates a social emotional learning fitness class called SETFIT which empower kids through mindfulness, emotional regulation and positive affirmations while learning a new way to exercise and get fit with Animal Flow and other mindful movements.

To book a session:

Email: [email protected]

Justin's Gym Class

Justin Gaita is a Certified Strength Coach, as well as a Titleist Performance coach for golf fitness. He has been successfully training clients for over 15 years in the fitness industry. He has a passion for inspiring others and helping them reach their top potential. He has worked with Division 1 athletes, corporate CEOs and busy moms who do it all. The common denominator is motivation, support and results.

To book a session:

Email: [email protected] / (914) 426-2550 / Social DM / Website

Zumba Fitness by Noemi

Noemi is a dance and zumba instructor. She loves to dance and motivate her students, making them feel that going to her class is the best part of the day.

To book a session:

(914) 629-8068 / Social DM

New Rochelle Shotokan Karate Club

Lidj Lewis, 6th degree black belt, is Chief Instructor of the New Rochelle Shotokan Karate Club. He has been teaching Shotokan for more than 20 years and has competed and judged in numerous tournaments conducted by the International Shotokan Karate Federation of which Sensei Lewis is a lifelong member.

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He started training under the late Sensei Maynard Miner, also of the ISKF, who is said to be the first American to bring Shotokan to the U.S. from Japan.

Sensei Lewis believes in lifelong training as a way to continuously strengthen and preserve one’s character, confidence, mental and physical well-being, the ability to defend oneself when needed, and the foresight to avoid physical conflict altogether. The Karate Club serves students age 7+.

In addition to leading his karate club, Lewis is also Founder & CEO of The Trip Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non profit that funds international and domestic field trips for public high school students in underserved communities (www.thetripfoundation.org).

To book a session:

Email: [email protected] / (914) 426-2550 / Social DM / Website

Trainers Class Schedule

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Private Pilates sessions are available by appointment only. Email [email protected] to book.