Body & Soul | Vancouver Personal Training
Instructors
Barbara Alvarez (Yoga Instructor)
Since then she has been teaching private and corporate yoga classes, as well as workshops for sports teams and athletes. Barbara has experience teaching Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin and Kundalini yoga. She creates a comfortable space for students of all levels to expand their boundaries in a safe, non-competitive environment. Her sincere love and enthusiasm for yoga are evident and contagious! In her teaching she incorporates a great sense of humour with detailed instruction and careful attention to alignment.
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Gavin Bock (Bootcamp Instructor & Personal Trainer)
Gavin is a BCRPA Certified Personal Trainer and comes to Body & Soul with a strong background in hockey. He has been a minor league hockey coach for four years and has extensive experience training and conditioning youth hockey players. He is currently completing a biology degree at UBC.
As a bootcamp instructor, Gavin focuses on traditional strength and cardio training principles. He incorporates agility, balance, core training and athletic exercises into challenging strength and cardio circuits. Gavin believes it's important to challenge the body and the mind with new activities and new workouts, so each one of his classes is an original, ensuring his bootcamp participants are always challenged and never get bored.
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Isabel Verse (Pilates Instructor & Personal Trainer)
Isabel has a Master’s degree in Fitness and Business, specialized training in rehabilitation, nutrition, and health psychology, and broad experience working as a personal trainer and fitness instructor. Though most active at Body & Soul as a Personal Trainer, Isabel is also a dedicated Pilates Instructor.
First introduced to Pilates in the 1990s by a fellow Personal Trainer in San Francisco, Isabel immediately developed a passion for Pilates and continued to practice it for many years before finally becoming an instructor in 2006. Since then she has been an active and passionate teacher of the Pilates method. At Body & Soul, Isabel is available for personalized one-on-one Pilates sessions. Her specialty is mat-based Pilates.
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Jennifer Leski (Yoga Instructor & Personal Trainer)
Jennifer has a Bachelors Degree in Human Kinetics from UBC (Heath and Fitness), a Diploma in Natural Nutrition from CSNN (Canadian School of Natural Nutrition), and is a certified Personal Training Specialist with CanFitPro. Jennifer’s love of yoga and nature led her to complete her Yoga Teacher Training (RYT 200Hr) at Yoga Adventure on the Big Island, Hawaii.
Jennifer specializes in teaching small group classes and yoga privates, providing individualized attention to help students develop a greater understanding of yoga and a deeper awareness of their body. Jennifer encourages her students to listen to their own bodies allowing them to
access improved health, heightened awareness and happiness in life.
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Wyatt Seddon-Johnstone (Bootcamp Instructor & Personal Trainer)
Wild, wacky, and wonderful, Wyatt is king of the bootcamp and a master trainer. He has a high level of knowledge and experience with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and Exercise Science from Seattle Pacific University, experience working as a physiotherapy assistant, and a community coaching certificate in soccer.
Whether teaching one-on-one or in his small group bootcamp classes, Wyatt pushes each and every one of his clients to reach their highest potential. He focuses on teaching proper technique and constantly inspires his clients to work hard. Most importantly, he does all of this while making sure everyone, including himself, is having fun. His dynamic personality and ability to teach and entertain have given him his nickname, "king of the bootcamp".
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