Wellness can be described as “the constant, conscious pursuit of living life to its fullest potential.”

A wife, mother and grandmother is who she is…but her life’s calling is as a Teacher. That is what it all comes down to…Yoga, Fitness, Nutrition, Self-help…whatever it is she loves to learn but loves even more to share what she discovers. Having taught high-school drama, speech and debate, tele-comm technical training, diversity, career pathing, customer service she has a life long passion for education. Over the years everything led to one thing, wellness…staying healthy in body, mind and spirit. Like everyone her  own self worth had taken a few beatings over the years and she experienced a deep loss that changed her view of the world and during her healing what she realized that we all go through tough times but happiness doesn’t ever have to stop we just need the tools to rise up from them, and that is how she discovered her passion, helping others lift themselves up and live joyously NOW.

Aminda began her career of understanding human movement at the ripe old age of 6 when she entered her first ballet class. At 13, she danced professionally with the Virginia Beach Ballet Company, had a stint with modeling, and spent a lot of time doing theatre, but life has a way of taking us in new directions, so instead of running off to Hollywood she was graced with her 3 sons; twins now 22 years old and her “baby” now 16. (And now she’s a Grandma too!) With a Bachelor of Arts in Communications she taught High School Speech and Drama, and then spent 12 years in corporate America teaching others how to pursue their dreams.

Her reintroduction to fitness began over a decade ago when she realized that children, age, and all those years behind a desk had not been kind to her …behind or her mind. She began the journey back to a healthy life, body composition and a more joyful life experience; hiring a personal trainer herself in the beginning; she became dedicated to her new healthy lifestyle and shortly thereafter knew she wanted to combine her experience as a teacher with her new found awareness of healthy living. After losing 45lbs with the miracle plan of eating right and exercising, she wanted to spread the word! Around this time she also discovered yoga, which helped her learn to love the skin she is in and brought clarity to her vision of who she wanted to be when she grew up!

Over the years she has taught hundreds of hours of yoga classes, led stretching seminars, trained private clients using weights and cardio equipment, coached people in nutrition and supplements and spent hours just getting to know her clients and their needs.  Whether yoga, nutrition, hypnotherapy, reiki or personal training what she has learned is that everyone wants the same thing, to feel good about themselves, but what that looks like is different for everyone.  So, Aminda believes in PERSONAL personal training and yoga instruction and hypnosis, everything is about YOU and what your goals are and this has made all the difference.

With over 1000 hours of training and continuing education in weightlifting, kettlebells, and a combination of Power, Yin, Vinyasa, JivaMukti,  Nidra and Anjali restorative yoga styles, you can be confident that Aminda will take care of you and ensure that your workout is safe and effective. With the added benefit of Life Coaching training and Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Certification she can help you define your goals that are reasonable, realistic, achievable and are YOUR goals to wellness and living a joyous life today.

When she isn’t teaching, training or hypnotizing people you can see her riding her motorcycle, rafting the colorado river, hiking, hanging with her amazing children, grandson and especially her dashing husband Carl, and of course spoiling her dog, Asimov. She is dedicated to donating her time as a yoga teacher for various charities. And if all goes well you will probably see her on stage here and there.