Wellness Coaches

A seasoned fitness professional with over 40 years’ experience Susan continues to enjoy teaching, training, management, staff development, and program integration. Susan is a former fitness center owner and carries a variety of fitness and health coaching certifications by top industry organizations with continued education in specialties including Corrective Exercise, Core Function, Pelvic Floor, Wellness, and Health Coaching. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge.

Alan Franzi, MS, C-IAYT, PAS, has over 30 years of experience helping individuals overcome chronic pain & embrace active, healthy lives. As a Level 3 Somatic Movement Center® Certified Exercise Specialist® & Certified Yoga Therapist, he combines effective techniques to achieve lasting results. Through personalized sessions & classes, Alan offers a supportive approach to helps clients discover the root causes of their pain, leading to balanced, pain-free movement & renewed vitality in daily ...

A certified Holistic Health Coach, MELT Method™ Practitioner, Pilates and Barre Instructor with over 30 years of experience and training in health, fitness, wellness and holistic healing. Betsy brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and a unique synthesis of eastern and western approaches to her work to help individuals transform not only their health, but also their lives. Her love of movement, dance, and fascination with the human body, has inspired her passionate quest to help people ...

Debra Boynton, DTR (Dietetic Technician Registered), Certified by the ADS (American Dietetic Association) w/ clinical nutrition experience since 1995. Nutrition Consultant & Weight Loss Coach, her experience includes nutritional screenings, assessments, has developed & implemented nutritional care plans for patients, & provided individualized & group nutritional education. Certified Fitness and Cycling Instructor, attainment of health/fitness through nutrition & exercise is her lifelong pursuit.

RDH, Integrative Health and Nutrition Coach, Certifications: Emotional Eating and Gut Health

Cindy is a life long exerciser whose parents were role models for healthy eating and an active lifestyle. She has been a dental hygienist for 29 years in the same practice. Her engagement with her patients taught her that you truly are what you eat and true wellness starts with your food choices. She pursued her nutrition coach certification to fulfill her passion for a balanced approach to wellness.

A former full time yoga teacher and studio owner, with two 200-hour teacher trainings completed, practicing and teaching both Hatha and Vinyasa style yoga classes. Linda has a passion for nature, and the true nature of yoga! She feels that practicing is a path to connect the body and calm the mind, and is excited to bring the wonderful benefits of yoga to our JCC community.

JULIE LUCIANI is a seasoned Practitioner, Registered Occupational Therapist, Certified Teacher through Kripa¬lu School of Yoga and Ayurveda, and YogaSpirit™ with a Specialty in Yoga for Healthy Aging. With a warm energy and passion for learning, Julie brings her gentle enthusiasm to a variety of yoga styles encouraging her participants to live longer, healthier lives.

MS of Herbal Medicine, Certified Pilates Reformer Trainer/Trapeze Table/Cadillac/Tower & Ladder Barrel/and Pilates Mat from Balanced Body. TRX Certified, Sadaf has been a Fitness professional since 2011. She is dedicated to furthering her education in order to bring the most current techniques to the JCC Fitness programs. Sadaf combines her experience in Pilates and suspension training with a thorough understanding of strength and conditioning to help her clients achieve their fitness goals.

A NYC-based professional actor, director, and professor specializing in Advanced Movement techniques for over 20 years, Erin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University and a former Movement Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Montclair State University. She holds a BFA & MFA in Acting and Classical performance and an Alexander Technique Certification from Balance Center Arts in NYC. She teaches Alexander Technique, Pilates, and Performance & Presentation Techniques.

Jonathan has always been passionate about his service to help people. After some deep soul searching he realized that healing is what inspires him the deepest. Now a student at Cortiva Institute for Massage Therapy, Jonathan is incorporating a powerful practice of Healing Breath Work into his sessions and classes. which allows us to expand in our areas of life which we feel suffocated.