The Works Instructors

Sue D'Alonzo is certified by The American College of Sports Medicine and has 25 years of experience as a group leader and personal trainer. She is the manager of The Works, teaches Powerworks and The Works, and has a personal training business. Sue motivates and challenges her clientele by encouraging them to work as hard as they personally can. Her class format allows her the freedom to use a variety of teaching techniques in order to inspire and demonstrate the power of strength and fitness. Sue's classes are demanding, challenging and rewarding.

Joanna Arhon is a certified Pilates instructor trained in both mat and apparatus through Balanced Body University and a certified fitness instructor. She began studying Pilates as a dancer seeking rehabilitation for her lower back injury. She finds joy in helping her clients learn, understand and grow in their own practice and is passionate about educating her clients about the strength and power of their own bodies. Her class information is available at www.jopilates.net.

Morning Star has a variegated background that includes a BA in music,over 30 years of teaching piano, dance, swim coaching, athletic team training, music/exercise therapy, stress reduction, therapeutic stretch, cooking, and yoga. She believes in synergistic living and movement, which means one thing, affects and contributes to another action on a holistic level. Travel, living in various countries, wiggling in Brazil, trekking in Australia, learning to teach yoga in Spanish in Mexico, and writing music—all have been key ingredients to her approach, with humor, of teaching people to be comfortably and transformatively in their bodies. Certifications include AAFA, ACSM, Contra Costa Leadership, Integral Studies, and more. She gives retreats in connecting with nature, yoga, dance, and exploration of the outer/inner universe. Try her class and you will feel the magic! Check out her website at: www.connectingsystems.us.

Other Instructors

Nives Wetzel de Cediel is an internationally trained visual and performing artist with 20 years of experience in performance and dance education. Nives has studied and performed Spanish, Brazilian and Cuban dance with groups such as Bailes Flamencos, Ginga Brasil, Fogo na Roupa and Kubata. She studied Capoeira for 8 years with the late Mestre Carlos Aceituno and is currently the Artistic Director of Batucada do Leste - Escola da Samba. Nives is concerned with the energy and emotion dance solicits - the 'power' of dance to communicate.