Alicia Khremian Owner/Master Trainer at The Fitness Station http://afitnessstation.com/
I have been active in athletics and training all my life. I started ballet as a little girl and that is where my life of health and fitness took off. I began ice skating early on, performing and competing my way to nationals. I was also actively involved in high school sports such as basketball, swim team and helped establish our schools dance team. I still enjoy dancing today! I was inspired by my coaches and trainers and their passion. I knew then that I wanted to be an instructor/trainer to motivate and inspire others.
My journey through fitness has taught me a lot! I have learned how the body works and how to keep it strong, flexible and balanced through various forms of stretching such as self-myofascial release. I have extensive knowledge in plyometric, isometric, hydrotherapy and many other strength and training exercise techniques which result in obtaining the body you want!
I love what I do and I use the gym as my playground to help people succeed in the smartest, most fun way possible. Most of all I strongly believe a healthy lifestyle creates happiness and enhances quality of life.
I’m here to help you reach your goal whether it’s losing body weight or gaining muscle mass. There are no goals too big or too small and I am confident that I can make your goals a reality. I hope to see you in the gym!
Specialties
Corrective exercise, Performance Enhancement, Flexibility, Balance, Strength, Circuit training and weight loss.
Roxie Beckles: http://www.roxiebeckles.com/
Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Roxie has been in the fitness industry since 1998. She has had the amazing opportunity to touch the lives of literally hundreds of people, transforming their bodies and helping them to reach heights they’ve never imagined they could.
Her passion for health and fitness began within the dance world. Starting dance classes at the age of 5, she cried everyday and begged to be taken out. When Roxie was 11, her curiousity for dance began to grow again. Sparked through films like Fame, Flash Dance, and Grease, Roxie knew that she had to find her way back to the stage. She watched countless hours of Baryshnikov, Alvin Ailey, and many others. She would go to the library and borrow books and tapes about ballet technique and study and practice quietly on her own. One day, while on her way to school in her first year of high school, she saw an amazing poster in a Brooklyn Subway Station. It was an advertisement for Joffrey Ballet’s Billboards performance. That summer she enrolled
in the Joffrey School and as they say, history for her was made. Since studying at Joffrey, Roxie has had a full scholarship to the School of Dance Theater of Harlem under the directon of Arthur Mitchell. She attended SUNY Purchase Conservatory of dance, but later transferred to Fordham University/Alvin Ailey BFA Program where she graduated with a BFA in Dance. She has performed on stages across the US and Europe and has worked with some of dance’s top choreographers and legends. Roxie’s love for theater and acting began while at Fordham University. As part of her requirements for the BFA program, she had to take an acting class with one of Fordam’s theater professors. It was in that class that Roxie’s respect grew. After Fordham, she began to further study Meisner Technique with Ted Bardy in New York. She appeared in numerous Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions, and independent films. In 2008, she moved to LA to further pursue film and television. She has worked and studied with John Ruskin at Santa Monica based Ruskin Group Theater. As a fitness professional, Roxie has worked extensively with the New York Road Runners Foundation as a running coach for their children’s programs. Roxie specializes in creating fun and effective programs specifically tailored to her clients’ needs. She also specializes in creating effective weight loss, core strengthening, and flexibility programs. She is certified through The National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). Roxie’s competitive career began in 2010 where she placed second in her class in her first show, the NPC Tournament of Champions in Culver City, CA. A month later, she placed third in her class in one of the biggest regional shows in the country, The NPC Eastern USA Championships in New York, New York. With these two
victories, Roxie successfully qualified as a national level figure competitor allowing her the opportunity to compete to earn the prestigious IFBB Professional status.
Niki McElroy, http://thecreaminmycoffee.com/, was born in Louisville, KY, later raised in Sacramento, CA and is now residing in the beautiful city of West Hollywood. There she continues the study of her craft while working on film feature films, television and webisodes.
Audrey Kelly: http://www.youtube.com/user/KelleyCoProductions
Even before the gifted actress and singer Audrey Kelley left college, her exceptional talent was garnering attention from the VIPs around her. Eileen Blumenthal, 20-year theater critic and writer for The New York Times and The Village Voice, wrote of her: “…exceptionally gifted young artist … just a knockout … always been excellent … a lovely example of professional grace.” William Esper, Head of MFA Acting program at Rutgers University, was also wowed by everything about Audrey: “Her every creation is the product of a singular and very personal imagination … a real original… She is thin and angular, capable of swing adroitly from riotous comedy to deeply moving drama.”
Although Audrey clearly has a natural talent for performing, she also has a healthy respect for the craft and backs up her natural gifts with extensive training. She earned an M.F.A. in Acting and a B.A. in Music from Rutgers University and an M.A. in Vocal Jazz Music from New York University. Upon completing her studies in the Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts Theater Department, she was awarded The Kelly Kindeman Award for excellence in acting.
After college, Audrey performed in theater professionally around New York City, playing lead roles in classical works like A DOLL’S HOUSE and MISS JULIE and contemporary roles such as Coretta Scott King in the New York City tour of KING & CORETTA. She has toured with TheaterWorks/USA and has studied and performed with the Negro Ensemble Company in New York City. She also demonstrated her comedic skills doing long-form improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City. Among the highlights of Audrey’s theater experience is being selected from hundreds of other actors to participate in the Chautauqua Theater Company summer season, for which internationally known guest artist actors, directors, designers, and writers join 18 emerging artists drawn from the nation’s top acting training programs to form a unique company that produces more than 50 events in a 50-day summer season. The Chautauqua Theater Company is the resident professional theater and Conservatory of the Chautauqua Institution.
With many theater accomplishments to her name, Audrey then made her television debut in a small role on AS THE WORLD TURNS in New York just prior to relocating to Los Angeles. Since moving to Los Angeles, her work as an actress has been building momentum. Most recently, she played the role of Sass, a reality TV host, in the short film, Reality TV Stardom, directed by Ray McCormick. She has also appeared in the PBS special DIARY OF A CITY PRIEST and the Joel Schumacher film BAD COMPANY. Shortly after landing in Los Angeles, Audrey participated in the Best New Talent 2006 National Performing Arts competition winning in the categories of comedic monologue, stand-up comedy and model print. Never one to quit mastering the craft she loves so much, she is currently participating in the improv acting and writing Conservatory Program at Second City in Los Angeles.
Jillian Lauren http://www.jillianlauren.com/
Author and performer Jillian Lauren grew up in suburban New Jersey and fled across the water to New York City. She attended New York University for three minutes before dropping out to work in downtown theater, where she performed with Richard Foreman’s Ontological Hysteric Theater, among others.
She is the author of the novel, PRETTY, and of the New York Times bestselling memoir, SOME GIRLS: My Life in a Harem, both published by Plume/Penguin. SOME GIRLS has since been translated into fourteen different languages.
Jillian has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Magazine, Flaunt Magazine, Opium Magazine, Society, Pale House: A Collective and in the anthologies My First Time: A Collection of First Punk Show Stories and Tarnished: True Tales of Innocence Lost.
She has performed at spoken word and storytelling events across the country and has been interviewed on such television programs as The View, Good Morning America and Howard Stern. She was a featured dancer with the infamous Velvet Hammer Burlesque. As a performer, she has recently worked with directors as diverse as Robert Cucuzza, Steve Balderson, Lynne Breedlove, Austin Young, Michelle Carr and Margaret Cho.
Jillian recently premiered her solo performance piece, Mother Tongue, at the Steve Allen Theater in Los Angeles. She regularly blogs at TODAY Moms and Jillianlauren.com. Jillian is married to musician Scott Shriner. They live in Los Angeles with their son.
