OUR MISSION

FOUNDER/OWNER

Britt found a profession that started her journey towards learning to look at her body for everything it is, rather than everything it is not. And through years of certifications, training, and actual hands on work, she’s found her purpose. She’s found my worth again.

And that is to help other people who have had similar histories as hers, give diet culture and all of it’s toxic friends a huge middle finger. To finally start living our lives in ways that do not revolve around how our bodies look, but rather everything else life has to offer.

Certifications

NASM Personal Trainer

Corrective Exercise Specialist

Certified Functional Strength Coach (CFSC)

HAES (Health at Every Size) Alignment

SITA (Size Inclusive Training Academy) Certified

Weight Inclusive and Anti Diet Trainer

Disordered Eating and Eating Disorder Focus w/ Emphasis on Introduction into Movement

STUDIO MANAGER

Tiff meets with clients for consultations, offer studio tours, and manages client information. She also does a lot of the “behind the scenes” work like scheduling, sending out emails, planning events, and all that other administrative stuff that Type A people like her LOVE to do!

Tiff is a NASM Certified Personal Trainer and is working with clients 1-on-1 as well as instructing a variety of classes from Total Body Triad to En(core), and many more!

She pulls from her dance background to create fun and creative profiles to meet the needs of each client.

Certifications

NASM Certified Personal Trainer

CLIENT COORDINATOR

Jamie was a member since the beginning, you may see her at the front desk or in a class. She is strongly rooted in Health at Every Size, Fat Liberation, and the fact that ALL bodies deserve to have spaces where they can explore movement.

When not working, she’s chasing sunsets, dancing to whatever’s on, or bumping into something, or adding to her TBR pile.

MHM TRAINER

Mary became a personal trainer to try to help others find a joy in movement that she struggled for so long to find myself. She never felt like she belonged in regular gyms and had too long suffered the consequences of "no pain, no gain."

She wants movement and exercise to be a celebration of what our bodies can do, both today and in our potential for greater strength and mobility and resilience.

Certifications

NASM Certified Personal Training

Certified in Corrective Exercise

MHM TRAINER

Since 2010, Jo has channeled her lifelong love of play into a part-time hustle as a group fitness instructor here in the valley. She teaches with a “challenge by choice” approach that encourages people to move to their own level of challenge and exertion. She models various levels, challenges, and choices throughout group fitness classes while focusing closely on helping participants visualize, feel and maintain solid technique and form. Oh, and music is the answer in Jo’s classes.

She’s been a fitness and spin instructor at the Hampshire Regional YMCA for nearly 15 years and, formerly, Smith College, where she directed Project Coach, a sports-based youth development and social justice program.

Certifications

AFAA Certified

American Red Cross Certified

NSCAA Certified

MHM TRAINER

Alyssa is your go-to Body Movement Professional, who brings a unique blend of expertise and a down-to-earth vibe to her work. Her journey started on the basketball courts in high school, leading her to a love for a range of activities from softball to weightlifting. But it's not all about physical strength for Alyssa.

She's on a personal growth journey, embracing improv as a tool to boost her creativity, especially when engaging with groups. This self-development quest adds an extra layer of depth to her personal training sessions, making them not just about fitness but also about building a positive, can-do spirit.

Alyssa has the smarts, but it's her approachable manner and newfound improv skills that make her classes stand out. She brings a sense of ease and fun to each session, encouraging her participants to not only stretch their bodies but also their comfort zones.

Certification

Degrees in Kinesiology and Athletic Training

MHM TRAINER

Geve is a queer non-binary cyclist, riverside treasure hunter, and urban design nerd. They started personal training after feeling the power of movement as a tool to ground themselves in their body and celebrate what it could do, and because of how difficult it was to find conventional gyms that felt comfortable for them.

They believe that everyone deserves access to movement spaces that feel safe and joyful.

Geve’s coaching style is HAES aligned and grounded in celebrating one another’s various strengths, and they are grateful that they get to be a step in their clients’ strength building journeys!

Certifications

CFSC Certified

ACE Certified

Certified Trauma Informed Fitness Professional

MHM TRAINER

Ryan is an educator and a potter; a white, trans gestational parent; a lover of lumberjacks and all things plaid; a fat person who thinks a whole lot about bodies and access; a reader; an introvert; and someone who knows what it feels like to struggle with movement and/or be uncomfortable in gym settings. He has a complicated relationship with movement spaces, but when done right loves the community and relationship to ourselves that they can offer. 

He began instructing spin in 2016 and is also a certified personal trainer. He is passionate about supporting others in building movement practices that feel powerful and good and embodied, particularly for those who have bodies and identities that are often marginalized in gym settings.

Certifications

Certified Personal Trainer

MHM TRAINER

Jesse grew up a highly competitive athlete in New England, spending his formative years at the hockey rink or in the gym. He left the consuming, stressful world of sports for a long award-winning career in music and arts while maintaining a consistent presence in typical big box gym settings and CrossFit communities (disliking the attitudes that came with that crowd).

Now, having made a career pivot to personal training, he is very passionate about teaching men of all kinds that working out and building functional muscle can come with thoughtfulness, kindness and true inner strength. He’s been an educator for decades, and has taught group fitness classes for the past five years. He loves trucks, radical social justice and reading about healing inter-generational trauma.

Certification

NASM Certified Personal Trainer

MHM TRAINER

Ten years ago Marlene was in chronic back pain and thought my life was over. She was in a level 7-10 pain 24 hours a day. She was severely depressed trying to raise a high energy child and felt like everything was pretty much hopeless. So she decided to start going to the gym as she figured she had nothing to lose. As it turns out, when I was exercising, as long as I avoided certain movement patterns, my pain went away.

So she decided to become a personal trainer in the hopes that she could fully heal her body and also help others. Not only did she fix herself, she also found she had a passion for helping others to exercise safely to either stay out of pain, get out of pain or to avoid injury. I worked as a personal and group training instructor for ten years and I helped so many people.

I enjoy working with people of all ages and abilities and my goal is to light a fire and excitement to move. And if you have pain in your joints, I am very skilled in not only helping you to move in a pain free manner, but also problem solving in ways that will also help you get past your pain once and for all. My goal is to have my clients look forward to working out. Every workout is an opportunity to move your body in a safe manner while also getting those wonderful endorphins that exercise gives us!

Certifications

NASM Certified Personal Trainer

Corrective Exercise Strategies Certification

MHM INSTRUCTOR

Ellen has been a student of yoga since she was 13, and began teaching yoga to people of all ages in 2009. Ellen's experience with a lifelong chronic illness has taught them how to love their body wherever it is in each moment, and she loves nothing more than to help others feel empowered in themselves and to rediscover their own wholeness. Their teaching is rooted in honoring yoga's deep and diverse lineages from India and around the world, in weaving practical philosophy for our real lives through physical and breathing practices, and in offering classes filled with care and humor. 

She brings over 25 years of experience as a multi-disciplinary theatre artist and over 20 years as a youth educator and mentor to her yoga teaching. They're also a mom of two wondrous kids, and specialize in supporting pregnant and birthing people at all stages of prenatal and postpartum experience. She also likes to nerd out about our bodies and their functional anatomy, the cosmology of the universe, social justice, the natural sciences, and any fascinating thing that comes up.

Certifications

200 hour Anusara Yoga Training Completed

Registered Yoga Instructor

CPR & First Aid Certified

MHM INSTRUCTOR

Jenn brings the energy to every class she teaches! Her Rise & Shine Spin on Sunday mornings is the way several members of the MHM community like to get their day started! You can find Jenn teaching spin classes or taking a variety of other classes at the studio.

MHM INSTRUCTOR

Jordan is a fitness instructor who previously lived in a fat body. Through their experiences at gyms and in doctors' offices, they learned firsthand what isolation could feel like and how discouraging it can be when first starting off on a fitness journey.

Jordan creates programs designed for everybody and every body in mind, making sure all folx can participate and find a community where they belong.

MHM TRAINER

Katie Lipsmeyer is a connector, experience designer, explorer, community weaver, writer, and storyteller. As former co-owner and award-winning trainer at 50/50 Fitness/Nutrition, she has taught 20,000 hours of mindful movement through fitness. In 2019, she founded Camp Glow It Up, a women's summer camp promoting fitness, whimsy, self-celebration, intentional groups, and intergenerational relationships.

Outside of the studio, she contributes her professional talents toward advocacy for conscious eating as ‘Vision Steward’ for internationally renowned Food Educator & Activist, Charles x Michel. In this role, she has worked with global organizations such as the United Nations, World Food Programme, and Rainforest Alliance. She believes access to local, fresh, nutrient-rich food is a basic human right and food education for all is key to a more equitable future.

Katie is not currently taking new clients