Learn more about the women who teach our classes.
*All of our Stroller Strides & Fit4Baby instructors are certified and maintain current CPR and First Aid certificates and Oh, they are also ALL MOMS!
Adele Arkin, MA, MBA - Franchise Owner & Instructor/ Stroller Strides/ Body Back/ Fit4Baby/ LEAN certified
Adele Arkin spent 8 years as a Global HR generalist in corporate America before dedicating herself to start The ScholarHouse Foundation. Adele focuses her effort towards empowering women in every role she takes on. After graduating with her executive MBA and practicing real estate on Long Island, she met her real challenge...Motherhood! Three months after the birth of her daughter Maya, she created a fitness company called Baby Cute LLC with the intent to build a community of mothers around her encouraging healthy living for her family and others. Adele taught her first Stroller Strides class in July 2007 and has dedicated her passion and drive to inspire moms at all stages of motherhood! Adele enjoys all outdoor fitness & adventure and has her sites on triathlon training. She did her first duathlon (bike/ run) on Mothers Day in 2012 and got hooked. She can be reached at adelearkin@strollerstrides.net
Brandy Cowell,
Brandy Cowell is a mom of 2 boys and has been a Stroller Strides instructor since 2007. She is a former athlete with a passion for health and fitness. In 2000, she became a Registered Dietitian and earned a Masters degree in Nutrition with a focus on Sports Nutrition. After working in various wellness settings in Nutrition her first son was born in 2005. Stroller Strides provided the balance she needed between motherhood and the workplace. Since then she has focused more on the fitness side of her career and has become an ACE certified personal trainer. An avid runner...her list of races include: Long Island 5K, 2008 Cow Harbor 10K, 2008 Diva 5K, 2010 Ocean to Sound Relay, 2010 Garden City Turkey Trot (5 miles), 2010, 2011 Diva Half Marathon, 2011.
Jennifer Bavaro
Jennifer Bavaro spent 8 years working in Sports Marketing Client Service for National Football League teams (Cincinnati Bengals and New York Jets) and the NFL League office prior to getting her Personal Training license Academy of Applied Personal Training Education (AAPTE). She became a mom shortly after and joined Stroller Strides. The opportunity to work out and bond with other moms and children drew her in and her passion for fitness made her an instructor. She loves the community of Stroller Strides moms and dads! And is the proud mama of Evelyn (2) and baby Bavaro coming April 2012.
Sharan Dayal Sokhey
Sharan Sokhey was raised in a family in which a healthy lifestyle included mind, body, and soul. Fitness, meditation, and a vegetarian diet continue to be valuable elements to her lifestyle now. Sharan was born in London, England, and raised in California, where she graduated from UC Berkeley. There, she played Division 1 Field Hockey and was also a part of the Bhangra Dance group (a high energy Indian folk dance.) She was a middle school teacher who coached field hockey and taught bhangra in California. Now she is a proud mummy to Daya Singh! Sharan continues to play field hockey and has been a member of Stroller Strides since October 2010. She became an instructor in May 2011 and loves to implement bhangra dance elements in her classes!
Joanna Asher, RYT
Joanna Asher graduated from the 200-hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training program at Little Yoga House in 2010. Guided by her beloved teacher, Patricia Morris, she teaches Vinyasa yoga classes strongly influenced by the Ashtanga yoga tradition. She completed an Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training Intensive with Richard Freeman in 2011, providing her with a deeper understanding of the intricacies and meditative aspects of the Ashtanga-Vinyasa system. Joanna encourages her students to check their egos and expectations at the door and come to the mat with an open heart and an open mind. Her experience as a certified Pilates teacher since 2008 has provided Joanna with a thorough understanding of anatomy and alignment. She incorporates this knowledge into every class, safely guiding her students through an energetic, spiritual practice designed to bring balance to the mind, body, and spirit. By turning inward and quieting the thoughts of the mind through the practice of yoga asana and meditation, we are better able to access this steadiness off the mat and live more peaceful and fulfilling lives. Joanna is forever grateful for the strength, balance, peace of mind, and pure joy that yoga has introduced into her life and is dedicated to introducing these physical and emotional benefits to her students. She hopes to inspire happiness, promote confidence, and help her students realize the infinite possibilities available to them. "...none but ourselves can free our minds." - Bob Marley
Work-Study Program
Introducing LIfitMoms Work Study program! We have several opportunities for you to earn your classes in a way that allows you to pay nothing! Yes, FREE classes can be earned for every hour you put working for LIfitMoms. We have jobs we need to fill and will allow you to work at your own time within your own schedule. For every hour you work for us, you earn a FREE class…it’s that simple.
