About Us

Dr. Beall’s loyal sidekick

Halle

Halle is Dr. Beall’s loyal sidekick, and heads up Rise’s motivational department. She loves welcoming clients and patients to Rise, cheering up those who need it and just being her lovable self. When she is not working, she likes going for trail runs, going out to lunch (especially if bacon is on the menu) or snoozing in her office, which she shares with Dr. Beall. No appointment needed to visit with Halle!

Aleta Tan

Graduated January 2007 from Everest College formerly known as Bryman. The school is in San Leandro, and specialized in one on one training in Spa and Clinical techniques. Aleta is a Certified Massage Therapist (CMT) with insurance from ABMP. She has 4 years of experience of a private practice that targeted mostly on each clients rehabilitative needs or the Chiropractors. 5 years she’s been an Independent contractor that helps alleviate body pain and tension with her style of massage.

Aleta has learned different therapeutic modalities of massage to help sooth and alleviate muscle pain. She maintains the philosophy of Holistic Healing, being able to take care of ones self and maintain wellness. Her massage style is a combination Swedish massage, deep tissue, trigger point therapy and neuromuscular therapy. Swedish is a relaxation-type massage that is very soothing, Deep tissue deals with moving muscles with deep concentrated pressure. The last two modalities are more rehabilitative: Trigger point therapy targets your ‘pain spot’ aka hypertonic ‘knots’; where a small area of your muscle is contracted. Neuromuscular therapy is almost like deep tissue except with alternating levels of concentrated pressure on the areas of muscle pain or strain.Aleta Graduated in January 2007 from Everest College, specializing in one on one training in Spa and Clinical techniques. She has 4 years of experience with clients assisting with the rehabilitative needs of Dr. Beall’s patients.

Angella Coleman

Angella’s desire to challenge her bodies’ physical limitations first started with dance. Then eventually athletics became her passion. Angella was a two sport athlete with collegiate and Olympic dreams. Unfortunately, after tearing her ACL senior year in high school, that road was cut short. Her training and her injury has given her the insight on how to challenge the body and how to patiently deal with injury. She has been a pilates instructor just short of a year. Her classes reflect years of personal training experience, 300 pilate reformer certification hours, experience teaching TRX, and barre. Angella’s style derives from her love of dance and fitness. She looks to improve her students flexibility, core strength and coordination, while building their confidence in their fitness journey.

Derek Shaffer

Derek is a martial artist, cyclist, and exercise enthusiast who enjoys helping other people reach their personal goals, stay motivated, and build functionally strong physiques. He has been a trainer and coach for over 10 years, and instructs a wide range of clientele.

NASM Certified Personal Trainer
NASM Women’s Fitness Specialist
NASM Mixed Martial Arts Conditioning Specialist
CrossFit Level 1 Trainer
CrossFit Movement and Mobility Trainer
Primal Kettlebell Instructor
Ralph Gracie Brown Belt

Erika Matos

Erika takes a fun, fresh and holistic approach to fitness by integrating multiple disciplines and innovative styles. Her Pilates journey began in 2003 as a way of rehabilitating her body and rebuild foundational strength from sustained injuries in a car accident. It wasn’t until 2011 that official training began leading to certification in All Mat, Reformer, and Apparatus Modules including Springboard. In 2013, she added prenatal and postnatal certification. Erika believes that, together, we can enhance our life experience by supporting and strengthening our mind-body connection, pushing ourselves outside our comfort zone in order to discover new levels of untapped vitality within.

Jessica Richman

Jessica is a graduate of the National Personal Training Institute, a NASM certified personal trainer and NESTA certified mat pilates instructor. She believes exercise is fundamental to living a well-balanced life, and truly enjoys helping people to become a better stronger version of themselves.

DC, ART

Joshua Silver

Kiko Nascimento

Kiko is a Yoga instructor, Reformer Pilates Instructor, Certified Massage Therapist, Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Crossfit Coach, as well as an accomplished MMA fighter. He is Rise’s “Swiss Army Knife”. He has been involved in fitness for decade, during which he has amassed an amazing number of skills and certifications.

Skills
• MMACA (mixed martial arts strength & conditioning coach)
• CMT (certified massage therapist)
• Yoga Certified Instructor
• Cross Fit Level One Certified
• Currently 3-0 MMA amateur record-holder

Stephanie O’Loughlin

Stephanie O’Loughlin is a certified Pilates instructor who teaches group and private Pilates reformer lessons. As a seasoned pilates instructor and group fitness manager, she has dedicated her life to helping others achieve their health and wellness goals. After years of starting her fitness journey simply as a hobby, she quickly realized that her passion lay within creating classes and programs which motivate and inspire others to live their best, healthiest life. With close to a decade of experience as a pilates instructor, Stephanie has had the privilege of working with clients of all ages and abilities and specializing in developing classes that not only improve physical strength and flexibility, but aid in stress reduction, injury rehabilitation, and overall body awareness. When Stephanie is not guiding clients through their workouts, she is furthering her knowledge in the field through ongoing education, attending conferences, and keeping up with current research on exercise science and nutrition. Most importantly, her dedication to living a healthy lifestyle spills over into all aspects of her life, both professionally and personally. Stephanie is thrilled to continue her journey at the forefront of the fitness industry, empowering those around her to live their best life with a focus on strength, confidence, and overall wellness.

Hanna Klyushnik

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Alexandra Dimitruk

Alexandra Dimitruk is a 2020 graduate of National Holistic Institute in Emeryville, CA. What drew her to the world of massage was the love for helping people relax and helping relieve pain and discomfort. Starting her externship at Breathe Health Center in Berkeley, she cultivated an appreciation for partnerships with Chiropractic work as well as her specialty in Swedish and Deep Tissue massage modalities. Each patient is unique and receives personalized treatment plans.

Jessica Lizardo

Jessica first discovered her love for yoga and fitness in 2010 after training to be a classical cellist starting at the age of 5. She spent years and even her first year of college training at a conservatory of music in Manhattan, New York, and realized she wanted the experience of not just being the accompaniment to dancers on stage but to embody these movements herself. She came back to the Bay Area where she’d grown up in 2009, took her first yoga class and transferred those years of practice and dedication as a musician into becoming an avid yoga student. Eventually, she yearned for something more than just the physical practice of yoga and so became trained as a registered yoga teacher in 2012. And that was just the beginning. She discovered another exciting path to explore during her college career, which was her love for pilates. It is the way that these movement-based practices incorporate a form of art, healing and discipline that brings deeper awareness and strength, that led her to become a lifelong student of yoga and pilates. She has been teaching yoga since 2014 and became trained in the Power Pilates Mat series in 2019. She has taught classes at studios and community centers in Orange County, as well as a trauma-informed yoga series at her alma maters, the University of Southern California and UC Irvine and at a mental health facility in Burlingame. She has proudly been part of the Rise BodyWorks community since 2019 and carries the same trauma-informed lens and approach in her teaching through the use of language, modifications and safe exploration of exercises in one’s body. When she’s not teaching pilates or yoga, she is deepening her understanding and knowledge of both practices, exploring the greater outdoors and great music, and developing her clinical skills and working as a community-based psychotherapist for youth, with hopes of merging both practices to help others experience a sense of freedom and alignment in both body and mind.

Brenda Crysler

Brenda is a Certified Personal Trainer and a U.S. Coast Guard Veteran. Certified through NASM with a Corrective Exercise Specialty, she enjoys programming workouts focused on interval training, weightlifting, and functional movement. She appreciates getting to know each client, their fitness history and goals, and finds it a pleasure to craft tailored workouts that challenge people mentally & physically, while progressing toward a common objective. As a part of her team, you’ll gain strength, knowledge, and improve your personal body mechanics to turn your fitness goals into lifetime habits. As a mother of two boys, Brenda is also passionate about working with pre & post-natal clients in order to maintain an enduring and healthy lifestyle during these significant life changes and milestones.

CSCS, ART, DNS, MDT

John Beall

Born and raised in the Bay Area, Dr. Beall has been involved in health, fitness and rehabilitation for over 26 years. He attended San Francisco State University for his undergraduate studies in Exercise Science, and then completed his Doctorate in Chiropractic at Life Chiropractic College West. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (C.S.C.S) and a Master Active Release Techniques provider (A.R.T.), and uses protocols from a wide variety of techniques including SFMA, DNS and McKenzie method. John is a master level manual therapist and rehabilitationist.

In his spare time, John likes to enjoy California’s natural beauty surfing, snowboarding, competing in triathlons and riding his mountain bike in the hills, often accompanied by his loyal sidekick Halle.

Noelle Wilson

Noelle started her fitness journey at the age of 5, and continued into her adult life. She has a 3rd degree black belt in Kajukenbo. She has trained in Filipino martial arts and muay thai. Noele studied for the NSAM personal trainer certification at PT Pro Academy of San Francisco. Noelle has worked as a personal trainer and has trained many people in general fitness, and traditional martial arts, as well as kickboxing. She is an insured and certified personal trainer through PTA Global and ACE. She holds a current CPR/AED card. Noelle brings 10 + years of martial arts and functional fitness experience and is excited to share her growing knowledge with all her clients and gym members! Fun fact: Noelle is also a Firefighter Trainee for the Alameda County Fire Department Reserves!

Emmy Kastning

You may recognize Emmy as one of our managers as he spends most of his days at our front desk. He is now expanding his career in Rise as a group fitness instructor. Emmy found his passion for fitness when beginning his transition (female-to-male) in 2018 and throughout his time at Rise. He enjoys helping people reach their fitness goals and pushing them to their limits for a great workout while incorporating bodyweight exercises, functional training and weightlifting. Emmy will help you gain strength, stability and body awareness throughout his classes.

Stacz Sadowski

A certified Pilates Instructor, Stacz is passionate about movement, dance, and helping others achieve their goals. As a child, Stacz was diagnosed as hyperactive and created an active lifestyle to help him manage it. His interests range from dance to weightlifting. An enthusiastic, positive practitioner and teacher, he finds Pilates to be one of the most amazing exercise systems. He looks forward to sharing this with you!

Jean Zartler

Jean Zartler is a certified Pilates group instructor and Private Pilates trainer. After 17 years of Pilates Mat and Reformer experience and training, Jean has taken her expertise, following her dreams, to become a valued Pilates motivator at RISE. Jean has a passion and desire to elevate her students’ practice through breath work, mind centering and high-intensity cardio Pilates. She brings enthusiasm with encouragement in a way that promote health and well-being through foundational Pilates, with an edge. Get ready to get your body engaged and heart rate up with Jean!

Dr. Brandon Fein D.C.

Brandon is a Bay Area native who studied kinesiology at San Francisco State University before attending Life Chiropractic College West where he graduated summa cum laude with a Doctorate of Chiropractic.

Brandon is an avid golfer and studied at the Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) where he became a certified TPI medical provider. He also plays Ultimate Frisbee as a professional athlete on the Oakland Spiders in the American Ultimate Disc League. He has been actively working with athletes and training as a professional athlete for the last 9 years. Brandon is passionate about working with patients and is committed to helping people feel their best. He uses a patient-centered model of care to help everyone he works with perform at an optimal level in their everyday lives. He is experienced in myofascial release and mobilization as well as being certified in instrument assisted soft tissue manipulation (IASTM).

Group Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer

Norbert Flores

Hello everyone, my name is Norbert. I’ve been teaching group fitness classes and personal training for many years and am still passionate about the work that I provide to my students and clients.

My specialties are corrective exercises, plyometric training, general strength training, and stretching. I also taught many classes such as Bootcamp, HIIT, Total Body Strength, and Cycling. I try to keep a variety of exercises and modes of training to keep the workouts new, fresh, challenging, and fun!  

I believe that if you put in the work and consistently show up to work out, I promise you will exceed all expectations of what your body is capable of. It would be my honor to help you exceed those expectations.

Small Group Training Instructor

May Funabiki

Personal TrainingSmall Group Training Instructor

Brandi Szabo

Brandi is a 42-year old mother and has spent 13 years pursuing personal fitness, and teaching friends. She has been certified for 3 years as a Personal Trainer, an Insanity and Cycling instructor, and a P90X trainer.

Fitness is the fountain of youth, and Brandi loves sharing that gift with others. It’s her goal to find a way to make it fun so you want to come back for more. Brandi has back and knee problems, so she knows a lot about strengthening the core, back & knees. It is her goal to help you reach your goals in a healthy and happy way, and help strengthen you for your future.

Her interests include endurance races, yoga, sand sculpting, and fitness in general.

Personal TrainingSmall Group Training Instructor

Aaron Delgerbat

Aaron is happy to start this journey at Rise! As an ACE Certified Personal Trainer with 11 years of experience teaching group fitness classes and effective one-on-one sessions. Aaron is ready and excited to help you with your fitness goals! When working with Aaron you will focus on technique and actively working towards results and challenges. His expertise lies in coaching, instruction, nutrition principles, weight management and healthy living. Aaron is also an accomplished body builder and enjoys hiking and riding his motorcycle!

Sarah New

Sarah New is a certified Pilates instructor with over 4 years of reformer experience. Sarah came to the Pilates world when she suffered a debilitating back injury and was looking for a low-impact exercise to rehab. She quickly fell in love with the practice and saw firsthand how Pilates can not only aid in injury recovery but also enhance flexibility, balance, and strength. Due to this Sarah brings with her a passion for helping people improve their overall health and wellbeing through the practice of Pilates. Her approach to teaching Pilates is rooted in the principles of alignment, breath, and flow and she is always looking for a way to challenge clients with creative and dynamic exercises that target specific muscle groups while also focusing on proper form and technique.  When not teaching don’t be surprised to see Sarah on the carriage next to you or spending time at a pool watching Water Polo.