Rise Gym

Catina Harvey

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

Dominic Jeffries

Dominic Jeffries is a certified massage therapist and yoga instructor. Dominic studied massage therapy at McKinnon Institute in Oakland. He studied Deep Tissue, Swedish, Shiatsu, Acupressure, and specializes in Deep Tissue. His style is very slow and heavily based in Trigger Point, a style of massage that focuses on certain points that can release tension in more than one part of the body, and Myofascial Release, a style of massage that focuses on connective tissue.

Hanna Klyushnik

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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.

Stephanie O’Loughlin

Stephanie O’Loughlin is a certified Pilates instructor who teaches group and private Pilates reformer lessons. Passionate about fitness, Stephanie designs her classes to challenge people at their individual levels, by working with them personally to build strength, muscle control, flexibility and balance. She loves combining new Pilates methods with traditional moves, to create fun, but challenging flows for every level.  Stephanie is dedicated to helping her students achieve their fitness goals and loves watching them discover how strong their bodies can become. When not teaching, she can be found taking multiple classes a day at Rise, or playing with Halle!

Zack Bazarnick

From an early age, Zack Bazarnick bas been influenced by various yogic masters.  Growing up in Santa Cruz, he was often in close contact with his first spiritual mentor, a master yogi from the district of Almora, India. More recently, Zack traveled to a remote ashram at the foothills of the Himalayas to become authorized to teach these mediation techniques, some of which he learned directly from a Himalayan mystic. Since then, Zack has dedicated significant time to meditation and has seen many benefits from this practice. Increased patience, discipline, will power, gratitude, contentment, compassion, concurrent with less negativity and anger, have all manifested since starting his practice. In this class, Zack will share some of the meditation techniques he has learned in hopes of spreading these practices of mindfulness and kindness