Body Natural Personal Trainers are all nationally certified and they work hard to stay on top of the latest health and fitness research, trends and tools. Our trainers care about your success as much as you do.
Cindie DeMello
is a National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Certified Personal Trainer and a Certified TRX Specialist. Her training style is best described as fitness fusion. Combining her personal background in dance and body-building with her professional experience in strength training and cardiovascular fitness, Cindie is committed to creating a work out experience that is fun, challenging and efficient. She has taken hundreds of successful clients through her Quick-2-Fit Boot Camps, Maintenance Program, and private training sessions.
Trish MacGillivray
wants everyone to experience the joy of having a strong, healthy body. Her background as a "D" licensed soccer coach led her to become a personal trainer. After years of helping young athletes get stronger and more fit, Trish wanted to help others reach the same goals. She loves when her clients feel healthy, strong and able to take on the world. Trish specializes in functional training that trains clients for life outside the gym. Her classes include lots of high-intensity interval training as well as encouragement and fun. She is ACE Certified and a TRX Suspension Training Specialist.
Katrina O'Connell
brings over 30 years of health and fitness experience to Body Natural. She welcomes every level of the health and fitness seeker with her abundant enthusiasm and genuine concern for her clients and their goals for themselves. Katrina is an AFAA Certified Personal Fitness Trainer, Mad Dogg Certified Spin Instructor and GTS Gravity and TRX Suspension Specialist. Katrina is an avid skier, sailor and loves to kayak, bike ride, rollerblade, swim, skate and snowshoe! Katrina believes that if you find something physically that you truly enjoy and use that as your release, your desired level of fitness will surely follow.
Jill Heterick
is living proof that fitness is never an impossible goal. From 190 lbs to 116 lbs in two years, Jill lost 35.5% of her body fat through a combination of diet, cardio and strength training. Jill decided to make her personal triumph a professional inspiration. With her NABF training certification, Jill now works as a fitness instructor in the same gym where her own life was transformed. "People often feel self conscious going to a gym," she explains, "but the atmosphere here is so supportive." A better body might be the goal, but a better life is the result. "It's about respecting yourself and making you the priority. Everything else will follow."
Maura Coffey
has been working as a Personal Trainer in the East Bay area for the past 16 years. AFFA certified. Her classes are challenging, but the focus is always on enjoyment. "It's easier to work out when you are having fun," she says. She prefers teaching group classes to one-on-ones because of the motivational aspect of a combined challenge. She believes in the mind-body connection and thinks that working out can be "better than a psychotherapist". In her classes spirituality and sweat are not mutually exclusive. "You can be fun and peaceful and still get your butt kicked."
Lori Vartanian
is an AFFA certified trainer with over 20 years of experience teaching fitness. Currently she teaches spinning, Gravity and Boot Camp maintenance. The mother of four children, including triplets, and a 6th grade and kindergarten teacher for 12 years, Lori has no time for excuses. "People don't work hard enough," she says. As an instructor she will push you to reach higher. She believes that varying workouts and combining strength training with a healthy lifestyle are the keys to success. "Fitness is a way of life."
Jason Bouchard
Just because Jason Bouchard is also known as "The Butcher" doesn't mean he's a bad guy. Jason is an MMA fighter and he loves to include his fighter's training in his boot camp workouts. He is a former International Combat Entertainment Heavy Weight Champion. His background in boxing, Kempo karate and Jujitsu led him to a career as Mixed-Martial Arts fighter. Those disciplines strengthened his drive to be the best he could be. And that is how he trains clients, to be the best that they can be. Jason teaches a high-intensity cardio endurance class using martial arts moves. He loves that he can help people gain strength and confidence.