Hi, I'm Ilana Fernandez, founder and managing director of Fit for a Goddess. (If you haven't done it yet, click the right-pointing arrow of the video controller, above, and "meet" me.)
I have a doctorate in Clinical Psychology specializing in Life Span Development and am a Registered Play Therapist.
I've worked for many years with people of all ages supporting healthy growth and development throughout ones life span. Working as a Child and Family Therapist, I've specialized in parenting and attachment issues. My work with couples integrates the development of the self while nurturing healthy attachments.
My current focus, with an emphasis on movement, has been inspired by an overwhelming sense of the need to renew and enliven the essential and authentic feminine in women today. The things we do in our classes draws on my passion for dance and training in many of its forms such as; jazz, modern, ballet, Latin, hula, and Tahitian. The fact that I've also done specialized training in dance therapy, movement therapy and art therapy has helped with our class design.
Those design components have been integrated with research on ancient ritual and ceremonial dance movements performed throughout the ages among matriarchal and benevolent societies.
Those
mostly-forgotten
forms
where
sensuality
and
spirituality
were
one
in
the
same.
Bringing
back
this
balance,
and
with
it
a sense
of
healing
and
wholeness,
is
my
primary
goal
for
each
of
our Goddess classes.
And I can't leave this out: I also believes that the Fit for a Goddess sensual dance workout is the most fun you will ever have getting and staying fit...in mind, body and spirit!
Ilana
