Instructors
Jeanne Missey, MA
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Jeanne has spent the last twenty years developing her knowledge of fitness for active adults. She has worked internationally, been a fitness consultant to corporations in Ohio and Georgia, and has directed fitness and wellness programming within higher education institutions, including The University of Arizona. Her main focus is integrating mind/body fitness concepts into the more traditional fitness class structure. She is also a published author of several articles related to fitness and senior populations. Jeanne has been the Director of Fitness at the Academy Village from 2001- 2009, founded and operates the Arizona Pilates Academy since 2004, and teaches Zumba, tai chi, yoga, line dance, step aerobics, water fitness, and weight training. She has also produced, Total Fitness, an exercise DVD with an optional companion instructor manual. This product is for two audiences: older adults who want to follow a safe and effective exercise video and for fitness instructors who want training and continuing education in the field of older adult exercise.
Suan Woodward
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Suann graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelors of Science in Microbiology and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Fine Arts. Suann has been a practitioner of Pilates and yoga along with other forms of traditional exercise for 25 years. She is certified in Mat Pilates and has completed the teacher training program with the Arizona Pilates Academy. Her main focus is on the mind/body connection of exercise for health and well being as we age. She studied nursing, briefly, and was in medical research for 30 years at the University of Arizona in which she had many papers published. |
Connie Discher
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Connie Discher received her Pilates and fitness training with the Arizona Pilates Academy. Her love of fitness, disk problems in her neck, and a father with peripheral neuropathy gives her a natural empathy for working with older adults in fitness and on the Pilates equipment. Her career has been spent with American Airlines and much of her job was working in customer service and keeping customers happy. Now for her retirement career, she is still giving customers what they want by carefully attending to their bodies through Pilates personal training. She is a fun and knowledgeable addition to our staff. |