Kelsey Andries, BKin (Hons),CSCS, Level 4 Ki-Hara Resistance Stretching Practitioner

Kelsey Andries is a Calgary based Strength and Conditioning Specialist, Personal Trainer and Ki-Hara Resistance Stretching Practitioner. She completed a Bachelors of Kinesiology Degree (Honors) in 2006 from the University of Calgary. While at the University of Calgary she competed on the Dinos Field Hockey (2002) and Women’s Wrestling teams (2003-06). In 2004, she entered into a Strength and Conditioning practicum program at the Olympic Oval/Canadian Sport Center-Calgary. After the completion of the program she earned the position of Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach which she held from 2006-2008, where she worked with the Oval X-treme Women’s Ice Hockey Program, the National Cycling Centers Downhill Mountain Bike team and Hockey Canada. She has worked with the Chinese National Women’s Ice Hockey team, Dinos Women’s Soccer, Dinos Women’s Hockey and Dinos Men’s and Women’s Wrestling as well as indivudal athletes in Mixed Martial Arts, Muay Thai, Freestyle Skiing and Track and Field.

In 2010 she was introduced to Ki Hara Resistance Stretching and she added this to her skill set as a Strength Coach and Personal Trainer. She and her partner Nathan have gone on to complete thier Level 4 Ki-Hara Resistance Stretching training, working on cleints individually and together as a team.

They co-own Stenia Health and High Performance, a private high performance training facility in Calgary. She and Nathan work with athletes of all abilities, from grassroots to Olympians, as well as thier fantastic private clients.

Lisa Schklar, Level V Master Trainer.  Founder, Pilates North, Richmond Hill Ontario.

She received her certification as a TRX Trainer in 2010, Level 4 Thai Massage Practitioner in 2005, Stott Teacher Trainer and Stott Full Certification in 2002 and 1999 respectively.

Her appreciation of the body’s mechanics has progressed into an incessant need to continually evolve her understanding of movement through the ongoing attendance of workshops. FAMI (2009), KMI Anatomy Trains (2007), Extend Barre, Ballettone, Stuart McGill, Andy Obrian for her Level 3 Ki-Hara, Gyrontonics (2004), Structural Integration, Yumunna Body Rolling Level 1, Mediation Vypinassa, DCT with Nic Baratolla and Egoscue are a few among many that she has attended.

Lisa’s expert assessment of her clients’ varied needs always begins with a “reading” of the body’s movement through screens/patterns. This gives her a complete understanding of her clients’ core misalignments from the onset, enabling her to immediately focus and treat any problems to ensure that each exercise is felt by the correct muscle or muscle group for maximum results from the very beginning.

Her passion and training, coupled with her genuine sincerity in working with people has lead to what she considers an honour and a privilege to work with a variety of clients with diverse needs.

Whether she’s working with an elite athlete, an MS patient, a post-chemo and radiation patient or an everyday fitness enthusiast, Lisa believes that everyone deserves the competitive advantage that comes with increased energy and vitality from an aligned and balanced body.

Lisa is offering Ki-Hara certification, internships, workshops and private training out of her home base, Pilates North.   

Level 4 Trainer

NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist

Tommy Powers has developed a unique skill set from being a client of Steve Sierra and Anne Tierney and then studying the technique from them to become a certified trainer. After seeing and feeling the results of Ki-Hara through his hockey career he knew that he wanted to be able to share it with his clients.

Tommy believes that the human body is designed to move dynamically, and the goal of the nervous system is to co-ordinate a variety of joints and muscle groups working together synchronisticly to produce movement. This is the essence of athletic performance. Building an athlete is all about creating movement efficiency within natural dynamic movements. Resistance stretching can help anyone feel healthier, move around with strength and ease, improve posture and live pain free. It also can allow you to achieve a lean, natural, athletic looking body.

From professional athletes to disciplines from a wide range of amateur sports, everyone has seen immediate improvements in their strength, flexibility, and in their ability to perform at higher levels previously thought impossible.  Others have recovered from nagging injuries that impede their sport or athleticism, including some senior athletes who, for the first time in years, were able to compete again, due to the strengthening, stretching, and mashing of Ki-Hara.  

Tommy has always been an active athlete in the sport of ice hockey and has competed at the NCAA Division I level as well as performed in tryouts with professional teams.    He is currently a strength and conditioning coach and will soon be offering private sessions of Ki-Hara Resistance Stretching at the state of the art Duckett Performance Centre in Calgary.