Wendy Yates

Founder

Obsessed with fitness, travel and creating “Lifestyle Design for Living Well” Wendy is a true entrepreneur. As the founder of Abigail-Elise Design Studio and Well Fit Human Retreats, she is deeply committed to personal growth and having a positive influence on others via social and environmental projects. Her goals to do good, be fit, feel joyous, experience the world, create opportunity and dance a little hip-hop along the way are both inspiring and the foundation of our retreats.

What to Expect: One relentlessly motivated Boss Babe.

Claudine Norden

Coach/Personal Development

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Adventure, ambition and inspiring people to be their personal best is what drives Claudine. She has 25 years of experience in corporate wellness, college football, youth sports, senior services and personal + professional leadership development. Skilled at empowering people to strive for higher levels of performance, she guides them to live and lead well. Claudine launched Ascent Life Planning, LLC in 2010 whereby she works with individuals and organizations in facilitating growth using emotional intelligence and the Paterson LifePlan modules

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What to Expect: Inspiration, clarity and connection to live your best life!

Maria Esteve

Retreat & Social Media Coordinator

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With an MBA in protocol, event organization, and institutional relations, Maria is truly a team player. She loves to encourage positive discussions in order to bring out the best in every individual.

Maria is passionate about organizing events and showing her vision of the world through social networks.
She loves traveling around the world and getting to know new cultures because it allows her to grow personally, while also feeling professionally fulfilled.

What to expect:  Endless fun and attention during our retreats. Inspiration and positivity! 

Amy Kwak

Coach/Personal Trainer

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Driven, enthusiastic and strategically balanced when it comes to health.

Amy is a fitness queen. With years

of experience as a nationally recognized personal trainer, she utilizes functional, cardiovascular

and strength training techniques to create well rounded and structured fitness plans for both individuals and larger groups.

What to Expect: Overall conditioning that will leave you happy to be sore.

 Lauren Hitchell

Coach/Personal Trainer

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Dance, dance and dance some more. Then when she’s done, Lauren motivates everyone to keep dancing

while also instilling mindfulness, the power of manifestation and the value of community. Classically trained as a member of a prestigious dance company, she began teaching at the age of 16 and has continued to specialize in Barre, Hip-Hop Cardio, pole dancing, as well as a variety of other bootie burning workout regimes.

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What to Expect: Excellent beats and some Booty Shakin FUN!  

Carley Ewert

Coach/Yoga Instructor

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Anatomical awareness, alignment

and amazing adjustments are only a few aspects Carley loves to cover in her yoga classes. With 15 years of experience as a massage therapist and yoga instructor, she is skilled in both verbally teaching students to listen to the deeper, subtle cues of the body and physically aiding them to new places through a combination of mindful sequencing and therapeutic guidance.  

What to Expect: 1) music, 2) the freedom to flow, and 3) classes that will leave you smiling from the inside out.

Katie McDonald

Retreat Coordinator

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Recreation, nutrition and a thirst for experiencing all that life has to offer has been the driving force behind Katie since youth. With a degree in Nutrition and a passion for the outdoors she ventured to Colorado whereby Katie teamed up with Wendy as a design and executive assistant. Although her specific roles may vary, Katie’s motivation to succeed is unwavering and her positivity simply contagious.

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What to Expect: Great vibes and AEHustle to make it all happen.

Svetlana

Coach

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Svetlana is a Divine Energy Healer and founder of The Light Freedom — her healing practice focuses on helping people to free their Light so they can shine bright and impact many. 

Svetlana has earned a Masters Degree in Spiritual and Metaphysical Studies. She shares her knowledge and gift in holding space for physically ill, emotionally confused, and mentally tired people in search of Light. She is a Spiritual Teacher, Transformational Speaker, Yoga and Meditation Expert that travels the world with her beautiful family and inspires people to create a life of their dreams.

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Shannon Rizzo

Coach

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Shannon owns and operates three companies housed under The Shannon Rizzo Companies and Global Girl Life brands. “I teach each woman how to listen to her heart, clearly restate what she hears and how to become a trailblazer in her own life. Some call it finding their purpose, I call it designing her life in living color and creating the world that she wants to live in.” Shannon also established the Global Girl Life Foundation, that educates, empowers, and provides enlightenment & employment for women (and serves their children) to lift them from the cycle of poverty.