Tipp City, Ohio
Katie Leavell
Anne Laing
Anne Laing has been dancing since she was a little girl. She started her dance training at the age of 5 and four years later, she became a member of the Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet, a pre-professional dance company in Cuyahoga Falls. She has been teaching ballet since 1995.
Anne also teaches and practices other movement forms, including Pilates, Yoga, Barre, belly dance, and hoop dance. Under the mentorship of Tom Smith, she became a Pilates instructor in 2003. She also trained with Nancy Myers of EHS Pilates. After 10 years of studying yoga, she received her 200-hour yoga certification from TRY4Life with Jan Hauenstein and Judi Bar in 2007.She is the lead teacher for One Love’s 200 hour Yoga teacher training program and earned her 500 hour yoga certification in August 2018 and became a Barre Intensity regional master trainer. As well as, being the Owner of One Love Yoga in Kent, Ohio. Anne’s knowledge and experience in these diverse movement forms has contributed to her thoughtful, creative, and challenging teaching style. She helps her students become better aware of their bodies and themselves while having fun.
These diverse forms also contribute to Anne’s fluid, graceful, strong, and dynamic performance style. She started studying belly dance at Kent State in 2003 and went on to join the belly dance troupes Dance du Soleil, Gems of Egypt, Gypsy Soul and Art In Motion belly dance company. In November 2011, Gypsy Soul won the awards for Best Troupe Performance and Best Artistry at the first annual Pittsburgh Belly-Off competition. Anne continues to study belly dance as well as Odissi with Sandhyadipa Kar.
Anne’s advice to people is to never stop moving. She shares this motto by continuing to perform and teach workshops throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Sarah Gillenwater
Sarah currently lives and works in Tipp City, Ohio with her husband and two kids. With a background in dance, Sarah took an interest in the Barre technique because of the familiar fundamentals. What she didn’t expect was the overall passion it would plant for a healthy lifestyle. She feels that health and mental wellbeing are a crucial part to life balance. With every student that enters a class, she tries to understand their lifestyle and purpose for being there. Sarah believes that everyone walks through the studio door for a different reason and wants that reason to be fulfilled. She loves when her students start seeing progress in their bodies and the confidence that builds.
Sarah’s class motto is “It doesn’t get easier, you just get stronger.”
Sarah is currently a Barre Intensity instructor at Salsa City Fitness and the Miami County YMCA. She also holds a day job as the Director of Marketing for Pink Ribbon Girls; a non profit organization created by women, serving clients currently battling breast and gynecological cancers with free meals, rides to treatment and house cleanings.