About Millcroft Fitness & Wellness
We are a group of certified health and fitness professionals who are passionately committed to helping you achieve your personal best. We offer personal training as well as group training in indoor cycling, yoga, pilates, strength and core conditioning, BootCamp workouts as well as kids & teen fitness and running clubs & learn to run clinics. Millcroft Fitness is also home of Personal Best Your Weight Loss Solution - a weight management program that combines physiotherapist supervised functional fitness with a highly successful nutrition program. Our vision is a healthier, fitter community - one neighbour at a time and our motto which we live by is Get Fit. Feel Great. Love Life.
The Team at Millcroft Fitness & Wellness
Janicke Ziemer
Janicke is our studio director and founder of Millcroft Fitness & Wellness. She holds a degree in physical and health education from Queens University and is a certified personal trainer. She also
holds numerous certifications through Can Fit Pro, ACE, Body Training Systems, Madd Dog Athletics Spinning, OASES, Ballys, Polestar Pilates and the Heart & Stroke Foundation. She has also completed many intensive trainings through Stott Pilates as well as with some of the industry's best yoga teachers including Donna Read and Hart Lazer. Janicke has been personal training, teaching group exercise as well as managing in the fitness industry for over 20 years and is currently a proud ambassador for Lululemon and is a competitive adventure racer, runner and duathlete.
Tracey Jamieson
Tracey is a Can Fit Pro certified personal trainer as well as fitness instructor, certified in First Aid and CPR, YMCA certified in Individual Conditioning and Group Fitness.. She has worked for the YMCA for over 10 years managing the Fitness Centre, Personal Training program as well as the Aerobics department. Tracey has a passion for fitness and always enjoys a challenge. Tracey also enjoys distance running and has completed many full and half marathons and in the past few years has enjoyed training and competing in trail running.
Julie Robinson
Julie is a STOTT Pilates certified instructor and has a medical background as an RN and product trainer. Pilates is her passion and have been a practitioner for over eight years. Pilates has made a profound difference in her life and now has a mission to help one body at a time learn how to really live well in their own body and to be the very best they can be !! Julie is a very patient, passionate and enthusiastic trainer and provides a safe, refreshing and energizing full body workout. Regardless of one's current fitness level, age or gender, from elite athlete athletes to those with limited mobility, her pilates way is very adaptable method. She loves the fact that Pilates is for everybody and can be practised throughout one's life...it is never too late to start a journey that is never ending !
Dr. Paul Ziemer
Dr. Paul has been a chiropractor for over 14 years and also holds a Bachelor of Science in physical and health education from Western University. He has been a certified personal trainer through ACE and was in the first group in Canada to get Spinning certified ! He is the founder of Canadian Laser & Pain Therapy.
Katarina Liberte, RMT
Katarina is a Graduate of Sutherland-Chan School and Teaching Clinic. Her training includes a five- year Movement Therapy Diploma which inspired her to pursue a career in massage therapy. Katarina holds an HON. BACH. SC from the University of Western Ontario in Zoology. She utilizes advanced myofascial and structural integration approaches in her efforts to help clients maximize their potential for health in movement.
Dr. Nicole Ciraolo
Dr. Nicole Ciraolo graduated as a doctor of Chiropractic (DC) from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto and holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from McMaster University with a minor in Psychology. During her chiropractic studies, Dr Ciraolo earned her Acupuncture Diploma from the Kalibowila Hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka where she was trained in Traditional Chinese Acupuncture. She then furthered her acupuncture certification through the Acupuncture Foundation of Canada and treats numerous conditions including sports injuries, tendonitis, sciatica, arthritis, migraines, insomnia, anxiety and infertility. As a compliment to her chiropractic and acupuncture training, she is also a certified Personal Trainer and Spinning Instructor. Dr Ciraolo believes in educating her patients in all aspects of health and fitness and is dedicated to providing effective evidence based health care using a combination of therapies.
Chris Boucher
Chris is a Can-Fit-Pro certified Personal Trainer and TPI certified Golf Fitness Instructor with 20 years experience within the fitness industry. Founder of Custom Fitness, Chris specializes in one-on-one and group personal training, golf-specific workouts, VO2 assessments and metabolic training. He is also known for his calorie-blasting boot camp classes. An outdoor enthusiast, Chris enjoys kayaking, hiking and cycling.
Jane Watson
Jane is a Can-Fit-Pro certified personal trainer who has been actively training for the past five years. She enjoys working with those new to fitness, helping them achieve their fitness and weight loss goals. An avid exerciser, Jane has led 5K Learn-to-Run groups, enjoys functional training, kayaking, cycling and hiking.
Shanine Dennill
Shanine is a certified yoga instructor. She completed her yoga teacher training with Nesta Falladown and her meditation facilitator course with Tony Murdock, at the Yoga Centre of Burlington. She has also taken workshops with Francoise Raoult in the Iyengar tradition. More recently she has been studying Anusara (which focuses on alignment with a deeper connection to the heart). This has led her to studying with Todd Norian and Anne Greene in the States, John Friend (the founder of Anusara Yoga) and other senior teachers, such as Naime Jezzeny and Sianna Sherman. Shanine teaches from the heart and encourages her students that when they step onto their mats, their yoga comes from the heart; exploring the body, mind and inner light with joy and courage. Her classes combine the strengthening aspects of yoga as well as opening typically tight areas of the body.
Dr. Ben Fryer
Dr. Fryer attended the University of Western Ontario where he completed a four year Honours degree majoring in Kinesiology, with a special interest in Anatomy and Biomechanics. He continued on his educational path and graduated from the four year program at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College as a Doctor of Chiropractic. Throughout his training, Dr. Fryer earned full certification in the soft tissue technique ART® (Active Release Techniques) and is a certified provider. He also achieved certifications in CSCS (Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist), and Medical Acupuncture from the McMaster Contemporary Medical Acupuncture program. Currently he is pursuing his post-graduate studies in sports sciences through the College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences (Canada) (CCSS(C)).
Dr. Fryer has been involved in many sports in the past and has more recently had the opportunity to work with a variety of athletes. He has experience treating acute/traumatic as well as chronic/reoccurring injuries. He is currently the Team Doctor for the Junior A Oakville Blades of the OHA and has been since the 2006 season.
Courtney Rainville
Courtney is a registered yoga teacher as well as our Kids Yoga specialist.
Ana Alexandre
Ana is a certified personal trainer and spinning instructor.
Mike VanDenBosch
Mike is an avid adventure racer, photographer and spinning instructor extraordinaire !
Shannon Skinner
Shannon is a certified group fitness instructor.
Bridget Smith Registered Massage Therapist
Bridget is a graduate of the Ontario College of Health and Technology in Stoney Creek, Ontario. During her educational endeavors, Bridget has obtained valuable hands-on working experience in a variety of occupational settings including therapeutic clinic, hospice, running and sports events throughout the Niagara region. These educational experiences were of personal significance to Bridget who not only enjoys staying active and running but has an extensive 20 year background in the healthcare field serving the needs of palliative and chronic care individuals in both a residential and institutional environment. Bridget has also received training in kinesiology, aromatherapy, hot stone massage and sports injury rehabilitation.
A caregiver at heart, Bridget believes an active lifestyle, good sense of humor and a positive outlook are key in obtaining success and happiness in personal and professional life. Her motto is to laugh out loud and do at least one good thing each day! She is committed to helping you obtain your health and wellness goals and looks forward to the opportunity to serve your individual needs from the preventative and rehabilitative role of a registered massage therapist.
Terry Volpe Registered Massage Therapist
Terryn is a graduate with a diploma in massage therapy from Sutherland-Chan School and Teaching Clinic with a focus in sports massage, chronic pelvic pain and pregnancy massage. She also received a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology from Brock University and enjoys dance, wakeboarding, reading, and relaxing at her cottage.
Tony Matchem – Registered Nutritionist
Tony is a registered nutritional consultant practioner (RCNP) with over 20 years in the fitness, nutrition and weight loss industry. He is the founder and author of Forever Young Nutrition as well as a former national athlete.
Andy Hvizd
Andy is a certified personal trainer, triathlete coach, Bootcamp instructor extraordinaire and holds a degree in physical and health education from the University of Maine. Andy is a competitive runner and triathlete having just completed his first half ironman.
Lisa Drewry
Having lived and worked as an expat in four different continents over the years, diversity is perhaps the most appropriate word to describe Lisa’s life experiences and nature. Lisa had always been pro-active in competitive sports at school and decided to transition from teaching to fitness instructing soon after relocating from the UK to Canada several years back. Lisa is currently a Can-Fit-Pro Fitness Instructor Specialist and has been instructing a variety of Groupfit classes including Boot camp, cardio, muscle/core conditioning, functional fitness and many more! Lisa is also a certified indoor cycle instructor, Mind and Body Specialist and most recently certified as a Personal Trainer Specialist, through Can-Fit-Pro. Lisa prides herself in being the best that she can be mentally and physically and hopes to continue pursuing such goals by motivating and inspiring others around her, through her own life experiences, to be the best that they can be.
You will leave her classes and sessions feeling fitter, stronger, inspired and more capable of taking on the world both physically and mentally. Two of Lisa’s favourite sayings; “Long live those who pursue their goals and dreams in life and remember... You are always stronger than you think you are!!”
Sonja Broadbent
Sonja is a certified indoor cycling instructor as well as competitive runner and triathlete and physical education teacher. She just successfully completed her first of many half ironmans !
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