Our Instructor Team
Instructor List
Alice BracegirdleAndrea Rice
Andrea Ting-Letts
Clare Blanchflower
Jenna Howe
Monique Salez
Alice Bracegirdle
Classes with this instructor: Bellyfit Sculpt™ - Your Most Beautiful Body Revealed™, Bellyfit Live™ - Celebrate and liberate!, Bellyfit® - The Original Cardio Workout™
Alice Bracegirdle’s passion for inspiring women through movement, music, community and culture is the fire that fuels her life and her business. As a devoted wife, dedicated mother and the CEO & Master Trainer for Bellyfit International, her mission is ‘to provide creative resources for empowerment’ to women of all ages, abilities and lifestyles. Through the power of precision fitness, cultural dance and ethno-electronic music, Alice and the Bellyfit® Development Team have challenged 1000’s of women to defy the mass media’s unrealistic portrayal of the female body, and to embrace their own personal expression of how a fit, healthy, female body looks and feels, and how it moves! Drawing on 15 years in the Fitness, Health and Wellness Industries, and a lifetime of dance and creative movement, Alice is committed to providing a safe, sustainable and incredibly fun exercise system that takes ‘Fusion’ to a whole new level.
Bellyfit® Strong Woman. Strong World.
Andrea Rice
Classes with this instructor: Bellyfit Lifestyle™
In recent years Andrea has taken her personal passion for fitness to the next level by becoming a Can-Fit Pro certified group exercise instructor. Her existing aerobics students know her for her creative and fun ways of making any form of fitness exciting. She takes pride in keeping class content fresh, effective and fun. She has previous experience teaching Step, Cardio Kickbox, Muscle Conditioning, Hi Lo, and Circuit classes. Andreas desire to keep moving and stay healthy brought her into the dance world where she has spent the past two years studying Egyptian Belly Dance. Recently Andrea has taken her fitness experience and fused it into the fun and exciting world of dance by becoming a certified Bellyfit instructor. Andrea believes the Bellyfit system is a remarkable fitness platform for women to push traditional fitness boundaries and is excited to inspire others to benefit from what she deems the best fitness class ever!!!
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Classes with this instructor: Bellyfit Flow™ - Yoga and Dance Unite™
Andrea discovered Bellyfit two years ago when she and Alice crossed paths, literally and metaphorically, at Douglas Magazine’s 10 to Watch Awards. They have been shimmying their way down that path together ever since. Andrea obtained her certification as a BellyfitTM instructor in 2009, and has been working with Alice in a collaboration to liberate the rhythm of Bellyfit FlowTM.
Andrea simply couldn’t resist the powerful combination of all her many passions forging together in one fitness system that is Bellyfit FlowTM: women’s empowerment and self-love, the mosaic of cultural dance, creative movement, yoga, and DJ Rowan’s hypnotic grooves. She brings to her classes almost 20 years of dance study and performance, and a fervent enthusiasm for feminism- yes, she wears that label proudly, and has a degree in Women’s Studies to back it up! Andrea is also a Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga Instructor, currently studying Blissology Yoga with Eoin Finn, and Raja Yoga with Ann-Kathrin Martins.
As a professional writer by day, and a Bellyfit FlowTM and yoga instructor by night, Andrea embraces the power of words, written and spoken, to influence change. She believes that women have so much to gain by releasing whatever weighs us down through movement- perhaps that is what the Women’s Movement was all about!
Clare Blanchflower
Classes with this instructor: Bellyfit YIN™ - Surrender to Stillness™
Clare Blanchflower is passionate about teaching women to receive the wisdom of their bodies and access their true feminine essence. She has been part of the Bellyfit Developmental Team since early 2008, sharing her experience and wisdom of Women’s Health and Spirituality in Bellyfit Instructor Trainings. She is excited to be teaching Bellyfit Yin, a format that brings together her passion for yoga, deep body awareness, meditation and stillness blended with some sassy Bellyfit moves and a sublime sound track!
As a Natural Health Practitioner for Women, Yoga Teacher and Educator she focuses her practice and teaching on Women’s Health and Wellness through all cycles of life using the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy, Classical Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga (graduate of Salt Spring Centre of Yoga), Yoga for Fertility, Transformational Yoga Therapy and Sacred Balance.
Through her own search for physical and spiritual health she has come to understand the importance of movement and community in the creation of an authentic heart-centred life as a path to health and contentment and is an avid supporter of the Bellyfit mission. Clare’s intention is to encourage women to know and express their power and beauty through knowing and caring for themselves to create vibrant health, sparkling vitality and pure radiance.
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Classes with this instructor: Bellyfit® - The Original Cardio Workout™
Originally from Ontario, Jenna has been involved in the health and wellness profession for 16 years. A graduate of George Brown College Fitness and Lifestyle Management and Psychology at York University, Jenna Howe´s emphasis is whole body regeneration, through personal fitness training, holistic medicine and dance. In 2002, Jenna was introduced to The Bowen Technique through a colleague, good friend and massage therapist. From that moment onward she knew that Bowen Therapy would be an integral part of her business. Although Jenna has been focused primarily on rehabilitation in various forms over the years, she has still never forgotten her love of dance. Dance can be therapeutic on many levels, and Jenna continues to incorporate this ancient form of movement in many of her fitness and health plans. While attending a conference in 2007, Jenna found Zumba and since then discovered Bellyfit and Groove Method. Jenna’s passion is to encourage all women in the importance of movement and dance for their overall health and wellbeing and that everybody can dance. Jenna is excited to share her passion for dance with the Victoria community and is currently training to become a Yoga Therapist and a Yoga Instructor.
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Classes with this instructor: Bellyfit Warrior™ - Matter over Mind™
Monique has been exploring the body and movement for over 20 years through extensive training in modern dance, jazz, ballet, theatre, voice, percussion, improvisation, Pilates, Dance, Yoga, Feldenkrais, and massage certification. At present Monique is a professional Flamenco dancer/teacher/producer, Bellyfit Master Instructor, certified Pilates instructor, vinyasa yoga devotee & teacher, and is excited to explore the Bellyfit Warrior system.
Monique is also a Canada Arts Council & BC Arts Council Grant recipient, honours student in Hispanic Studies at UVIC and mother of a lovely boy, Talyn.
Embodying feminine power when she moves - raw, expressive and inspiring - Monique’s passion, fire and her ability to reach deep into the core (and make it BURN!) make her a powerful asset for the Bellyfit Crew allowing us to lead with confidence and creativity.
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