Our dedicated Parkinson’s Fitness team invites you to join them in any of their class locations as often as you wish. Each instructor presents a unique teaching style that guarantees an opportunity for anyone taking their classes to stay motivated!

 

Dianna Daly – Balance in Motion

Dianna Daly is an artist and educator specializing in dance, yoga and exercise for people with Parkinson’s since 2012. As a certified Dance for PD® Teaching Artist, Dianna incorporates this methodology into her Balance and Motion class for Parkinson’s Fitness, with whom she has collaborated since 2011. She is also a Dance for PD® instructor for the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network’s Adaptive Sports program.

Dianna has been a guest speaker for the American Parkinson Disease Association’s webinar series Let’s Keep Moving: Physical Therapy and Exercise, and a presenter at the International Symposium for Dance and Well-being in Montreal, Canada. She is a guest instructor for the Parkinson Foundation’s Live Fitness Friday’s virtual programs and has led exercise demonstrations at the Parkinson’s Fitness “Living Well with Parkinson’s” symposium, the Parkinson Foundation Walk in Boston, and the local North Shore Massachusetts Michael J. Fox Run/Walk. Dianna teaches Parkinson’s movement workshops for dance majors at Salem State University, yoga and fall prevention programs for seniors, movement and dance in adult day care/rehab nursing facilities, and she is an Adjunct Professor of Yoga and Meditation at Salem State University.

Dianna’s Parkinson’s and related certifications include:
Dance for PD® Teaching Artist
Stanley J. Wertheimer Fellow, Dance for PD® programs, Mark Morris Dance, NY
American Parkinson Disease Association Exercise for Parkinson’s
Brian Grant Foundation Instructor
GZSPN Foundation, Parkinson Foundation SMART Programs
Dance for Dementia
AHEC (Area Health Education Centers) Fall Prevention Awareness
Yoga Alliance RYTE200 with specialized training for seniors and people with Parkinson’s

 

Kim Crowley – Strength in Motion with Kim

In January 2019, Parkinson’s Fitness instructor Kim Crowley completed the Exercise for Parkinson’s training offered by the Brian Grant Foundation.

Kim completed the Parkinson’s SMART instructor training while serving as Associate Health and Wellness Director at the Lynch/vanOtterloo YMCA in Marblehead, MA. She was a supervisor and occasional aide in the Parkinson’s exercise program led by Gail Perry Borden at the Y.

Kim passed the Dance for PD introductory online program in 2018 and attended the 3-day Toronto Dance for PD workshop. She then participated in a 6-week Inclusive Dance Program at the Dance Complex in Cambridge, MA.

Continuing her education, Kim attended two Parkinson’s symposiums presented as part of the Mass General Hospital Saturday Series. She then led an exercise feature at the Parkinson’s Fitness “Living Well with Parkinson’s” symposium in September 2019.

In addition to her work with people with Parkinson’s, Kim has taught group exercise across the North Shore since 2009 to children, teens, and adults, the senior population, people with intellectual and cognitive disabilities, and LIVESTRONG at the YMCA for cancer survivors.

Kim is an ACE-certified Personal Trainer and an AFAA/NASM certified group exercise Instructor. She is a licensed Zumba fitness instructor for the general population and teaches movement classes for adults with autism and dementia at assisted living residences.

Kim is passionate about helping people with Parkinson’s feel stronger and better and creating strategies to help them work. She teaches the Parkinson’s Fitness Strength in Motion classes.

 

Sally (Zagnoli) Augustin – Strength & Balance

Sally is a personal caregiver for the elderly, working mostly with people who have dementia and Parkinson’s. She watched the wonderful progress one of her clients made by attending Parkinson’s Fitness classes and this motivated her to get more involved with the programs.

In June 2019, Sally completed the Exercise for Parkinson’s training offered by the Brian Grant Foundation. To gain more knowledge, she also attended the Parkinson’s Fitness “Living Well with Parkinson’s” September 2019 symposium.

Before Sally started her family, she was an AFAA certified aerobics instructor and enjoyed teaching low-impact aerobics at Wellesley College, aqua aerobics at Bentley College, step aerobics at Danvers Racket Time, and high-impact aerobics on Continental Cablevision.

While her children were young, Sally worked hard to attain her professional certification to teach tennis and started a tennis program for the Georgetown Parks and Recreation Department. She taught tennis for 18 years as tennis director at the Nahant Country Club.

Sally shares her passion for meeting and motivating people of all ages to engage in lifelong exercise, nutrition, and health and wellness in the hope that it will improve the lives of those around her.