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 is an artist and educator specializing in dance, yoga and exercise for people with Parkinson’s. She also teaches Yoga and Fall Prevention programs for seniors and is a Professor of Yoga and Meditation at Salem State University. A Skidmore College graduate, she enjoyed a 30-year performing career in the Boston area while teaching Pilates, dance and yoga. In 2010 she began working with people with Parkinson’s and developed the Balance in Motion class.

Dianna trained with Dance for PD® founding teacher and former Mark Morris Dance Company principal dancer, David Leventhal. In 2016 she was awarded a Stanley J. Wertheimer Fellowship that provides in-depth training and mentorship to exceptionally qualified teachers offering high-quality classes modeled after Dance for PD®. As an invited participant and after many hours of intensive training, Dianna is now a certified Dance for PD® Teaching Artist! In collaboration with Parkinson’s Fitness, she has been teaching Balance in Motion in many of our locations for the past ten years!

Dianna is also certified through the Yoga Alliance RYTE200 with specialized training for seniors and people with Parkinson’s, AHEC Fall Prevention Awareness, the Parkinson’s SMART program, the Brian Grant Foundation Exercise for Parkinson’s, and Dance for Dementia.

 

Kim Crowley – Strength 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 2018.

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 – 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.