About the Healthy Bride

Christi Masi - Founder

Founder of The Healthy Bride®, Christi's focus is on training women to successfully meet life challenges. An avid, international mountain climber, her professional background includes 11 years of sales and marketing at Starbucks Coffee. Christi's outstanding leadership ability and natural enthusiasm has motivated women to complete triathlons, 10K races, and summit climbs of Mt. Rainier. Not to mention health and fitness goals for pivotal life moments like class reunions-and weddings!

Christi's credentials include:

• ACSM- HFI® and NSCA -CPT® certifications
• BA in Psychology from the University of Washington

Brooke Weitz- Instructor

Brooke is joining us to lead several Healthy Bride programs; including yoga and some Bellevue Classes. We are so excited to have her!

Brooke's love for fitness began early as a competitive gymnast. When she grew too tall for gymnastics she turned to Volleyball and Basketball earining a university scholarship in volleyball. Brooke has coached both basketball and volleyball and loves working with groups. She is currently a student at Bastyr Universtiy where she is studying to be a naturopath.

Brooke's philosophy is to look at the whole person in discovering what programs to recommend.

We are excited to welcome Brooke to The Healthy Bride team!

Ruthanne Naranjo - Instructor

An outdoor fitness instructor and personal trainer, Ruthanne has
taught classes in Seattle and on the east side since 2004. Her
classes promote group energy as a fun and dynamic tool to optimize
individual improvement. She is an ACE certified personal trainer and
is studying for ACSM certification. Ruthanne runs half marathons,
sprint distance triathlons, and enjoys biking and snowshoeing.

She is a clinical research associate at the UW and
has a degree in Geology from Macalester College in St. Paul
Minnesota. She ran the Paris Marathon for the Leukemia and Lymphoma
Society in 2006.

Leah Kriewall- MS, RD, LD
Nutritionist

Leah is an integrative nutritionist, combining both conventional and alternative approaches to healthy living and nutrition.

A Midwest native with a background in biology and chemistry, she chose to relocate to the Pacific Northwest to expand her knowledge at Bastyr University, where she obtained a Master's degree in Nutrition with a focus in counseling and learned to help others to take a proactive and preventative approach to healing with whole foods.

Leah then spent time in Tucson, Arizona, where she completed comprehensive training to become a Registered Dietitian.

She relocated back to the Pacific Northwest a year ago - Oregon this time - and now works with individuals of all ages and walks of life enabling them to make choices that promote optimum health.

Leah enjoys eating locally, practicing yoga, gardening, jogging and hiking in the beautiful outdoors, cooking, and playing guitar with her husband.

Andi Pihl - Instructor

Andi brings a rich background of yoga, triathlon training, rock climbing, mountaineering, outdoor endurance training, samba dance, acrobatics and martial arts to her workouts. She is an Associate Forrest Yoga instructor and focuses on alignment and strength building to rehabilitate joints and muscles and to prevent injuries.

During the day Andi works as a production designer at Hornall Anderson. She has completed three Danskin triathlons, climbed Mt Rainier and Mt Baker, and is a Landmark Education graduate. She has a BFA from Pacific Lutheran University and an MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Amy Bohutinski - Instructor

A long time fitness instructor, collegiate athlete and outdoor enthusiast, Amy Bohutinsky loves just about anything that takes her outside and works up a sweat. Her first "boot camp" type experience came while playing on a nationally-ranked NCAA tennis team in college, and continued as she became an AFAA-certified fitness instructor after graduation, teaching a variety of strength and cardio classes to support her measly starting salary as a journalist. Amy has finished more than a dozen triathlons, one marathon and skydived twice -- but nothing compares to her greatest life athletic achievement that came in November 2007: giving birth to baby Frankie!

Having exercised throughout and after her pregnancy, Amy has a tremendous amount of passion for helping moms become and stay healthy for themselves and their families. Realizing it often seems daunting to find the time, get the help, or obtain nearly enough sleep to jump into a postpartum exercise program, Amy's classes are designed with the challenges and joys of modern motherhood in mind. She focuses on finding balance -- and of course getting outside the house for a great workout!

In her "day job" she tries to balance, Amy is director of corporate communications for real estate Web site Zillow.com.

Breona Gutschmidt- Yoga Instructor

Breona is excited to share her love of yoga with The Healthy Bride & The Healthy Goddess community this year. Practicing since 1999, Breona was first drawn to yoga as an athletic pursuit, but she soon discovered that yoga held the way to life balance, mental focus and a new relationship to physical movement, the body and the breath. Providing a sense of stillness in the midst of hectic daily life, yoga also regularly helps her with stress and insomnia. She has studied several styles of yoga, including Iyengar, Hatha Flow and Power Vinyasa and is a certified yoga instructor through Eight Limbs Yoga Centers. A writer and editor by day, she also writes a monthly yoga column for ParentMap.com.

Jonna Skokan - Half Marathon and Triathlon Coach

Jonna is a Mother, Coach, Teacher, Runner, Tri-athlete and More!

Jonna taught art, P.E. and coached volleyball and basketball for 10 years for the Mukilteo School District. After she left teaching she started her own small jewelry business and currently sells Real Estate for Windermere in Seattle.

When she is not working you will find Jonna mountaineering, skiing, cycling, swimming, and of course, running. In fact, Jonna has spent the past decade running marathons, competing in triathlons, including two half-iron (wo)mans!

She is the mother of two beautiful girls and one amazingly patient husband, whom she adores!

Jonna holds a BA, in Education from Gonzaga University and an MA.Ed. from Lesley University

Megan Lee - Portland Bride Class instructor

As an NASM certified Personal Trainer with 4 years of experience, Megan has mastered the balance of Strength training and cardio that is necessary to shed fat and build lean muscle.  With a background in dance and track and field, her focus is on helping women (and men) become their overall best through exercise, great food, and mental fitness.

"I believe that the mind and the body work best when they are working together."  Sound information combined with practical movement is the optimal way to achieve results.  There are NO quick fixes and there are NO shortcuts, but with hard work and a program tailored to fit your lifestyle, there IS a way to look and feel they way you've always wanted to. 

"Watching others achieve their goals has always make me happy" That is why Megan became a personal trainer, nutrition enthusiast, and Boot Camp instructor.