Shelley Dawson

As a health and fitness professional I enjoy inspiring others to commit to long-term health and fitness goals. I am a passionate fitness and mind body instructor with a strong background in over 10 formats. I am a part time educator and find value in teaching and training other instructors to be the best version of themselves. I am equipped with the motivational skills, leadership, and technical training necessary to engage clients and instructors and achieve results.

I am currently the education and Pilates director at Sports Academy, where I create education, schedules, classes, do marketing to build clientele and offer continued training for instructors. I have found success in managing social media sites to generate business. I also manage and lead by example to other instructors in my department with quality leadership skills. I feel I have a great sense of humor that makes me personable and easy to get along with. In 2021 I presented workshops at 2 national conventions where I created and educated other group fitness instructors and personal trainers. I was the lead trainer for the 2020 Pocatello 200 hour yoga teacher training and have co-taught over 5 other 200 hour trainings as well as been the lead trainer for our Pocatello YTT. I am currently a lead yoga trainer for the foundation Yoga Forward and spend time teaching a 200 hour YTT in the Salt Lake county prison. I assisted in writing 2 chapters for AFAA's new GEAR certification as well. I was also the lead talent/content creator for 16 Planet Fitness workouts that are available nation wide on their app. Each week I teach from 25-30 group fitness/reformer classes spanning over 9 formats as well as being a mom to 5 kids and a wife to Scott.

• Certified Yoga Instructor:

Initial completion: Aug 07, 2016

Yoga Alliance ID#: 210997 (Cert stays valid with CEU's)

• Certified Group Fitness Instructor (CGFI)

Certification #: 1220861451 expires: 7/18/24

• Certified Personal Trainer (CPT)

Certification #: 1220838089 expires: 6/1/24

• STOTT certified pilates instructor

Initial completion: Mar 16, 2013 (Cert stays valid with yearly CEU"S)