AMANDA FURGIUELE - Owner
AMANDA FURGIUELE - OwnerPole Dance & Erotic Fitness, Aerial Silk and Aerial Yoga, AFAA Personal Trainer, AFAA Group Fitness Instructor, STOTT PILATES Certified Instructor, Zumba: Basic 1, Aqua, Toning, Gold, Gold Toning, Glutes, Kids & Kids Jr., TurboKick Kickboxing, YogaFit 1 & 2, Indo Board, Silver & Fit, R.I.P.P.E.D., Pre and Postnatal Pilates and Yoga, Peak Pilates Certified Instructor, TRX, Babywearing, Injury and Special Populations
Amanda began teaching fitness in 2001. From co-leading rock climbing, kayaking, and caving expeditions, to teaching collegiate level competitive fencing, and participating in just about anything and everything–martial arts, dance, yoga, pilates, ice climbing, skydiving, canyoning, and a million other health adventures–Amanda LOVES showing her students that FITNESS CAN BE FUN!

She believes that boredom is the enemy of
 any progression in fitness (and in life) so she dedicates her classes 
to the fine art of having fun—“a workout doesn’t have to be work”—and 
incorporates a mix-and-match philosophy to each workout session. Because inspiration manifests in infinite ways, Amanda strives to try
 and teach as many types of classes as possible. She is motivated by 
the stories and accomplishments of her friends and students, by the rush of achieving more than she thinks she can, and by the challenge
 of new adventures. When she’s not dancing and moving around like a
 mad woman, you can find Amanda out in nature, or conversely, glued to 
her computer doing digital graphic and television production work…or
 planning the next big “thing!”

The Pole Room offers series classes to teach all levels of pole dancing to everyone, no matter your size, shape, age, even gender. If you’re serious, we’ve got a place for you at the Pole Room. I believe in providing a judgment-free space to empower women, women-identified, and men in their own form of self-expression. There are absolutely NO mistakes in pole dancing, only each individual’s interpretation of the movement. All the variations we learn are what make dancing so beautiful and so much fun!

In addition to our popular Pole Dancing classes, The Pole Room also offers a sizzling and exciting array of workshops, specialty classes, guest dancers, and retreats.

Pole Dancing is about self-awareness, self-expression, and pure confidence. The only people we aim to please are ourselves. The more you come to class, the more confidence you will gain, the more strength you will build, and the more fun you will have! A workout doesn’t have to be work!

AMY ERICKSON
AMY ERICKSONLyra Instructor, Professional Acrobat/Performer, Aerial Yoga Play Instructor, ElevatED Flexibility Instructor
As a young gymnast, Amy learned to love being upside down. She continued to develop this love over the next ten years as a dedicated yogini.

Her journey led to circus arts in 2013 when she took her first flying trapeze class. From there she accelerated into the world of acrobatics, learning wraps and drops on the aerial silks, spins and contortions on the lyra, and became a flying trapeze instructor. In 2015, with the support of her fitness and yoga instructors, Amy received her Aerial Yoga Play certification.

Amy loves sharing the joy found in Aerial yoga and lyra with her students. She thrives on watching them learn to trust their bodies, to grow in their abilities, and let go of their fears – imparting a newfound courage beneficial in all aspects of their lives.

After moving to Maui in 2015, yoga became a daily part of Beth’s life and got certified in ZFlow Power Yoga. Through yoga, Beth has learned non-judgement of herself and realized that being a yoga teacher is one more step of her journey of being an aerial instructor and a ultimately, a LIFE coach. She has a heart to help those that are asking for help and attending a yoga class is one way to ask. Beth concentrates on filing you with words of LIFE that you need so that you can let go and be UNSTOPPABLE.

Beth also offers henna or hair wraps to her class attendees. One simple henna or hair wrap for your first class, and then another one every 5 classes.

– Speak your mind, even if it makes your voice shake. –

BETH RUSSELL
BETH RUSSELLAerial Yoga Play and Aerial Yoga RX instructor, Certified Pole Instructor, Aerialist, Yoga Certified - ZFlow Power Yoga, ElevatED Flexibility Instructor
Beth grew up teaching interpretive dance in her church, competed in gymnastics for two years, and played most sports her school offered. In college she became logistics for an Outdoor Adventure Club. Since 2006, she has been an adventure guide leading people through class V rivers, down into raw caves, climbing mountains, biking the dirt trails, and zipping people through the rainforest of Alaska.

After moving to Maui in 2015, yoga became a daily part of Beth’s life and got certified in ZFlow Power Yoga. Through yoga, Beth has learned non-judgement of herself and realized that being a yoga teacher is one more step of her journey of being an aerial instructor and a ultimately, a LIFE coach. She has a heart to help those that are asking for help and attending a yoga class is one way to ask. Beth concentrates on filing you with words of LIFE that you need so that you can let go and be UNSTOPPABLE.

Beth also offers henna or hair wraps to her class attendees. One simple henna or hair wrap for your first class, and then another one every 5 classes.

– Speak your mind, even if it makes your voice shake. –

CAITLYN LARSSON
CAITLYN LARSSONfrom Fit to Fly in Australia
Caitlyn Larsson from Fit to Fly is a jack of all trades, and attempting to become master of a few. She is a flying trapeze and aerial artist, who moonlights as a travel and content writer in her spare time. She received a BFA in theatre and education from New York University and after a brief stint as a professional tour director (If you look out the right side of the bus, you’ll see the Statue of Liberty), she discovered and fell in love with circus. After sprinting off to England for some whirlwind training at Circomedia in flying trapeze, aerial arts and acrobatics, Caitlyn became a roving circus vagrant, traveling the globe performing and teaching. Quickly realizing that the wandering circus lifestyle is not always the most lucrative or stable, especially when attempting to keep up with those pesky NYU loans, she fell back on her impeccable grammar and highly praised writing skills to help pay the bills. Now, with a ‘work hard and smart’ work ethic, Caitlyn balances out her life as a teacher, performer, director and writer with grace and dignity, and only a few harried late nights.

She can be found teaching workshops and performing original circus acts around the world, all the while enjoying the freedom of writing on the go. She spent 2 years in San Juan, Puerto Rico, employed as the new rig manager for Trapeze School New York, crafting shows for Bahia Urbana in Old San Juan, helping with the inaugural International Circus Festival in PR, and plotting ways to bring Clowns Without Borders to the island. She took some time to gallivant around Fiji and New Zealand, attempting to surf and teaching workshops to locals. There was a stint in San Francisco, meeting colorful West Oakland locals, and the direction of a full length circus show in Dallas before fleeing the country for some rest, relaxation and more workshops and performance in SE Asia and Australia. Currently she can be found in Melbourne, studying exercise science by day and moonlighting as Marilyn in her one woman comedy show at night.

CELESTE DAVIS
CELESTE DAVISAerial, ElevatED Flexibility
Celeste is a ceaseless creative whose passion for exploring new horizons brought her to Maui from North Carolina. 

As a young child, Celeste climbed everything from the ropes of her father’s boat to the kitchen fridge. Always searching for an outlet for her creative energies, she took her first Aerial Silks class right here at Body in Balance in 2016 and was hooked from her very first inversion. 

Since then Celeste has gone on to become Aerial Yoga Play Certified and an ElevatED Flexibility instructor. She is finally able to embrace her restless spirit as she expresses her passion through teaching others the circus arts. Celeste finds an exceptional joy in teaching children how to harness their boundless energy into inspiring circus acts.

FELICIA CHERNICKI-WULF
FELICIA CHERNICKI-WULFDance Instructor
Felicia Chernicki-Wulf started dancing with Foy Dance Studio at the age of 3 and has continued to dance ever since. She lost her first tooth in Miss Carolyn Foy’s ballet class. At age 14, she received a full scholarship with City Dance Center in Yuba City, California. She later became an assistant and eventually an instructor with the studio. She has degrees in Behavioral and Social Sciences, as well as Arts and Cultures.

Felicia has received training in many different types of dance including ballet, pointe, lyrical, tap, jazz, hip hop, swing, salsa, lindy hop, and blues. She met her husband through dance. The two have taught various forms of social dancing both here on the island and on the mainland and can be seen performing in various productions on Maui.

Felicia believes that music and dance are incredibly beneficial to one’s self and well being and is excited to share her passion for both with her students.