ACT
To encourage physical activity, we provide children with a variety
of fitness classes in a safe and fun environment. They learn how
to move their body and rejuvenate their mind.

Services

• A variety of fitness classes ranging from yoga and dance
  to functional fitness and kickboxing.
• Education for children to have a better understanding on
  how physical activity affects the body.
  
  
  

 

Alison Curtis is Get Healthy Chicago's ACT Services Leader.

Alison’s passion for motivating, teaching, and empowering people through movement led her to a career as a fitness trainer and yoga instructor.  After taking a part time job as a fitness instructor in college, Alison found herself searching for vessels to deepen her understanding of the human body, movement, and methods of teaching.  She became an ACE certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor in 2003.  Then, at just the right time, she attended a Yoga class.  The gentle, yet invigorating practice inspired Alison to integrate her fervor for fitness with her BA in South Asian Religions.  Believing that people live more vibrant, engaged, content lives simply by making time to nurture the mind, body, or spirit, she found that becoming a yoga instructor was the perfect fit.  Excited to share movement with the children of Chicago, Alison feels that promoting an active lifestyle at a young age will empower children to use movement as a mode of expression and self-awareness as they grow.