Personal Trainers
Travis Lightfoot, Certified Personal Trainer
Travis enjoys working hard to see that he and his team work with our clients at a personal level unmatched by any other training staff. His goal is to ensure each and every client has the best experience possible during their term with us. We have a strong passion for what we do and that is what drives results!
Dawson Stark, Certified Personal Trainer
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Coming from racing motocross for majority of his life, Dawson enjoys pushing the limits of himself and others’ abilities. After years of specialized training here at the Platinum facility to facilitate that success, Dawson now joins us as a trainer! With a passion for helping others achieve what they want and reach their full potential and more, Dawson is dedicated to helping clients achieve a healthy and happy lifestyle.
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Sunnyie Rountree, Certified Personal Trainer
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Sunnyie has been a client of Platinum for 2 years and now joins us as a trainer. Sunnyie has been in the health and fitness industry for 15 years teaching group exercise classes and providing personal training to clients. She has taught various forms of exercise such as barre, dance aerobics, high-intensity-interval training and strength training. She’s lived an active lifestyle for as long as she can remember as a ballet dancer and competitive cheerleader. She is passionate about helping her clients live their best life by staying healthy and active!
When she’s not obsessing about fitness, you can find her selling local real estate or soaking up the sun at the beach or on the intracoastal. She also loves to watch her daughter compete in cheerleading and her son in tennis. |
Laura Buckmaster, Certified Personal Trainer
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Laura was born and raised in Jupiter, FL. She has lived in Ormond Beach working in the Finance industry for 11 years. Her passion for fitness blossomed 7 years ago when her friend and workout partner transitioned their outdoor morning workout routine into a group training side hustle. Since then, she has designed individualized training programs that incorporate various forms of low-impact resistance, cardiovascular, and flexibility coaching to achieve optimum results. She strives to identify the balance between challenge and sustainability that is unique to each client. Laura has 3 amazing children that keep her very busy. As a native Floridian, she loves to spend her time near the water.
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Daina Akialis, Certified Personal Trainer
Daina was born and raised here in Ormond Beach. Her lifelong passion for fitness has brought her to Platinum to pursue a career in personal training. She started as a gymnast throughout her childhood and later became a competitive cheerleader. She feels that consistent exercise is a huge factor to overall health and physical as well as mental well being and can't wait to do what she loves and help others along the way.
Marcus Droker, Certified Personal Trainer
Marcus is an avid athlete with a strong desire to help others make a difference in their overall health and fitness, be it losing weight, coming back from an injury, ailment or rehab, running their first 5K or 10th marathon, body building or just keeping physically active.
It would be a privilege to help you reach your fitness goals.
Education:
Certified Personal Trainer from the American College of Sports Medicine
Bachelors in Public Health from Indiana University
Masters in Health Professions from Northeastern University (Boston, MA)
Some brief personal achievements:
Proud father of 2 amazing daughters , Fundraising for Cancer Research Bicycling across Massachusetts,
Boston Marathon Qualifier, Little 500 Bicycling Race Competitor (Indiana University)
It would be a privilege to help you reach your fitness goals.
Education:
Certified Personal Trainer from the American College of Sports Medicine
Bachelors in Public Health from Indiana University
Masters in Health Professions from Northeastern University (Boston, MA)
Some brief personal achievements:
Proud father of 2 amazing daughters , Fundraising for Cancer Research Bicycling across Massachusetts,
Boston Marathon Qualifier, Little 500 Bicycling Race Competitor (Indiana University)
Meditation & Readings
Alexandrea Lightfoot
Alexandrea has been re-connecting people with their self-love and self-awareness for 20 years, from inspiring the inner heart with song or deep loving therapeutic conversations. As an intuitive reader, life coach, medium and meditation coach, this former Jersey girl and New Yorker traded the glitter of the Great White Way for the sacred sites of Ormond Beach, Florida. Today, her office overlooks the ancient and serene Tomoka River. With a Bachelor's of Fine Arts from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and having studied under venerated meditation teacher and best-selling author of The Power of Intention, Dr. Wayne Dyer she now co-owns and operates Platinum Health, Fitness & Yoga with her husband where she challenges you to begin living life in the highest consciousness, incorporating scientific fact, faith, creativity, human connection, and inner truth. When she’s not helping people raise the frequency of the human condition, she can be found reading the Harry Potter series in her backyard hammock to her son William, rocking out every high note in Celine Dion's Power Of Love Album, meditating surrounded by her collection of too many (yet never enough) stones and crystals, or eating Southern buttermilk fried chicken from her neighborhood bistro. Are you finally ready to shed the illusions of fear, confusion, and inaction? Want to know more about how you can discover your true, sacred self? Follow her journey on Instagram @alexandrealightfoot, on her Facebook Fan Page, or find out more at www.alexandrealightfoot.com and www.platinumormond.com/meditation .
Yoga Teachers
Dee Pope, RYT 200
Dee Pope has been teaching various forms of exercise since she was 18, including Jazzercise (yikes!), Step Aerobics and Spin. Yoga had yet to be established here in the Daytona area, and it wasn't until she moved to Seattle WA. in 1998, where it was much more prevalent, that she discovered the practice and love of yoga. Upon her move back to Ormond Beach in 2013, she found herself with an opportunity to hit the reset button and after 16 years as a stressed out Realtor and wine bar owner, decided to take a very different path and become a certified 200-RYT yoga teacher. Dee is excited to share the spiritual and physical aspects of the practice that has helped her discover mind & body awareness and health on and off the mat. As one journey ends, a new and truly inspirational one begins! Namaste
Leigh Harris, RYT 500
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Prior to moving to Ormond Beach in 2017 with her family, Leigh Harris worked with First Responders who suffered from PTSD in Tampa, Florida. Her ability to put people at ease has always been part of her work history, and one of her best qualities.
After studying under the owner and teacher of Lotus Yoga and Fitness, Debbie Yarbrough, Leigh received her 200-hours of teacher training in 2019. Continuing her education in 2020, she studied under the owner and teacher of Yoga Bala and received her 300-hours. Leigh’s specialty training is in Restorative and Yin Yoga with over 60 hours completed. Leigh’s southern charm, infectious smile and caring demeanor will have you wanting more yoga before you even leave class. |
Marjorie Bird RYT, 200
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Yoga initially found Margie during her first pregnancy at a very basic level. As her practice evolved she realized the benefits were equally healing on emotional, mental, as well as physical level. Always a student, Margie has a background in Exercise Science and Nutrition, she is a certified 200-hour RYT instructor through Yoga Alliance, and continues to expand her knowledge and diversity through workshops and continuing education classes. She hopes to physically challenge, enlighten, transform, and help her students detach from the daily aspects of life under her unique and diverse style of instruction and guidance.Yoga has shown me how to be a more flexible, patient, still, mindful, compassionate, and loving human being. My intention is to help guide you on your journey and share the lifelong practice of yoga on and off the mat to find that sweet connection between breathe, body, mind and soul.
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Anilda Carrasquillo, RYT 500
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Anilda is a certified teacher, RYT500 hours in compliance with the Yoga Alliance standards. She has also received a certificate of completion from the Duke Institute of Integrative Medicine in Therapeutic Yoga for Seniors. Currently, Anilda is working to be certified as a Kundalini yoga instructor. Anilda’s teaching style and nurturing spirit offers a practice that is clear, precise, detailed, compassionate, and sensitive. She specializes in therapeutic applications of yoga to stay functional, release tension, stretch and strengthen the body, relax the mind and lift the spirit. She understands how to modify the postures and effectively designs safe, creative, and enjoyable yoga sequences to make them accessible to virtually anyone who wants to effectively incorporate yoga into their wellness routine.
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