Meet the Instructors

Lorrie Glass Coffman BS, MBA

Owner, HourGlass Fitness and Wellness
ACE-certified Personal Trainer
Yoga Alliance-registered Yoga Teacher-200 hours

Lorrie is certified as a personal trainer by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and studied practical training through ACE as well.   Lorrie has been training since 1996.  Always striving to find the ultimate fitness regimen, she realized she needed more balance in her fitness routine.  This quest led her to her first yoga class where she found the piece she was missing!  Lorrie is now a Yoga Alliance 200-hour certified yoga teacher.

Exercise and nutrition have always been her passions; yoga is the one form of exercise Lorrie has found to provide a true sense of balance in and between the mind and body.  And her personal study of nutrition has led her down the path to unraveling the mystery of what food can do in our bodies to prevent disease.  She is very dedicated to helping others learn this same information. 

Lorrie earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas and her graduate degree from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. After having her first child in 1999, Lorrie discovered the importance of specialized exercise and nutrition for post-partum women. While pregnant with her second child in 2003, she founded HourGlass Fitness and Wellness, a personal fitness and nutrition service committed to helping YOU take control of your health and increase your quality of life using exercise instruction, nutrition education and lifestyle choices to achieve optimum wellness.

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Susan Caruthers

Born and raised in Wellsville, KS, Susan attended the Wellsville schools from Kindergarten thru her senior year, graduating in 2006.

Starting her dance career at the age of three, she has always loved to dance.  Throughout her childhood, she trained in ballet, tap, jazz, tumbling and hip-hop.  While in high school she became active on the Wellsville Dance Team where she competed to become a Universal Dance Association All-Star Dancer in 2004 & 2005.  Susan has participated in many competitions receiving a rating of 1 on most of her routines.  In 2006, the Dance Team was selected to perform at the finals of the 3-2-1A State Basketball Tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas.

Currently, Susan is assisting Sherry Ellis with the Wellsville High School Dance Team where she enjoys every minute of practice!  Teaching the current Team members technique, dance skills and training them for competitions always keeps her smiling.

Susan is excited to teach young dancers how to develop into shining stars!

Gina Dearing

gdearing1011@yahoo.com

Gina has always had an interest and passion for dance, starting from an early age. She began taking ballet, jazz, and tap at 4 years old and continued dancing all the way through college. She started teaching beginner, intermediate and advanced tap and beginner ballet when she was 14.  She taught these classes for two studios throughout college. At 15, she was accepted into the Kansas City Dance Theatre Company, a dance performance group that performs throughout Kansas City.  She danced with the company for four years, ultimately earning a dance scholarship to New York City. She studied tap, ballet and jazz at the Broadway Dance Center under some of the top teachers in these fields. At 16, she had an amazing opportunity to perform with the National Dance Team in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.  After high school she received a summer internship in dance and choreography at Starlight Theater in Kansas City, MO.

She’s maintained an interest in dance as an adult, volunteering with high school musical productions as the choreographer and dance leader.  Dance began her life-long interest in health and fitness, as well as yoga, which she’s now been practicing for 6 years.  After twelve years in the work field, marriage and two children, she’s excited to start teaching again!  She believes that ballet provides fundamental techniques that are the foundation for all other forms of dance, self-confidence, discipline, and appreciation for movement and music.  She’s VERY excited to offer ballet classes to teach basic techniques in a fun and creative way!

Chase Labahn

Grand Master Hans Martial Arts Teacher-120 hours

chase_leb@hotmail.com

Chase Lebahn is originally from Seymour, Missouri where he graduated from Seymour Christian Academy. Chase recently moved to Ottawa, Kansas to start a martial arts division for his certifying organization and to further his education at Neosho County Community College.

He has been training under Master Zack and Katie Shaw since he was 9 years old and has competed in many different tournaments over his 9-year martial arts career winning many awards. He has become a third degree black belt and has experience competing in grappling tournaments.

Brenda Skiles
YogaFit certified yoga instructor
Rythmic Aerobics gold certified instructor

From an early age, Brenda realized that staying active and eating well were the keys to keeping your mind, body and spirit in balance. She was certified in high/low impact aerobics in the early 80's. Aerobics was her main passion, with body building running a close second. The body building was only for personal gain, and she never felt she could be committed to the diet and heavy weights for competition. She found that adding weights to her workout gave her a sense of power.

Wellsville High School and the Wellsville Recreation Committee have been great supporters to everything that she has taught in the community. Brenda held water aerobics classes in the summers with the help of the Wellsville City and Pool personnel.

After the birth of her child in 1993, she started an overweight, out of shape class. This class was well received.  The personal testimonies of the people who took it made her very proud of what a person can do for themselves, if they decide to commit to an exercise program and the part that she played.  Brenda took a long rest after these several years of teaching classes, coming to grips with what she thought was burnout...until she took a yoga class in 2008!!!

Brenda found that yoga brings concentration to the mind and strength to the body - not at all a sissy workout! She was hooked. Brenda is very devoted to the cool-down in her class and finds peace in the mini massages she gives her students during Savasana.

Mike Silsby

Hardstyle Kettlebell Challenge Instructor

Mike has always been interested in lifting weights and strength conditioning since his high school days.  In his early years, this type of exercise helped him make some good gains in his fitness level.  But over time, he noticed he wasn’t continuing to increase his strength with this type of workout.

About two years ago, Mike started having disabilitating back pain from sitting at a desk all day.  And those “same old bodybuilding- type” workouts didn’t help his situation.  In his search for a “cure,” he came across the Russian Kettlebell and started learning how to use it.  Within a couple of months, his back pain was gone.  He knew then he wanted to help others learn about this “well-kept” secret. 

Since then, Mike has learned more about strength and conditioning than he had in the 20 years before!  Kettlebells are a tool for all of your fitness goals.  Come in and see what it’s all about!