Meet the Instructors
 Lorrie Glass Coffman BS, MBA, RYT
Owner, HourGlass Fitness and Wellness
Certified Facilitator
ACE-certified Personal Trainer
Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher
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 uncovered the nutrition piece of the equation, added that to her fitness training and founded HourGlass Fitness and Wellness, a personal fitness, nutrition and education 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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Gina Dearing
gdearing1011@yahoo.com
YogaFit-certified Yoga Teacher
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!
 Gardner Duo
kgardner@usd289.net
kyleeagardner@stu.bakeru.edu
Kylee Gardner is a native of Wellsville, Ks. She attended the Wellsville schools from Kindergarten thru her senior year, graduating in 2010. She started dancing as soon as she could walk – participating in all of her mom’s dance classes. She continued dancing even after her mom closed her studio by dancing on the award-winning Wellsville High School Dance Team. She has danced competitively with the Gardner Dance studio where she helped teach classes. Kylee is currently at Baker University studying to be a nurse. She currently works as a Certified Medication Aide at the Wellsville Retirement Center, where she truly loves her job and the residents. Kylee’s other passion is children. She truly enjoys sharing her love of dance with all ages. She takes a positive approach to her teaching style with the kids as she helps each one shine in their own style of dance.
Kimberly Gardner's passion with the baton began as a baton twirler in Burlington, Ks where the high school twirlers would devote their time teaching K-8th graders. She went on to become a Burlington High School majorette and gave back to the community by teaching young girls baton twirling. She performed at high school football and basketball games as well as accompanying the high school band to parades all over the state of Kansas. Kimberly and her husband, Rodney, moved to the Wellsville area in 1984 In 1991, she began teaching baton to young children and went on to open a dance studio – The Train Depot. For several years she taught baton, dance and tumbling at her studio until she was too busy with the activities of her four children. Kimberly is now a proud grandma to two beautiful girls and is a secretary at Wellsville High School. And with her children grown, she decided to return to teaching dance, tumbling and baton alongside her daughter Kylee. She feels that by teaching with positive reinforcement you can teach children self-esteem, which carries with them into other activities as they grow up.
Angela Hancock
angela555@live.missouristate.edu
Angela Hancock started dancing at the age of three. She is trained in modern, ballet, Pointe, tap and jazz dance styles. During her career, she has danced with the Manhattan Dance Project, Russian Ballet (as an extra in the Nutcracker), Chris Jones, and the Arbor Dance Company. Along with her dance training, she is also trained in vocal performance and musical theater.
Angela performed with the Missoula Children’s Theater, played Dorothy and served as assistant choreographer in The Wizard of Oz, played Lisel in the Sound of Music, played Marion Paroo in The Music Man, was a chorus member and assistant choreographer in Jesus Christ Superstar, and has danced in Oklahoma and Cinderella.
In December 2009, she graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance. While attending Missouri State University, Angela choreographed a modern dance piece, A Judas Kiss, which was chosen to showcase at the American College Dance Festival. She also choreographed her senior recital. Angela was a member and manager of Inertia Dance Company. This company focused on children’s theater and creative movement and traveled to various schools to perform.
Angela plans to get her Masters of Fine Arts degree. She also plans to continue choreographing and to someday have her own dance company.
Steve Prybylo
przybylo78@hotmail.com
NSCA-certified Personal Trainer
Steve received his Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Exercise from Kansas State University. Steve is a certified personal trainer with ten years of hands-on experience. Before moving to the Kansas City area, Steve was a fitness specialist at King Fieldhouse at Fort Riley, Kansas. In this position, Steve prepared the U.S. troops to pass the PT exams for deployment. Currently, Steve is self-employed at Prizm Fitness in Overland Park. Additionally, Steve provides wellness programs for companies in the Kansas City area.
Brenda Skiles
skilesfitness@gmail.com
YogaFit-certified Yoga Teacher
Rythmic Aerobics Gold-certifed 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.
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