Our Team

Vicky Williams

As a certified personal trainer and Zumba instructor Vicky has a love for inspiring men and women alike to care for themselves and live a healthy lifestyle. Her passion for health and wellness drove her to obtain her Master’s Degree in Health Care Administration in 2007. At the age of 60, Vicky entered and won her first bodybuilding competition, and she doesn’t plan to stop competing any time soon! Paired with her extensive knowledge and personal relationship with bodybuilding and group training, this surely qualifies her guidance and instruction as a great asset and addition to your personal fitness regimen. Vicky is here to inspire and support you with your personal fitness goals and dreams.

Craig Vorhies

Craig is a passionate and dedicated gym fanatic with 40 years of weight training experience. As a qualified fitness trainer, Craig holds a bachelor’s degree of Health Science and Physical Education. He has worked for various health and fitness centers, including River City Fitness and Horizon Health Club, where he was coordinator of training and manager of sales. Craig has also held the position of Training Coordinator for all cadets in the Academy at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Eric Denmark

Eric is a lifelong fitness enthusiast and experienced ACE certified personal trainer.  He has worked with youth groups, athletes, and senior clients.  He promotes health and wellness through fitness and assisting clients with reaching their goals.  Eric specializes in speed and agility training, athletic conditioning, balance and mobility, as well as core and general fitness training. 

Ariel Rosato

Ariel began her personal journey down the yoga path in 2005 with fitness in mind, but soon discovered that the practice offered much more than a strong and flexible body.  Her entire life was transformed.  She quickly learned that yoga is a practice for any-body.  Graced with a passion for sharing the amazing healing and life-changing benefits of yoga with others, Ariel acquired two, 200-hr certifications. Her intention is to create and hold a safe space for people of all fitness levels to participate in the practice and believes that, “…as we align our bodies, minds, and hearts through the intentional participation and practice of yoga, we welcome in the opportunity to fulfill our highest potential, most imagined dreams, and to celebrate the lives we have come to live.” 

Lorien Sobati

Lorien is a functional yoga teacher and holistic health teacher who brings 20+ years of practice to her teaching. She is registered at the RYT 500 level with Yoga Alliance. She found yoga at the age of 15 and immediately fell in love with this system that is simultaneously a physical, emotional and spiritual practice with the potential to truly transform individual and community health and well-being.

She obtained her first 200 hour certification from the Mount Madonna Center with Baba Hari Dass in Santa Cruz, CA in 2001, and then went on to a 5 year, 1000 hour advanced study course with Eddie Modestini and Nicki Doane at Maya Yoga School in Maui, HI. In 2005 she travelled to Mysore, India to study Ashtanga Yoga with Sri K Pattabhi Jois.

Since then, she has studied intensively with Senior Advanced Iyengar Yoga instructors Manouso Manos and Patricia Walden, completed a pre-natal yoga training course with Jane Austen, as well as continuing education in yoga for at-risk youth. Outside of her yoga training, Lorien brings additional experience in movement and fitness across a variety of modalities including dance, pilates, aerial arts and strength training, along with a genuine passion for helping people feel healthy, empowered and connected in body and mind. Recently back in Trinity County from the concrete jungle of NYC, she enjoys spending time with her son, animals and wonderful community, working on her bespoke fashion business, gardening, cooking, hiking and swimming in the river.

Vicki Whaley

When asked, Vicki said: “I remember as a teenager thinking, “one day I’ll  do yoga”… 30 years later, in 2008 she signed up for her first class here at White Wolf Gym!  Selling insurance, Vicki sits a lot, and was experiencing a lot of pain in her body, so she committed to try yoga two days a week.  Knowing very little about yoga, she thought it was mainly stretching.  About a month in she was surprised at how much stronger she was!  A few months later she noticed her breathing was slower and she was handling her stress better, plus she had a wonderful sense of well- being ~ she was hooked!

In 2018, at the 10 year mark, she decided to make it official.  Going to the source, she attended an Ashram in India, and completing her 200-hour course.  Vicki is officially certified to teach yoga!

Vicki is excited to continue her pursuit of a lifestyle that nourishes her body, mind and spirit, and is eager to share the amazing experience and lifestyle of Yoga with any who wish to try it!  Please join her sometime!  There are all ages, levels and gender – no judgement or competition.  Plus, they keep their eyes closed much of the time!

Yoga Is For Everyone ~ Start Where You Are!

Diana Losk

Diana began teaching youth ballet classes at Kelly’s Fitness Plus and White Wolf Gym in 1995.  Though, her teaching career began in 1987.  She has taught locally, in Weaverville, throughout California in Marin, Sonoma, and Los Angeles, as well as internationally, in Japan. As a professional dancer, Diana worked with the American Dancemachine and performed on cruise ships and in regional and national tours.

Paula Masterman

Throughout her lifetime Paula has been a student of metaphysics.  She obtained her Reiki Master/Teacher status in 1999.  She has studied a variety of spiritual ways and in doing so has learned that within each of us individually and collectively, we have great energetic potential.  A mother, legal secretary, and community volunteer, Paula’s offers a unique blend of practical and metaphysical insight in her Mindfulness Classes to assist people in attaining balance in their everyday lives.

Annabel Myers

Annabel has had a love of dance ever since her first ballet class way back in 1980.  Since then, she has tried almost all forms of dance, from tap to hip hop.  Around ten years ago, she purchased some Zumba DVDs after watching an infomercial and she was hooked!  Today, Annabel holds an official Zumba certification.  Annabel believes that dance is great exercise that doesn’t feel like exercise! She invites you to come and join in on the fun!