About

Fitness Work Experience

jeanette logan Jeanette Logan has been involved in fitness and expressive arts for over 25 years. Her extensive experience in both arenas has helped her successfully inspire and motivate people of all ages (2 to 92!) to become more active and step into greater aliveness. Since 1994, she has focused her fitness work on training age 50+ adults because she really loves to work with this special population.

Jeanette organizes all components of her fitness classes, including choreography, music, and program design. She teaches low-impact aerobics, strength training, chair aerobics, stretching, relaxation, meditation and line dancing. Presently, she teaches her group fitness classes in northern California at Margaret Todd Senior Center in Novato and for the Goldenaires at the San Rafael Community Center.

Throughout the years, Jeanette’s passionate curiosity about the many facets of natural wellness and the mind/body/spirit connection has led her to explore various types of fitness and healing. She believes we all have within us an innate capacity for self-healing and increased vitality.  She says, “I encourage my class members to listen to their own body wisdom and to access their own inspired movement, not to just be mimicking me. When we move in ways that feel good to us then there is no stopping us! We truly begin to expand our sparkling aliveness and improve our health from the inside out. Instead of just dragging ourselves to the gym or to a class because we’re supposed to exercise, we look forward to it!”

Education

  • BA degree in Theatre Arts
  • ACE-Certified (American Council on Exercise) in Group Fitness Instruction
  • Certified by the Health and Fitness Institute of Cal State University Hayward in Aerobic Instruction
  • Holds The Natural Wellness Certificate with highest honors from Clayton College of Natural Health
  • Holds The Senior Personal Training Certificate through American Senior Fitness Association (SFA)
  • AA degree in Physical Education and Health
  • AA degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • AA degree in Drama

Completed Training Programs in Personal Development Fields

  • Certified Public Speakers Training and Goal Achievement Programs with SAGE Seminars in Las Vegas;
  • Expressive Arts for Healing Program with Natalie Rogers at the Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute in Santa Rosa, CA;
  • Summer Training Program at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, CA;
  • Summer Training Program at the Drama Studio London in Berkeley, CA;
  • T. Harv Eker’s Millionaire Mind Intensive through Peak Potential’s Training;
  • Dayan Qigong, Solano Community College, taught by Jerri Miner, M.S.
  • Brain Gym 101 (Educational Kinesiology Foundation) with Pam Whitman, M.A., of Transition Point.

Additional Noteworthy Accomplishments

  • Jeanette’s successful Youthful Hearts 50+ Fitness Program was featured on the main stage at the Marin county Civic Center Senior Fair each year from 1998 – 2008;
  • She is featured in “This Month in Novato“, on cable Channel 26 in Novato, CA, Nov 2003;
  • Photos of some of her Strength Training classes are featured in the “Marin County Task Force on Strength Training for Seniors Report.”

Other Relevant Experience

Since 1993, through co-leadership and management, she has worked in partnership with her husband, Val Logan. Together they run their own personal development business (Living Ultimate Values). In this creatively alive personal growth arena, Jeanette enjoys using movement, music, art, writing, storytelling, meditation, improvisation and play in supportive ways to facilitate empowerment and healing.

Living Ultimate Values (LUV) workshops and private sessions are designed around Val’s own innovative Transformational Coaching & Spiritual Counseling techniques. Using his skillful expertise in both disciplines, Val safely and gently guides people through their self-limiting beliefs and emotional blocks into greater joy and success. He coaches people on how to definitively build the strong energetic foundation that supports everything else they want to bring into their lives.

Having co-facilitated many support groups and workshops with him, Jeanette has developed a keen sensitivity to the emotional issues that many people have regarding their body image and their own self-acceptance. In addition, she has worked through many of her own personal issues relating to food and body image. As a result, her strength and compassion inspire her clients and class members toward greater self-respect and balanced health. Jeanette’s experience with Living Ultimate Values & her training with Val have been invaluable to her work as a fitness instructor & wellness educator.

“The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.”  ~J. Martin Kohe