Drums Alive® Educational Director

Sports teacher with additional education for prevention and rehabilitation. Ulli is active as an adviser of the land sport federation of Schleswig-Holstein and for TOGU. And you see her as a presenter on conventions and in the trainer's education. You can recognize her wealth of ideas in her written fitness books. All her activities connect fitness with cheerfulness.

Libby Norris is an international presenter, motivational speaker and ex-boxer! A veteran Reebok Master Trainer, Libby is also a Bender Ball Master Trainer with certifications including personal training and group exercise with Can Fit Pro and NASM. Libby is a recipient of Can Fit Pro’s Specialty Trainer of the Year Award and wrote Canada’s first boxing for fitness certification.
Chief Energy Officer for Inspired Energy, Libby heads up Canada’s most innovative consulting firm in healthy workplace design. She holds a degree in Communications and Phys. Ed. from Wilfrid Laurier University where she now sits on the Dean’s Advisory Board for the Science Department.
Libby is also the Fitness Correspondent for CTV’s Canada AM national morning show and is a sought-after fitness expert with articles and interviews in media. Libby has also launched a series of e-books including Exercise on the Go, Skip yourself Skinny and Working Out for Working Women. Li

As owner and director of Fitnessesities Instructor Training and Consulting, Carey has been training instructors for 28 years. She has authored two educational manuals for Group fitness certification preparation and travels nation wide conducting Instructor Training courses and continuing education workshops for fitness professionals. Carey is on the National Training Team for Resist-A-ball, a master trainer for BOSU and Gliding, National Instructor Trainer for SilverSneakers®, a certification specialist for American Fitness Association of America and is recognized by the American Council on Exercise and Aerobic Fitness Association of America as a Continuing Education provider. Carey is certified as a Group Fitness Instructor by AFAA, ACE, ACSM, and Seattle Sports Medicine and by ACE and AFAA as a Personal Trainer and holds specialty certifications in Step, Pilates, Yoga, Spin and Aquatics. Specializing in programs for the 50 plus population, Carey feels that it is never too late to begin an exercise program.

Lawrence Biscontini, M.A., has made fitness history as a Mindful Movement Specialist by being the first to receive the following awards:

Inner IDEA Inspiration Award (2010),
ECA Instructor of the Year Award for Best All Around Male Presenter (2010),
Presenter's Choice Debut Premier ECA Award (2009), Best International Program Chosen for Japan for "Shakti" (2007),
Best Corporate Trainer for Xerox Greece (2006), Best Mind-Body Presenter (ECA, 2005),
Specialty Presenter of the Year Award (Can Fit Pro, 2004),
and Instructor of the Year Awards from IDEA (2004) & ACE (2002).

Lawrence's programming at the Golden Door Spa in Puerto Rico went on to receive Conde Nast Traveler Awards' tenth place in the world for innovative spa programming. Lawrence has been Spa Consultant and Trainer for leading international spas including Cavo Tagoo Mykonos, Greece (2008), Canyon Ranch (2007, 2008), and Greenbrier, among others. As Nutritional Counselor, Lawrence has created complete nutritional menus for spas from Manhattan to Mykonos.

Lawrence has celebrity clients like cast members of ABC TV's soap opera "General Hospital," and appears on news (CNN Headline News) and television ("LIVE! With Regis and Kelly"). He is Contributing Author to industry magazines like AFAA's American Fitness, IDEA's Fitness Journal, and Spa Asia. His books include Morning Cardiovascular Workouts, by Human Kinetics and most recently, Running the Show: Excellence in Fitness Customer Service, and Cream Rises: Excellence in Private & Group Education. In the USA, he has created aquatic, yoga, and T'ai Chi programming enjoyed at illustrious fitness chains and spas, including Equinox, 24 Hour Fitness, Gold's Gym International, Bally, and Golden Door Spas. A percentage of all of his website sales goes to charity, and to inspire career wellness development, he has instituted several Biscontini Scholarships for the fitness and spa community and "Yo-Global," a program to take yoga to the underprivileged. Find Lawrence at www.findlawrence.com.

Steve has been working in the Fitness Industry for nearly 20 years. With a back ground in Martial Arts, and a degree in business management, he started his fitness career in Sydney, Australia. Before leaving Australia for Germany at the age of 29, Steve worked in the industry as a fitness instructor, personal trainer, studio and club manager. He also competed in Sport Aerobics, achieving a national silver medal in the teams event. As a level one strength and conditioning coach, Steve also turned his hand to successfully coaching other Sport Aerobic athletes.
Since moving to Europe nearly 12 years ago, Steve has become one of the most successful male presenters on the international fitness circuit. He has trained more than 300,000 fitness trainers in more than 35 countries worldwide, writes regular columns in industry fitness magazines, and is a regular guest presenter on home shopping channel, Ideal World. Steve is the director of FLEXI-SPORTS UK, supplying innovative equipment such as the FLEXI-BAR & XCO-Trainer to the UK fitness enthusiast.

Yael Nir is a P.E. teacher with a 25 year experience in physical education and training.
She is an ACE personal trainer, aerobic and sculpt trainer, Pilates & Fitball instructor.
Yael is the owner of her own aerobic & dance studio In Israel; she is a fitness presenter in all aerobic events in Israel and is considered as one of the best aerobic teachers in Israel due to her knowledge, creativity and energetic personality.
Yael is an exclusive Drums Alive master in Israel and certifies up to 6 training a year.

Steve has been hurling himself around Group Fitness studios with a smile on his face for the better part of two decades - and is determined to continue until his body won’t let him! Over the course of his career in the fitness industry he has worked in many roles including: Group Fitness Leader, Fitness Trainer, Studio Co-ordinator, Fitness Club manager, Fitness Development Manager for the YMCA, presenter and instructor trainer.Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Steve is an award winning*, REPs** registered Fitness Professional who has made it his mission to prove to the world that improving fitness, health and wellbeing (both mental and physical) can be a fun, joyful experience. And through Drums Alive® and his own business ‘Upbeat Fitness Solutions’ he will do just that - and have fun while he’s doing it!
* 2008 Life Fitness Group Fitness Instructor of the Year – North Island, Freestyle
** New Zealand Register of Exercise Professionals S