Faith has been with InMotion® since 2015. She is a licensed physical therapist, specialist in senior fitness, and a functional aging specialist. Faith was looking for a career change at about the time InMotion® opened and after meeting with Chief Program Officer Ben Rossi, knew that InMotion® was the place she needed to be. Faith coaches with compassion, enthusiasm, and fun, striving to always help and empower clients to feel better every day. Faith holds certifications in PWR!Moves, Ohio Health Delay the Disease, YogaReach, Total Body Resistance (TRX), Zibro Balance, and Balance Matters.

Stephen has been an art provocateur at InMotion® since 2018. Educated in photography and painting at San Francisco Art Institute and Art Therapy at Tri-C, Stephen also holds a Master’s in Nonprofit Administration from John Carroll. Previously, he facilitated art with clients at the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities and worked with CMSD students creating community health projects. In addition to advocating for blooming artists at InMotion®, he makes documentaries and does photography for nonprofits in Cleveland. Lastly, Stephen (really) believes in the cliche that “anyone can make art!”

Inspired and supported by the founders of InMotion®, YogaReach Mindful Movement Adaptive Therapeutic Yoga began offering classes for people with PD and care partners at InMotion® when it opened its doors in 2015.

As the Founder and Director of YOGAREACH® LLC, a premiere adaptive therapeutic yoga program Char leads a set of adaptive yoga classes at InMotion® and provides group/individual therapeutic adaptive yoga programs, speaking engagements, presentations at national conferences, and teacher training workshops. Char is a compassionate, advanced master’s degree psychology specialist (PSY.S) and certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT). Char has trained with Delay the Disease and the Advanced Dance for PD® programs. She has worked for more than three decades assessing, educating, and counseling people with neuromuscular, neurological and an array of medical challenges.

Char is honored to promote mind, body, and spirit through a non-medical therapeutic approach to our loving clients at InMotion®.

Aly has over 25 years of experience in the fitness industry. Aly is fully certified in Pilates format and all equipment. Additional certifications include ACE for group fitness and personal training, Barre fitness, Total Parkinson’s certification, adaptive Yoga through YogaReach and the MELT Method. Aly first came to InMotion® in early 2022 as a volunteer and was thrilled when offered the opportunity to become a coach. Aly loves that InMotion® truly is a family of clients, volunteers and staff all working together to make things better every day!

Amy Larocca, MA, CCC-SLP is the founder and lead certified speech-language pathologist of Polaris Speech with 15 years of experience working with adults with neurological diseases. In addition to her clinical work, her experience includes teaching motor speech, dysphagia, and advocacy courses at a local University and developing the University Speech Clinic’s programming for people with Parkinson’s Disease.  Her specialties are swallowing and swallowing disorders, neurological motor speech, and cognitive-communication disorders. She is passionate about working with People with Parkinson’s Disease in order to support their journey with PD from a whole-person and support network perspective.  She has certifications in SPEAK OUT!®, LSVT-LOUD®, Parkinson Foundation Team Training, and McNeil Dysphagia Therapy Program. She truly values the collaborative, team approach at InMotion® with the collective goal being to dynamically support people with Parkinson’s Disease and their families.

Michele joined the YogaReach team in 2021. She is a 200-hour RYT and certified in Pilates, Bar Ballet, and Adaptive Yoga for people with Parkinson’s. Michele has been teaching yoga and Pilates since 2009 and as soon as she met with Char Grossman in 2019, she knew working with the YogaReach team is where she wanted to continue her journey. She completed her training in YogaReach in 2020, and happily joined the team in 2021. Michele wants our PWP classes to have fun, while taking their abilities to the best level they want to perform. Michele approaches each class at InMotion with the desire to give back to her students as much energy and positivity as they give to her.