Kristi Reed and John Perez, Owners

Kristi and John have always had a passion for wellness. With a unique, combined expertise in fitness, therapeutic massage, and nutrition, they created Body Balance, a place where you can leave your busy life behind, and focus on developing a healthy lifestyle.

They designed all their services – from fitness to massage to nutritional services – to be offered in a one-on-one, private setting, assuring that each client’s individual needs are met. This year they will be celebrating 12 years of excellence.

Kristi Reed

As a certified massage therapist, fitness trainer and sports & weight management nutritionist, Kristi embodies the philosophy behind Body Balance – providing each individual with the resources to live a balanced, healthy life. Kristi inspires the staff to reach to their highest potential and helps everyone to grow through her commitment to education, excellence and goal setting.

As a result, Body Balance has continued to grow and meet the highest levels of excellence. Kristi is as enthusiastic today, as she was 13 years ago, when she founded Body Balance, to provide a warm, inviting and personal environment where individuals can meet their goals, while having fun.

When not at Body Balance, Kristi makes it a priority to carve out time to create art and photograph the world around her. She loves getting outdoors to "breath-in" nature and enjoys traveling around the world. Most importantly, Kristi is grateful for her life and loves spending time with her soul mate, John, keeping fit, eating well, staying healthy, and enjoying the "present" moment.

John Perez

Enjoying his many fitness certifications and education over the years within the health field, John has been a fitness “aficionado” since the age of 18. Before coming to California, John was a personal fitness trainer in New York at the Vertical Club, the “Studio 54” of Health clubs. In New York, John trained top Ford Models, Hollywood actors and actresses, daytime soap opera stars, dancers and other New York socialites. Since joining Kristi at Body Balance, John’s passion for fitness became contagious, and Body Balance quickly became known as the best place to receive personal one-on-one, private fitness training and achieving outstanding results.

John is known for his exuberant, positive outlook on life and the ability to connect with everyone that enters the door at Body Balance. His warm greetings make everyone feel at home, and his highly motivating and energetic workouts result in unsurpassed satisfaction.

Outside of Body Balance, John’s passions include: keeping fit, tennis, photography, meditating, reading, traveling, creating art, dancing, and all kinds of music. The key to his boundless energy is his ability to find a harmonious balance between passion for fitness, loved ones, his family and friends.

Jennifer Lowe Currin, Certified Personal Trainer

A tremendous motivator, Jennifer is known for her intense workouts that employ a wide variety of techniques. She is passionate about her work and clients praise her for helping them to achieve outstanding results. Jennifer’s specialty is helping clients achieve the best they can be, both internally and aesthetically. (And they love the fact that they look great in their favorite pair of jeans!) She does this by guiding her clients with resistance training, cardiovascular training and nutrition.

Jennifer enjoys also spending quality time with her two beautiful daughters, husband, and friends engaged in activities such as waterskiing, snow sports, beaching, running 10Ks, hiking, weight training, and wine tasting. In addition, Jennifer competes in the figure category for the National Physique Committee.

Kathy Egan, Certified Personal Trainer

Get fit with Kathy! Kathy is passionate about helping her clients meet their potential. With extensive experience in sports conditioning, performance enhancement techniques, such as goal setting and visualization work, Kathy will help you get the results you desire. Kathy is also a frequent Bay Area presenter and workshop facilitator sharing her knowledge relative to fitness motivation, goal setting, developing a mental game plan and connecting the mind and body to achieve success.

Over the years, Kathy has kept active running, diving, skiing, rock climbing, swimming, windsurfing, and skydiving.

Matt King, Certified Personal Trainer

As a fitness enthusiast, Matt has a great passion for helping people change their lives. He believes that motivation, sound nutrition and the appropriate exercise design are the key components to achieving a healthier body. Matt holds a B.S. in Kinesiology from Cal State East Bay (w/ emphasis in Exercise Nutrition and Wellness) and is currently perusing a Master’s degree in Exercise Physiology from San Jose State University.

In his spare time Matt enjoys working out, running, watching sports (especially bay area football, hockey and baseball), learning martial arts, snowboarding and playing video games. Through education, exercise, and lifestyle modification, Matt enjoys helping individuals bring their health and fitness status to the next level and feel great through the process. He believes that workouts should be individualized to fit your personal needs, and not only change your physique but also improve your functional capacity for a healthy and practical quality of life.

Mary La Grave-Suter, Certified Massage Therapist

Mary is known for her intuitive sense and commitment to helping her clients maintain balance of body, mind and spirit through personal awareness. In addition to offering Swedish and Soft Tissue Therapies, Mary has advanced studies in Pre-Natal, Reiki, Lomi Lomi and La Stone Therapies.

When Mary is not working wonders with her clients, Mary follows the advice she gives her clients- "take time for yourself by working out and receiving bodywork".

Christina Pimentel, Certified Massage Therapist

Christina Pimentel is a Certified Massage Therapist who studied at The World School of Massage and Holistic Healing Arts. She has training in many modalities including Deep Tissue, Swedish massage, Hot Stone, Soft Tissue Release, Pregnancy massage, Infant/child massage and Vibrational Healing Massage Therapy (VHMT). She is known for her therapeutically firm nurturing and skillful touch especially in the massage modalities of Deep Tissue, VHMT, and Hot stone.

When not facilitating healing in others, Christina spends her time with her partner, her daughter and their two dogs. She enjoys keeping healthy through weight lifting, punching bags, yoga, hiking, gardening, meditating, cooking, eating, and creating art.

Pamela Smiley, Certified Massage Therapist

Pamela Smiley trained at the Chicago School of Massage Therapy and specializes in deep tissue massage. She embraces the Body Balance philosophy and clients respond to Pamela's outstanding therapeutic massages and warm personality. Working exclusively on Sundays, Pamela will enhance your weekend and prepare you for your busy week ahead.

Pamela loves being active and is often found outdoors, playing softball in Pleasanton and going to baseball games — especially returning "home" to Wrigley Field to cheer on her Cubbies. Pamela also enjoys her family, friends and traveling.

Rebecca Klippenes, Certified Pilates Instructor

Rebecca is a Student Pilates Instructor who is passionate about helping others discover the physical strength they didn’t know they had. She has been teaching Pilates Mat and Apparatus classes for 11 months and has been practicing pilates for 5 years. She completed her Pilates instructor training program at Turning Points Studio in Walnut Creek in November 2008. She is hoping to complete the test out process in March of 2010. Outside of Pilates Rebecca enjoys Running, Traveling, Cooking, and Photo Safaris.