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 setting, assuring that each client’s individual needs are met. This year they will be celebrating 11 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 11 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

John has been a fitness "aficionado" since the age of 18. Before coming to California, John was a 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 stars, dancers and other New York socialites. Joining Kristi, four years after Kristi had opened Body Balance, John’s passion for fitness became contagious, and Body Balance quickly became known as the best place to receive personal one-one-one fitness training and achieve outstanding results.

John is known for his exuberant, positive outlook on life and an 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 is often seen as a modern day Renaissance man. His passions include:  keeping fit, journaling, meditating, traveling, creating art, dancing, music, and martinis! The key to his boundless energy is his ability to find a harmonious balance between his longtime soul mate, Kristi, his family and friends, and an inner peace.

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.

Alex Jobrack, Certified Personal Trainer

Alex is known for his deep understanding of the human anatomy and helping his clients achieve their full potential. By finding the hidden athlete in everyone and providing them with the techniques for success, Alex’s customers respond and always exceed their expectations.

Outside of Body Balance, Alex “lives what he talks”. He is known for his caring, down-to-earth nature and commitment to his friends and family. Alex also maintains an active lifestyle – motorcycling, snowboarding, mountain biking, cross training, hiking and camping.

Susie Williamson, Certified Personal Trainer

A very down-to-earth person, Susie is known for her warmth and helping you achieve your fitness goals through education, positive motivation and fun! Susie focuses on "getting fit from the inside out." This means focusing on core strengthening first.
As a registered nurse, Susie also understands the connection between good health and fitness. She is committed to helping her clients prolong their health by strengthening their bodies and decreasing their risk of illness and disease.

Often described by her clients as warm and "bubbly", Susie is a perfect example of how exercise can lift our mood. Susie is active in her personal life, playing tennis and working out, hanging out with her husband and three teenage children, or playing with her dog, Hollywood.  Susie is also very involved at her church and loves to travel.

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".

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. In March, 2007, Pamela had the experience and trip of her dreams — her marriage to Scott in Bora Bora.

Susan Sparber, Certified Massage Therapist

Specializing in Sports, Deep Tissue and Swedish Massage, Susan is known for her intuitive, firm touch which enables her to find and focus on muscles in your body that require special attention stress release. Susan’s therapies are customized to create the optimum experience and are focused on meeting your immediate and ongoing needs.

An extremely personable, professional person, Susan loves to cook and often hosts small dinner parties with her marvelous husband, Marvin. Other interests include fashion and interior design, along with traveling. 

Korey Cayetano-Smith, Business Development

Korey, a friend and client of the Body Balance team since 1994, recently came on board to share the unique benefits of Body Balance to our local community.

Korey brings a wealth of knowledge to the Body Balance team. Not only has she run her own business, but she worked at companies such as AT&T, Cisco, and SAP as a leading sales executive. Her career is noted with business development accomplishments in some of the most demanding companies. At Body Balance, Korey will combine her professional business development skills with her passion for good health and wellness. You will see Korey actively developing partnerships with Pleasanton businesses, local schools, real estate agents and many other groups.

Korey enjoys Travel, entertaining, family and life with her husband Scott.  Korey also has worked with community charities such as Shepherds Gate and has a passion for helping others with emotional growth.