Greenbrier YMCA
Greenbrier Valley YMCA, Lewisburg, West Virginia
Bobbie Jackson, Orange Jersey
Master Trainer; Donna Nickell, Yellow Jersey Trainer; Dr. Alinda Perrine,
Red Jersey/Shirt Master Trainer
The Greenbrier Valley YMCA, is a small-town YMCA with big-city heart, dreams and ambitions. With the help of three Heart Zones Trainers (Alinda Perrine, Bobbie Jackson, and Donna Nickell), the YMCA wrote a grant, brought in Dr. Dan Rudd of Heart Zones Emotional Fitness Training, and sold over sixty memberships!
The three Heart Zones Trainers had a dream that they wanted to bring Dr. Dan Rudd to the YMCA. Dan had an important message about the heart, and the team of Heart Zones Trainers wanted to make their YMCA not just a place for physical fitness, but for emotional fitness as well. Not to mention that the YMCA had a natural tie-in: YMCA's build Strong Kids, Strong Families, and Strong Communities. They decided to write a grant. For details on how to write a grant, please contact .
The event was promoted to the entire community, free of charge, with three separate and distinct goals. The trio of Heart Zones Trainers wanted to increase the overall fitness of the membership while the YMCA wanted to educate the community as well as drive membership sales. "We want our members to be both physically as well as emotionally fit. It's an entire package", said Bobbie Jackson. "People need to understand how their emotions affect their physical fitness and how their physical fitness affects their emotions." Successful adherence to a healthy lifestyle is greatly impacted by the emotions, and too few people address the emotional aspect of training.
The YMCA invited Dr. Rudd as guest speaker to kickoff their fall membership drive. The evening resulted in a standing-room-only event where both men and women of all ages were brought to tears of joy and awareness of what real fitness might mean to each. At the end of the weekend, the Greenbrier YMCA reported that over 60 memberships had been sold, resulting in an all-time new record. People in Greenbrier were not only reaching for physical fitness, but they were reaching for the "whole package".
Congratulations to Bobbie Jackson, Donna Nickell and Alinda Perrine for thinking out of the box on this one! For information on how to book an Emotional Heart Zones event, please contact