Robin Jarrett has extensive experience as a personal fitness/wellness coach, corporate fitness instructor, dance instructor, and acting coach. She has provided private training to athletes and celebrities and taught a variety of fitness classes. Jarrett is educated in many areas including dance, psychology, and energy medicine. She holds several certificates in areas like aerobics and has experience in productions, modeling, and crafts. Her mission is to honor the mind, body, and spirit through a playful approach to learning.
1. Robin Jarrett
robinaj@comcast.net
215.514.1594
WORK HISTORY
Personal Fitness/Wellness Coach(Independent Consultant & Instructor)
• Provide training to private clients in strength,flexibility,endurance,stress
management utilizing dance technique,yoga,pilates mat,cross training,plyometrics,
sports specific,meditation and stress management.
• Trained U.S.Olympic bobsled team in strength training/plyometrics/flexibility/
sports specific in Lake Placid,N.Y. under the supervision of John Philbin.
• Personal trainer to singer Phyllis Hyman-home and on tour.
• Personal trainer to team members from the New Orleans Saints and N.Y. Jets.
• Private trainer to Olympic ice skater.
• Coordinated Inner city programs for “Time-Out” and directed on site treatments
in addictions and mental health centers & universities for clients and faculty
to enhance treatment through fitness classes,mini-workshops,nutrition,personal
growth seminars and stress management sessions. Locations to include: The
Gaudenzia House,Girard Medical Center,Phila. Comm. College among others.
• Aquila fitness consulting systems: Assistant director of programming with
responsibilities to include: assisting with program design,lay-out and coordination
of several locations in the Phila. metro area and individual/class instructor.
• Several fitness training facilities to include: The Rittenhouse Club, The Sporting
Club,The Gymble gym at the University of Penn. among others.
• Queen Village Fitness & Racquetball Club: Director of class programming and
fitness instructor.
Corporate Fitness
. Taught a variety of fitness/wellness programs/classes in corporations such as
as Penn Mutual Insurance,Smith,Kline&Beechem,The Four Seasons Hotel,Albert Nipon,
Federal building employees,YMCA,local universities among others. Programs to
include: stress management,group fitness classes,employee oriented health
awareness workshops to health care providers.
Dance Instructor/Independent Consultant
. MaMa(Moving Arts of Mt. Airy): Continuing the teachings of the late Hedy Tower
in ballet,modern,jazz,improvisations.
. Salus University: Teaching movement and craft workshops for the Occupational
Therapy dept. graduate students.
* Jenkintown craft workshop instructor: Arts & Crafts children ages 4 - 10.
. Hedy Tower Jenkintown School of Dance: Taught ballet,modern,jazz,improv.,mime to
children beginning at age 4 to adults.
. JCC Gershwin Y: After school dance program ages 5 thru 16.
. Shipley School: After school dance program
. Burn Brae Creative & Performing Arts Program: Taught modern dance/improv.
2. Ages 6 thru 16.
* Path Psychiatric Center: Taught dance/movement workshops to challenged adults.
. Cheltenham Arts Center: Taught Hedy Tower technique dance class to children
and adults.
. Le Chic School of Ballet: Taught ballet/modern/jazz/improv. classes to chidren
ages 4 thru 18.
Acting Coach(Independent consultant and Instructor)
* Worldwide Star Search; Led acting workshops and preliminary judge for competition.
• Actor's Focus: Acting coach for children & teens with focus on character
development,improv.skills,scene study,monologues.
* “ACT”(Academy of Cinema&Television);Focus to include: coaching children and teens in the
performing arts in preparation to audition in the industry with focus on character
development,movement,acting skills,monologues,mime,scene study,modeling,stage,
on camera,audition preparation,voice,improv.skills....
. Private acting coach for individuals for a more intense focused study in the arts
and character development.
. Workshops for groups in the entertainment industry teaching the fundamentals
of the industry to include acting skills,modeling(runway&print,comm...),dance.
. Talent Showcase preparing children and teens to audition for N.Y. And L.A.
representation in Stamford,Conn.
. Image training for the transgender community(Renaissance Group) utilizing a
“method acting” approach.
. Private coach for individuals entering the modeling industry;runway,print,comm....)
Education
( Ballet,modern,jazz,Improv.,pantomime,sports specific,,plyometrics,yoga(hatha,vinyasa
flow,ashtanga),pilates mat,meditation to include guided imagery,relaxation
techniques among others....homeopathic remedies,nutrition,herbs,vit.&min.,reiki,
quantum touch practioner,touch for health,energy medicine,polarity therapy) in
institutions such as the following:
Temple University: Dance A.D. Joe Tremaine:Jazz Dance
Penn State University:Psychology &Art History- A.D. Martha Graham:Modern Dance
Phila. College of the Performing Arts:Dance Broadway Dance Center:Jazz Dance
Hedy Tower:Dance,Pantomime,Improv. Alvin Ailey Dance Center:Modern/Jazz
Dance
Landmark Education: Education for Living Mary's Vineyard:Reiki
Donna Eden & David Feinstein: Quantum Healing
Certificates
IDEA/ACE(American Council of Exercise) AFAA(Aerobics & Fitness Ass. Of America)
AAAI/ISMA(American Aerobics association International/ International Sports Ass.)
Olympic Training Center in Plyometrics and Conditioning(Lake Placid,N.Y.)
Performing Arts and Skills
Numerous productions/variety shows,benefits,casino openings,fitness videos,t.v.,
comm., print,dance performances,fitness model,runway,film,stage,spokesperson.
Jewelry & craftsperson in Museum shops & Galleries. Additional resume upon request.
Mission Statement
My commitment to honoring the mind,body and spirit is a foundation for daily
living. This presents a unique,organized and playful approach to learning and
teaching and a life of constant discovery,creation,movement and laughter.