Meet the Team
Jen Andre
Jen Andre is the founder of White Oak Yoga and teaches Power Vinyasa. She began practicing in 2000 with Larry Schultz, the “Rocket Man” of It’s Yoga, whose blend of traditional Ashtanga with a playful, open-minded spirit shaped her approach. During her time at Yoga Journal, she studied with renowned teachers including Shiva Rea, Seane Corn, Baron Baptiste, David Swenson, Rodney Yee, and Jason Crandell.
Jen brings consistency, breath, and curiosity to every class, reminding students they’re stronger than they think. She holds a 200-hour yoga teacher certification from TruFusion Walnut Creek and also offers guided Restorative and Yin practices.
Lauren Certo
Lauren Certo is a television writer and author. Lauren has over a decade of experience in story narratives and development for wide audiences. Her television work includes The CW’s hit shows, “The Flash” and “Arrow.” She has pitched to television studios including Netflix, Amazon, and Warner Brothers. Her book, “Arrow: Vengeance,” was published by Titan Books. She has also collaborated with DC Comics as a contributing comic book and animation writer.
When Lauren is not writing, she has applied her creativity to her practice as a yoga instructor for the last five years. She holds a 200 Hour Yoga certification and a 50 Hour Yoga Sculpt certification.
Haley Gagliano
Haley is a somatic practitioner whose work spans the full range of embodiment, from functional strength training and high-energy group fitness to breathwork, meditation, and Reiki. Guided by her own healing journey and years of disconnection from her body, she brings a deep understanding of how the nervous system benefits from both activation and restoration.
Haley is an Integrative Trauma Practitioner, Group Fitness Instructor, Breath Coach, and Reiki Practitioner, and she integrates these modalities to create classes that support strength, presence, and resilience.
Alison Gill
Alison Gill is a Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition Coach, and Certified Women’s Fitness Specialist with over 15 years of experience in the fitness industry. She has coached clients of all ages and abilities in both group fitness and one-on-one settings and is currently pursuing a Behavior Change Specialization to help clients build sustainable, supportive habits rooted in self-trust and long-term well-being.
Alison brings deep expertise in functional strength training, using a wide range of resistance methods to help clients build strength that directly supports their everyday lives. Her approach is grounded in a strong technical foundation, reinforced by the completion of multiple StrongFirst courses across barbell, kettlebell, and bodyweight training.
Her coaching is grounded, inclusive, empowering, and focused on helping clients feel capable and at home in their bodies.
Stephanie Joong
Stephanie Joong is a Partner and CFO/CTO at WORTHY Breath & Body, as well as a dynamic speaker, coach, and workshop facilitator dedicated to helping ambitious women silence self-doubt and lead from their center. Bringing over 15 years of corporate leadership to wellness, she combines an engineer’s mindset with somatic wisdom to cultivate empowering spaces.
A recognized authority on resilience, Stephanie co-authored Brave Women at Work: Lessons in Confidence and The Power Within: Somatic & Spiritual Stories of Resilience, which details her personal journey of exploring breathwork and overcoming inherited shame. Her work equips leaders to navigate setbacks, disrupt the doom-spiral, and replace reactive stress with a grounded presence.
At WORTHY, Stephanie deeply lives the mission as a practitioner of every modality, building functional strength to fuel a lifetime of travel and exploration. She holds an MBA, M.Eng. in Biochemical Engineering, and B.S. in Chemical Engineering.
Meliza Mokrani
Meliza Mokrani is the founder of WORTHY Breath & Body, an infrared-heated movement and breathwork studio created to support the nervous system rather than push it into overdrive. Drawing on over a decade of training in holistic health, somatic practices, and trauma-informed modalities, she designs classes that combine intentional movement, breathwork, and supportive heat to help people build strength, release stress, and come back home to their bodies.
At WORTHY, Meliza’s ethos is simple: every person is inherently worthy of feeling good, experiencing ease in their body, and accessing sustainable well-being. Her work across WORTHY Self-Care Studio, WORTHY Breath & Body, and her transformational coaching reflects this belief, inviting clients into practices that regulate the nervous system, cultivate resilience, and make self-care a non-negotiable part of everyday life.
Alexis Mulhauser
Alexis’s professional background includes a lifelong study and love for the body, including Breema, Ayurveda, yoga, dance, meditation, macrobiotics, and martial arts. In addition to teaching yoga and dance, she is a Certified Massage Therapist at WORTHY Self-Care Studio and maintains a private practice in the East Bay.
She was drawn to Worthy by its intention to offer all people essential tools to support and nourish daily life. At Breath and Body, Alexis aims to be of service by being fully present in herself and modeling that presence, so others can connect to their own instinctive intelligence and innate wisdom that support balance, health, and vitality.
Jordan Nimura
Jordan is a lifelong mover who began dancing at the age of three and has been deeply connected to her body ever since. After spending 14 years in hospitality and wedding planning, she followed her calling into the health and wellness space in 2018.
Since then, she has earned multiple certifications, most recently completing her 500‑hour yoga certification. When she’s not teaching, Jordan loves supporting the community at WORTHY Self-Care Studio, baking something delicious, traveling, and—of course—dancing.
Allegra Poggio
Allegra Poggio is a Partner, COO and Instructor at WORTHY Breath & Body, as well as an independent strategic advisor who helps founders and leadership teams build the operations, strategy, and culture that let ambitious businesses grow. Over 20 years spent embedded in founding teams, including helping build two creative agencies from the ground up, have given her an operator’s clarity at every stage of growth.
At WORTHY, Allegra channels that builder’s instinct into studio operations, team development, class programming and business strategy, while remaining a devoted practitioner herself. She has taught Pilates for 16 years and holds a comprehensive Pilates certification through Balanced Body and Fuse Pilates, a 200-hour yoga certification through Yoga Medicine, and specialty training in pre/post-natal and neuro-specific work. She believes that movement is medicine, and that staying connected to it keeps us connected to ourselves and to each other.
Originally from the Boston area, Allegra is a first-generation Italian and has called the Bay Area home since 2012. She is a mom of two, and a Labrador, her “first child.”
Mia Rivera
Mia is a personal trainer and holistic health coach dedicated to helping individuals bridge the gap between where they are and who they’re meant to become. With a focus that goes beyond physical transformation, Mia integrates strength training, mindset work, and nervous system awareness to create lasting, sustainable change.
Her approach is rooted in the belief that true fitness starts from within. She works with clients to build not only strength and confidence in their bodies, but also clarity, discipline, and self-trust in their lives. Whether training beginners or high-performing individuals, Mia meets people where they are and challenges them to rise with intention.
Mia’s coaching style is grounded, empowering, and deeply personal—helping clients break through limiting beliefs, reconnect with themselves, and take aligned action toward their goals.