Our Blue Sky Team of Trainers is here to help guide you towards better health and fitness! We are excited to meet you and look forward to helping you reach your goals.
Meet Kathryn Dzikowicz. I love helping my clients to be the best version of themselves possible. As a Degree Professional, CSEP Certified Trainer, Senior Fitness Specialist, Group Fitness Leader, ACE Health Coach and a #WEYA2019 nominee, I have the necessary tools to provide my clients with clear instruction and results driven workouts.
I’ve been in the fitness industry for over 30 years and I pride myself in creating a caring, community feel in every facility I’ve managed. My goal as owner of Blue Sky Fitness Studio is to create an atmosphere where everyone feels welcome, encouraged and supported in their fitness journey.
Check out a recent podcast entitle Heroes in Our Midst where I discuss my career journey and how our studio pivoted during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The interview recording was done in March 2021 by Michelle Sawatzky, former Olympian on Team Canada Volleyball. Click the photo to have a listen! 
I’m an Entrepreneur at heart & love all things fitness, nurturing my body with healthy food, reading, meditating, listening to podcasts, traveling, hiking and spending time with my amazing husband Jayson and our five children.
Meet Lisa Hill. I hold a degree in Physical Education/Kinesiology as well as many fitness certifications in the areas of step, strength/power training, spin classes, barre classes and fusion classes. I have been in the private fitness industry for over 25 years teaching a wide variety of classes around the city along with being a high school physical education teacher for over 30 years.
My latest passion is yoga but more along how it fits side by side with fitness/health and wellness. The approach taken is one of how yoga can benefit and enhance not only your workouts but your everyday life. I love to combine this with other workouts for the true cross training experience for the body.
Meet Amber Biebrick.
My passion for physical education, health and fitness has led me to pursue a career in this industry. I hold a Kinesiology/Physical Education degree along with an Education degree. Currently, when I am not teaching fitness classes I work as a Physical Education Teacher. I also hold many fitness certifications such as registered personal trainer, resistance trainer, TRX suspension trainer, senior fitness specialist, Precor and NCCP.
My background through sport led me to pursue a career in health and fitness. I am very fortunate to have a career that allows me to help people become the best and healthiest versions of themselves all while enhancing their physically literacy skills. My goal as a fitness professional is to empower people to become confident, competent and motivated to take part in physical activities for lifelong health and well-being. I will challenge you in every workout and help show you just how strong you truly are. I strive to help you crush your health and fitness goals. I want you to leave my classes feeling confident, strong, powerful and of course sweaty!
Meet Jayson Dzikowicz. My background is in professional development and I’ve grown up from a North End kid living in co-op housing having the mindset and drive to excel as a professional athlete playing in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for 5 seasons.
I have taken my intrinsic motivation and drive and transferred it to my successful management positions within the business world.
I’ve always had a strong passion for coaching, training and developing both young football players and sales professionals over the years.
I take my health seriously and want to bring my individual strengths as a coach to Blue Sky Studio to help better your life through fitness.
Meet Julia Sawatzky. I’m a third year University student in the Faculty of Sciences and play University volleyball. I’ve recently become a fitness instructor and love helping people improve their fitness level and mental health through movement. I look forward to meeting you and helping you on your fitness journey.
Meet Tally Young. Yoga is a connection to the breath, mind and aligned movement of our bodies to open energy and let go of what is not needed. Tally Polard takes you into a practice that nurtures yoga‘s basic essence.
With a heart filled with a passion for all that yoga offers, Tally will lead you through practices of healing, opening, strength and beautiful release. As you move in practice with ease and softness, you will nurture a state of gratefulness for the presence of your body, its movements, and all that our bodies do for us.
Tally has over 2500 hours of study in yoga. In offerings of Therapeutic, Restorative , Vinyasa, Functional Yin, Meditation, Block Therapy, Hormone Yoga Therapy. She continues a life long search for more learning in a practice that has been an inspirational companion for many years.
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Meet Shell Andrea. I’m Shell(E-RYT 500), and I’ve been studying and teaching all the components of living Yoga for two decades! I passionately believe in the importance of keeping our mobility as we move through life, so that we have a stable and mobile body, and a flexible mind. I draw from experience in my own body that has dealt with injuries, car accidents and chronic issues to make classes accessible and light-hearted. I am energized and inspired by both my amazing teachers and students alike and I’m thrilled to share classes with you!
Meet Debbie Haddad.
Hi my name is Debbie Haddad. I am a certified group fitness instructor with 32 years of experience in the fitness industry; and, a recent retiree from my 36 year career with Manitoba Justice.
My background into the fitness world was simple for me. Excessive weight gain during a pregnancy 35 years ago was not kind to me! So a simple question I asked myself had a clear answer: Do better, get fit, set realistic goals, join a gym, learn about fitness and change my lifestyle.
And, so… my fitness journey began. One step at a time. BETTER. EVERY. DAY. Just like what you see on the motivational wall at Blue Sky Fitness!
I was inspired by others improving their health and seeing results. We helped and motivated each other to reach our goals. Fitness became a lifestyle that forever changed me for the better. It will change you too!
I teach numerous types of group exercise classes with additional training in yoga, spin and active older adult specialties.
As a fitness instructor I will help to guide and motivate you through your fitness journey! My goal is to provide you with not just a good workout but along with your hard work and commitment, for you to reap the benefits of improved day to day functioning; increased motivation and stamina, a healthy mindset and an improved lifestyle! I’m thrilled to work with you and be part of the Blue Sky family!
Meet Mia Hildebrandt.
Hi I’m Mia! I just graduated from college majoring in Sport Management while playing varsity volleyball at Durham College in Ontario.
Growing up playing sport and being active has led me towards wanting to teach others and share my passion with them to be the healthiest version of themselves! I’m so excited to meet you and join the Blue Sky Family!
Meet Kerri Chase.
Kerri has been in the fitness industry for over 35 years as an instructor, trainer, course conductor and facility manager. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Education from the University of Manitoba and taught in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Applied Health at University of Winnipeg. She received her accreditations as a Fitness Leader, Evaluator and Trainer of Fitness Leaders by The Manitoba Fitness Council. She was named “Fitness Leader of the Year” in 2009 by the MFC. Kerri retired in 2022 and is enjoying travel and spending time with her grandson whenever possible. Kerri has known Kathryn for over 30 years and is excited to finally get to work together!
Mihaela is a Registered Yoga Teacher based in Winnipeg, certified through the Canadian Yoga Alliance. She deeply believes in mind-body connection and in the importance of slowing down to reconnect with our true selves. Throughout her studies she has learned tools and practices to create space and stability in body, mind and spirit. She is passionate about sharing these tools with people of all ages to help them discover more ease in their lives.
Meet Rachael Dupuis.
Hi there! I’m Rachael, and I have been a registered massage therapist for the last 10 years as well as a yoga instructor for the last 2 years. I have a strong dedication to helping people with the treatment and improvement of soft tissue and joints in the body, as well as the improvement of the effects of mental and emotional stressors on the mind and nervous system. Through my education and explorations of yoga as both a treatment and lifestyle choice, I have deepened my knowledge of the connections between the mind and body, and my passion with helping people reach their health and wellness goals.
I completed my first Yoga Teacher Training in 2022 (200Hr) , and then another in 2023 (50Hr) with Shell Andrea of Shell Andrea Yoga and Kirtan here in Winnipeg. Since my first step towards learning to practice and teach yoga, I have known that yoga would be a part of my life and career.
I have truly been enjoying helping people in this way, and have even had the opportunity a few times to interconnect my yoga practice with my massage practice to help people with certain injuries/conditions by really focusing both their massage treatment and our yoga practice to the treatment of their specific conditions/injury, and have had success with this way of treatment from 2 different angles to tackle the one issue.
The more I explore this new way of helping people, the more I want to have the opportunity to do things this way – I love teaching slower, more restorative based classes, and I hope to have the opportunity to share this with you!
Meet Leigh Morton.
Greetings…..my name is Leigh. My love of yoga began in 2010 after retiring from a long career in the corporate world. I am a 250 Hr certified teacher. I’ve led many different styles of yoga.….my favourite practices being restorative and gentle flow.
There are many wonderful benefits of joining me on your yoga mat…..the most important being that we find our connection between mind, body and spirit and we experience the letting go of tension and stress. I offer many options so as to meet yogis where they are at in their practice and I use a variety of gentle music throughout to help soothe the soul.
Besides my love of Yoga, I am a vegan foodie and enjoy nature, gardening, walking and cycling.
