Tips & Advice from Jennifer Nichols, Extension Method Director
Jennifer Nichols, professional dancer and founder of The Extension Method™, is a Can Fit Pro Certified Fitness Instructor and Personal Trainer. She is a sought after guest teacher for corporate fitness companies, lecturer and presenter, as well as ballet coach for elite figure skaters. Jennifer's contribution to fitness as coach and consultant also includes choreographic services. Recently commissioned to choreograph for April 2006 FAME, her client went on to win this fitness competition and advance to the national level.
Jennifer is a graduate of the Quinte Ballet School in Belleville, where she completed her
studies and major examinations as a dancer under the Imperial Society of Teachers of
Dance- Ceccetti Method. She furthered her studies at L'Ecole Superieure de Danse du Quebec
and went on to dance with such companies as Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Ontario Ballet
Theatre and Banff Festival Dance, as well as for such renowned Canadian choreographers as
David Earle and Robert Desrosiers. Jennifer continues to perform professionally as an
independent artist and co-director and founder of the dance company Hit and Run Productions
http://hitandrun.ca.
Jennifer's passion for fitness is closely connected to her career in dance, where she witnessed the unique benefits of years of classical training and its potential application to fitness, physical therapy and athletic enhancement. She believes versatility to be the secret to the 'extension' of the body's potential. Jennifer's pursuit of this vision led to the conception and development of The Extension Method™.