About
What sets Ani apart as a posing coach
“Ani not only strives for excellence as a posing coach, but also stays up to date with industry evolution to bring the best teachings into her sessions and provide the best guidance for her athletes.”
Ani not only strives for excellence as a posing coach, but also stays up to date with industry evolution to bring the best teachings into her sessions and provide the best guidance for her athletes.
She is continuously learning in her field by being connected with her mentor Olympian coaches, and by keeping up with what judges want to see in competitors.
She brings her experience from 20+ years of dancing, choreography, and stage presentation, and blends it with her knowledge of biomechanics from Kinesiology to guarantee that the Ladies are creating the most competitive, beautiful illusions that fit their unique bodies.
On top of this she brings in catered therapy advice to make sure her athletes are staying on top of the stresses that come from torquing the body in uncomfortable positions.
The advantage of her being a therapist also plays a role in recovery, and body contouring/lymphatic drainage massage.
Ani absolutely loves the stage & shares her passion for it with each of her girls. She embodies and emphasizes the magic in learning the interconnection of both masculine energy and feminine flow, and has a special way of allowing her girls to feel beautiful and strong while they step on that competitive stage.
Meet Coach Ani
“Ani was granted the opportunity to be mentored by one of the greats in the bodybuilding industry, as she first took the reins of being a posing coach. She knew that this was exactly why all the stars had aligned the way they had leading up to this moment.”
Before Ani was a posing coach, she was a dancer for 20+ years. Starting with the classics of ballet, jazz, tap, modern, hip hop; later diving into the world of competitive bachata and salsa in her adult life. In her earlier years she was also a competitive rhythmic gymnast. She had a love for being in front of a crowd and dancing her heart out.
At the age of 11, Ani lost her dad to cancer. As an adult she understood why she was so devoted into her dance life. It was a form of expression and therapy that she needed to cope with the loss of such a monumental figure in her life. In 2012, Ani was involved in a horrific canyon crash, where her car had flipped four times down 100 feet of a canyon embankment. This tragedy succumbed Ani to injuries she could not recover from, which brought a screeching halt to her dance life.
She endured years of depression, and trying to learn new ways of coping with emotions and difficulties through life, but the only moment that came close to igniting her fire again, was when she competed in her first bodybuilding competition in 2021. She stepped on stage again, and this time for a different reason. Once she became a posing coach, she understood that this was the destiny that was written in her stars the entire time. A story that was able to be written all over again, with familiarity, but a completely different reason.
As an adult, Ani also achieved her bachelors of science in Kinesiology, and graduated as valedictorian of her physical therapist assistant program. She got her professional license in 2015 and has been in the world of physical therapy ever since.
She also runs her own body work business where she works with individuals who need both rehab and maintenance services. She got her NASM certification in 2024 to boost her online presence in fitness and give even more foundation to the corrective exercise she has performed with the community for a decade now. She is continuously striving to build her empire, not only to live out her dream & share her passion with the community, but also to spend as much time with her toddler son Matthias.
A strong reason Ani decided to build this platform is to spend more time with her son, and help him with the disability he was born with during a birth injury, Cerebral Palsy. She wants to make sure she not only devotes time to helping him overcome any limitations he may have, so he can experience a beautiful life; but also wants to show him that everything is possible with resilience, and an unbreakable spirit. If he knew that he is the one that has actually shown me.
