Elaine O’Brien, MAPP, is a professional Dance-Exercise/Health trainer, consultant and speaker. Elaine has presented fitness and leadership training in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Costa Rica, Mexico, Korea, Canada, and throughout the United States. She is dedicated to spreading positive energy, promoting dance, better health, well-being and fostering the building of flourishing communities and people.

Elaine is serving on the Penn Positive Health Exercise Subcommittee.  She has recently presented Positive Health programs for the AARP, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), Brookdale Community College, and next month at the Diabetes, Exercise, and Sport Association (DESA) conference in Boston. At Penn, Elaine led Positive Energy Breaks as a somaesthetics intervention and developed a thesis, “Breathing Positive Psychology: Movement Interventions for the Greater Good.”

Elaine enjoys leading students in a variety of cross training Dance/Fitness, strength, flexibility, and balance training classes. She is ZUMBA certified. Elaine’s goal is that people leave her programs and classes feeling great: elevated, successful and positively energized.  Elaine’s company,”Exercise is Good Medicine” offers Positive Exercise Prescriptions (PEP),” Health/Fitness Education, Programming,  Design & Presentations.

Elaine’s articles can be found here.