About Jae Gruenke
Jae Gruenke is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm, and ACE-Certified personal trainer, and President of Intelligent Exercise LLC.
Hellgate Road Runners track workout.
Photo courtesy Jared Mestre.
In addition to her work with runners, Jae offers truly functional fitness training informed by the Feldenkrais Method® through her company, Intelligent Exercise LLC. Her clients have ranged in age from 8 to 92, with concerns that include managing chronic illness, improving athletic performance, reducing everyday discomforts, improving balance and daily functioning, and healthy aging. For more information about personal training, go to www.intelligentexercise.com.
Jae has taught through the New York Open Center, the Learning Annex, Long Island College Hospital, St. Luke’s Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center’s Student Wellness Center, and Williams College. She was fitness columnist for New York Spirit Magazine from 1999-2002, and her writing on movement and physicality has also appeared in the Village Voice, American Dance, The Park Slope Reader, and on the Motion Channel of IndiePlanet.com.
Jae's passion for helping her clients connect with their physical selves and enjoy the pleasures of movement has developed from her own love of physicality. While a student at Williams College, she discovered modern dance and then cross-enrolled at Bennington College to pursue her training. She graduated magna cum laude from Williams in 1992 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Working as a professional dancer from 1992-2003, she performed with a number of downtown companies. At the time of her retirement from dance in 2003, she was a senior company member of Sarah Skaggs Dance.