Owner and Teacher of Pilates, Tai Chi, Personal Fitness Training

Hello and Welcome! I have a passion for helping people discover and grow their inner core strengths by offering thoughtful, compassionate wellness modalities to my clients, personalizing workouts to suit individual needs. For over 25 years I have developed a wide knowledge base in many exercise disciplines to help clients feel better, move better, look better. Training and specialties include: Pilates mat and equipment from CORE Dynamics Pilates and PHI Pilates; Pilates for MS & Neurological Conditions, Hole in One Pilates for Golf, Tai Chi for Fall Prevention/ Arthritis (Dr. Paul Lam); Seated Tai Chi; Tai Chi for Energy; Tai Chi Moving for Better Balance; Tai Chi Yang Style 24 Forms; AFAA Personal Fitness Training, SilverSneakers; YMCA Active Older Adult Training. and various other group fitness training certifications. I love to work with a wide variety of ages and needs, and have had years of experience working with mature clients, as well as with special conditions like Arthritis, ALS, MS and Parkinson’s Disease. I also specialize in posture and movement patterns that can be life changing. In January, 2015, I opened Ellio Pilates, Tai Chi & More in Fort Myers, FL. My mission is to provide thoughtful, responsible and appropriate guidance for people of all ages who seek to live healthier lives with less pain and more vigor using mind-body connecting forms of exercise and self awareness.

Instructor of Foundation Training; Stott Pilates; Buff Bones®, The Miracle Ball Method; Tai Chi; Golf Conditioning; Health Coach; Personal Fitness Training; Nutrition Expert.

Jemetta is a lifelong educator of health and fitness, with a M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts and a B.A. from Purdue University. After 27 years of service in public education as a licensed Physical Education & Health teacher, and school administrator, she retired and started teaching group fitness classes. Jemetta is an ACE (American Council on Exercise) certified Personal Fitness Trainer and Health Coach. And holds certifications in Stott Pilates, Buff Bones®; Foundation Training; The Miracle Ball Method; Tai Chi for Arthritis; Functional Anatomy for Movement & Injuries; Holistic Fitness; Balance Training; Exercise Development for Golf Conditioning; Nutrition for the Fitness Specialist. Jemetta joined the staff at Ellio in January of 2015 and with great love, commitment and care, she teaches private sessions as well as a variety of classes and monthly workshops.

Betty Scanlon is a Master Trainer for the Tai Chi for Health Institute.

She trains instructors for all of the Tai Chi for Health forms and teaches tai chi and qigong classes. Betty has been a nurse for over 40 years and a Nurse Practitioner for over 30 years. In 2004 she was in search of a new form of exercise and tried a free Karate class, but after 3 classes, she knew it was not for her. She found a Tai Chi for Arthritis instructor class and immediately became addicted to Tai Chi. She has taught TCA classes ever since, while pursuing her own love of Tai Chi by trying different forms and styles. She has taught Tai Chi to seniors and children. She is well known for her embroidered and quilted oriental designs that are popular at the June workshop.

Rev. Melissa Hill Greenbaum devotes herself to interfaith/inter-spiritual work.

She was ordained by One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in Manhattan, New York in 2013.
After 3 years of focusing on ritual/ceremonies, she became the Director of House of Prayer Retreat Center in Alva, Florida. The past 3 years she teamed up with a Rabbi and Buddhist Dharma to lead Interfaith Joy;
a monthly interfaith gathering to share our similarities with a broader community through story, song & spirit!

Currently, she is the owner & founder of Front Porch Wisdom, LLC, an online ministry offering classes, interfaith book studies and inspirational writings. Coming winter 2025, she will launch a podcast reflecting on the wisdom she witnessed from her family and people in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Her passion for Inter-spiritual work came out of a revelation that God is available to all of us, regardless of our spiritual practice. Prior to attending Seminary, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Work from Florida State University. Melissa teaches Serenity Inhaled: A Breathwork Class.

Alva Marie Ways has been certified with the Transformational Breath Foundation since 2014.

Her goal to help others help themselves with this simple and profound method of conscious breathing.
She has worked with thousands of people in private and group sessions, as well as extended 5-day personal and 7-day professional seminars.
Conscious diaphragmatic breathing is for everyone and 1-5 sessions are life changing. Alva has experience and success working with conditions including asthma, COPD, Long Covid, Parkinson’s Disease, cancer, anxiety, unexplained infertility, active pregnancy and postpartum issues. She is able to meet you where you’re at, and help you move toward where you want to be with the powerful tool of transformational breathwork.