Billy Anderson
Founder - Heroic Fitness AdventuresMaster Certified Personal Trainer
Nutrition Coach & Movement Artist
Billy Anderson is a Master Personal Trainer with 21 years of experience consulting, designing, and facilitating individualized and group fitness programs. In the first chapter of his fitness career, Billy worked and taught for two of the largest fitness companies in the U.S.A, which included teaching for Life Time Fitness’s Academy. In his academy instructor role, he mentored and guided over 500 students into rewarding careers as fitness professionals.In addition to his professional work in fitness he is certified as a Somatic Coach through the Strozzi Institute. His work in somatics allows Billy to help his clients deepen their awareness and access to sensation, emotion, and cognition, which allows one to have greatly increased self-regulation and choice under the pressures of life.
Billy launched his fitness business (Heroic Fitness Adventures) in 2021 as response to his longing to integrate his work in fitness and somatics—a holistic and enduring approach to change in health and wellness.
The inspiration for Heroic Fitness Adventures is the “Hero’s Journey” work of the late and great mythologist, Joseph Campbell. Campbell asserted that all human beings are inter-linked psychologically through a universal “Monomyth.” The monomyth is the Hero’s Journey, which consists of three phases: Departure, Initiation, and Return. These three phases represent a powerful way to understand the human change process. Whenever one is called to venture away from their familiar ways, relationships, beliefs, they embark on a courageous journey into the unknown to seek a new way of being or living. Often in the departure from the familiar, one is tested and faces their fears and limitations. On a successful Hero’s Journey, one masters their fear—slays their personal dragon—and returns home to share what they’ve learned with family and community.
Billy sees each client’s fitness program as a personal Hero’s Journey that will change them on many different levels: physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Billy is here to be your helper, guide, and coach through the labyrinth of turns that lead to lasting bodily change.
Andrea Weiss
Black-Belt-Certified Nia InstructorCertificate in Somatic Psychotherapy and Practices, Antioch University
M.A. in Depth Psychology and Creativity, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Andrea discovered Nia in 2004 after years of participating in other forms of group fitness and was hooked by Nia’s emphasis on both form and freedom and by the dual energizing and relaxing quality of wellbeing that it brought to her life. Andrea took her first Nia training in 2008 and has led Nia classes throughout the Twin Cities since that time. As a movement practitioner, she finds great joy in guiding others to experience increased physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing and fitness through Nia’s unique blend of holistic movement and music.
The unification of the fitness and somatic body.
Heroic Fitness Adventures creates and sustains a holistic fitness community that seamlessly unifies objective science and subjective intuition in both philosophy and practice—training each client from the outside in and the inside out.
Our core training philosophy is that harmony is created through the balance of opposites on all levels of human well-being and performance—Stress and Recovery, Body and Somatic points of view as well as Wakeful and Sleep cycles.
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