Jennie Coughlin

Jennie Coughlin is a career newspaper journalist who also teaches group fitness classes, specializing in mind/body disciplines.

On the journalism side of things, she has a bachelor's degree in journalism from University of Missouri and has won several awards for news, features and investigative reporting. She has led training sessions for the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting at the organization's annual conference.

In the fitness realm, she is certified for group fitness through AFAA, SilverSneakers and Les Mills. Her Pilates training is through AFAA and her yoga training through YogaFit. She is pursuing her RYT-200 certificate and expects to complete it in September 2009. She finds yoga inversions help her crack writer's block - just one of the many ways yoga improves other areas of life besides fitness.