Elevate UTM: Celebrating & Empowering Black Wellness

ENHERGY STEP is an aerobic step class high-energy workout designed to get your heart pumping while you groove to an awesome playlist. It’s a fun, upbeat session that combines cardio, coordination, and the perfect beats to keep you motivated! This class is beginner friendly- all are welcomed!

Workshop level: Beginner-Intermediate

Facilitators: Ottillia Giralico, Mansarée Kamara, and Eva Amo-Mensah (Enhergy Step)

Ottillia Giralico

Ottillia is a fitness enthusiast, fitness coach, and owner of the Female-Only fitness facility, Club Enhergy. She attained her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto for Sociology & Psychology, and her post-graduate degree in Human Resources at George Brown College. After experiencing both parents suffer from severe illnesses, Ottillia was compelled to take control of her own health at a very young age. She became passionate about being consistent in the gym, and eating clean. After the loss of her mother in 2018, she decided to leave the corporate world to purse her passion for fitness. She started taking clients as a personal trainer in 2018, and in 2020 she created a fitness brand for women called “ENHERGY”. ENHERGY began as an e-commerce business which sold fitness bands, apparel, water bottles and more! After a successful first year in business, Ottillia was motivated by her partner to open up her own space. “CLUB ENHERGY” was born in the midst of COVID, and was officially ready to open for business as of January 2021. However, due to COVID restrictions the space was unable to officially open until months later, August 2021. Currently, Ottillia finds pleasure in operating CLUB ENHERGY as a one-of-a-kind fitness facility, while continuing to build a community of strong and empowered women along the way.

Mansarée Kamara

Mansarée is a Certified Personal Trainer, a mom of three and a former volleyball coach. She started her personal training career in 2017 training women and men. She has recently shifted her studies towards becoming a corrective exercise specialist. With her knowledge in fascia, mobility and assessments she always trains to educate and guide clients through

pain free workouts. To Mansarée fitness isn’t about being skinny or curvy, it’s about being the best version of yourself!

Eva Amo-Mensah

Eva, also knows as Fit-For-Eva is a certified personal trainer and specializes in strength and conditioning style training. She founded the Fit-For-Eva in 2017 as the perfect brand to express her love of fitness, health and passion for helping others. Her goal and main focus is to help others become strong not only physically but also mentally, all while helping each client to become confident and comfortable within their bodies! She has been a personal trainer for about 5 years. Growing up Eva played all types of sports but succeeded the most in track and field as a sprinter which earned her a scholarship in the U.S to complete her degree in social work. If your ready to train like a beast and look like a beauty, join Eva now and allow her to take you through your fitness journey today!

While guiding individuals through physical experiences with yoga, emotional experiences with empowering F words and mental experiences with GRIT, Haze Schepmyer will offer a range of tools and tactics that can help with generating strength, constructing stability and producing stamina for happy, healing and hard times. With a focus on two-way conversations throughout this event, Haze will provide individuals with opportunities that may help with implementing the theme of “Moving Beyond the Mind” in the moment and in the future.

Workshop Level: This is an all-levels workshop that will include options for modifying and leveling-up various yoga poses (including options for using a chair).

Facilitator: Haze Schepmyer (Grow My GRIT)

Haze Schepmyer

Haze Schepmyer is a Life-Event Transitions Mediator, Speaker and Yoga Teacher. Through powerful and unconventional two-way conversations, she can help individuals explore healthy tools and tactics for generating strength, constructing stability and producing stamina as they transition through life events such as shifting from adolescence to adulting, changing gears in a career, rediscovering self, leveling-up leadership or recreating identity. Whether she is facilitating one-with-one meetings or workshops, Haze can help individuals with authoring a proactive and personalized path rooted in forward-focused movements for a journey. She was UTM’s Valedictorian in 2000.

Join us for an insightful panel discussion featuring the founders of Club Enhergy and Grow My Grit, alongside UTM students and staff, as we explore the intersections of Black mental health, self-care, and wellness.

This conversation will highlight practical strategies and resources to help Black individuals build resilience, feel empowered, and prioritize their mental and physical well-being. Panelists will also share their personal journeys, including the inspiration behind their businesses, the challenges they've faced, and the impact of their work on Black individuals, families, and communities.

📢 The session includes a 40-minute discussion, followed by an open Q&A – come ready to engage, ask questions, and be inspired!

Facilitators: Club Enhergy, Grow My Grit, and UTM Staff & Students

Ottillia Giralico

Ottillia is a fitness enthusiast, fitness coach, and owner of the Female-Only fitness facility, Club Enhergy. She attained her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto for Sociology & Psychology, and her post-graduate degree in Human Resources at George Brown College. After experiencing both parents suffer from severe illnesses, Ottillia was compelled to take control of her own health at a very young age. She became passionate about being consistent in the gym, and eating clean. After the loss of her mother in 2018, she decided to leave the corporate world to purse her passion for fitness. She started taking clients as a personal trainer in 2018, and in 2020 she created a fitness brand for women called “ENHERGY”. ENHERGY began as an e-commerce business which sold fitness bands, apparel, water bottles and more! After a successful first year in business, Ottillia was motivated by her partner to open up her own space. “CLUB ENHERGY” was born in the midst of COVID, and was officially ready to open for business as of January 2021. However, due to COVID restrictions the space was unable to officially open until months later, August 2021. Currently, Ottillia finds pleasure in operating CLUB ENHERGY as a one-of-a-kind fitness facility, while continuing to build a community of strong and empowered women along the way.

Haze Schepmyer

Haze Schepmyer is a Life-Event Transitions Mediator, Speaker and Yoga Teacher. Through powerful and unconventional two-way conversations, she can help individuals explore healthy tools and tactics for generating strength, constructing stability and producing stamina as they transition through life events such as shifting from adolescence to adulting, changing gears in a career, rediscovering self, leveling-up leadership or recreating identity. Whether she is facilitating one-with-one meetings or workshops, Haze can help individuals with authoring a proactive and personalized path rooted in forward-focused movements for a journey. She was UTM’s Valedictorian in 2000.

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Elevate UTM: Celebrating & Empowering Black Wellness

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Full Schedule of Activities

🕚 11 AM – 12 PM | Enhergy Step: A High-Energy Step Aerobics Class led by Club Enhergy

🕛 12 – 1 PM | Yoga Class: Activating Strength, Stability and Stamina across Physical, Emotional and Mental Experience led by Haze Schepmyer (Grow My GRIT)

🕐 1 – 2 PM | Panel Discussion: Black Mental Health, Self-Care & Wellness led by Club Enhergy, Haze Schepmyer (Grow My GRIT), and UTM Staff & Students