BBI Joins Yoanna House for Runway Model Workshop: Jacksonville Fashion Week

Yoanna House Americas Next Top Model and Vicki Sullivan , BBI

Saturday January 14th, Yoanna House, former America's Next Top Model and Body Balance Institute teamed up for a Runway Model Workshop at the The Performers Academy, sponsored by Jacksonville Magazine. Julie Baskin and Vicki Sullivan taught over 70 aspiring models the importance of good posture and Pilates for building a long lean body with elegance and grace. We are very fortunate to have shared this experience with our wonderful Client and Colleague Yoanna House, in influencing young people to learn solid principles for movement that will help them to be better in everything they do. The event was part of Jacksonville Fashion Week, 2012.   Read on for a recap of the morning.

Julie Baskin Modifies Form at the Runway Model Workshop

     Watching Yoanna mentor and work with the young people at the Jacksonville Fashion Week Runway workshop made me think about what a great example she sets not just in terms of how to be a top model, but more on just "how to be." When you get to know Yoanna, you kind of want to be like her. She is strong, she is confident about who she is, she is kind, she is feminine, she is beautiful and she is real. She is beautiful from the inside out. For someone who has seen the competitive modeling scene from the very top, you get no impression of self absorption or vanity with Yoanna. She wears many hats as a wife, a mom, and  a consummate professional, and she is a lot of fun to be around!   Every time you see Yoanna you realize that she is living what she does and she loves it.
     Yoanna also embodies the principles of Pilates and elegant movement. Pilates is working your body and mind from the inside out, it is living proper alignment and posture.  The exercises and movements are not superficial, they are deep from the core of the body and soul. It is moving effortlessly, with elegance and grace. It is functional strength, building lean length in the body without bulk.  Like what Yoanna embodies, Pilates builds confidence, and quiet strength.  Stay tuned for more great events to come, and visit http://jaxfashionweek.com/ for more on Jacksonville Fashion Week, 2012

Participants at Runway Model Workshop

Practicing the Runway