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CORINNE CROCE
Corinne’s devotion to healthcare (and physical therapy) is deeply rooted in her life story. Unparalleled family tragedy she endured as a young doctor of physical therapy—losing her brother and mother to cancer and her father suddenly— confirmed her un-relentless drive and intention on making an immediate impact on the healthcare industry. Her story is one where significant personal experiences ingrained characteristics that separate her from many and what she aims to carry into her practice daily. The importance of compassion, true support, strong guidance, whole-body healing and the depths of the mind-body connection is something she understands on an elevated level.
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Early on in Corinne’s college years she was naturally attracted to science and initially she was in pursuit of a pre-med major with the intent of making a stamp on the healthcare industry, shortly into her exploration of the field she realized she wanted a more proactive approach to patient-work and through her love of medicine and fitness sought out a degree in physical therapy. She pursued a Doctorate of Physical Therapy from the highly acclaimed program at New York University and received elite manual therapy accolades as Full Body and Master practitioner from the ART institute. Through her early work, she came to understand that early detection of orthopedic issues was the key to injury mitigation and that her theory was only scratching the surface of a much bigger breakthrough that needed to occur in the industry. The existing physical therapy model needed to change for even a highly skilled therapist to start making an impact and that is why the idea behind BE | BodyEvolved came to life.
Corinne began changing the industry when she became a director of the program at Physiofitness Physical Therapy and advocated for the introduction of a new therapy protocol. She also realized in addition to working with injured patients, there was missing link in care not being provided to active individuals looking to prevent injury or improve performance. Under her new protocol each patient was introduced to working with a highly skilled trainer who would work along side the licensed therapist providing specialized manual therapy care. The collaboration was genius and the most powerful team was when Corinne worked with Dariusz.
The two had an natural flow and they were a powerful pair in delivering results. Corinne’s success was quickly recognized by fitness industry giant SoulCycle who offered her a position to head the PT department to provide care, educate and grow the in-house program. This development was a cornerstone in the forever-evolving and growing NYC group fitness world. A couple of years into creation of the PT department at SoulCycle, it still remains a sought after, highly regarded and one of kind program.
While Corinne took on the position at SoulCycle she also started working privately in her own practice to bring her full vision to life for all clients. In order to do this she needed Dariusz who joined her both at SoulCycle and in her private practice. The two became a force to be reckoned with and very quickly and organically grew. The time has come for them to expand, to bring on other skilled powerhouses in both their fields and spread their evolutionary approach…and now we welcome you to Body Evolved.
DARIUSZ Stankiewicz
As a life-long athlete, Dariusz (Dee) Stankiewicz found that he forged the strongest bonds with trainers, always seeking their counsel on how to reach his full potential by maximizing his “days off.” It turns out that they knew him better than he knew himself and helped him find his calling. It was through their encouragement that he pursued his training certification, and, upon completion, was selected for a highly sought after role at Equinox. Working as a trainer for a few years confirmed for Dee that that he had a passion for working with people to help them achieve their performance and strength goals. However, he continued to play semi-professional soccer while training and was presented with the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become a professional athlete.
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Dee made the difficult decision to take a hiatus from personal training to try his luck at playing pro soccer in Europe. Just before his sixth season in Europe, he suffered a career-ending knee injury. While it took some time for him to accept that he would never play soccer again, this experience fueled his ultimate passion—his focus shifted from strictly performance to rehabilitation and movement specialty education. He developed a depth of knowledge on the interplay between physical therapy, rehab, and sport-specific training. He initially took a position at The New York Athletic Club working with professional and college teams. While this would have been everything he dreamed of earlier in his career, he found himself looking for more and left to pursue a role in physical therapy at PhysioFitness.
Dariusz’s role at PhysioFitness connected him to Corinne Croce, a Doctorate of Physical Therapy. Over the next five years together at PhysioFitness, he and Corinne partnered together and developed a unique approach that merged the benefits of manual therapy and movement coaching. Under this new protocol clients were introduced to working with both a highly skilled trainer and a licensed therapist that worked alongside each other. The collaboration and teaming between Corinne and Dariusz was powerful. The two had a natural flow and the results they delivered spoke for themselves.
Dee went on to join the personal training staff at Soho Strength Lab (SSL), where he remained for the next six years. During this time, he continued to partner with Corinne to solve the complex orthopedic and movement challenges of their clients, as well as to provide physical therapy care and education for the instructors at fitness industry giant SoulCycle. The in-house PT department at SoulCycle still remains a sought after, highly regarded and one of kind program a couple of years into its creation.
Dee feels very fortunate to have found a business partner in Corinne with whom he can pursue his life-long passion, melding PT and movement coaching to provide a functional 360 approach to help clients (urbanites ranging from professional athletes to average New Yorkers invested in their physical health) live their best lives. The two became a force to be reckoned with and very quickly and organically grew. The time has come for them to expand and spread their evolutionary approach through Body Evolved.
BETH LEWIS
Beth Lewis has been infatuated with movement as long as she can remember. She grew up in small town in South Georgia where she was a competitive gymnast, swimmer, dancer, soccer player and martial artist. Her heart was set to dance as she graduated from The University of Georgia with a BFA in Dance Performance. After graduation, Beth moved to Atlanta where she fell in love with training and fitness. Training took a pause as she had the opportunity to dance for Pilobolus Dance Theater. After four years of touring internationally, Beth decided to make New York City her home and to get back into training. Beth is currently a Strength Coach at Body Evolved in Manhattan. She works with a wide variety of humans ranging from athletes to post op clients. Beth is a founding instructor for Cityrow where she teaches instructor education and writes programming. She is a Kinstretch instructor throughout NYC and travels to teach both domestic and international workshops.
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Goals for clients: education, confidence and self efficacy in movement. “You are stronger than you think!”
Current training: Powerlifting, Kettlebells and FRC. Deadlifting is her game!
Continuing Education: FRS Assistant Instructor, FRCms, FRAs, Kinstretch, EXOS Performance Mentorship 1-3, EXOS Performance Therapy Mentorship, Ido Portal Movement Camp, SFG I, CFSC- Mike Boyle, Greg Lehman Reconciling Biomechanics Pain Science, PRI-Pelvis, Respiration, Myokinematics, PRI Advanced Integration Course, DNS course A, DNS Exercise 1 and 2, DNS Movement Skills.
Sam Scaffidi
Sam has been an athlete for as long as she can remember. Playing team sports shaped much of who she is today. The camaraderie, trust, and support of a team is fundamental and of the utmost importance to Sam and something she has long admired about Corinne and Dariusz and the evolution of Body Evolved.
Sam graduated from Towson University where she received her B.S. in Exercise Science. During her time there, guided by her passion for movement, Sam became a 200hr certified yoga instructor and CrossFit coach. Shortly after graduation, she worked for a health supplement company with deep roots in the CrossFit community and while this experience left her with many lessons and an opportunity to travel the country, she knew she wanted to pursue a career in fitness full time.
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Sam began teaching at SoulCycle in 2013 in San Francisco and soon after, made her way to NYC where she was treated and trained by Corinne and Dariusz, respectively, for various injuries, prevention of injuries, and strength training along the way.
Sam is a marathon runner and founder & head coach of Project Sweat Run Club, a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, and a Senior SoulCycle Instructor.
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Corinne and Dariusz created a system of therapy and coaching almost a decade ago when they began working together. They discovered for clients to reach their goals they could not have one specialty without the other. By using their skills in tandem and removing the gap that exists between rehab and training they found a, grounded in science, approach that has proven to be successful. Corinne and Dariusz did not only see a problem in the segregation of their two fields, but they saw it among most client providers; they believe for clients to achieve the greatest results everyone needs to talk. So they became passionate about supporting clients beyond sessions in also being their advisors and advocates. By being clients trusted supporters and through the combination of manual therapy, movement optimization and strength coaching they have developed a lifestyle approach for you to feel your best and reach your goals.
Corinne & Dariusz have also defied most odds by being best friends & business partners and they aim to defy any doubts you have about your physical capabilities. The foundation of their strong bond is built on trust, collaboration, heart, hard work and humility (and good old fashion fun). They will bring their same best self and loyalty that they do to each other to all clients and they expect the same from their top notch team. We are committed to you and your goals. When you join BE you join a chosen family. Welcome to our home, consider it yours.