Our Coaches

Coach Seli

Ashley Selman has been a leading trainer and coach in Silicon Valley for 30 years. She was named a top 100 trainer in America by Men's Health and a top 10 Trainer in the Bay Area by SF Chronicle. She has coached world-class athletes such as Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Brandi Chastain and coached at both Stanford and Univ of Oregon.

She has owned Evolution Trainers, a 14,000 sq ft private personal training, wellness, and longevity facility, for 18 years and is now focused on harnessing the most effective longevity tactics to help clients rewrite the narrative of aging.

Armed with her incredible background, and the biggest technical breakthrough she has seen in her 30-year career, Coach Seli is in a prime position to help 50+ clients gain back their power and confidence and change their lives, starting with a healthy body that can support all of their life goals.

Coach Nicole

Nicole Dessoye’s passion for the connection between mind and body began as a dancer at an early age—a passion that blossomed into a professional dancing career in Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco, and then eventually lead to her founding a cutting-edge fitness and pilates studio - The Corner Studio - in San Francisco.

Always eager to diversify and progress her knowledge of the body, Nicole is Pilates, NASM Personal Training and Original Strength Training Certified.

Her unending quest to better her clients led to her acquiring a BFR (Blood-Flow Restriction) certification in 2024. This cutting-edge training method allows clients to make significant gains in muscle mass, strength, and endurance with lower resistance and less intensity. A game-changer for clients who have injuries, limitations or are heading into mid-life and beyond.

Through more than 25 years of teaching and training, Nicole has developed and refined a tailored approach to expanding the mind-body connection of her clients, allowing them to move better, feel stronger, and progress their mental approach to functional movement.

Advisory Board

Dr. Yumi Ando

BA Harvard College, MD from Stanford
Private Concierge Physician in Menlo Park, CA
Diplomat - American Board of Internal Medicine & American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine

BFR is a game-changer for my women patients, especially as they age. Gaining strength and muscle mass is so key to vitality, but women often have a hard time with weight lifting. We are all great at hiking, walking and Peleton-ing, but not as good at strength training. I think BFR offers women a way to improve strength using lower weight and this makes it less intimidating and more fun. Plus it’s super efficient for busy women. There are many studies that support the benefits of BFR for rehabilitation, osteoporosis prevention and muscle recovery and no studies have reported adverse events, including blood clots (which is the most frequently asked question I get about BFR), or heart/circulation effects. BFR is also wonderful for aging patients to help prevent age-related muscle loss.

Here are some of the many benefits of BFR training:

  • Improved aerobic capacity and cardiovascular endurance

  • Increased muscle mass

  • Improved healing and recovery

  • Improved bone density

  • Reduced pain levels

  • Increased strength

  • Reduced blood pressure