I am Annalisa, born in 1974 and raised on the beautiful Lake Maggiore.

My path both of study and life has been varied and often unpredictable. I've always been clear about what I wanted to be but I saw it more as a dream than as a real possibility. I didn't love myself enough to believe I could really realize what I wanted. Yet, despite the paths taken have often been the most tortuous ones, even when I was not aware about where I was heading to, I was taking a step forward along my professional and personal path. So much effort, so many falls, yet always an inner spark that never died ... And my “parachute": physical activity.

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A very dear person told me many years ago  "what physical activity gives you is just yours, it does not depend on anything external to you". At the time I was 20, I trusted him and from that moment on physical activity “saved my life”.

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Physical training has become my anchor taking different forms over the years. Whatever happened around me,  I clung to the incredibly positive sensations and the powerful sense of control that exercise gives.

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Even my course of study was not obvious: after graduation I found myself in front of a personal university choice: Sport Science or Psychology. Although Sport Science was the gateway to my dream, I still didn't feel ready to do so. I chose the latter, more for a personal need. This choice turned out to be incredibly enriching and it opened my mind, being useful also for the subsequent studies and experience related to fitness giving me a 360 degree foundation.

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After graduation, I qualified as Aquafitness Trainer and started working in Switzerland to support myself economically while I was doing  free internships as a psychologist.

This first qualification and job as fitness trainer gave me that “boost” of self-confidence making me think “Hey, I'm able to do it after all!”.

Because yes: transforming my" parachute "into my work was what I dreamed of.

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I started dreaming about it at 7-8 years old when after school I joined my mom who loved the gym and I found myself among these women in leggings and colorful leg warmers - the 80s - and I feel the beauty of music and movement , of women full energy,  this energy that touched me even though I was just sitting and observing them with a book in my hand.

My entry into the world of aquatic fitness was the beginning, and after a few years my expat life also began and still continues today, from Italy to Singapore, then  Switzerland and now Sweden.

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In Singapore I seriously approached fitness. 

Incredible experiences that taught me so much.

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From that moment on, the qualifications taken have been many.

I am now Master Trainer for the Swiss Federation of Sport, a qualified Personal Coach and Trainer specialized in women's health and fitness. 

My first son, Kyle was born in Singapore changing my life in a deep way. My work became even more perfect in my eyes because it allows me build it around my family life and personal needs.

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In Sweden, in addition to the arrival of my second son at 44, Martino, I threw myself into what has been one of my most transforming work experiences, a online platform totally oriented on female self-care, Powerfulgrace Club.