Dane Krager
Founder/Owner
Dane Krager, a Native-Austinite, wanted to create a community-motivated form of exercise after leaving the world of professional football (Seattle Seahawks, Minnesota Vikings, Rhein Fire, Austin Wranglers).
Ashley Fox
Operations Manger
After officially hanging up her football cleats, Ashley discovered Olympic lifting through Crossfit and in short order decided to become a coach
Beth Reyburn
Hyde Park manager
Beth joined the coaching team at DBS in January 2016 after being a member for nearly four years. She comes to coaching by way of competitive adventure racing and endurance mountain biking.
Chad Ramsey
Coach/Culture/Communication
Coach Rammer is the ex-girlfriend that Dane’s Body Shop just can’t keep itself from running back to. Sure it might be healthier for The Shop to move on and mature in a committed relationship with a different ginger coach/manager, but familiarity is a warming libation and Chad does make a fine Manhattan.
Keith Minikus
Strength Director/Coach
Keith received a degree in exercise science, History and Education at Texas State University. In his junior ye ar he was introduced to the sport of olympic lifting by Leo Seitz, Texas State’s Strength & Conditioning coach.
Autumn Halazon
Coach
Autumn grew up in Seattle, Washington and has been training private clients and group classes for the past 18 years. Growing up she competed in a variety of sports including wrestling and gymnastics.
Beth Felker
Coach
On first glance you might miss it because she had her horn removed after puncturing her third water bed, but Beth is a unicorn. How can you tell? She is an honest and for real Austin native!
Mark Hernandez
Coach
Mark Hernandez is a 3rd generation Austinite and a 2nd generation University of Texas graduate. He’s always had a spirit of adventure and loves to try new things because “why not?”.
Blair Taylor
Coach
Blair Brown Taylor was born “Unit CC639-41” in a state of the art robotics factory located at unspecified coordinates in the Montana badlands. After self-initiating dramatic automated intelligence protocols, our plucky little cyborg brutally slew her humanoid overlords and made her way south.
Pete Tulumba
Coach
Pete is a New Yorker who has fully embraced ATX as his happy home; he keeps it weird by utilizing his creative workout approach to help members and personal coaching clients stay ready for anything that life throws at them.
Jessica Chester
Yoga Coach
Jessica is a RYT-200. She received her Yoga certification through CorePower Yoga in the summer of 2017, has taught all around Austin, but found a home at Dane’s Body Shop and Crux Climbing Center.
Monica Baumgardner
Coach
Monica Baumgardner (@thebaumbody) has been working in the fitness industry since 2013. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree (’09 @ UT, ’12 @ TWU) in Kinesiology and is certified through the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) as a personal trainer.
Selah Tim
Coach
By October of 2021, Selah Tim had grown too big for the Pacific Northwest, so she told her quaint little hometown of Seattle that she was off to conquer Texas and left them their puny little Amazon headquarters as a meager consolation prize.
Lauren Lichterman
Coach
Lauren Lichterman, a critical player in the ginger-lead hostile takeover of Dane’s Body Shop, was born in Memphis Tennessee and educated at the greatest academic institution the world has ever known- Hook ’em Horns baby!
Ryan Romero
Coach
Ryan has been a bartender, underground card dealer, advertising copywriter/creative director, professor, and is now a NASM and USAW certified personal trainer and Olympic weightlifting coach.
Bianca Salazar-Wise
Yoga Coach
Bianca is a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher who believes deeply in the transformative power of movement.
Kayla Tizzano
Coach
Kayla brings enthusiasm to every session, creating space for movement to become a deeply felt success—emotionally and somatically.
Phillip Garcia
Coach
By the early Reagan years, Phillip Garcia had retired from his illustrious double-life career as half the NFL and now spends his days spreading joy, questionable wisdom, and aggressively positive vibes as Dane’s favorite nonagenarian coach.