Hi!
​I’m Kim Albano, a comprehensive health practitioner, educator, and personal trainer. I’m the Brooklyn-based creator of the Fusio™ practice.
My life’s work is to guide my clients to consistently prioritize their health and fitness routine for the long haul. I aim to empower others to reach new heights of growth, success, and happiness through consistent movement and health practices. The amazing human beings I train and teach all embrace the fitness practices for which I’ve become known. This is Fusio™!
My clients receive finely personalized workouts developed for building balance, strength, and longevity. Through my many years as a personal trainer, yoga teacher, health coach, and post-rehabilitation expert, I’ve built this all-encompassing approach based on the somatic body connection.
My own life journey underscores every aspect of what I bring to my work. I’m a child of health and fitness folk. On Mom’s side, natural food and nutrition were a family religion, and Dad was a grade school PE teacher, football and wrestling coach, and nationally ranked baseball umpire. In our family, we moved a lot and ate well.
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Early in my career, I suffered a traumatic back injury. Post surgery, I began to explore alignment and mindfulness-based healing practices. Attention to my inner being led to many revelations and discoveries about the mind-body connection. I was able to rehabilitate myself and, as a young trainer, began to work with clients from that budding holistic perspective.
Over 20 years later—as an experienced practitioner as well as a devoted mother to a growing daughter—my conviction is that as we age, we have the incredible potential to become stronger and closer to our beautiful, authentic selves!
So, what is Fusio™?
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Fusio™ (pronounced few-zee-o) is an empowering, grounding mind-body combination of conscious, functional, and strength-focused movement. The practice combines a highly attuned body awareness with a deep understanding of integrated movement to provide an effective and efficient training session.
Fusio weaves in somatic cues to guide the body to internally lengthen and expand, deepening the full body connection. Workouts are functional: based on ease of movement with an emphasis on increasing mobility and strength.
What does this look like in practice?
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Through my decades of experience, I have created a set of therapeutic exercises, drawing from practices in strength training, yoga, and pilates. Sessions begin with preparatory, warm-up movement, and are followed by full-body movements to deepen the body’s integration of the training. These curated sequences of exercises make for a well-rounded, exquisitely balanced training session, feeling both challenging and restorative.
Certifications
American Council on Exercise Personal Trainer (ACE)
Health coach (ACE)
Equinox Fitness Training Institute (EFTI)
Integrated stretching (EFTI)
Pre/Post Natal Personal training (EFTI)
Medical Exercise Specialist (AAHFRP)
Yoga Union 200-hour teacher training with Alison West (Yoga Alliance)
Reebok Spinning (Reebok University)
CPR/AED – Adult, Child and Infant
Extensive Study
Yoga: Vinyasa, Hatha, Iyengar
Stretching techniques
Alexander technique
Anatomy with Irene Dowd
Post-rehabilitation of the shoulder girdle, spine and pelvis
Pilates
Integrated Nutrition
BA - Art & Photography (SFSU)
