Teela Maxwell

Teela got her start at the YMCA in 2008 at the YMCA of Greater Omaha and Council Bluffs Association teaching fitness classes, working membership, and being a fitness floor attendant. She joined the YMCA of Greater KC in 2015 and is currently the Program Director II over Membership and Healthy Living.

She went to Vatterott College for her personal training certification from NSCA. She is certified in Mixxedfit, Xtreme Hip Hop Step, TRX, Bodyweight Training, Zumba, Boxing Fusion, HIIT, HIIT with yoga, Schwinn cycle, enhanced fitness, LiveSTRONG at the YMCA, Y Weight Loss Facilitator and is a Diabetes Prevention Coach. She was also the first person to teach MixxedFit in Kansas City and a 2022 Mixxedfit National Trainer Canidate.

Her favorite thing about being part of the Y family is helping people on their journey to health and wellness while building lifelong habits, and coaching and developing instructors and trainers to be the best they can be. She also enjoys event planning.

Teela grew up in Omaha and has a background in cheer and dance. She cheered in middle school all the way to college, then semi-professionally with the Iowa Blackhawks Arena Football team.

When she is not at the Y, she is teaching jazz and hip hop and is a part of an Art in Motion, LLC Dance Company which focuses on West African, Afro-Fusion, and Afro Jazz dancing. She also enjoys cooking, singing, writing music and poetry, yoga, meditation, and spending time with her children.