Welcome to RVA Wellness Initiative

A Local Community of Pro Wellness Initiative

ATTENTION: Richmond Virginia Professionals

This is a Community for Certified

and Degreed Wellness, Fitness

& Health Professionals

Our Mission

  • Empower wellness professionals throughout the US to foster intentional growth, visibility, and connection.

  • Initiate collaboration and referrals to connect wellness seekers with the best personalized solutions for their journey.

  • Provide tailored business mentorship and support to help wellness professionals build systems, gain clarity, and achieve sustainable success.

How it works

1

Peer

Meetings

Join local vetted wellness, fitness and health professionals that want to collaborate, connect and refer. Our meetings are intentionally kept small to ensure we teach and learn from each other as well as creating true connections.

2

Member

Support

Our online membership portal is a space for you to meet ALL of our members from the United States and beyond for further collaboration and connections. We help you create business strategies and systems to optimize your business for growth and abundance. We focus on proven methods for mindset, frameworks, etc.

3

Collaborative Events

Learn how you can collaborate with local health , wellness and fitness professionals to offer more robust options to local wellness seekers as well as offering any virtual options through our website portal.

Register for our upcoming meetings and events

Upcoming Events

Register here for the monthly meetings and other events in person and virtual.

Interested in collaborating on a local event? Email your community leader .

Monthly Meetings

March 2025 TBA

Join us for our monthly meetings. Each month we have a speaker to educate us on their modalities and we will also discuss upcoming events, offer feedback or support for our businesses and network together.

April 2025 TBA

Join us ! We will also discuss upcoming events, offer feedback or support for our businesses and network together.

May 2025 -TBA

Join us ! We will also discuss upcoming events, offer feedback or support for our businesses and network together.

MEET your Richmond, Virginia

community Leader

Michele G Rogers

Encompass Pathways


Michele G Rogers is a lifelong health, wellness, and fitness enthusiast who has made her own way for the last 22 years successfully running a fitness business, focused primarily on helping her clients move more efficiently and heal their bodies from aches, pains, and lingering injuries. After some major professional and life changes, her business has shifted to guide her clients toward holistic health and wellness. Defining holistic health as the balance of the physical, mental, emotional, and energetic dimensions that make each of us human, Michele's approach, Encompass Pathways, employs a philosophy in which each dynamic is addressed and integrated by helping clients develop their innate capacity for healing. Together we craft an individualized plan to improve overall health and quality of life. When a health mystery refuses to relent and conventional medicine fails to provide relief, Michele combines her wealth of professional knowledge gained from a Master's in Health Psychology and decades of self-study, with her intuitive guidance as a Reiki Master to help her clients find answers and achieve balance. Using Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis as an anchor for physical healing in her practice, her skills as a researcher and coach, and the experiential wisdom gained having healed her own physical ailments outside of conventional medicine, Michele will confidently guide her clients down their optimal path to self-healing and discovery.

MEET your Richmond, Virginia

community Leader

Christian Carter Ross,

Will to Live Wellness


Christian is your friendly, well-rounded expert in fitness and nutrition. He’s certified through the National Academy of Sports Medicine in personal training, nutrition and corrective exercise, with an additional 200 hour certification through Yoga Renew. Located in Richmond, Virginia, by way of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he offers programs in personal training, nutrition, yoga and beginners level boxing. He’s also extended that list of passions with a menu of eight delicious cold pressed juices. All of these endeavors are housed under “Will To Live Wellness”, a business ignited by the unfortunate loss of some of his closest family and friends. Christian strives to honor their love left behind by ensuring he’s taking care of his health and the well-being of his community. He holds a strong belief that wellness is a journey that everyone deserves to experience, and intends on lowering the barriers to access throughout his career. As a community leader with the Pro Wellness Initiative, he looks forward to adding value to the platform and is eager to be a part of a network driving change in a much needed area of our society

Grab 30 days free in the membership here!

then it's only $8.88/mo for support, discussion, networking, connection and collaboration

MEET THE FOUNDER

Hey, I'm Brandy Hollaway!

I spent 17 years in the Fitness & Wellness Industry before I decided to switch over to services and created The Phoenix Factor. I want to help you create an impact in your community and the world! More importantly, I want you to know that you do not have to do that alone.

MEET the Community Relations Director

Hey, I'm Drea Gaines!

Owner of Rise and Align. I love helping create connection and offering my expertise as an accountability and transformation coach.