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Teresa Castillo & Daniel Tostado Owners of G*Ninja & Temple of light llc


Teresa and Danny met in 20o1, at a 24hr fitness. They both have decades of experience in personal training and working in commercial gyms.

 

Back Stories and Timelines:

1999-2005 Daniel had just won a mountain states, regional body-building competition and began also as a personal trainer. Daniel has extensive knowledge in diet for gaining muscle & he helps with wellness programs, and supplementation.

 

Teresa worked and also volunteered in care centers to plan daily activities for them, she was also front desk, sales and was in charge of assessments and 1st #workout for many of the gyms below. Both have trained, sold training and engaged in services for the companies mentioned below and have knowledge of supplementation.

 

After Teresa was in an almost fatal car accident, they moved to the Seattle area, and while healing, Teresa began dancing and helping out at SSDF studio, Here she won awards for make-up & costume originality. Having been an artist her whole life, this was a natural step for her to explore. 

Teresa & Daniel

A MONSTER Resume of Fitness

2001-2025

Commercial Gyms:

GNC, Vitamin World, 24 hour fitness, GOLDS gym, She & Co. Fitness center, Apple Fitness, Southside Dance Force, Hillcrest Care center, Bally total fitness

 

2011-15-Present

Vision Quest Fitness center, L.A fitness, Auburn Gymnastics,  BigStar Talent Studio,

Renton Chamber, City of Seatac, ACRS.

2011-2020 Biggest loser competitions, talent competitions, Olympic Athletic training. 

 

2005-2011-Pesent

Personal studies & training with; dance, martial arts, Aerial acrobatics introduction of basics, freelance visual arts including painting & photography, sword & weapons training, self-defense.

2005-2013-2023 Teresa and Danny have training in Kung Fu, Capoeira, weapons training, modern dance & gymnastics. Daniel plays the accordion and Teresa is a multi-medium visual #artist. Daniel pride themselves on getting visible results for any age and skill level in just 90 days.

Their coaching experience was never limited to one type of athlete. Clients included people with chronic illness, the elderly, babies 0-5 yrs of age, Adults & children with autism, along with Olympic athletes, and children ages 6-18 yrs of age, adults ranging from the ages of 19-65+ yrs old.  Group training includes; boxers, gymnasts, parkour and MMA enthusiasts, aerialists, dancers, and families wanting to get in shape.

She & Daniel got an early childhood development cert and put 5 years of field work in spotting & instructing gymnastics and training babies 0-5 years old concurrent with her aerial program. She put approximately 1,920 hours into this.

Certs attained; 2022-Present SAFETY MATTERS Rigging for suspension and signaling, 2018-2020 Child development, CPR, 1999-2001 ASFA 2003 Nutrition,

Competitions include 2001-2003 Body-building & swim-suit In 2011, Teresa made a home with a commercial multi gym,VQ and taught her unique suspension style to hundreds clients of all ages and abilities until 2015 where she moved her team to an Olympic gymnastics facility AGC, and they have recently been traveling with MASTERBAR their new, Patented line of fitness equipment and programs.

2005, Teresa devoted herself to personal study of the aerial arts. She learned simple basics and fundamentals and then applied all of her previous movement, #training experience to her aerial practice and developed her own unique #skills and #techniques.

Classes she had taken were limited because the instruction was vague & inexperienced in physiology and sports science. People were faking it. Many people who call themselves #aerial instructors and have little knowledge on how to actually train their #students.

Teresa had a prototype she was developing and was designing bars to train on for the home in 2012, at the time it was 1 bar, now they have 5.  Check out MasterBar 

2008-Present Teresa decided to take her Fitness R&D path to another level, on her own. She saw what the Aerial teachers were selling and she wasn't sold. In fact, the community itself has a poor reputation. She felt she was working for things that had nothing to do with classes, and pretenders were bread-crumbing education because they had none.

She then began spending thousands of hours learning, testing, & #training those basics  they taught her over the years. She studied rigging, measured velocity and paired certain training techniques while they were trying to be on televised shows and become famous.

Fame is not realistic, and she felt her time would be better spent becoming the #teacher she was never able to find.

 

The separation became a success! Leaving the community and starting from scratch flowered a whole new style of drops, tricks and transitions.​ You won't see her specialty tricks online, all #performances are privately contracted and some are public. SM platforms are not the priority.

 

Her clients' advancement & innovations come first. Sports science, is the game, not being on TV, IG, or anywhere else but running tests and doing studies. If you're their 'copy-tition', as they call it, you won't find anything unique to learn, unless you hire them. They help other gyms and businesses thrive and grow just by collaborating. Their Patent Lawyers just got elevated in this example, so these guys know their worth!

 

She and Daniel, have successfully completed over 49,000 hours of education & expertise in the #fitness field. They have attained expert level in hands-on field work and certs which claimed to be multifitness became secondary to their discoveries. They have innovated new formulas for the industry because they say much of the journey was watching the coaches who watched them. At the end of the day, those coaches didn't have the creativity, time and effort to invent tools and program and their competition losses and dips in memberships show.

2020, a scary time, but this wasn't going to stop Teresa, even with the obstacles. Because of her knowledge of safety rigging and training, her class never missed a beat because she went outside and was able to take equipment with her. She was also able to borrow out much of her basic gym equipment to students so they could continue at home!

​Daniel continues to inspire people he knows to work out and his example that you don't have to drink to have fun is contagious! He left bartending & the lifestyle to help Teresa run their business and become an instructor. Teresa keeps optimizing the programs she creates and now, wellness, healthy living, functionality & longevity are all a part of this no-limit training.

These two are living proof that you can do what you love and bring the best out of yourself and others in a decent, caring way but with just enough edge & uniqueness to rise above in a sport and art that everyone wants to do well!

It's 2025 and we're STILL ALIVE!

 

 

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