Meet Your Instructors

Justice Park District has an amazing team of qualified program instructors! Here you can find information regarding your program instructors. We are always happy to add more instructors. If you are interested in joining our team please click on the "Employment" Tab and fill out the form.

Yoga - Aneta Trusner

Aneta Trusner is a Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 200) and a healthy lifestyle advocate. She has been bringing cultures and people together. Aneta was trained in traditional Hatha Yoga, Yoga 4 Cancer, and Yoga Nidra.

Aneta provides various styles of classes ranging from restorative, beginner, and gentle to more active classes using breath and movement to find stillness and focus. She is big on mindfulness and body awareness. Aneta received her M.A. in Education in Poland and Cambridge certificates in the UK. Yoga changed her life. She teaches public classes at local Park Districts and has a thriving private practice. www.zestflo.com

Dance and Cheer / Beginning Tumbling- Bella Baranski

Bella Baranski has danced and practiced gymnastics for over 6 years. She is captain of the sailorette team at Argo High School which has won 1st place in conference competition for the past two years. Bellas enthusiasm for dancing and cheering is very apparent in how she teaches her classes!

Tai Chi Chuan / Chi-Gung- Patrick Baio

Mr. Patrick Baio has been training and practicing Chinese Gung Fu such as eight animal Chi Tai Chang, White Crane, Praying Mantis, Eagle Claw Gung Fu's, Tai Chi Chuan, Ba Gua Chang, Wu Hsing Pai and Chin Na for Fifty years. He is a fifth level Black Sash and has the title of Sifu and Lao Shi. He also has his own private practice and teaches classes across the Chicago Land area.

YOGA Classes - Aneta Trusner

Aneta is an Experienced - Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT by Yoga Alliance) and a healthy lifestyle advocate. She graduated with M.A. in Education; teaching Polish/English language and started practicing yoga around 2005.

Aneta is trained in traditional Hatha Yoga, Yoga 4 Cancer, and Yoga Nidra. She provides various styles of classes ranging from restorative, beginners, and gentle to more active classes using breath and movement to find stillness and focus. She is big on mindfulness and body awareness.

She teaches public classes at local Park Districts as well as group and private sessions in her yoga room in Willowbrook and Schaumburg under her own company Zestflo, LLC

Feel Better Workshop Beata Macias

“Leave people happier than you found them and the world a better place than you found it”

Beata Macias is passionate about healing self and others to lead a happy and fulfilled life. As an Occupational Therapist, Holistic Nutritionist, Mind-Body-Movement Specialist and a life-long learner with over 15 years of experience in many different healthcare settings with diverse populations and diagnosis, she has collected many healthy lifestyle tools. She considers it a privilege to be able to share them with others in a form of FeelBetter workshops, the holistic wellness program that aims to promote overall well-being consequently improving one’s quality of life.

Music- Kathleen Thorson

Kathy has studied music since childhood and currently teaches band and music classes at the local junior high. She is proficient and can teach: Piano, Flute, Clarinet, Trombone and Saxophone. Kathy has been teaching at the Park District for the past 15 years. She looks forward to teaching many more young musicians.

Happy Feet / Twinkle Toes- Cherie Bennett

"My grandmother was a dancer and she was my inspiration for starting dance."
Miss Cherie began her dance training at the age of 9 at Tip Tap Toe Dance Studio. Training under various teachers including Paulette Mola and an instructor from Hubbard Street Dance Company. Training in tap, jazz, ballet and hip hop. Miss Cherie also took a summer semester of dance at Moraine Valley Community College with dance Instructor Melanie Herman, a former Chicago Honey Bear. Miss Cherie was a teacher at Tip Tap Toe for 11 years and taught at Bridgeview Park District for 17 years including instructing dance birthday parties, Pleasant Dale Park District and Palos Heights Park District, teaching Preschoolers, through adult age as well as a variety of Parent/tot classes and childcare. Miss Cherie participated in a dance - off with Debbie Allen in Chicago.

"Keep dancing."

Dance & Cheer; Tumbling

Isabella "Bella" Baranski

Bella has danced for over 7 years and started gymnastics as a toddler! She has been teaching at Justice since the summer of 2021.

She Cheers with Argo High School The team has won the conference championship two years in a row.

Bella also was the Summer Camp Counselor for ages 4-6, our Happy Campers Camp.

Tai Chi - Sifu Patrick Baio

Mr. Baio has been training and practicing for over 50 years. He is a fifth-level Black Sash and has the title of Sifu and Lao Shi.

He has made regular trips to Shanghai to study. He has taught at Daley Community College, Northwestern University's Prentice Women's Hospital, the East Bank Club, Lake Side Athletic Club among many others. He currently teaches at three park districts and has his own private practice.

Chess - Rudra Patel

Rudra has been playing Chess competitively for five years.

He played with the Argo High School Chess Team. Rudra is a 4-time Illinois State Final Player. He has won numerous medals and trophies.

Violin/Cello - Emily Zwijack

Emily is an undergraduate at The Chicago College of Performing Arts pursuing a double degree in Music Education and Violin Performance. She currently studies with renowned violinists Almita Vamos and MingHuan Xu Choi. Emily developed a substantial passion for the violin at age 12. She studied privately with Matthew Mantell for 3 years and Carl Johnston for 2 years. Emily was a member of the Protege Philharmonic, Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, and the CYSO chamber music program.