Meet the Coach

I’m Yanet, Hoop Expert + Wellness Coach + Creator

Yanet Fernandez is a passionate wellness and health advocate, local fitness entrepreneur, and bilingual Latina coach dedicated to helping others find joy, wellness, creativity, and movement in their daily lives. She is a certified Hoop Love Coach through the Deanne Love Hoop Love Training program. Yanet brings a wealth of knowledge and enthusiasm to her classes.

Yanet is a master candidate at Carroll University in their Behavioral Health Psychology program and is working to become a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Wisconsin and Florida. She hopes to fuse her wellness coaching skills, teaching skills, and developing counseling skills in a dynamic and impactful way to serve those most underserved in our healthcare system: BIPOC folks, first-gen students and professionals, women of color, neurodivergent individuals, caregivers, and immigrants and refugee communities.

Artesana Hooping LLC is her brainchild, founded with the intention of helping the community integrate a fun and creative way to move, connect, and heal. With over 12 years of experience in hoop dance and fitness, Yanet is also a skilled hoop maker, designing and building custom fitness and dance hoops for hoopers of all skill levels. She offers certified hoop dance workshops and hoop fitness classes for people of all ages.

In addition to hoop fitness and dance, she provides creativity, wellness, and life coaching services, including bilingual Spanish coaching. Where she focuses on helping caregivers, working professionals, first-gen students and young professionals overcome burnout, manage stress, and have a more integrated work life.

“I’ve dealt with chronic health issues while dealing with everyday stressors, and I learned to work through them and become more resilient.
It took years of coaching, self-reflection, and building up my tool box of self-help techniques to stabilize. Hula-hooping, movement, fitness, spirituality, art, and taking a holistic approach to treatment helped me get to where I am today—I feel the healthiest and the most whole I ever felt, humbly acknowledging that continuous efforts are what sustain health in the long-term. As a first-gen professional and daughter of immigrants, I understand the struggles of balancing family, work, higher education, passion projects, and friendships. I’m hopeful that through my own experiences and continuing education, I can help others be the best version of themselves, too.” - Yanet

Education & Credentials

Behavioral Health Psychology Master Candidate, Carroll University, Present

Hoop Love Coach, Hoop Lovers Teacher Training, 2024

Group Fitness Instruction Certification, American Council on Exercise, In-progress

Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED Certification, American Red Cross, 2024

B.S., University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2023

Spanish Language Certificate, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh; 2020

Let's hoop & heal together!