Coach Filsan Abdiaman

Professional Bio first: -- I am a trail runner/ultrarunner, a Canfitpro Certified Personal Trainer, Running coach certified through Road Runners Club of America, and a Dance Your Ability instructor. That said, I like to call myself a movement facilitator because a) Its less scary to say, for some the PT/Coaching label is so loaded, and b) I incorporate bits of each into my practice. I’m also the founder of Project Love Run (PLR) – a women’s-only run collective that holds space for self-identifying women to “run”, and have heart-centered conversations, sharing stories about how our society and systems in it complicate our relationships to not only movement, but to our bodies. I’ll move into my cultural bio now: -- I am a black (Kenyan, Somali) Muslim immigrant woman, a lot of my work is rooted in community grassroots activism, and I like to use both my professional and lived experience (of having a history of struggle with an ED) to draw awareness to how oppressive systems intersect with the Fitness and Running cultures I am immersed in.