Power of 1 Wellness

Power of 1 Wellness begins at home….YOUR home. Rather than try to superimpose temporary and unsustainable programs on top of your “normal” activities, we integrate into your lifestyle at home. We strive to partner together to accommodate positive health choices and habit formation into your daily routines and provide frameworks for a lifestyle inclusive of better wellness.

Power of 1 is ABOUT
Launching overall wellness
Sparking education-based growth
Building supportive habits
Influencing conscious choices
Empowering lifestyle changes
Achieving a healthy balance
Shattering self-imposed barriers/limitations
Creating supportive networks
Promoting better quality of life

Power of 1 is NOT ABOUT
Fads & popular diets
Gimmicks
Short-term solutions
Counting or accumulating points
Immediate results and quick fixes
Extreme/drastic action plans
Applying momentary Band-Aids
Enabling toxic environments
Pursuit of perfection

Our intention at Power of 1 Wellness is to emphasize overall wellness goals___ health goals, nutrition goals, fitness goals__ by convenient at-home visits. Our program is brought to your residence or selected site and customized to each client’s individual needs and is pertinent for everyone undergoing lifestyle improvements as a work in progress; that is, everyone that is committed to the intention of positive replacement.

We believe that wellness goals and personal plans should be able to flex with life’s unpredictable ups and downs and we aspire to create avenues of choices, actions and lifestyles that can be consistently maintained even during unexpected circumstance. By our thinking, it is not about sticking to a static plan but engaging in behaviors of lifestyle improvement that can stick with you no matter which direction life leads.

To improve and sustain overall wellness outcomes in our communities through education; persistence in positive lifestyle choices, habits, behaviors; and generation of tangible solutions to incorporate wellness into daily routines
One choice, One act, One goal at a time.”

“Power of 1” is our working philosophy that expresses no matter how far the finish line, how high the bar or how prodigious the task, when broken down into the most basic elements, most anything is possible, achievable and well within our reach: By consistently and persistently making positive choices to achieve small steps forward, we can habitually generate big changes in our lives.

Meet Our Director, Tonja Troxler

Tonja has 25 years' experience within the scientific, medical and fitness fields and has a passion for helping individuals reconnect with healthier lifestyle choices and customizing focused wellness plans emphasizing education in nutrition and exercise physiology. She is an enthusiast of active lifestyles and opened Power of 1 Wellness to assist others in their journeys to better wellness.

Before founding Power of 1 Wellness, Tonja received BS and MS degrees from North Carolina State University in Raleigh in Zoology and Reproductive Physiology, with emphases in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology. She also has earned an Associates Degree in Applied Science, with an emphasis in Emergency Medical Services and concurrent Paramedic certification, graduating from Wake Tech Community College.

For the past 10 years Tonja has honed her medical background and skills in clinical evaluation, utilizing her certifications as an EMT-Basic, Paramedic and medical transcriptionist. Tonja has decades of experience coaching as an AFFA-certified aerobics instructor, ballroom dance instructor, personal trainer and teaching Nutrition in private tutorials as well as group lecture format. She has also spent part of her professional career as office, research laboratory and business managers as well as supervising and training staff comprised of both laboratory technicians and business workgroups. Additionally, Tonja has worked with the Raleigh branch of the American Red Cross as a First Aid volunteer and supervisor at events around Raleigh-Durham and Cary for 7 years and remains CPR certified.

Personally, she jogs (including participation in numerous races, 5Ks, half marathons, 9K, 18K and a full marathon), is a yoga practitioner, attends barbell and HIIT classes, has trained as a competitive gymnast and ballroom dancer and is a recent member to the Raleigh-Durham Latin dance community, enjoying her development in Cuban Rueda, Kizomba and Bachata.