Bradley Gardens, NJ Health and Fitness

Naked Nutrition founder Mona Laru operates her company with the motto "Wellness starts within." Her health-improving services, which range from personalized exercise, eating, and meditation plans to crash courses in organic grocery shopping, can amount to a complete internal makeover. Custom wellness plans take into account nutrition issues and exercise habits, or a lack thereof. Naked Nutrition conducts interactive webinars with tutorials on organic shopping on a budget, clean eating, and stress management, as well as cooking demonstrations and meditation techniques. Participants can ask questions or share their best Julia Child impression via any computer enabled with video chat.

Graham Fitness trainer and founder Norman Graham took an interest in fitness at age 12, when he was deeply insecure about his skinny frame. Determined to change and strengthen his body, he sought advice from every expert he could access, beginning with his weight-lifting cousins and "everyone who [he] thought had muscular size." Now a muscular, prize-winning lifter, Norman consults with Olympic athletes and powerlifting champions. His own quick progress convinced him that working one-on-one with experts is the best way for people to reach their physical goals, whether they hope to lose weight, build muscle, or grow as tall as their favorite redwood trees. To make personal training accessible, he started Graham Fitness' in-person and online training options, both of which deliver custom fitness and nutrition savvy.

Along with personal-training services, Graham Fitness hosts high-energy group classes such as Zumba, yoga, and pole fitness. Whether clients come for one-on-one sessions or group workouts, the trainers emphasize a positive, supportive environment, celebrating its "biggest losers" on Facebook posts and online.

Enlightenment means many things to many people. To some, an epiphany can be learning a new Vulcan word, and then using it in a sentence. But to Buddhists, enlightenment is a constant state of being. Dakini—the tantric deity for whom this Warren-based dance studio is named—is typically considered to be the female manifestation of just that perpetual enlightened energy. In Sanskrit, the word Dakini can also mean "sky dancer."

Dakini Movement founder Jeanine Caparoso trained as a yoga instructor before learning of the Dakini deity. Her studies on this emblem of femininity inspired her to explore pole dancing as a mode of empowerment. Today, Jeanine joins a team of similarly passionate instructors in leading classes that inspire women of all shapes to feel sensual in their given skin.

Dr. Alan Tannenbaum spent 23 years of his career as a cardiology professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. His extensive teaching experience prepared him to open his own private practice and put his skills to practical use. To aid him as he treats heart patients and administers elective procedures, he has hired a small staff, whom he selectively chose by single-elimination Twister games.

Within the dimly lit studio, energizing music inspires hearts and pedals to pump faster as students follow the instructor's lead through intense stationary rides. While some classes are strictly spinning and require no more equipment than Lifestyle's bikes, others incorporate weights, exercise bands, and Pilates mats to tone the entire body. However, even pure spin classes are varied, as the certified instructors call out commands that challenge participants to imagine they are climbing steep hills or evading packs of rabid door-to-door salesmen.