Prioritize Your Health Before a Crisis Forces You To.
Health | Fitness | Self-Care | Transformation
I help women 35+ stop putting their health on hold and start showing up for themselves with intention.
Meet Coach Nika
Strength Changed More Than My Body. It Changed How I Showed Up for Myself.
I'm Coach Nika—a coach, speaker, and founder committed to helping people build stronger relationships with their health and themselves.
My work grew from my own journey of learning that being strong for everyone else means very little if you're constantly leaving yourself behind.
Today, that mission lives through Release The DOPE Fitness, My Purpose Is DOPE, and the conversations I lead around fitness, wellness, self-care, resilience, and health.
This work is personal.
And there's a much bigger story behind it.
Trusted By Organizations
Shanika is a wonderful trainer. She is very knowledgeable about what it takes to strengthen your mind, body, and spirit. Her method of training is very graceful and supportive. Her innovative ability to bring women within the 35+ age bracket and target the space in which our bodies decide to go through a new stage is support that I believe all women should have access to. Her consistent mantra of 'you're strong!' provides her clients with the motivation to challenge themselves within their own individualized journeys. If you are someone just beginning, starting over, or just need an added boost of a collective group of women to work alongside of, or individually with Shanika, I'd highly recommend her services.
— SaNesa G.
Let Me Ask You Something.
When Did Taking Care of Yourself Become the Thing You Only Do When Everyone else is good?
You show up for your family, your work, your responsibilities, and the people who depend on you.
But somewhere along the way, your own health became negotiable.
The workout gets skipped.
The appointment gets pushed back.
Rest gets postponed.
And when life gets busy, you're often the first thing removed from your own schedule.
You already know your health matters.
So maybe the better question is:
Why does everybody else's well-being keep feeling more urgent than your own?
You don't have to care about everyone else less. You have to stop leaving yourself out of the care you give.
The Philosophy
Release. Rebuild. Rise.
Sustainable change isn't about becoming a completely different person. It's about changing how you care for the person you already are.
Release
Let go of the habits, guilt, expectations, and patterns that keep your health at the bottom of the list.
Rebuild
Build strength, healthier habits, confidence, consistency, and trust in yourself.
Rise
Keep moving forward with the tools to care for yourself even when life isn't perfect.
Explore The Work
One Mission. Different Ways to Make an Impact.
Coach Nika
Coach Nika brings real, practical conversations about health, strength, self-care, resilience, and learning to prioritize yourself.
Available for: conferences, panels, workplaces, women's organizations, community events, wellness events, podcasts.
Core offerings: Speaking | Self-Care Workshops
Release The DOPE Fitness
Release. Rebuild. Rise.
Fitness and wellness programming for women, adults, older adults, workplaces, and communities.
- ReleaseHER Fit Club (Visit)
- Semi-Private Training
- Mobile Fitness & Wellness
- Silver Sneakers — No Limit Seniors
My Purpose Is DOPE
Driven. Original. Powerful. Enough.
Youth experiences designed to build strength, confidence, resilience, identity, and purpose.
- Built to Rise: G.Y.M.M. Camp (Visit)
- Youth Workshops
- MPID Apparel
Ways We Can Partner
Bring Wellness to Your People.
Through Release The DOPE Fitness, organizations can bring accessible fitness and wellness experiences directly to the people they serve.
Corporate Wellness
Fitness and wellness programming designed around the needs of employees and organizations. Available for ongoing 6-month, 9-month, and 12-month wellness partnerships.
Community Wellness
Accessible fitness, movement, and wellness experiences for nonprofits, municipalities, community organizations, and community-based programs.
Mobile Fitness + Wellness
We bring the experience to you. Workplaces. Parks. Community centers. Wellness events. Fitness parties. Private groups. Programming can be adapted to the people, environment, and goals of the organization.
Start Where You Are
What Would Taking Better Care of Yourself—or Your People—Look Like?
Whether you're looking for personal support, fitness programming, a wellness partner for your organization, or a speaker who can start a meaningful conversation, let's find the right place to begin.