Welcome to SandiMorais.net

Sandi's Tune-up DVD workout and Tune-up fitness has been featured in Ms. Fitness magazine, Sister 2 Sister, Club Life and Natural Awakenings. Sandi has also been featured on NBC Channel 6 South Florida Today, WLRN Channel 17 and New York City TV Profiles. Sandi currently writes a column titled Sistah Health for

WOW MAGAZINE.

Sandi was featured in the Miami Herald in 1994.

SANDI'S BIOGRAPHY

Sandi Morais, was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She migrated to New York City in 1980, but in 1982 was drawn to the tropical climate of Miami, Florida. Sandi matriculated into Florida International University where she received a Bachelor's Degree.

In 1983, Sandi started a career in the health and fitness field and states, “It's the best thing I have ever done for myself.” She is certified with International Fitness Professional Association and for over twenty years Sandi has been helping to keep people tuned-up in some of Miami's prestigious health spas such as: Richard Simmons Anatomy Asylum, Scandinavian health club, Bal-Harbor Fitness Center, Turn-Bury Isle and Grove Isle Club and Resort. She also taught community aerobic exercise classes at Riviera Middle School for eight years, and private classes at Snapper Creek Village for three years. She has volunteered her time to lead the warm-up for the Cancer Society's Walk-a-thon and the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation.

Sandi taught Physical Education for six years at Sunset Christian Academy. She also worked one-on-one for two years with a severely emotional disturbed student in Dade County Public Schools and refers to working in the field of Special Education as one of her most rewarding teaching experiences.

In 1992, Sandi released her first exercise video Reggae Workout. In 1994, she hosted and co-produced Sandi's Workout a health and fitness show for WLRN cable tap television. October 20, 1994, Sandi's Reggae workout class was featured in the Miami Herald. Staff writer D. Aileen Dodd says; “Reggae moves make her Caribbean queen of exercise.” Her Reggae workout video was featured in Essence magazine and Up Scale magazine. In 1996, she hosted and co-produced Reggaemuffins a children's fitness show also for WLRN television.

In 1999, Sandi collaborated with Miami Vice star Philip Michael Thomas and co-wrote Sacha an enchanting musical love story that they both have been producing for the past six years. In 2002, she released her second video The Golden Workout dance aerobics which features seven members of her class who's age ranges from forty to seventy-five years young. The video was featured in Aging with Style magazine. Sandi wrote Fitness Tips for Caribbean Today newspaper from 1991 to 2000.

In January 2001 to August 2003 Sandi wrote a column for Caribbean Contact newspaper entitled Positive Vibrations true heart- to- heart inspirational stories featuring people who have triumph over tragedy. Some of the people she interviewed and featured in her column included Actor Richard Roundtree, Charlie Wilson member of the Gap Band, singer of the Temptations Ali Woodson and the first African American female Mayor of Hampton, Virginia Mamie E. Locke.

In 2005 Sandi wrote and published her first fitness book Tune-Up with Sandi Morais. In January 2006 a short biography and an interview that Sandi originally conducted in 1995 about cancer survivor Catherine Roach-Connor was published in a book titled Psalms in the Dance of Life.

In June 2006 Sandi's released her 30 minute Tune-up total body workout DVD including special bonus with Philip Michael Thomas. In February 2008 Sandi published Recipe for Life a vegetarian cook book with music to cook by Philip Michael Thomas. Sandi currently writes the Sistah Health column for WOW magazine. She features stories of people who have triumphed over a health crisis, success weight loss stories and ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the fitness industry. Some of the people Sandi interviewed included

J.D Nicholas from the Commodores, Dick Gregory, Queen Afua, Dr. Ian Smith and Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. from the 5th Dimension.