Sandi has been a guest on NBC Channel 6 South Florida Today, WLRN Channel 17 New York City TV
Profiles and the Maxine Tulloch TV Show. Sandi has been featured in various magazines such as, Ms. Fitness, Sister 2 Sister, Club Life, Onyx,and Natural Awakenings.
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Sandi Morais developed a passion for health and fitness in the early 80's. She became certified and started teaching aerobics 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, and private classes at Snapper Creek Village.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica Sandi migrated to New York City in 1980 where she lived for three years. However, in 1983 she relocated to the warm, tropical climate of Miami, Florida. She attended Miami Dade College where she earned an Associates of Arts degree in Early childhood Education, and a minor in Drama. She went on to further her studies at Florida International University and earned a Bachelor degree in Liberal Arts and a minor in Physiology.
In 1992 Sandi began working as a pre-school teacher at the Carol Center, and in 1993 she was a special assigned teacher and worked for three years one-on-one with a severely mentally challenged ten year old boy in the Dade County Public School system. In 1996 she was hired as the physical education teacher at Sunset Christian Academy where she worked for seven years.
During her teaching career she continued to work part-time as an aeobics instructor, and also began writing fitness tips for Caribbean Today newspaper, and Caribbean Contact newspaper. She co-produced and hosted Sandi's Workout, a health and fitness show for WLRN cable tap television, and Reggaemuffins, a children's fitness show also for WLRN television.
During her twenty-five years of promoting health and fitness, Sandi has created
a Reggae Workout video, The Golden Workout DVD for senior citizens and a Tune-up high-energy Total Body workout DVD. She also published Tune-up with Sandi, her first health and fitness book in 2004, and in 2008 she published her vegetarian cookbook Recipe for Life with music to cook by Philip Michael Thomas. Her vegetarian food column titled In the Kitchen with Sandi is a regular feature in Wow magazine.
Sandi has been a guest on NBC Channel 6 South Florida Today, WLRN Channel 17, New York City TV Profiles, and the Maxine Tulloch Caribbean Show. She has been featured in various magazines such as, Ms. Fitness, Sister 2 Sister, UpScale, Aging with Style, Club Life, Onyx, and Natural Awakenings. Her Reggae Workout class was featured in the Miami Herald, and staff writer D. Aileen Dodd states, “Reggae moves making her Caribbean queen of exercise.” Sandi volunteered her time for three years to lead the warm-up for the American Cancer Society's Walk-a-thon with her Regae Workout routine.
Over the years Sandi continued her passion for writing. She wrote an inspirational column titled Positive Vibrations featuring true heart-to-heart inspirational stories for Caribbean Contact newspaper, and a biography for cancer survivor Cathee Roach-Connor that was published in a book titled Psalms in the Dance of Life. 1999 Sandi collaborated with her friend Philip Michael Thomas of Miami Vice and co-wrote a play titled Sacha and the Magic Cookie Maker. The name of the play was later changed to Sacha on Broadway. The play has been produced in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Hampton, Virginia, Hollywood, Florida, Miami Beach, Florida, Ocean Reef, Florida, New York City and Orlando, Florida. Sandi directed four of the productions.
Sandi is a contributing writer for Wow magazine. In her Sistah Health column she has interviewed and featured various celebrities such as, actor Richard Roundtree, actress BerNadette Stanis from Good Times, J.D. Nicholas from the Commodores, health guru Dick Gregory, Dr. Ian Smith, holistic practioner Queen Afua, singers Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. and Melba Moore.
Sandi is currently writing an inspirational screen play about her experience working one-on-one with the mentally challenged student she taught in the 90's. Working with him gave her an insight into the complex and complicated world of a parent with a mentally challenged child.
Sandi has one daughter name Kamla who is an exercise physiologist and a personal trainer.
Sandi with daughter Kamla
Sandi with host Trina Robinson on NBC 6 South Florida Today
Sandi with host Meredith Porte on WLRN Channel 17
Sandi with host Lonnie on NBC South Florida Today
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