Before teaching yoga, Stephanie spent 15+ years guiding children and families through emotional challenges. Along the way, she discovered that true healing begins within — and yoga became the bridge between her inner work and her calling to serve others.

 

As the founder of Soulful Yoga Connections and The Soulful Shala, Stephanie has created nurturing spaces where movement, breath, and presence become medicine for the body and soul. She is a recent graduate of the Advanced 300-hour Teacher Training Program at Lotus Pond Yoga School in Tampa, FL, making her a Certified 500-hour Yoga Teacher. She has also completed 30 hours in Aerial Yoga, 60 hours of Yin Yoga, Trauma Informed Yoga and has accumulated over 2,000 hours of teaching experience.

 

A graduate of the University of Florida, Stephanie brings her background in counseling and holistic wellness into every class, weaving together mindful movement, emotional awareness, and soulful connection. Her approach is both grounding and liberating — an invitation to soften, to listen, and to rediscover the quiet strength that lives within.

 

In Stephanie’s classes, yoga becomes more than a practice — it becomes a homecoming to yourself.

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Lace’s true yoga journey began in 2001, when it was recommended, she attend a yoga class to help her recover from a recent surgery. Wanting to deepen her yoga practice, she took her first 200-hr teacher training in 2005 and in 2012, she completed her second training with an emphasis on the philosophy of yoga. She has gone on to obtained countless continuing education hours and has certificates in multiple specialties including Accessible Yoga, Yoga Therapy, Chair Yoga and Thai Yoga Massage (Level 1). She is a member of the local Nature Coast Yoga Teachers Association.

Lace has been sharing her passion as a teacher since 2005. When taking a class with Lace, students can expect motivating, clear and concise instruction with encouragement to be mindful and to have fun reaching towards their personal best. She believes that yoga teaches us to work through challenges calmly, and inspires us to be more grateful, mindful, and present.

Lace was the owner of the Inverness Yoga & Wellness Center from 2011 until 2020. The mission of the studio was to provide tools to the community to live a healthy lifestyle. After closing her studio, she took a hiatus from teaching and is excited to share her passion for yoga once again with others.

Lace believes in giving back to the community and does so by serving on the boards of many community organizations and being involved in numerous environmental efforts throughout the county.

Lynn has worked as a Physical Therapist for 30 years in various healthcare settings in both the US and Norway.  She has had a lifelong interest in health, exercise, and how lifestyle affects the body-mind-spirit.  In 2021 she graduated with her 200-hr yoga teacher training.  The journey was so inspiring and life-changing, she continued to deepen her studies and received her 500-hrs in May 2023 both from The Lotus Pond in Tampa.  Lynn draws inspiration form her many master teachers to include Karin Stephan who studied with B.K.S. Iyengar and Larissa Hall Carlson, former Dean of the Kripalu School of Ayurveda among many other accomplishments.​

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"The yoga journey is a most wonderfully inspiring journey.  It has profoundly changed my life.  That ever elusive contentment that I have been chasing after my entire life is paradoxically already in me (us).  Yoga for me, is the key that unlocked the door to inner peace" 

Jacquie “Sunny” Barbee is an E-RYT 500hr  yoga teacher recently relocated to Inverness, Florida.  Sunny finished  YTT in 2016 after turning to an asana practice to help with her chronic illness and depression. While in YTT she realized there was a need for more teachers that didn’t fit the stereotypical “yoga body” image like her and that she could make a difference in helping people see that yoga is for every body. She is able to share with others how to customize their practice to fit their own body, whether that body is larger, aging, or living with illness or injury, much like she does with her own practice.  Sunny guides her classes in a way that helps you to find the pose that fits your body rather than forcing your body into a pose.  Sunny has cofacilitated several yoga teacher trainings and has mentored and taught students all over the world.  She is also certified in Accessible Yoga; Yoga for All Bodies; Mind Body Solutions; Chair Yoga; Gentle Yoga; and Yin Yoga.