Meet your yoga instructors!

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Thank you for choosing Your Pace Yoga Studio to practice Yoga. Our mission is to bring yoga to everyone in the Pace/Milton community. Yoga aligns your body, breath and mind bringing health and relaxation to all. We offer a variety of yoga classes to help you find your pace. 

I began my yoga journey in 2014 doing Bikram yoga three times a week and fell in love with the practice. In 2016 I retired after 23 years from the Navy and moved to the Pensacola area. I wanted to continue doing yoga and discovered that there are more types of yoga than just Bikram. I decided to step out of my comfort zone and take various types of yoga classes. Each class and instructor were so unique and different that you are bound to find one or more that suits your needs.  I have found in yoga there is something for everyone. There was so much to learn about yoga that I wanted to expand my knowledge. This started my journey of getting 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) certified at URU in 2018, opening a studio in Pace/Milton area and getting 300-hour YTT certified in 2020 at URU.  I love the practice, I love to share with others and I love the feeling after a yoga class, the relaxed mind, stretched body, and the stillness that comes over me. I hope that you will take that first step and join me in discovering that Yoga is much more than a good stretch. It’s aligns your body, mind, and breath.

 

I am a registered E-200/500 yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance, Buti© certified, completed Mindful Resilience Training with the Veterans Yoga Project and currently enrolled in Master of Science Health Promotion & Worksite Wellness at UWF.

When I'm not doing yoga, I love to foster kittens with A HOPE, being outdoors running, biking, gardening, or working on a crafty project alongside my two amazing kids and wonderful husband.

Jebbye Lemons E-RYT 500, YACEP®

 

Darcie began practicing yoga in 2014. Serious practice turned to intense interest in going to the next level in 2017. In 2018 she began teacher training and became certified with 200 hours. By October of the same year it was time to leave her 8-5 and pursue teaching full time. For the last year or so she's enjoyed teaching about 500 hours and several styles with focus on beginners, yin, restorative and vinyasa. Darcie relocated to Florida just 3 months ago.

Darcie Saunders RYT 500/E-RYT 200

 

Lori began her yoga practice in 2012 and obtained her 200-hour teaching certificate in 2015. Yoga has not only been a career for Lori, but also has helped her to be more confident on and off the mat. The practice has inspired her to live each moment more mindfully and connect more deeply with those around her. In Lori’s classes you will find a combination of creative sequencing, a spirit of playfulness and a dose of inspiration to help you deepen your practice.

As a military spouse and mother of 4 she loves the flexibility that teaching yoga gives her not only when it comes to being available for her children, but also when moving around the country. She understands the demands of everyday life and knows that your time on the mat is precious. She looks forward to seeing you in class and hopes that you step off the mat feeling refreshed, nourished, and balanced.

Lori Carter RYT 200

 

I started practicing yoga in 1998 in Russia and immediately fell in love with it. I continued my journey when I moved to America in 2011. I received my training certificate in 2013 in Tallapoosa Center for Inner Art in Georgia and a few months later I opened my own yoga studio in Pell City Alabama.
In April 2023 I moved to Milton and was excited to join the team at Your Pace Yoga Studio.
Yoga helped me to keep my sanity in the hardest time of my life as well as get rid of back pain and headaches I had long suffered.
I am eager to share my knowledge and my heart with everyone who wants to learn and enjoy yoga. Let us go on this journey of discovery together!

Julia Cook CYT 200hr

Emily found the beautiful practice of Yoga as a profound healing and strengthening modality after several pregnancies and births. Upon realizing the practice was not only so deeply healing for her body, but also her nervous system, mind, and her spirit, she decided she wanted to teach the art of Yoga and share it with others. She enrolled in 200 YTT with Your Pace Yoga Studio and graduated in the Spring of 2023. Emily also offers sound healing meditations and teaches astrology in the area. Wonderful things are happening in this beautiful yoga community. 

Emily McClain CYT 200hr

 

Jamie began her yoga journey in 2018 when she took a beginner's class at Your Pace Yoga studio. She instantly fell in love with the movements and mental calmness she felt. She has taken many different styles of classes, but hot yoga is her favorite. She likes the challenge. In 2022 she felt it was time to take her practice even further and become a teacher, she started YTT in 2022 and graduated May 2023. She’s excited to start this new journey and grow within the yoga community.

“Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self” -The Bhagavad Gita

Jamie Ebanks CYT 200hr

Alyson has been practicing yoga since 1998 and teaching since 2011. A former bundle of anxiety and chaos, she left her career with the Department of Defense and committed to a daily practice that supports her self-care and mental health needs. She is RYT 200 & E-RYT 500 certified in Vinyasa (Rolf Gates) and Hatha (Yoga District), as well as trauma-informed yoga (Veterans Yoga Project), Yogahour (Darren Rhodes), Yin (Yael Flusberg), Intuitive Energy Work (Christina Ambubuyog) and Executive Wellness Coaching (iPEC).

Eager to share the transformative power of practice, Alyson taught everywhere that she could: studios, churches, workplaces, gyms and federal buildings - to include weekly classes at the US Supreme Court. She served as faculty on Capitol Hill Yoga’s certification program and later led her own Yoga Alliance approved 200-hr curriculum. She opened Realignment Studio on Capitol Hill to provide a haven for stressed-out DC professionals, activists, students and families. During 2020 in the midst of the global pandemic, Alyson ended the lease on her studio space. She moved to the Pensacola area and with Jebbye’s encouragement, joined the YPY community in 2024. 

Alsyon Shade RYT E-500