MEET THE INSTRUCTORS

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Kelly moved from the Salt Lake Valley to Pine Canyon in 2019 along with her husband, Steve, to build their forever home. She brought with her 35 years of group fitness and yoga teaching experience. Many of those years were also spent mentoring her students and fellow instructors. Kelly is a 500 hour RYT with additional training in meditation and mindfulness, trauma sensitive and alignment based yoga. She suffered for many years with degenerative disc disease and spinal stenosis resulting in both lumbar and cervical fusion. She specializes in the hips and spine. Her classes show correct alignment and safe modifications, so the participant is able to fit the pose into their body instead of trying to fit their body into the pose. Kelly's classes are highly informative as well as challenging. Her goal is to have less "fused" people in the world.

Melani is the business manager and daughter of Kelly, the owner of Empower. While her role is more "behind the scenes" in the studio, she has practiced yoga for many years. She especially fell in love with prenatal yoga while pregnant with her two babies. Melani and her husband made the decision to move their little family to the area and she is so excited to be a part of bringing yoga to this wonderful community!

 Britney first came to a yoga class for the physical benefits hoping to become more fit. She quickly found yoga to be a place of connection, movement, and awareness of body and mind. After practicing yoga for just two years she was inspired to take her practice further and gain more knowledge so she began her 200 hour Teacher Training with YogaAssets. With a bachelors degree in Early Childhood Special Education, Britney has a passion and connection with teaching children. She finds joy in the the energy and genuine emotion they bring. She loves sharing yoga as a safe space to find movement, joy, and express ones emotions. Britney truly believes that every step in her yoga journey has helped her become her true authentic self and she finds joy watching others grow on their own yoga journey. 

Sydnie began her journey in Yoga due to a pinched sciatic nerve in 2006. She fell in love with the additional mental benefits she gained as she has practiced through these last 15 years. Sydnie loves working out! Anything from lifting, spin, Pilates, kickboxing and step. Yoga helps her stay healthy physically and mentally to be able to participate in all that she loves. This includes raising her six daughters. Wanting to share the preventative and healing aspects of yoga with others brought her to work on her 200-hr certification through Yoga Assets. Sydnie wants to create an atmosphere that yoga is for every 'BODY'. Wherever you are are it is right where you need to begin. The practice of yoga is a journey that will never end, there is no perfection, just the joy in the journey.

Stacy first came to yoga as a form of fitness, but soon found more mental and emotional benefits in her practice. She has come to appreciate yoga as a way to focus on the present moment and step away from the rush and stress that can sometimes be found in everyday life. The happiness that she found in attending classes inspired her to complete her 200-hour certification through Brown Dog Yoga in West Virginia. In her teaching, she aims to welcome practitioners of all levels to a comfortable, judgement- free space for reconnecting with themselves and finding peace amidst the chaos. She hopes her students step off their mats feeling refreshed, strong, and balanced.

Camille Kennard is a CYP-500 Clinical Yoga Practitioner, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Certified Health and Wellness Coach, a Certified Meditation Teacher, and the founder of Flourish Wellness Consulting. Camille found Yoga and Mindfulness to be transformative in her own mental health journey through anxiety, stress, and reactivity. Camille enjoys helping individuals with PTSD, 

anxiety, trauma, insomnia and other conditions move through disturbance by connecting to the body. Camille uses trauma sensitive techniques to empower her students to cultivate a positive 

relationship with their body.

Between Jessica's yoga journey, her massage therapy practice, and overcoming a lower back injury, Jessica has great understanding of body mechanics and how truly unique each person is. Jessica and her husband, Jon, have two busy teenage daughters, it is a chaotic time in life for sure! Yoga has given Jessica tools to balance her life and body, so she is able to achieve her goals at her optimum body, mind and spirit. Jessica's energy in moving her body to HER best ability spills over into her teaching those to move their bodies to the best of THEIR OWN abilities.