Stacy has been practicing yoga for over 8 years. She graduated Downtown Yoga’s Advanced Studies Program in 2007. She was first attracted to yoga after the birth of her second child. With a need to reconnect with her body, she began taking yoga classes and felt like she was “at home” with yoga after the first class. With over 15 years of experience as a personal trainer, Stacy enjoys bringing her knowledge of the body and wellness to her classes. She loves to share the inner journey with students and truly enjoys guiding people back to their inner selves through the movement of yoga. Stacy believes that yoga calms the mind and energizes the body. Her classes are taught with an emphasis on going within and listening to where you are in that moment through a vinyasa style yoga with an Iyengar influence.

Early in life Shawna began exploring the benefits of exercise, particularly those associated with improved emotional and mental wellbeing. She worked in the fitness industry for seven years, taught exercise classes, and was certified by several nationally recognized exercise organizations. Although acquainted with the basics of yoga, it wasn’t until 2008 that she discovered a teacher who inspired her into a deeper appreciation of the practice and revealed that what she had always sought at the gym was actually waiting for her in the yoga studio. Yoga has turned out to be the mind, body, spirit connection that she’d been seeking and so, in 2010, she graduated from Brentwood Yoga Center's Advanced Yoga Studies Program and became certified with the Yoga Alliance. She also took her pursuit of yoga half way around the world when she accompanied Jim, Kate, and her teacher Sandy on their spectacular retreat to India. As a student first and a teacher second, she hopes to use her knowledge and enthusiasm to bring the life changing benefits of yoga to others. She currently lives in Discovery Bay with her husband, Mike, and two dogs, Jazmine and Bodhi.