Sarah Burns

E-RYT 200, YACEP

Yoga Coordinator at Life Time Fitness Collierville (TN), Jan 2018- current

Yoga Teacher Training Facilitator, Summer 2017- current

Trained in Life Power Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Fundamentals, Yin, Meditation

My yoga journey only began in January 2014, but my globetrotting and love for adventure began much,  much earlier. Growing up in Memphis,  Tennessee,  I traveled in Europe with various school and church groups.  During my years at Louisiana State University, I worked with non-profits in rural South Africa and Senegal,  and after graduation,  I taught English in the Champagne province in France for a year.  I moved to New Orleans and worked as a maitre'd at a four-star restaurant and at a French immersion school. 

Just before I decided to move home to Memphis to help with family, a friend dragged me kicking and screaming to my first yoga class. I had always enjoyed being healthy and active, but yoga seemed inaccessible.  In the midst of that hour of flopping around and sweating all over the place, a light bulb clicked on. Never before had I felt so empowered in struggle; never before had I truly appreciated the beauty and peace inherent within strength and stillness.  I was the girl who cried in PE class doing pushups; suddenly,  I couldn't get enough.  Throwing my entire career path and preconceived "future" out the window, I fervently began studying yoga on the mat and Patanjali's ashtanga philosophy off the mat. 

During Fall of 2014, I received my RYT 200 certificate through Life Power Yoga/Center for Yoga, which focused on ashtanga short form, Life Power Vinyasa, Slow Burn, Yin, and Meditation. I began teaching at multiple studios across Memphis, TN. I registered as an Experienced RYT-200 in December 2016, and by Spring of 2017, I began training to lead a Life Power YTT program of my own. My second group of trainees will finish on June 10th; my third begins in September. 

I have been a 5 Star Exclusive Instructor with Life Time Fitness since October 2016, and this January, they promoted me to Yoga Manager at my home studio, where I first ever began practicing on my mat, in Collierville, TN.