Meet Our Instructors
Each barre babe in our community of instructors is here to teach you, inspire you and lead the way through each workout. Get to know them!
Suzanne
Suzanne is our studio owner & fearless leader - and she can teach it all: all kinds of Barre, FiitFire and Strength + Stretch. When teaching, she loves finding the perfect beat & watching the faces of our Barre babes as they fight to get stronger & better every day. She's currently earning her Masters in juggling - parenting four kids, owning a studio, and staying sane is no easy task!
April
April fell in love with The Barre in 2017, and she's now been teaching for over a year. She's a high-energy powerhouse who loves to see her clients grow strong, both at the barre and in life. A southern gal through and through, she's a mom to 2 wonderfully crazy kids Lillie and Patton and a wife to an amazing and supportive husband Greg. Catch April teaching Barre, Barre Express, Tabata Barre, and more!
Bethany
Bethany has been taking classes at The Barre since the day we opened, and in 2019, she decided to take the leap and become an instructor! You'll find her teaching Barre and Barre Express. When she's not in the studio, she's enjoying Franklin (she's one of the few who were born and raised here!) with her husband and two children.
Candace
If you’ve been in our studio at all, you’ve met Candace. She teaches all Barre formats, REFIT, FiitFire, and UGI! If you’re taking class with her, speak up - she loves hearing clients holler while pushing through a difficult series! She’s lived in Nashville her entire life, but loves heading to new places with her husband and son! Working out is her happy place, but she’s also secretly a roller skating champ. Yes, really.
Cayla
Cayla teaches Barre, Tabata and Bootcamp in our studio, and taking a class with her means keeping it real. She loves teaching at the end of a hard work day, getting Barre babes to sweat out the stress of the day and take pride in a workout well done. She’s the best at creating playlists you’ll want to sign along to, so come to class ready to get your karaoke on! When she’s not at work, you’ll find her relaxing by the pool or hanging out with her husband, pup, and sweet new little girl!
Cortney
Cortney is one of our BUTI yoga instructors, and she loves to hear a room full of yogis whooping and hollering through class. She loves a good dance beat and feeling the burn, but her favorite thing about teaching is seeing women learn to love themselves and one another through practicing yoga. When she’s not teaching BUTI, you might find her dancing, crafting, or spending time with her family. You’d never guess it from her sweet personality, but she used to be a singer/screamer in a band. Rock on, Cortney.
Heather
Heather teaches Barre, Barre Fire, and FiitFire for us. Even when workouts are challenging, she loves to make them fun - she loves to see smiling faces in class! Empowering women to push harder than they thought they ever could gets her pumped up. When she’s not teaching, you’ll find her with her husband and son. And little known fact: before Heather dreamed of being a Barre babe, she wanted to land a spot on SNL.
Jen
Jen teaches all kinds of Barre in the studio. She was a dance major in college and used to be a choreographer, and when she sees a room full of Barre babes moving in sync to the music, she gets chills every time. She loves inspiring women to be the best version of themselves in body, mind, & spirit. Jen’s passions are Barre and travel - in fact, she loves travel so much that she became a travel agent! She’s also a wife and mama to three awesome boys.
Jessica
Jessica is the studio manager here at The Barre - she keeps all the beautiful faces on this page in line! (Just kidding - they’re a dream to work with.) When she’s not behind the front desk, you’ll probably find her somewhere on the road - she’s a writer and speaker with a serious love for travel. Her favorite pose is book in one hand, coffee in the other. A Virginia native, Jessica has called Nashville home for three years, and she falls more in love with it all the time. Ask her about her favorite local spots next time you see her!
Jess B.
Jess teaches BUTI, Hot Yoga, and Power Yoga here at The Barre. She used to despise yoga & rolled her eyes every time someone invited her - but once she gave in, she was hooked, and now it’s one of her greatest passions. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, right? She always brings the fire in class: expect killer playlists, high energy, and a push to embrace the good and shake off the bad. You can also find Jess hanging with her husband and three precious kids.
Jess T.
Jess teaches various Barre formats at the studio. Her favorite thing is watching clients dig deep and get into the workout! Screaming, shouting, and cheering are all accepted in her classes. She loves any beat that can make her dance - in fact, she was a competitive cheerleader all the way through college! Jess and her husband have lived in Nashville for eleven years, and have three beautiful kids.
Kacey
Kacey teaches UGI and REFIT, and she loves building an awesome community with the Barre babes who take her classes faithfully. She loves to see looks of determination as everyone pushes through their workouts together! She’s taught fitness for nearly a decade, and she’s a teacher at heart, showing women how to honor their bodies by taking care of them and fueling them well. She also went to college for education! When she’s not teaching, you can find her with her husband, son, and their three dogs.
Kelley
Kelley is one of our BUTI instructors, and she lives for songs with a strong beat and a class that’s not afraid to yell! She loves BUTI almost as much as she loves her husband and her German shepherd. When she’s not hard at work, you’ll always find her by the water - a lake or a beach is hard to beat!
Mandy
Mandy is our all things yoga girl - from restorative to vinyasa, she’s got it covered. Barre is her first love, but it opened the door to her true passion of studying yoga. She loves watching Barre babes connect with and love their bodies, appreciating their power and flexibility! She’s a Nashville native who married her college sweetheart, and they have three wild boys. When she’s not teaching yoga, she loves to travel, eat great food, and sit down with a good book.
Melanie P.
Melanie is a yoga instructor at our studio - for kids AND adults! She loves to challenge her students on the mat, pushing them to try new forms and modifications. Melanie and her family - her husband, two children, and two dogs - are recent transplants from Philadelphia, but they’re already loving the Franklin community. Next time you see Melanie, you’ll have to ask her about living in Australia during college!
Melanie S.
Melanie teaches all of our Barre methods - and Fiitfire! She loves to see clients push themselves, especially when they keep great form while they’re at it! Melanie moved to Nashville temporarily. Then she met her husband, and they never left. Three kids and 18 years later, Franklin is definitely home. Mel might be a responsible mama now, but before kids, she was a mega thrill seeker. Ask her about her skydiving experience next time you see her in the studio!
Rachel
Rachel teaches Barre, Bootcamp, Tabata, and FiitFire in our studio. She loves feedback from clients, good or bad! During one especially tough class, she had a client yell, “you suck!” - and it made her week. She loves pushing our Barre babes to be their best. Rachel’s a Nashville native, and she married her childhood boyfriend - now they have two beautiful kids, too! Their family loves to travel - in fact, Rachel works as a travel agent when she’s not teaching Barre. You might not recognize her voice now, but as a child, she did voiceovers and even got to work with the voice of The Little Mermaid!
Stephanie
Stephanie is certified in all things barre and buti yoga. She's a powerhouse of light and energy, both in and out of the studio! She and her husband along with their 5 daughters own a popular doughnut shop here in town and word has spread so fast they now have 5 locations! Stephanie is most often seen in the early morning "wake and shake" classes and you can bet your bottom dollar that you'll be sweatin' to some gangsta rap.
Susan
Susan is one of our Barre instructors - you’ll find her teaching Barre, Bootcamp, and Tabata! During plank time, you’ll often catch her blasting Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys. For Susan, Barre offers an escape. She and her husband have a 16 year old daughter, and when she thinks about her little girl driving, dating, and decision making, she just closes her eyes and pictures herself at the barre - or on the beach! She loves 80s music so much that her family no longer lets her DJ on road trips.
Tiffany
Tiffany teaches all kinds of Barre in our studio! She loves to create playlists that’ll create a good beat while her teaching makes clients feel the burn. She hails from Detroit, but is learning to be a southern girl. She’s slowly earning her black belt in Taekwondo, along with her husband and two daughters - he’s an instructor! If you ever want to get on Tiffany’s good side, give her some kind of sweet potato dish. She loves them!
Vadra
You’ll find Vadra teaching it all: from FiitFire to Barre to UGI to Tabata. She’s inspired by this community’s ability to mix sweat and tears and laughter and encouragement together, and she loves to lead the charge as she teaches. She’s a working mama to her own little girl gang, ages 13, 11, and 10. On mornings when she’s not teaching class or carting them off to school, you can find Vadra curled up with a good cup of coffee and a slice of buttered toast - the more butter, the better.
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