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Focus. Strength. Flexibility. What do you want to embody in your life? Your own personal transformation is here.

Founded in 2005 by Master Baptiste Teacher Mark White, MBody Yoga is Florida’s first Baptiste Power Yoga Affiliate Studio. With two locations—one in the Southside area of Jacksonville; the other in nearby Neptune Beach—MBody Yoga opens up the practice to anyone looking for a challenge. Whether you are new to yoga or a seasoned practitioner, you will find a place for your mat at MBody. In addition to providing classes seven days a week, we offer many innovative and pioneering workshops, events and teacher training programs year-round. Whatever it is you seek to gain from yoga, you will find it at MBody Yoga..
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Our teachers are dedicated to help each student grow and to facilitate a healthy and non-intimidating environment for all to flourish. We pride ourselves in providing high-quality instruction to our community. We work hard to ensure our customers have access to the best yoga instruction and leadership available.

MBody Yoga Instructor Facts:

Over 50% have been teaching yoga for more than 3 years.
100% hold an RYT-200HR Certificate from Yoga Alliance.
95% of our RYT-200HR instructors have graduated from MBody Yoga Academy’s 200-HR Teacher Training Program.
100% of our 200-HR Academy graduates have completed a 6-month intensive mentorship program prior to teaching on our schedule.
Over 50% retain, or are in the process of obtaining, an additional RYT-300HR Certificate from Yoga Alliance. Combined, that’s 500-Hours of professional certification.
Yearly, our instructors attend a mandatory in-house “true-up” training to ensure we are delivering the quality of instruction and leadership our community has grown to expect.

Meet Our Team

Leah Green

Owner, RYT-500, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program , YACEP, FMS Level 1 & 2, TPI certified

Leah Green

Owner, RYT-500, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program , YACEP, FMS Level 1 & 2, TPI certified

I started my yoga journey in May 2012 when my husband asked me to join him for a class, so I did and loved it! I signed up for a 30 for $30 Groupon. I got lazy and soon realized I needed some motivation so I entered the March madness contest (2013) with a friend and we won! I began my free month and stayed with it! In August I wanted to do more with MBody and my community, so I became an Ambassador for the studio.

I was also beginning a battle with infertility and struggling with where my career was, at this point in my life, so I entered the 40 days to a Personal Revolution where I realized that my mat and my life were mirroring one another. After that program, I wanted more! More, self discovery, more inquiry, more yoga, more community and more break-throughs!

I approached Dawn in January of 2014 and inquired about the teacher training; she led me to the 200 YTT that started that month. In August 2014 I became a 200 RYT. In February 2016 I completed the 300 hr Embody Mastery program and became a 500 RYT.

Yoga provided me with a fun and safe place to not only receive a physical workout, but a mental one as well. This community has helped build a powerful practice, lifetime friends, a community that I am passionate about and encourage others to join and share. Besides Baptiste Power

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Dawn Clapp

Studio Manager
Certified Baptiste Yoga Teacher
Lead Trainer, MBody Academy, E-RYT 500

Dawn Clapp

Studio Manager MBody Yoga
Certified Baptiste Power Yoga Teacher
Lead Trainer, MBody Academy, E-RYT 500

Dawn Clapp is a certified Baptiste Power Yoga Instructor and the studio manager of MBody Yoga. She is a mother of four, a birth doula, and a powerful teacher. Dawn started teaching at MBody in 2006, shortly after taking her first class with Mark White. After her first practice she knew immediately that she wanted to teach this style of yoga because she felt empowered and calm; she wanted to share this practice with others. Dawn has attended multiple trainings with Baron Baptiste and through MBody Academy. It was in her Advanced Teacher Training Program at MBody that she realized she wanted to be in leadership in her community. Dawn is a lead trainer for MBody Academy teacher training programs. She is passionate about making yoga accessible to everyone whether they are new to yoga, pregnant, or seasoned practitioners. Her classes are challenging and fun and she is known for her ability to form deep personal connections with her students, while simultaneously fostering a strong sense of community both in and outside of the classroom. Dawn offers the unique gift of meeting her students exactly where they are – both on the mat and in life – to help them achieve amazing growth through self-acceptance and perseverance.

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Frank Markowski

Certified Baptiste Yoga Teacher
Lead Trainer, MBody Academy, E-RYT 500

Frank Markowski

Certified Baptiste Yoga Teacher
Lead Trainer, MBody Academy, E-RYT 500

Frank believes, “The world can’t resist passionate people”. His passion for the practice of yoga is what drives his desire to share the practice with others.As a student of yoga, Frank has over 500 hours of training with Mark White, Baron Baptiste and other leaders in the yoga community. Frank embodies the philosophy of the teacher remaining as a student.Using the experiences from his own personal practice and training, Frank has developed a style of teaching that gets people connected to their breath and their bodies. Through that connection, Frank encourages students in fun and creative ways to explore possibility from their own personal sense of empowerment.Frank leads numerous successful workshops. Power Yoga Basics, Arm Balancing, Breath,(pranayama),and Meditation to name a few. He mentors aspiring teachers and supports Mark White’s Teacher Training programs.

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Chelsea Franklin

Student Advocate
MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program, MBody Academy, RYT 500

Chelsea Franklin

Student Advocate
RYT-500, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program
Trainer, MBody Academy

Chelsea is a certified Baptiste Power Yoga Instructor and the teacher/student advocate at MBody Yoga. She is 200-Hour E-RYT and 500-Hour RYT through MBody Yoga as well. It was her private music instructor that first exposed Chelsea to yoga through a “yoga for musicians” class. She was hooked and began to notice several benefits to having a regular yoga practice. She noticed a heightened sense of well-being and calmness in herself. The chronic back pain she suffered from years of playing an instrument subsided. One of the biggest results she saw was a decrease in her level of performance anxiety. Soon after, Chelsea began to look for a yoga studio to practice at and found MBody Yoga. From the moment she walked in the door, it felt like home. It was the community, something she had never experienced before anywhere else, that kept her coming back for more. Two months later Chelsea signed up for Mark White’s teacher training program. Through her practice and Mark’s training, Chelsea discovered self-confidence and a passion to teach. She has been teaching for over six years now at MBody. Chelsea also teaches an adaptive yoga class at MBody through oMS Yoga, a local organization bringing yoga to people living with Multiple Sclerosis. In addition, she teaches at the Eisenhower Center to veterans and those recovering from sports injuries. She has taught at drug rehabilitation centers and senior chair yoga at a local community center. When Chelsea is not on her mat or teaching, she enjoys both playing and listening to music, being outdoors and is a dog and cat mom to four fur babies (one dog and three cats).

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Suzanne Cooper

RYT-200, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

Suzanne Cooper

RYT 200, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

I joined MBody Yoga June 12, 2012. A friend had invited me a few weeks prior, but I put him off because I was intimidated. I had preconceived notions of yoga studios and didn’t think it was for me. I traveled to CA to visit family and my sister-in-law invited me to her yoga studio. I took that as a sign – I had to try it! I walked out drenched in sweat feeling completely invigorated and so alive! Two days after I returned home, I took my first class at Mbody and I was hooked! I found a community of people (teachers and students alike) who accept, encourage, support and challenge me every time I step into the studio.
The physical benefits of my yoga practice, increased flexibility, stronger muscles, and improved balance were expected and I’m also learning that my body is capable of doing things I never imagined like acroyoga!!! What I did not expect was how a regular practice would benefit me off my mat as well. I’m learning to be more flexible and balanced in my life – I’m learning to breathe more and react less – I am learning to let go of self doubt and realize that I am capable of so much more than I’ve ever imagined.

As a graduate of MBody’s 100 hour and 200 hour teacher training programs I am so excited to share some of what I’ve learned from this amazing practice with others and to witness their growth. As an instructor, my goal is to create an atmosphere where students feel safe to learn and progress at their own pace – a place where they feel accepted, challenged, encouraged, and supported in their journey through this practice – a place to discover things about themselves that they never imagined.

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Johanna Markowski

RYT-500, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

Johanna Markowski

RYT 500 MBody Academy; Certified KAY (Kidding Around Yoga) Teacher

While living in Colorado, Johanna Markowski would visit her parents in Jacksonville, Florida. This is where she first discovered hot yoga. It wasn’t until she relocated to Jacksonville, did she realize this was her passion she wanted to pursue.

Johanna fell in love with Baptiste yoga and the MBody Community. Since re-locating to Florida, she became an ambassador for the studio, completed her 100 Teacher Training Certification, 200 RYT and 300 RYT Certification Programs.

The yoga classes provided her with a fun and safe place to not only receive a physical workout, but a mental workout as well. Through MBody, Johanna has created lifelong friends and built a powerful practice that she loves to share with others.

Johanna also enjoys running on the beach, surfing, cycling, and spending time with her husband.

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Janell Howard

RYT 500 MBody Teacher Certification Program

Janell Howard

RYT-200, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

I’m Janell Howard, yoga enthusiast, mother, wife, teacher, student, professional chef, and entrepreneur.
My love of yoga began in 1997 as a way to find my inner strength in life. Throughout this journey I have
found courage in facing the challenges of raising teenagers, developing better relationships, and
seeing where I needed to improve in life. It has given me insight to my strengths and weaknesses, an
insight that has evoked a sense of calm in dealing with whatever this wonderful life has to offer.
My training began in 1999 when I took my first teacher training in Anusara-inspired yoga. Over the past
eighteen years I’ve become a lifelong student of yoga having studied and taken many teacher training
programs as well as intensive workshops with leading yogis in their respective fields from
transformational breathing to perfect alignment. All of my training has culminated in my appreciation
of the Baptiste methodology and I am really excited to be part of such an incredible studio. Currently
I’m teaching Baptiste Power Yoga and Yin classes. It is my goal to continually improve my flow, to know
and understand the intricacies of our practice, to learn and recognize others limitations and help them
to push past their physical and mental boundaries. In addition as a professional chef I bring with me
my knowledge of nutrition and clean eating to my students and those around me. I feel that with my
experience I am able to effectively instruct students on proper breathing, alignment, anatomy and flow
techniques of our beautiful practice.

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Louis Weimer

RYT 500 MBody Teacher Certification Progam

Louis Weimer

RYT-200

Louis has practiced different styles of yoga off and on since high school. When he came to MBody , he fell in love with Baptiste Power Yoga! He was challenged physically, his mind was stimulated through inquiry and the community was welcoming, gracious and caring. Louis’s journey here started with a Groupon and a class, this lead to him enrolling in the 100-hour Teacher Training which he took to deepen his practice. There he was inspired to take the 200-hour Teacher Leader Program and then the 300-hour Embody Mastery Program. As a 500-hr RYT, he is currently co-facilitating and leading trainings, leading workshops, and teaching classes throughout the week. He constantly enjoys learning and sharing with his fellow “yogis!”

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Maria O'Donnell

RYT-200, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

Maria O’Donnell

RYT 200, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

Maria began her yoga practice in high school with her best friend whose father was an Ashtanga yoga teacher. Throughout college and her five years living in Southeast Asia, Maria continued to practice many different styles of yoga and found the introspection and reflection through the movement of body and breath to be incredibly healing. Maria was introduced to Mbody through a donation based class at a local studio lead by an Mbody teacher. Completely enthralled with the rhythm and flow of the class, she then found herself at her first heated ninety minute practice at Mbody’s Neptune Beach studio. Maria knew she was at home with the sweat, spirit and energy of the studio and became a regular practitioner.

Maria completed Mbody’s Teacher Certification Program in October 2010 and is dedicated to her yoga practice, self-growth and development as a teacher and as a healthy balanced individual with a desire to give back to her community. Maria also works in early childhood education and social services and would like to connect the world of yoga and healing with people of all socioeconomic brackets; self-empowerment is something yoga offers and communities need. Maria has a strong interest in art, especially painting, traveling and is in the process of becoming certified in children’s yoga

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Stacy Santiago

RYT-200, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

Stacy Santiago

RYT-200, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

Stacy Santiago is a yoga teacher, mother, wife and special educator. She has taught in public and private schools in New York and Florida since 2002, has a Master’s degree in Special Education and takes pride in knowing she makes a difference in her students’ lives on a daily basis. She enjoys inspiring her learners to feel confident and excited to learn and grow.

In 2009, Stacy became certified to teach group fitness and began teaching Yoga/Pilates/Tai Chi based classes at a couple of local Jacksonville gyms. In 2011, a friend convinced her to take her first Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga class, and Stacy was instantly hooked! Being a part of the Mbody community, and experiencing the strength and love of Baptiste Power Yoga on her mat and in her life, inspired Stacy to share this practice with others. In February of 2013, Stacy graduated from Mark White’s 200 hour Teacher Certification Program.
Throughout both of Stacy’s pregnancies, she practiced yoga. She is passionate about the benefits she experienced before, during and after pregnancy and designed and led MBody’s first prenatal yoga series, called Prana Mama. Stacy loves empowering expecting women to breathe, find calm stillness, increase their strength and flexibility needed for delivery, trust their bodies and connect with and nurture themselves and their growing babies.

She has attended an immersion workshop with Baron Baptiste, as well as a pediatric yoga workshop, which inspired her to teach yoga to students with intellectual differences at her school. She is inspired by her special needs students, because they exude all that she loves about yoga: community, playfulness, compassion, flexibility and strength; her yoga classes incorporate each these principals. Students leave her class feeling uplifted, inspired and empowered. Stacy’s enthusiasm and love for life is contagious!

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Amber Acord

RYT-500, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

Amber Acord

RYT 500, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

Amber has a passion for movement and was naturally drawn to yoga after years of gymnastics. The powerful physicality of the practice coupled with its ability to calm her anxiety and panic attacks was enough to compel her to spread the magic. Amber’s favorite thing about yoga is the endless personal growth invoked by committing to a regular practice. She teaches a fun, sweaty class designed to leave each student feeling empowered and curious about what else they can do and be on and off their mats.

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Rosa Diaz

RYT-200, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

Rosa Diaz

eRYT 200, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

Rosa Diaz, eRYT 200 yoga instructor. Started to teach yoga after my 200 HR teacher training at MBody Yoga. Originally from Venezuela, passionate for new cultures, and open to learn more about different people perspectives in life. Before becoming a yoga teacher, I was looking for a yoga practice that would help me relax, and stay in shape, but as I stepped into Mbody yoga, I found more than that. I fell in love with the Baptiste Power Yoga Style. This practice taught me the power of being present in the now moment, as well as the power of breath, and community to grow, and stay calm with a clear and open mind. I learned that everything is possible when I make the jump out of my comfort zone. After my teacher training I realized, I wanted to help, and empower others through their yoga practice by encourage them to breath, and stay in the moment to accept, and embrace themselves in any step of the way. I do also believe in the power of laughter, so on that note, don’t be surprised if I throw one or two jokes in class to release any possible facial tension.

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Calie Taylor

RYT-200, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

Calie Taylor

RYT 200, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

RYT-200, MBody Yoga Teacher Leader Program Graduate July 2015. Calie Taylor stumbled upon yoga in the summer of 2014. Having never taken power yoga before she was drawn to the physicality of the practice and how the poses look. What she loves the most is the mental clarity she has gained and the ability to manage her chronic pain through yoga. Calie immediately knew she had to learn how to share this beautiful gift with others.

Shortly after being put in touch with Dawn Clapp she enrolled in teacher leader program. Strength, flexibility, and a calm mind are all elements Calie is practicing to improve. Community, connection, and support are qualities that she values about being a part of the MBody family.

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Susan Smith

RYT-500, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

Susan Smith

RYT-500, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

I was introduced to Yoga by a persistent longtime friend who insisted “please try yoga you will love it!” Stuck in the idea that yoga is not for “every body”, I was reluctant but enrolled in a intro class in October of 2012 and my life has never been the same.

The first night of class, I was told “this practice will change your life” and no truer words have been spoken. After a year and a half practicing, I was urged to consider teacher training and again reluctantly (you would think I would have learned by now) went for it. I then attended level one with Baron Baptiste and have just completed my 300 hr training at Mbody. I am a certified 500 hour yoga teacher, and this all happened after turning 50.

I feel that I have found my true self and am finally comfortable in body through practicing and teaching yoga. To teach and light up the faces and eyes of fellow human beings is the most rewarding experience I could have ever imagined. From meditation to breath and asana, yoga has opened a whole new world for me by keeping me present and “loving the process” of life. I look forward to continuing my journey teaching and enriching the lives of others through the practice of yoga.

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Kayla Collins

RYT-200, MBody Yoga Teacher Certification Program

Kayla Collins

RYT-200,

My first yoga class was an impulse decision. I was familiar with Rodney Yee -only one video I’d played twice a week for about a year- so i already had a mat. I walked into the studio expecting candles, lavender and an instructor named ‘Sunshine’. When I left the studio that day, I knew I was going to teach yoga. I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety since 2009 and it was getting close to being unmanageable. This practice has changed my life in a way that I couldn’t begin to describe. I’ve learned to love myself and teach others to show themselves compassion. I want to teach others how yoga can be tool to manage stress the way that I have. I want everyone to know that they have what it takes to be powerful and learn to accept. When I challenge myself on my mat, I learn to challenge myself in my life. I’ve truly learned to accept myself and push myself past my narrow comfort zone. Through my practice, I’ve gained a sense of confidence. So grab your mat, a towel, and some water and I’ll see you soon!

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Paul Hines

ERYT-200

Paul Hines

eRYT 200,

Paul is an ERYT-200 Instructor trained in Baptiste Style/Power Flow Yoga. Always an avid runner and gym guy, Paul experienced Yoga for the first time in 2014 and was hooked! Now he devoted his entire workout routine to Yoga!
With over 1,100 hours of class instruction time, Paul is enthusiastic about powerful, sweat drenched classes.
‘’ Yoga is life, you show up, put in the work, sweat , fail, succeed and have a willingness for change and what shows up ‘.

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Focus. Strength. Flexibility. What do you want to embody in your life? Your own personal transformation is here.

Meet Our Team

Leah Green

Dawn Clapp

Frank Markowski

Chelsea Franklin

Suzanne Cooper

Johanna Markowski

Janell Howard

Louis Weimer

Maria O'Donnell

Stacy Santiago

Amber Acord

Rosa Diaz

Calie Taylor

Susan Smith

Kayla Collins

Paul Hines

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About Us

Focus. Strength. Flexibility. What do you want to embody in your life? Your own personal transformation is here.

Meet Our Team

Leah Green

Leah Green

Dawn Clapp

Dawn Clapp

Frank Markowski

Frank Markowski

Chelsea Franklin

Chelsea Franklin

Suzanne Cooper

Suzanne Cooper

Johanna Markowski

Johanna Markowski

Janell Howard

Janell Howard

Louis Weimer

Louis Weimer

Maria O'Donnell

Maria O’Donnell

Stacy Santiago

Stacy Santiago

Amber Acord

Amber Acord

Rosa Diaz

Rosa Diaz

Calie Taylor

Calie Taylor

Susan Smith

Susan Smith

Kayla Collins

Kayla Collins

Paul Hines

Paul Hines

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