Our Team
Meet Stacy Smith
Owner & Master Teacher
Stacy is an experienced registered yoga teacher ERYT500 and YACEP with Yoga Alliance and can provide continuing education to currently registered teachers with YA. She is also a certified Thai Body Worker, a Reiki Master, a Holy Reiki Master and a Sound Healer.
Having a degree in education, she decided to write and start her own teacher training school in 2017. This Yoga Alliance registered school’s mission to spread the yoga love and make yoga accessible to everybody and every body.
Stacy’s fitness career began part time in 1983 while she was in college, with her certifications as a personal trainer, group fitness instructor and yoga teacher. She has taught just about every fitness style and brings over 4 decades of experience teaching, facilitating trainings, managing, owning and coordinating fitness, pilates and yoga programs. She has co-written several yoga teacher training programs and was a master teacher for many local studios. She is also a former facilatator for YogaFit, Lifetime Fitness, CorePower and Aerobics and Fitness Association of America.
At the age of 21 she opened her first dance and fitness studio and throughout the years she has studied and taught Ashtanga, Hot Power Fusion, Yin, Restorative, Kundalini, Vinyasa, Children’s Yoga, Chair Yoga, Prenatal/Postpartum, Yoga Nidra and Meditation, plus fusion style classes like Yoga/Pilates, Yoga/Barre, Yoga/Sculpt and special populations.
Outside of the wellness world, she loves the beach, painting, dancing, traveling and spending time with her family.
Meet Michele Field
Studio Teacher
Michele Field has been teaching group fitness classes for more than 30 years. She is a Yoga Unlimited certified teacher and graduated form our YTT200 and YTT500 hour programs..
She is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance and for Water Aerobics is certified from Aerobic and Exercise Association and for Pilates she got her certification with Aerobic and Fitness Association of America. She also just recently got certified with Yoga Unlimited in playing music bowls for sound baths.
Michele is an artist, working in mixed media, pottery, painting and much more. You can find her work for sale in local galleries. She plans to bring the love of art and yoga together through workshops and specialty classes.
Michele is also a former school teacher with a Masters Degree in Education and Effective Teaching and Learning.
When she is not teaching fitness classes or creating art, Michele can be found walking or training her dogs.
Meet Elizabeth Gentry
Studio Teacher
Elizabeth began her yoga teaching journey in her early 50’s. She had practiced ashtanga, hot yoga and a variety of other formats for several years but it wasn’t until she took a Yin class that she became passionate about yoga. The Yin format of finding stillness, holding poses for an extended period of time, and tuning into yourself was exactly the balance she needed.
It was through that experience, that she knew she wanted to share what she had learned through her own journey with others. She received her 200 hour certification with LifePower and is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance. She also did the apprentice program with Yoga Unlimited.
She is also a certified Stand-Up Paddleboard (SUP) Yoga and SUP Fitness teacher. Yoga without walls is her bliss! She loves to practice on the beach, on a lake, in a park - anywhere she can feel a connection to nature.
When she is not practicing or teaching yoga, Elizabeth enjoys reading, beach combing, spending time with her family and searching for their next vacation destination.
Meet Lynda Saathoff
Studio Teacher
Lynda has been doing yoga for 25 years and really became committed to her practice after attending her first Power Vinyasa class about 8 years ago. After many years as an avid runner and some years of completing Triathlons with her husband, Lynda found she loved the combination of matching movement to breath while taming her mind. After retiring from a career in Medical/Hospital Sales in 2023, she completed her 200 hour teacher training here at Yoga Unlimited.
Outside of the studio you will find Lynda riding her bike, walking/running in her neighborhood or at the beach and chatting it up with anyone she finds along the way.
Meet Cindy Brown
Studio Teacher
Cindy is a retired Captain from the Fairfax County Fire Department. She moved to Southport in 2020 and became a group fitness instructor in July of 2022. She teaches Water Aerobics, Strength and Balance and Stretch Classes. When she is not teaching, she is taking classes at Yoga Unlimited, walking the neighborhood or the beach and spending time with friends and family.
Meet Carolyn Weber
Studio Teacher and Reiki Master
Carolyn has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and teaching for 10 ywars. She is a 500hr yoga instructor, LYT yoga certified, Health & Well-being Coach, and Reiki Master. Influenced by her teachers, peers, travels and continued studies, she brings a unique sense of empowerment to all of her classes. Her goal is for each student to leave class feeling refreshed & renewed. Carolyn’s classes are intelligently sequenced & have a loving, fun vibe with a focus on alignment, balance & strength. One of her greatest gifts as a teacher is her ability to create a joyful and inclusive space where everyone can connect to their inner center. She is also a realator with Century 21 and when she is not working, she enjoys the ocean, hiking in the mountains and baking all things with sour dough.
Meet Des Yeager
Reiki Master
Des Yeager is originally from San Jose California and moved to Oak Island, North Carolina 5 years ago with her husband Joe. She is a certified Reiki Master Practitioner with over 8 years of experience. She is a sensitive intuitive soul, and her life's goal has always been to help others by encouraging growth and action towards their problems. As a skilled Reiki and Meditation practitioner, she focuses on addressing external energy blocks and fear based thinking. Reiki is a wonderful way to treat the whole person including mind, body and spirit and it is her life purpose to help spread the joy, love and peace that Reiki invokes.
Meet Suzanne Brown
Studio Teacher
Suzanne has twenty years of experience teaching group fitness. During this time, she taught many class formats and was a continuing education provider for Aerobic and Fitness Association of America and an area coordinator for the Silver Sneakers Fitness Program.
She started teaching when her children were little as a hobby, but it turned into a career as she obtained her personal trainer certification and became the manager of the group fitness team at a chain of gyms in the Raleigh area, where she taught with Stacy.
Suzanne took a break from teaching and travelled the US in the corporate wellness arena and spent two years working for Google before moving to Oak Island six months ago.
Having found her forever home, she loves sunrises at the beach, playing with her puppies and reading mysteries. She is excited about bringing some different classes to the studio and can't wait to meet everyone.