Our Staff
Southern Om is an oasis from the surrounding world dedicated to promoting total well-being and life balance.
We offer powerful yoga classes and community in a fun, friendly, clean and nurturing environment.
With over 80 classes at two Greenville studios, there is an opportunity
for you to be a part of our Oasis and start feeling better now.
What are you waiting for? Start living a happier and healthier life today.
Too many people are feeling stressed, anxious, or in pain. We teach a vigorous style of hot yoga and Inferno in a loving and supportive community so you can feel better and love your life more.
Our Staff
Pace Beattie - Head Towel Washer
Pace’s Story: My hectic and often intense career in the financial markets, combined with raising two boys as a single parent, was creating stress and left me feeling out of sync with the health principles I had been taught at a young age. I started out with non-heated yoga as an attempt to relieve stress and sleep better, but felt something was missing. Once I tried hot yoga, I found the combination of the mental and spiritual elements of meditation with the endurance of sustained physical exercise gave me the life balance that I had been looking for, and I was immediately hooked! My dream to open a hot yoga studio in my hometown of Greenville, South Carolina and share this discovery with others took root in 2007, and came to fruition in 2010 after taking a year to train under my yoga mentor Baron Baptiste and research the highest quality yoga studios in the country. Southern Om is the result of that journey of self-discovery and a community that exists to change lives.
My struggles are your struggles: sleep, stress and depression. Hot yoga changed my life and I am on a mission to help you change yours!
Sarah Swartz - Assistant to the Head Towel Washer
Sarah’s Story: A longtime fitness enthusiast, I had never tried hot yoga until 2011, after meeting Pace at a health fair. It didn’t take long for me to become addicted to the physical and mental benefits of the practice, and found that the heat greatly alleviated my symptoms of psoriatic arthritis. We also began a strong partnership that still exists today.
I work full-time in Hendersonville, NC as the Donor Relations Manager for the Blue Ridge Humane Society and enjoy helping Pace and the team with communication projects whenever I can. You also never know when I’m going to pop up on the class schedule or at the front desk!
I live with metastatic breast cancer and I am determined to live my best life now, and encourage my students to do the same - one deep breath at a time! My self-care strategies include snuggling up with my rescue cat Grace and a good book, hiking, waterfall bathing and soaking up time with friends in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Akasha Searcey - Marketing/Retail Coordinator
Akasha creates and shares powerful stories and photos on our social media channels to bring the Oasis to your feed and inspire you to come practice and enjoy shopping in our two studio retail stores at Southern Om!
Yoga is Akasha’s life passion. She teaches teachers all over the USA and is a sound therapist. She began teaching over 30 years ago to help herself with anxiety and finding an alternative way to navigate the healing journey in life. She is a world class teacher and when not working for Southern Om you will find her teaching YTT 200 or 300 hour programs as well as facilitating sound bath meditations all over the country.
She truly lives her yoga and loves sharing all the many facets and tangible tools of this practice, on and off the mat.
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Jen Reinhardt - Teacher Coordinator
Jen works closely with all of our amazing teachers and ensures our teaching schedule is up to date.
Jen began practicing yoga over 14 years ago and had the wonderful opportunity to grow from an individual practice, to a prenatal practice, mommy and me and then share it with her children as they grew up. Jen loved the practice so much, when the time and opportunity came, she decided to become a yoga teacher. Jen earned her RYT from Balance Hot Yoga in Cedar Falls IA and is working towards getting her RPYT as well!
When Jen is not practicing yoga she loves to spend time with her family, enjoying art, hiking, swimming, traveling, finding new places to eat and cooking food that her kids complain about but are good for them. Come have some fun and flow with Jennifer and Southern Om!
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Staci Yearick- Front Desk Coordinator
Staci is our multi-talented Front Desk Coordinator. She interacts with students and staff daily to ensure there is a smiling face behind the front desk and a pleasant studio experience for all.
Staci is always on the lookout for fantastic folks to join our team in front desk and cleaning roles.
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Caroline Knight - Studio Coordinator, Woodruff Rd.
Caroline is our Woodruff Road Studio Coordinator and works closely with Pace to ensure the flagship studio is running efficiently and the student experience there is still amazing after nearly 15 years.
“My passion for overall health and wellness started 17 years ago when my journey as a personal trainer started after college. Since 2007, I have worked out of some bigger gyms and owned a few small studios in the Greenville area and I currently operate Fit Four Training in Taylors.
Along this journey, practicing Yoga became something new in my typical workout routine, and I quickly loved it! I found Southern Om and tried a class, and then tried another. The overall experience was great! The environment was inviting, and the benefits were endless. And now, years later, I am proud to be a part of this fantastic team.
I truly love seeing my own clients feel better, sleep better, get off their medications, and make their health a priority. And now, I get to experience this alongside the students at SO.”
Megan McKeown - Studio Coordinator, West End