Meet the Instructors

Erin is a Kentucky girl who danced her way from ballet at age 5 to high school where she was on several championship dance teams. Erin continued her collegiate dance career as a Western Kentucky University Topperette and earned a bachelor degree in exercise science. During her senior year, Erin discovered her love for barre and began teaching barre as an instructor for an area barre studio. Upon graduation, she moved to Brandon, Mississippi where she met her husband and together they have 2 children.

Erin has continued her passion for teaching barre in the Jackson metro area where she even taught classes on the day of the birth of her first child. Erin firmly believes that the level of fitness she obtained from barre exercises helped immensely in the labor and delivery of her daughter.

In addition to barre, Erin enjoys powerlifting and exploring other forms of exercise and fitness. She loves pushing herself to find out how strong she can be. She has set personal bests of twice her body weight on powerlifting exercises like deadlift, squats, and bench press.

Continuing her love for fitness and barre, she is bringing Brandon a new spin on a traditional barre workout. Erin is driven by a passion to help other women become confident and strong. In addition to her degree in Exercise Science, she also holds a certification in the American Barre technique. Erin is driven by a passion to help other women become confident and strong.

Her career took her into the nuclear industry, where she spent years traveling nationally, leading conferences, managing sales teams, and building a marketing skill set that still shapes her work today. No matter the city, she made it a point to try a new fitness studio, always chasing that same feeling she’d found teaching cycle in college.

That search eventually led her to Mississippi, where she met her husband and built a life. In time, a door opened for the passion she’d carried for years, and she found herself running a business built around it, bringing her hand to everything from brand and marketing to design.

Outside The Barre, Jessica co-founded and runs SYAS (Saved You A Seat), a women’s social community built to bring people together. She loves working out in every form she can find, making new friends wherever she goes, and most of all soaking up life as a first-time mom, with baby number two on the way.

Jessica believes helping people romanticize their health and wellness is the key to a happier, longer life. She’s certified in barre, cycling, and HIT group fitness training, and by her own account most certified in bringing a little sparkle of joy to everyone’s life.

Crystal is a nationally certified group exercise instructor with over 16 years of experience leading high-energy, results-driven classes. With a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, she brings a unique blend of strength training and mindset into every class, helping clients build confidence and consistency that lasts. She holds multiple specialty certifications, including Pilates Reformer and Adaptive Yoga, and has worked with a wide range of clients, including teaching yoga to the Mississippi State football team. Known for blending strength, flow, and intentional movement with music that drives the room, Crystal pushes you past what you thought you were capable of and keeps you coming back for more. You’ll laugh a little, cry a little, and feel every bit of the work. Outside the studio, she’s a wife and mom of three boys, mostly surviving off coffee and long days at the baseball field.

Meet Lexi!! Lexi is a long life coastie hailing from Biloxi, MS! As a former pageant queen and childhood cancer survivor, Lexi has always had a passion for fitness and nutrition! Her background includes extensive training as a feature twirler as well as a competitive cheerleader!

Lexi is a graduate of Mississippi College and is currently serving as a pediatric nurse at Children’s of Mississippi! Throughout her college years, Lexi fell in love with fitness and found barre to be the perfect blend of elegance and strength! It not only provides a beautiful workout that incorporates growth and discipline, but builds confidence and a tight knit community!

Lexi offers a vast variety of fun, yet effective workouts that will leave you shaking and begging for more!! She loves the opportunity to not only educate and empower our clients by challenging them in the studio, but by also embodying a joyful, Christ-like spirit! She looks forward to sharing her love of music and dance as we look to raise the barre in every class!

Hi! I’m Amber! I was born and raised here in Brandon, MS. I attended NWRHS and later Ole Miss before returning home to complete nursing school at UMMC. I now work as a NICU nurse taking care of the sweetest and most vulnerable babies! My job is so rewarding and my true passion! I took my first barre class in July 2024 and instantly fell in love. After becoming certified in April 2025, I joined the incredible team at thebarrE, where I get to share that passion with others. Outside of the studio, I love music, reading, and dancing. I’m also getting married to the love of my life this December! Life at home is full with my two dogs and kitty, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m so grateful to be part of the thebarrE community!

Anne Daniel Stone, better known as Annie, has been part of the barre community for over a year, bringing energy, heart, and a lifelong love of movement to every class she leads. From dancing as a little girl to discovering the barre once it opened in Madison, she quickly fell in love and hasn’t looked back since.

By day, Annie is an elementary school teacher, and she brings that same passion, encouragement, and ability to connect into the studio- just with a slightly older classroom! She thrives on helping others feel strong, confident, and empowered, and loves creating a space where clients can challenge themselves while having fun.

For Annie, barre is more than just a workout, it’s a way to pour into people, build community, and share the joy of movement.

My name is Jamison Newell and I’m originally from Crystal springs, Ms, but currently reside in Florence, Ms. I have danced since the age of 10 and fell more in love with the sport in High school, where I went to Mississippi School of the Arts in Brookhaven, Ms. I then went on to college at The University of Southern Mississippi where I got a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance. I am now dancing on and off with Kinetic Etchings in Jackson, MS and still have a driving passion for teaching dance and performing! After graduating, I started to find interest in fitness and started to learn how to keep my body running after college and came across Pure Barre. I went through a Pure Barre training course and fell in love with the similarities of Ballet and Barre! I had been teaching at Pure Barre for 3 years before venturing to The Barre. I have many things I have accomplished in life, rewards for dance, traveling for dance and receiving recognition for my talent and now feel like fitness is my next focus! I am now at The Barre in Madison still continuing my fitness instructing, teaching different styles like barre, strength, etc! I love what I do and have a passion for helping people feel confident on the inside and outside!

Rebecca Zorn has been an instructor for The BarrE for a year and a half. She danced her entire life and was trained in jazz, tap, contemporary, lyrical, ballet, acro, and hip hop. She now teaches upper level classes at Xpress Dance Company. Rebecca attended Mississippi College where she was a member of the MC Cheer Squad and received her Bachelor’s Degree in Kinesiology. Rebecca currently attends UMMC’s Doctorate of Physical Therapy Program. She enjoys spending time with family, friends, and doing anything outside or active. She loves seeing clients make improvements in their fitness while having fun in classes!

I grew up in Brandon, Mississippi, and attended Northwest Rankin High School. From a young age, I was passionate about dance, training in ballet, jazz, and hip hop, and performing on my school’s dance team. I went on to attend Mississippi State University, where I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology with a concentration in neuromechanics and a minor in Psychology. I am currently in my final year of physical therapy school at UMMC. I discovered barre after moving home to begin PT school and quickly fell in love with it. In early 2025, I taught my first barre class and found a new passion for teaching. My background in dance and exercise science has provided a strong foundation, allowing me to be both creative and intentional in my instruction. At the same time, the overlap between teaching and my PT education has helped me grow and refine my skills in both areas. In addition to barre, I now teach strength and TRX classes, and I enjoy continuing to challenge myself and expand into new styles of movement.

Julianne has been a student of yoga for over 24 years starting her practice in search for “something deeper”, inspired to continue the search, she began her teacher journey in 2013 while living in Dubai, UAE, starting with the Vinyassa style, where she took a 100hr course with the ETA College then she continued with a 200 RYT training with David Magone the founder of PranaVayu Yoga, then later moved back to America continuing her passion for teaching yoga, Julianne then took On a 300 hr teacher training Program at Bella Prana Yoga in Tampa FL . also through all those years, furthered her practice with a few CE courses in Swing & AIReal Yoga, Prenatal yoga, and soon Buti Yoga.

These trainings combined with teaching abroad and around the states, teamed with the influence of all the very inspiring teachers and students who graced the way, have majorly influenced her teaching style, personality, and attitude towards yoga and what it means to practice both on and off the mat.

For Julianne, yoga is a way of life, and an expression even an art form in someways, that brings a person inside themselves and guides one towards finding their truest expression; That original stardust. Julianne’s goal is to be an enlightening, uplifting teacher, who strives for her classes to be a place where one feels at home; along with a little sweat, smiles, laughter, trust and big hugs.