Shawn Burns
Shawn Burns is a dedicated Yoga Teacher (RYT 500), and the proud owner of Light Space Yoga Studio in Dallas, Texas, with a passion for guiding others on their wellness journey. His love for people and commitment to fostering inclusive health and wellness spaces has led Shawn to focus on creating environments that promote positivity, a healthy lifestyle, and effective stress management. Through his expertise, empathy, and genuine care for others, Shawn aims to make a meaningful impact on the well-being of individuals across the community. Whether leading a class in studio or working privately with practitioners, Shawn's dedication to yoga and holistic wellness shines through in all that he does. His approach is centered around compassion, mindfulness, and the belief that everyone deserves access to the tools and support they need to lead fulfilling and balanced lives.
Jessica Jordan
Jessica Jordan considers herself an artist. She's a healing and performing artist who intertwines somatic movement, breath, and energy work into classes specifically for the creative kind. A student of Katonah Yoga, she understands that there is a season in everything, and she weaves this wisdom into her instruction. She's an E-RYT, Reiki Master, the founder of Super Yoga Palace, and a long-time member of The Polyphonic Spree. When she's not healing or singing, she's producing films with her husband, director Josh David Jordan; their most recent project, El Tonto Por Cristo, is in post-production.
Mary Lyles
After taking her first yoga class at a studio almost 15 years ago, Mary found yoga again in 2018 when she moved to Fort Worth from Seattle. Re-falling in love after a 5 year hiatus to focus on her career, yoga ended up being a tool that helped her adjust to a new life after a big cross-country move and coping with grief. With a regular practice established and a curiosity to expand her knowledge of what yoga truly was at its core, she decided to head to Barranquilla, Colombia for her 200 hour yoga training in 2022. Mary enjoys curating a creative class that guides you explore the connection between breathe, mind, and body and helps go deeper into the self.
Olivia Johnston
Olivia is a registered nurse, certified somatic experiencing coach, holistic health coach, complex trauma specialist, and licensed yoga teacher.
With 5 years of experience as a nurse treating acute mental health disorders, Olivia uses her diverse background of knowledge and experience across multiple wellness and psychiatric fields to help clients experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction and more. While her experience in clinical mental health treatment is foundational in her work, she believes the most effective approach in achieving wellness is via holistic methods encompassing bodywork, somatic experiencing, yoga, breath work, and more. Olivia utilizes and integrates the Post Induction Treatment (PIT) Model developed by Pia Mellody as a foundational model to help others live a more embodied, aligned life.
Olivia is a Dallas native with a deep love of the arts, nature, and family. As a woman who has experienced and overcome trauma in her own life, Olivia now strives to help others do the same. Her relentless passion for improving the lives of others drives her to care deeply for each individual she helps heal.
Our Practitioners
Meet the team of practitioners that make up Le Sol Wellness:
Lauren James
Lauren is the Wellness Director at Le Sol. She was born and raised in Rockwall, TX. During college in East Texas, she attended a yoga class that impacted her greatly. After doing yoga consistently as a means of coping with anxiety and depression, she wanted to become a teacher to help others with their mental health obstacles. She is a registered 500-hour yoga instructor and has been teaching and learning for the past 4 years. Studying and teaching in East Texas, Austin, India, and Nepal, she is credited in sound healing, yin, vinyasa, trauma-informed yoga, and yoga nidra. She continues to use her knowledge of yoga and Ayurvedic nutrition to help others live a balanced and peaceful life!
Marison Clayton
Marison began practicing yoga at age 17 as a means of recovery from cross-country running. During her years in university, she continued practicing as a daily ritual and decided she would eventually train to be a teacher. She finished her 200-hour certification in early 2020 at Super Yoga Palace and is currently training in Katonah Yoga. Her personal yoga practice focuses on ashtanga, hatha, and yin and she has practiced under Dean Hollingsworth of Dallas Ashtanga Yoga Shala and Nevine Michaan of Katonah Yoga. Her classes are inspired by these practices, the seasons, curated playlists, and whatever fantasy book she’s currently reading. Marison joined the le sol team in spring 2023, when she returned to Dallas after living in Madrid for a year. In her classes, you can expect to find creative ways to connect movements with breath and feel autonomy over your own practice, while not taking yourself too seriously. She creates a space for students of all levels to feel at home in their bodies.
Emily Dewberry
Emily is a Dallas native, former corporate event designer turned breathwork facilitator, and a meditation and intuitive tarot guide. She uses the tools of breath work, meditation, energetic reiki healing, intuitive tarot reading, and mat pilates to support the internal and external growth in her students. Her mission is to break the mold of what it means to truly embody who you are meant to be. She believes that society was never meant to dictate who you are and that with a few edits and faith in yourself you can truly become the most embodied version of yourself. Emily is the founder of Embody Edit and owns her own reiki-infused jewlery line, Ripple.
Mona Pernisco
Mona is a content creator, yoga teacher, entrepreneur and real estate investor. Over the past years, she dedicated herself to enriching her grasp of manifestation, intertwining it with her yoga and meditation journey. This transformative experience paved the way for Mona to craft a life abundant in travel, adventure, and financial freedom. Her mission is to teach and inspire others how to achieve the same by manifesting their dream life.