Tracey Trambauer (Lakshmi)
Tracey, Still Lake Yoga owner and teacher, holds the title Yoga Acharya, Master of Yoga. She also holds the Yoga Alliance designation “Registered Yoga Instructor 500.” Tracey has been teaching yoga for over eleven years, and for over twenty years she has studied spiritual approaches to living, natural modes of healing, and proper exercise and nutrition. In her classes, she encourages students to move past perceived limitations, but always to practice non-harming (ahimsa) toward the self.
Tracey received yoga teacher training and certification at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre in Quebec in 2000. Upon returning from this month-long immersion in the yogic lifestyle, she was invited to Clermont to teach to the South Lake community. Opening Still Lake Yoga followed. In 2005, she travelled to Natala in Northern India to take Advanced Teacher Training at a Sivananda Ashram.
Tracey teaches yoga full time and dedicates the majority of her time outside of the studio to further study of hatha yoga, yoga philosophy, meditation, and holistic wellness. Tracey and her husband Eric also practice Kirtan, sacred Sanskrit chanting. Together they are dedicated to sharing all the transformational aspects of traditional yoga.
Sarah Crossan
When Sarah Crossan walked through the door of Still Lake Yoga in 2004, she had no previous yoga experience. She now considers that step one of the most beneficial she has ever taken. Regularly attending yoga class, she learned techniques that brought her peace: breath awareness, positive thinking, and present-moment consciousness.
Through her love and dedication to yoga, Sarah became a teacher, receiving her certification in 2007. She now teaches regularly at Still Lake Yoga. For a year, she also taught yoga at the Florida Department of Corrections, an all-male prison in Clermont; she was deeply moved by witnessing the prisoners develop a love and respect for yoga and by hearing testimonies of how their practice changed their lives.
The only thing Sarah regrets about yoga practice is that she didn’t start years ago. She is now 67 years old, and says “You are never too old to become involved in yoga.”