Studio Barre

Lyssa high takes a tour of Studio Barre here in Lexington, Ky!

T theheene c1 3 lyssa-host: hey guys.

We are here at studio barre right here in lexington.

And i'm here with the owners, ms. andrea simpson, and also samantha hill.

Welcome to the show ladies.

Samantha- owner: hi,thanks for having us.

Andrea- owner: thank you.

Hi.

Lyssa-host: well,okay.

First of all, let's talk about this awesome studio.

I love it.

Tell us all about it.

Andrea- owner: it's a franchise that we have been interested in for years.

Basically, samantha, she kind of found her passion here at a studio barre in california.

Lyssa-host: yeah.

Andrea- owner: and got to work in a couple of studios in san diego, and then also in charleston,south carolina.

And just had the idea, and we thought it was really something that the community here would benefit from.

With opening another barre studio that really is after fostering a community feel and welcoming for everybody.

Lyssa-host: absolutely.absolut ely.

Okay.

And let's also ta about, i mean, you're opening this business and covid.

So how did covid happen to come along and kind of put a bump in the road for you.

Andrea- owner: it really changed quite a lot.

We were planning originally on opening april 1st.

Lyssa-host: uh-huh.

Andrea- owner: and we bumped that back to june 15, give a little two week leeway from there opening phase.

And we cut down class sizes immensely.

And also the scheduling so that we have time to do extra precautionary cleaning in between classes.

So far, so good.

I feel like there's still some people that are afraid to come in,but we try to do everything to ensure that it's a safe environment for everybody.

Lyssa-host: absolutely.and exercise is so important and we are getting back integrated into the community.

Samantha.

Okay.

So i have no experience with this whatsoever.

I come waltzing in, what can i expect?

Samantha- owner: okay.so barre is, we have 45 minute and 60 minute classes.

And essentially it's a musically driven class where you'll use every muscle in your body.

And you'll kind of burn it to fatigue with small isometric movements.

So there's no big dancer movements or anything like that.

You do not have to be a dancer.

You don't have to be super fit.

It's an awesome workout for anyone that wants to find their strongest self.

Lyssa-host: that sounds wonderful.

That really does.

Okay.

So people come in.

Do they have to call ahead of time.

How do they register for this?

Samantha- owner: we have our website.

You can sign up at our website, which islexington.studiob arre.com.

You can sign up on the mind body app.

You can callus.

You can come in.

We're kind of accepting any way to sign up we're not real sticklers on how.

You need to sign up, but we do make it easy for everybody.

Lyssa-host: awesome.and you know what?

You can't help, but notice all the breast cancer awareness decor that's around right now.

Why is that a passion for all of you here?

Samantha- owner: so our founder of studio barre, shannon higgins, she is a breast cancer survivor,just within the last, less than eight years.

Lyssa-host: &nb still to come......... an exotic animal trainer featured in the netflix series