Instructors

"Shelby Souris is a seasoned circus artist and the owner of Flying With Ease Entertainment. With over a decade of professional performing experience, she has taught, trained, and showcased her artistry around the world. Shelby holds a bachelor’s degree in Dance and is a graduate of the NECCA Pro Track program. Her career spans cruise ships, theme parks, circuses, and numerous stages worldwide, bringing dynamic movement, artistry, and world-class entertainment to every audience.”

"Jordyn Miller is an aerial instructor with over 3 years of training in Aerial Arts specializing in Lyra and Straps.

She combines strength training, mobility, and safe progressions to help students build confidence, body awareness, and technique in the air. Her teaching style is supportive, empowering, and rooted in a strong foundation of movement science."

"Laura has been passionate about fitness since 2012, with experience ranging from competitive bodybuilding to aerial, yoga, and pole. She is a former K-12 teacher, and although she's traded the classroom for the studio, she still brings that same teaching expertise to every fitness class she leads.

Her credentials include a master's in education, a personal trainer certification, 200 hours of yoga teacher training, and an XPERT Hammock cert. She's also currently back in school furthering her education in physical therapy.

Laura's movement style is often slow, controlled, and intentional. In her classes, she focuses on helping students build strength and solid foundations through safe and progressive learning."

"Carolyn Ansinn is originally from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Carolyn Ansinn comes from generations of professional dancers. She trained on full scholarship at The Rock School for Dance Education and earned her BFA in Ballet Performance with a minor in Psychology from the University of Oklahoma, graduating summa cum laude. Before relocating to Pensacola, Carolyn danced professionally with Canyon Concert Ballet in Northern Colorado, where she performed a variety of roles, including principal roles such as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. She has also performed internationally as a guest artist at the San José Ballet Festival in Costa Rica and with the National Arts Academy of Bulgaria. In August 2026, Carolyn will begin dancing professionally with Ballet Pensacola and is thrilled to also be joining the Flying With Ease Performance Company. She is passionate about sharing her love of dance with the next generation of artists and is excited to begin teaching at FWE Training Center!"

"Kayleigh Calleo is a multi-disciplinary artist and instructor specializing in aerial hoop, silks, hand balancing, tumbling and fire spinning. Growing up as a competitive gymnast she trained nationally for over 15 years before beginning circus and aerial arts in 2014.

Since 2015 Kayleigh has performed and taught various circus disciplines, sharing her passion of helping others discover their own strength, artistry and confidence in the air."

"Mariana Cullane started her dance journey at 15 years old, falling in love with middle eastern and hula dance.

Ever since then she has taken instruction from many world-renowned instructors, always eager to keep learning more. 

With her dance, she aims to transmit emotion such as the joy that she feels while performing it. 

She is passionate about sharing the beauty of dance with others. She is dedicated to helping her students develop not only strong technique, but also confidence, creativity, and a deeper connection to movement."

"Samantha Cuellar came to FWE from Long Beach California. She began her aerial journey at the age of 19 with aerial silks, then gradually went on to studying aerial hammock, and hoop. She became an instructor at the age of 22 and performed for several events in Southern California before deciding to move to Pensacola Florida. 12 years later, Samantha continues to teach, and focuses on training students how to find the grace and beauty in aerial arts. Before becoming an accomplished aerialist she had a strong fear of heights. Taking a leap of faith and learning aerial was one of the best decisions she ever made and she hopes to help others gain confidence in themselves the same way she did."

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"Samantha Savoie is a dynamic circus performer with experience in a variety of disciplines including acrobatics, contortion, dance, stunts, fire and aerial. She specializes in coaching conditioning, artistry and choreography. Her favorite apparatus to teach and perform on are silks, hammock (sling), lyra (hoop), and static trapeze. Samantha blends disciplined strength and flexibility training with experimental sequences and play to help students find freedom of movement in the air. With a background spanning dance, fitness, theater and circus, Samantha brings a balanced approach to coaching - combining strong technical foundations with creativity, safe progressions, and her desire to help students develop their own style."

"Nikki has been practicing aerial arts since 2018 and has been instructing since 2021. She prides herself in working with a wide variety of ages, shapes, sizes, and skill levels. She truly believes that aerial can be for every body, if you’re willing to put in the work! Her approach to aerial arts includes a heavy focus on conditioning so that your body develops and hones the muscles, mobility, and endurance that it needs for aerial tricks. She will meet you where you are at, and help you get where you want to be.

Nikki Johnson credits her aerial arts practice with increasing her confidence, helping her learn to love her body, and giving her mental health a huge boost. When Nikki isn’t in the air, you can likely find her down in the dirt in her garden, taking care of her chickens, and playing with her dogs."

"Lauren Beine is a NASM certified personal trainer and Yoga Alliance RYT-200 with a strong
background as a martial arts instructor. Her fitness journey began in childhood with team sports
such as softball and volleyball, and continued as a teenager with taekwondo. She started
teaching martial arts classes at age 16, and had achieved her 4th degree black belt by age 19.
By 2022, she had picked up weightlifting, and decided to take her career to the next level by
becoming a personal trainer and working in a commercial gym. After taking some local aerial
classes, she fell in love with circus arts and has been pursuing her passion ever since. She is
currently training to be an aerial performer, and her favorite apparatus is the lollipop."

"Emily Bishop, professionally known as Venus of Goddess Heels, trained in classical jazz, ballet, and contemporary from a young age. At 19, she became a franchise director for an internationally competitive salsa and bachata company in Chicago, later relocating there to train as a company dancer.
She worked as personal assistant at Indie Media Studios, a multidisciplinary film and dance studio. In Florida, year 2021, she founded Goddess Heels, a dance and footwear brand that travels nationally and internationally, teaching workshops, showcasing its signature dance shoe collection, and producing dance-centered events including Party With Venus and The Goddess Party.
Emily also performs as a freelance dancer and as a corps member and soloist with Studio6twenty5 Ballet Company in Destin, Florida."