Yoga By You Studios

Vanessa Murray, who holds a 500-hour E-RYT credential along with YACEP, CCTS, and CBTP certifications, runs Yoga By You Studios on Partin Drive with a class list unusually broad for a town Niceville’s size: yoga for every body type, yin, vinyasa, restorative, trauma-informed practice, pranayama breathwork, meditation, chakra-focused sessions, aerial VinYin, a “healthy hips” class, teen yoga, gentle yoga, flexibility-focused sessions, buti movement, and even a class called Rescue Puppy Yoga.

What sets the studio apart from a standard yoga business, though, isn’t the class variety so much as the social programs layered on top of it. She Rises operates as a dedicated sacred-shift sanctuary specifically for women veterans and women rebuilding their lives, a nonprofit-style initiative built into a for-profit studio’s programming. Alongside it, She Speaks runs as a free monthly women’s circle, and the studio also hosts SMART Recovery support group meetings and offers psychedelic integration coaching, services that stretch well beyond what “yoga studio” typically implies and edge into genuine community mental-health support work.

The studio also runs its own 200-hour yoga teacher training program, meaning Murray is not just teaching classes but training the next generation of local instructors, a credentialing pipeline that few small-town studios bother to build. That combination, trauma-informed specialization plus an actual teacher-training certification track, suggests a studio positioned as much toward serious practitioners and future teachers as toward casual drop-in students.

Located at 1605 Partin Drive North, north of the John Sims Parkway retail corridor where several other Niceville wellness businesses cluster, Yoga By You occupies a somewhat quieter setting appropriate to its more introspective, trauma-informed focus. For veterans, women in recovery, or anyone drawn to yoga as a genuine therapeutic tool rather than a workout substitute, the studio’s programming, running well beyond a typical class schedule into support groups and community circles, makes it one of the more mission-driven small businesses in Niceville’s wellness scene.

The sheer breadth of class names, from Rescue Puppy Yoga to Aerial VinYin to Healthy Hips, reflects a studio willing to experiment with format and audience rather than sticking to a single signature style, and that willingness to keep adding niche offerings over time is generally a sign of an owner actively iterating on the business rather than running it on autopilot. Few small businesses in any category attempt that combination of commercial offering and community service under one roof, and it is arguably the studio’s defining feature.