PACE — Briana Knight, owner of Beyond Barre Pensacola, will revisit PACE Center for Girls Escambia Santa Rosa, a place she says helped shape her into the person she is today.
Knight, who became a member as a teen, credits PACE for helping her focus academically. Today, she is a business owner and mother of two, working to encourage her clients at Beyond Barre Pensacola to live their best and healthiest life.
As the saying goes, “Once a PACE girl, always a PACE girl,” Knight said, so she is returning to the center at 11 a.m. Aug. 11 to share her story and offer confidence and courage to fellow PACE girls.
With Beyond Barre Pensacola, she offers a range of barre classes in a comfortable environment where everyone is celebrated, regardless where they are in their fitness goals.
Knight hopes that an afternoon of self-care will inspire girls to keep striving.
“I want girls to be empowered and feel strong,” Knight said. “Society has all these crazy ideas about how we should look and what we should feel. These girls are perfect the way they are. Feeling strong and confident is how every one of them should feel, whether they are doing barre class or waking up for school in the morning.”
PACE Center for Girls is a nationally recognized nonresidential program with services such as education, life management, career preparation and case management for middle and high school aged girls and young women.
See more information at pacecenter.org.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Business owner gives back to PACE Escambia-Santa Rosa