My name is Shanna Mujanovic. Shanna like banana! I was born and raised in Amarillo, TX. I have two beautiful children. My daughter Vivian will turn 6 this summer, and my son Myles is about to be 2! I am married to the love of my life Hazi! He is from Bosnia. Without his love and support, I would not have made it this far. He has believed in me and has made it possible for me to be in the position I am in now!

I was in gymnastics most of my years growing up, so flexibility has always been something that has come naturally to me. I started taking random yoga classes here and there around 2012. It wasn’t until the summer of 2016 that I feel in love with a different form of yoga! I was visiting my sister Candace Kern in Port Aransas, TX for my birthday! My gift from her was a paddleboard yoga class with the wonderful Magen Berry. Her class lit a spark deep within me. I knew that one day I would somehow teach it just like her! At the time, her class was taught in an outdoor pool. She now has a huge following and teaches in the ocean! That is my ultimate goal!

I worked in the hospital as a Health Unit Coordinator for 11 years up until covid hit. I worked on MICU, and they chose to make my unit the “covid unit”. At this time, my daughter was 6 months old. I had to make the decision to leave my job and stay home with my baby. I had always dreamed of being a stay-at-home mom! Thanks to my husband for making this possible. I am such a busy body, that I could not just sit all day and do nothing, so I started doing yoga. Like all the time! My baby weight was gone in no time! That spark that I once felt was slowly resurfacing. The only way to achieve that full sensation was to enroll and complete a 200YTT Yoga training, which I did with Brett Larkin in her Uplifted program! She is amazing! I loved it so much that I continued on to finish her 300YTT program!

One of my dearest friends and co-owner of Gold’s gym Karie Mueller, became the Director of fitness at The Amarillo Country Club. At the time, I had not completed my 200 YTT yet. I’ll never forget the day she said, “the moment you get certified, how about you start teaching paddleboard yoga at The Amarillo Country Club”. That spark ignited, I completed my yoga training, and I have been going strong ever since! I have taught at The Amarillo Country Club for the last two summers doing SUP yoga. I absolutely love it and the friendships I have made along the way. My favorite is the Full Moon Yoga classes! What a “magical experience” one says! In the off-season, I mostly teach private seasons or a small group, on a mat, in the gorgeous ballroom, or if the weather is nice, outside under the Pergola, overlooking to the golf course!

I was invited to join the team at Gold’s Gym to sub some yoga classes when needed. This opened the door of opportunity to bring SUP Yoga to their pool!!! October of 2023, I began teaching paddleboard yoga at Gold’s!

I am currently taking a break from teaching so I can continue to be a caregiver to my mother and until I can get her situated. The summer of 2024 was remarkably the worst summer of my life. Summer had hit and my SUP classes had begun. At this exact time, my mother fell ill, and my father, who we knew was sick from something, decided to try and get some help and answers. I knew the outcome of my father’s diagnosis, would change my life forever. July 2nd was his first CT. 22 days later, on my birthday, was his first chemo treatment. That day, I watched my father’s soul leave his body. The chemo took away everything that was good left in him. Tragically, November 8th of 2024, I watched my father lose his life to pancreatic cancer. My father was my best friend. I am currently trying to figure out how to grieve over his loss, care for my mother who is unable to take care of herself, be a wife, a mother, and everything in-between. My passion for yoga, my voice, my body is yearning for me to get back into teaching. I will very soon in the next couple of months, have my business back up and running. I am a better person when I am teaching. I am healing myself as well as helping others. Losing my father has been the most devastating thing I have ever gone through. I will overcome this separation with myself with time. I appreciate everyone who has reached out and most importantly to my husband who has stood by myside trying to comfort me in ways that he just doesn’t know how or understands. How does anyone know what to do? We must live through the storm in order to see why the storm was put in our path to begin with. It has only been two months, and I have realized that I am not as strong as I used to be. That it is ok to ask and seek help. That your own mental health has to be put first in order to take care of others. That at the end of the day, when everyone is asleep, I will always be alone and that needs to be ok. Trying to love myself and put my family first is the biggest battle when giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. Time, Help, Peace, and Quiet is mostly what I need at this time. My father would be so mad if he knew all the time I am wasting on crying and grieving over his loss. I promise to myself, my husband, my kids, to my clients, and to my dad that I will come out of this better and stronger than I was.