Southern Yoga LLC, Huntsville

05/13/2024

The cicadas are alive and well! 🥰 such a beautiful reminder of the cycles of life. 🙂

02/25/2024

We offer this option at J2 Fitness Wednesdays from 10-11. 🧘‍♂️

A metanalysis from Korea (Shin, 2021) showed that chair yoga can improve muscle strength, balance, flexibility, physical activity and that it can be a part of a population health strategy.⁠
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Do you practice chair yoga or teach it? Let me know in the comments.

02/13/2024

Hi y'all. I so hope you're able to take the time to get outside. After being cooped up and finally getting to go for a nice long walk with the dogs, I realized how much I needed it. Not only the exercise but the extremely fresh air and sun. Nature is such a life-giving thing (which I guess is its nature 🙂 ). I now have all of the windows open in our house after realizing how stale the air was.. I guess nature gives us perspective too.
And come to think of it... guess what else gives me perspective..... Yep, yoga. I honestly did not plan this tie in... but from 10am-11am tomorrow and every Wednesday I am holding a gentle yoga class allowing us to atune to our bodies and breath as we move through poses allowing for more of an inner focus. Classes are held at J2 Fitness Studio in the Oakwood Shopping Center to the left of G's Country Kitchen.
For a limited time, if you're new to the class, the first one is free so that you can check it out and see if it's right for you. If you'd like to continue, you'll pay $35-40 per month as a member of J2 Fitness Studio which includes your own personal workouts if you choose to get involved in that way and all available classes. See website for more details: https://j2fitnessstudio.com/

02/07/2024

Mornin'! And it's beautiful here in Huntsville. Blue skies, warm enough for walking. At the same time, feeling the west coast and my friends there. Geez!
I just wanted to remind my Alabama friends that I'll be holding a gentle yoga class today and 10, J2 Fitness on Oakwood Ave. Sorry for the late reminder but hope you can make it. With all that we've been through as a collective, the theme today is Warrior 1, 2 and 3 along with opposing poses to get some good stretching in. And of course, breath and body awareness to teach us how to keep ourselves safe even in the midst of stress. So, "come on down!" as we say in the south.
Much love to you all.

01/28/2024

Hi Everyone. I hope y’all are doing well and are hopeful for the days ahead.

I’m afraid I won’t be able to hold yoga class this coming Wednesday, Jan. 31 due to illness. I hope to be back the following week and will keep you posted. Have a beautiful week. ❤️ Namaste’

01/22/2024

Hi y’all! Well it looks like the roads are clearing, the sun is out and it’s warming up. So, our first gentle, breath-oriented yoga class will be held this and every Wednesday at 10 am at J2 Fitness. All levels of experience and fitness are welcome. I hope to see you there! 🥰🧘🏼‍♀️

01/10/2024

Wanted to share. Wishing you a beautiful, loving, give yourself a hug year.

Why do we start a new year, with promises to improve?
Who began this tradition of never-ending pressure?
I say, the end of a year, should be filled with congratulation, for all we survived.
And I say a new year should start with promises to be kinder to ourselves, to understand better just how much we bear, as humans on this exhausting treadmill of life.

And if we are to promise more, let’s pledge to rest, before our bodies force us.
Let’s pledge to stop, and drink in life as it happens.
Let’s pledge to strip away a layer of perfection to reveal the flawed and wondrous humanity we truly are inside.

Why start another year, gifted to us on this earth, with demands on our already over-strained humanity.
When we could be learning to accept, that we were always supposed to be imperfect.
And that is where the beauty lives, actually.
And if we can only find that beauty, we would also find peace.

I wish you peace in 2024.
Everything else is all just a part of it.
Let it be so.

Donna Ashworth

Art by the wonderful Catrin Welz-Stein

My latest book ‘Wild Hope’:
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#2024

09/30/2023

Sabbatical Update... hello to you all. The weather is getting pretty near perfect if even just for a short while. I love the fall! The gentle changes from the summer heat and activities to cooler temperatures and a slowing down with leaves turning colors as a beautiful tribute to the cycle. I am doing well with my recovery - it's been work but worth it. I can now touch the floor with a forward fold and I found a modification to Apanasana - as I lie on my back in bed, rather than lifting my knees towards my chest as I hold each knee in the palm of my hand, as I exhale, I just leave my feet on the bed and without holding my knees I slowly pull them toward me allowing them to bend as much as possible and then as I inhale, slide my feet away from my body, keeping the knees slightly bent. That was a really cool find. I'm walking without a cane or walker for the most part now and have at least one more PT session to go 😟. It's a very good motivator.
Not realizing how intensive and focused I now need to be before my surgery, I have decided to continue my focus on healing before moving forward with sharing the yoga that I love. In the meantime, if you'd like, you can find the teacher I study with, Kristine Weber both on Facebook at Subtle Yoga with Kristine Weber and on her you tube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/kaoverii/videos.
If you have any questions or thoughts, feel free to email me at kathy_perkins@att.net. In the meantime, take good care of yourselves and take some time off just to be for a bit. Much love to you all. 😍🙏

08/09/2023

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07/28/2023

Hi to you all! I hope this post finds you well, hydrated and that you are finding a little bit of quiet time with all of the many things going on around us. I wanted you to know that my Subtle Yoga inspired (slow, breath-centered) classes will continue through the end of August at which time I'll be taking about a four to six week sabbatical (knee surgery and a little bit of down time).

In the meantime, come on down and join us for an hour of gentle, somewhat graceful yoga, laughter and quiet time. Namaste' (the Light in me recognizes the Light in you).

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