Our Story
Self-care & stress-relief supports your healing and your joy in every season of life. Through pregnancy & postpartum, life’s big transitions, and healthy aging, we’re here to nurture your mind, body, and spirit.
Designed to Nurture
Nurture Nashville Yoga was established in 2014 as the city’s first and only yoga studio specializing in pregnancy & postpartum.
Founded as Blooma Nashville with an exclusive focus on birth and babies, the studio evolved to Nurture in January 2020. We always have and still do cherish our sense of community. And meeting folks where they’re at — tired or triumphant, clear-eyed or still figuring it out, vulnerable, messy, beautiful — is in our DNA.
So as we watched our families, friends, and the beloved city of Nashville grow, the need for better self-care in all seasons of life became evident. Our expertise in helping pregnant people and new parents do big work — like claim the rest they need, find peace with changing bodies, create boundaries with loving-kindness, and finally (finally!) feel genuine self-compassion — well it turns out, that’s the love we ALL need, all the time.
We’re on a mission to normalize profound self-care, based in mindful breath & movement, as a path to connect our personal and collective well-being. The vision for the Nurture community is a soft landing in times of big change, belief in each person’s worth, an always-learning mindset, and a warm y’all-are-welcome. We treasure the roots of yoga. We value being intentional, anti-racist, inclusive, and accessible. And we’re totally cheering you on as you strive to heal, grow, love and truly shine. Let’s go!
Jennifer Derryberry Mann, Founder
Jenni Derryberry Mann (RYT500, eRYT200, RPYT, RES) is a mother, a movement educator, and the founder + owner of Nurture Nashville.
She began teaching yoga in 2003, but it was motherhood a few years later that clarified her path: After her eldest daughter was born, Jenni helped create the original Blooma in Minneapolis. Feeling the sweet support of a community of new parents as a new mom herself, and discovering her calling as a prenatal + postnatal yoga teacher in that time, introduced her to compassion in an embodied, mindful way that she’s carried with her ever since. Her experience with postpartum depression, miscarriage, parenting, marriage, and entrepreneurship shaped her deep respect for self-care as a spiritual practice.
Jenni has trained with Dianne Bondy, Katy Bowman, and Ana Forrest. She apprenticed with Blooma Yoga founder & friend Sarah Longacre to become a certified Blooma prenatal yoga teacher (RPYT) and a lead instructor in the Blooma Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training program. Read more about Jenni’s training here.
When teaching, Jenni draws on her training as a birth doula, childbirth educator, self-care coach & circle facilitator, and her experience as a mother. She helps people connect with the divine feminine as an embodied sense of ease and an acceptance of being enough, just as they are in the present moment.
From that perspective, Jenni founded the Embodied Mindful Muse self-care and movement immersion. She created the program to help those who identify as women and mothers to overcome overwhelm and ease their aches & pains through mindful movement. The program supports deep self-care in ways pragmatic and profound: the practice of yoga, biomechanics, and mindset coaching connect you more deeply with your self, your dreams & the people you love (especially when those people are young humans!).
Additionally, Jenni is the editor of Belly Button Bliss: A Collection of Birth Stories (2009, Fairview Press/Rowman & Littlefield), co-founder of the not-for-profit Nashville Birth Collective (2017-2022), and a former board member for The Rooted Bridge, a not-for-profit supporting perinatal mental health in the Southeast.
Jenni loves neighborhood walks, hikes through the Warner parks, reading, movies in the theater, concerts at the Ryman, meaningful conversations, skygazing from her hammock, and ah-ha! moments (hers and yours!). Jenni grew up in Oklahoma, and has also loved living in Kansas, Illinois, Minnesota and Georgia. Along with her husband, their two teenage daughters and two rescue pups, Jenni has called Nashville home for more than a decade.
Our Values
Nurture encourages your growth and well-being through every season of life — new beginnings, pregnancy, postpartum, parenting, big changes, health challenges, and healthy aging. Here’s what we believe in:
You are enough. Show up just as you are. Participate in the practice in the way and at the intensity that supports you best. We’ll meet you right where you are.
We’re all birthing something. We are inherently creative, bringing the new into being, whether that’s a human being, a new job, a new home, a new way of showing up for yourself. Creating takes time, effort, and transitions – and we’re here for it.
You’re never late at Nurture. We aim to begin and end class on time, and we know that life (and traffic!) is stressful enough without worrying that you’ll be locked out. Arrive as close to time as you safely can, and know that we build in a little grace period at the beginning to give you that breathing room. If you’re coming in right at time, deepen your breath and quiet your body to honor the space as you enter.
Self-care is essential. Taking better care of you makes it possible for you to better care for what matters to you: your people, your passions, your projects. Self-care isn’t self-centered. It centers you in your wiser self.
We all churn inside. That poetic line is from the essay “Joyas Voladoras” by Brian Doyle, who reminds us that hearts stir. Emotions wash through. Breath moves us. Blood pumps through our veins. Energy flows. Bodies were made to move, inside & out, and we all do, even if it looks different from one body to the next. We invite you to practice in a way that honors what you need – mind, body and spirit.
Movement connects us. Nurture classes are designed to help you move more of you, more often, and in healthier ways. We’re big fans of lifelong movement with friends & family: from dance parties to dodge ball, from long walks on the beach to a neighborhood stroll, from sitting on the floor changing baby’s diaper to taking the grandkids to the zoo. We celebrate all the ways life moves you, and how your time on the mat at Nurture helps make it possible.
Y’all means all. We strive for inclusivity, accessibility, cultural appreciation, and respect for all people. We’re committed to lifelong learning, cultivating empathy, staying vulnerable, and speaking up against injustice and inequity. When we mess up, if we haven’t noticed it ourselves, we appreciate that being kindly pointed out so we can make it right and strive to do better.