About Ashley

Ashley Abbott is a yoga instructor and intuitive energy worker who teaches yoga as both movement and medicine. Her classes are grounding, soulful, and intentionally slow — woven with trauma-informed language and somatic awareness to help students feel safe in their bodies and connected to their inner knowing.

Ashley’s teaching honors the body as a living story: a place where breath, emotion, intuition, and memory meet. Through gentle strength-building, chakra-inspired intention, and meditative storytelling, she creates space for students to soften, release, and remember who they are beneath life’s noise.

As the founder of Starling & Sparrow Healing Arts, Ashley blends spiritual insight with accessible, functional movement, offering classes that welcome every body and every season of life. Her approach is warm, compassionate, and inclusive, inviting students to explore practice at their own pace and in their own way.

She is honored to share this work with the Blount County community through the CYC collective, holding space for connection, healing, and embodied sovereignty.


Class Descriptions: 

Sacred & Structured: A Year of Seasonal Yoga Rituals

Sacred & Structured is a year-long yoga series inspired by the natural rhythm of the seasons. Each month offers a themed class designed to support students physically, mentally, and emotionally through intentional movement, breathwork, and guided reflection.

Classes are accessible for all levels, with modifications woven into the flow to support every body. The experience is immersive, calming, and grounding—helping students connect with themselves and the changing seasons in a meaningful way.

Join us for a year of growth, balance, and renewal through mindful, seasonally inspired practice.

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Unfolding Lotus:  Yoga for Every Body

This class is a soft, beginner-friendly practice for anyone who has ever felt unsure, unseen, or “not flexible enough” to try yoga. Those who have been told their body wasn’t made for yoga because of its size—this class is for you.

This practice blends gentle movement, grounding breathwork, supportive modifications, and a calming guided meditation to help you feel safe, supported, and at home in your own skin. Every pose is an option, every pace is honored, and every body is welcomed with compassion.

You’ll leave class feeling calmer, more confident, and more connected—reminded that your body is not a problem to fix, but a beloved companion deserving of care, rest, and love exactly as it is.

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Virya Bhava:  The Spirit of the Warrior

Virya Bhava is a gentle storytelling flow that leads you through the warrior’s inner journey—from doubt to clarity, fear to courage. Inspired by the Bhagavad Gita, this practice weaves breath, movement, and myth into a grounding, heart-opening experience.

Each chapter of the story is reflected in accessible postures and slow, intentional pacing, welcoming all bodies and all levels. You’ll leave feeling centered, empowered, and connected to the quiet strength already living within you.