Keeping Ashland Healthy - Episode 129 – The Quiet Power of Jenn English

Keeping Ashland Healthy - Episode 129 – The Quiet Power of Jenn English

What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol? In this conversation, the focus lands on calm, connection, and a yoga mat in a quiet room. Host David Ross talks with yoga teacher and recovery advocate Jenn English about her new class, “The Quiet Power”, a free, trauma‑informed yoga space designed with the recovery community in mind. You’ll hear how the class is intentionally slow, welcoming, and completely pressure‑free: "You don't have to perform. You don't have to keep up...

You’re just going to show up exactly the way you are." Jenn explains that many people in addiction and early recovery live in constant noise and chaos, feeling cut off from their bodies and emotions. Her classes focus on breath, gentle movement and consistency to help calm the nervous system and ease anxiety, grief and stress. As she puts it, quiet power is "strength that you don't have to force, you don't have to prove...

being able to come back to yourself just over and over again." She also shares that she is "just about three years sober" and that yoga has been a steady anchor in both getting sober and staying sober. At first, it was a private practice; over time, community became a vital part of feeling less isolated.

Now she wants to offer that same safe, dependable space to others in recovery, including those tapering off psychiatric medication or feeling disconnected from their bodies. With no religious component, no special gear, and mats provided, this class is pitched as “a real class for real people, with real bodies, living real lives.” If you could use a quieter place to land each week, could a gentle hour on a mat be the next small step in your recovery journey?