Kathi's Bio
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Kathleen Perry, E - RYT, CYT
Kathleen Perry (Kathi) was born on spiritual ground in Ketchikan, Alaska. She grew up on the West Coast, living in Washington State and California. After moving to Michigan with her family in 1991, Kathi discovered the gift of yoga and knew she wanted to share it with others as a teacher. She became certified by Jonny Kest in Ashtanga, Vinyasa, PreNatal and Healthy Backs yoga. She also has studied with many great teachers including David Williams,Tim Miller, David Swenson, Doug Swenson, Rod Stryker, Anna Forrest, Simon Park, and many others.
In 2002, she moved to Franklin, Tennessee with her family. After her unsuccessful search for a local yoga studio to practice Ashtanga/Vinyasa as she knew and loved, Kathi decided to open her own yoga studio. In May of 2004 Franklin Yoga Center was born, where she taught classes, workshops, and facilitated yoga teacher training courses registered with Yoga Alliance. Just five years later, June 2009, Kathi decided to focus more on the "yoga" and less on the "business", and is now specializing in her Yoga Alliance accredited teacher training course, workshops, and teaching various classes in Middle Tennessee. She now travels around the country studying yoga and meditation with her favorite teachers and returns to share it with her students. Kathi enjoys teaching in a style that safely leads students to their edge (allowing students to grow), while maintaining the integrity of yoga, all with a dose of West Coast love!
Her family includes a loving husband, three beautiful children (22, 21, and 15), two frisky dogs and one sun loving cat. Kathi and her adventurous spirit has taken her to the stage of the Miss USA pageant as a finalist, to the sky's as a flight attendant with Alaska Airlines and private jets, and to the football fields as an NFL Cheerleader. When she's not in the yoga studio, Kathi enjoys reading, traveling, bike riding, gardening, and spending time with her family and friends, many of whom are her students.
She is a member of Yoga Alliance, the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and is the President of the Yoga Society of Nashville.
... Me with my teacher Jonny Kest and his teacher David Williams
Jonny Kest David Williams "Be Happy" ~ Jonny Kest
"All We Need is Love" ~ John Lennon
