Ashby Underwood-Garner believes in living yoga. Her skillful teaching is a powerful blend of deep listening to her students and an ever-growing understanding of the scope of yoga.

In 1998 after three years of daily practice, she traveled to Pokhara, Nepal and spent a month immersed in yogic lifestyle at the Himalayan Sadhana Yoga Ashram.

In 1999, her path led her to an additional month-long 200hr intensive at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in the Catskill Mountains in New York, the largest school of yoga worldwide, to become a Certified Yoga Teacher. The next year she graduated under Don Scheumann at the Atlanta School of Massage from a 720hr program in Integrated Deep Tissue Massage.

In 2002, Ashby began her study under the mastership of David Davis, Thomas Myers, Neal Powers, and apprenticeship with Buddy Frank, to become a Certified Rolf Practitioner (1000+ hours).

Ashby’s yoga teaching is deeply informed by her understanding of human anatomy and experience as a bodyworker.

In her yoga career of 22 years, Ashby’s devotion to yoga has inspired a growing yoga community in the mountains and the southeast which celebrates yogic living, sincere practice, and diversity.

She offers classical yoga classes, seasonal workshops, cleansing, and private yoga therapy for all ages from a place of activated personal growth and empowerment.

She is an honored member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists at the 3000hr practical level and a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT).

Yoga Highlands is the thriving practice of Ashby and her husband, Chad Garner. Along with their two sons, they live in the headwaters, or bhagavati, of the pristine and wild Chattooga River.