Alison Pounds - Certified Yoga Instructor

Alison Pounds - Certified Yoga Instructor Trauma-Informed Yoga and Somatic Movement

Sometimes life asks us to trust a path we never would have chosen ourselves.Over the past few weeks, I’ve been listening...
08/03/2026

Sometimes life asks us to trust a path we never would have chosen ourselves.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been listening closely to my body and trying to give it the time and care it needs. While I’m still recovering, I’m thankful to finally be having a few better days and hopeful that I’m beginning to turn a corner.

With that has come a difficult decision.

I’ve decided to step away from teaching my weekly classes at Good Foundation and Blossom Yoga.

If I’m honest, this isn’t how I imagined saying goodbye to those weekly rhythms or to all of you. I would have loved the chance to share a few more classes together and close that chapter in person.

The hardest part won’t be leaving the schedule. It will be missing the people. Thank you for making those spaces feel like community.

This isn’t goodbye, though.
I’ll continue sharing nervous system support, reflections, and resources here, offering private sessions as I’m able, and collaborating with both studios through workshops and special events in the future.

I’m also still hopeful that we’ll gather together for Moon Medicine on August 23. 🤍

We also have so many wonderful yoga teachers and studio communities here in Fredericksburg. If you’re looking for a class while I’m away and would like a recommendation or help finding a good fit, please send me a message. I’d truly love to help you stay connected to your practice.

Thank you for continuing to walk through this season with me.

I’m so grateful you’re here.

One thing this season is teaching me is how different listening to your body feels when you don’t have the option to ove...
07/23/2026

One thing this season is teaching me is how different listening to your body feels when you don’t have the option to override it anymore.

For so many years, my body has been communicating with me in quiet ways. Sometimes through fatigue. Sometimes through tension. Sometimes through the subtle feeling that I needed more rest than I wanted to admit.

Like many people, I’ve had moments where I could keep going anyway.

This season has been different.

My body has made it very clear what it needs, and I’ve had to practice something I encourage in others every day: listening before I understand, resting before I feel “caught up,” and trusting that honoring my limits is not the same thing as giving up.

One of the things I love about somatic work is that it reminds us the body isn’t trying to work against us. It’s constantly trying to work for us. The challenge is that we often don’t slow down long enough to hear what it’s been saying.

I’m still learning.

And maybe that’s one of the most honest parts of this work. That becoming more connected to ourselves isn’t something we finish. It’s something we continue practicing.

Wherever this season finds you, I hope you’re able to offer yourself the same compassion you’re so quick to offer everyone else.

If you have been feeling stretched thin, a little disconnected from yourself, or simply in need of something more restor...
07/18/2026

If you have been feeling stretched thin, a little disconnected from yourself, or simply in need of something more restorative than your usual rhythm, this is a beautiful invitation to receive.

I would love to share this space with you.

Registration is open through the link in bio / website.

A lot of people think regulation means feeling calm all the time.But that is not actually how a healthy nervous system w...
07/15/2026

A lot of people think regulation means feeling calm all the time.

But that is not actually how a healthy nervous system works.

Your body is meant to respond. It is meant to activate, adjust, mobilize, and react to what life asks of you. The goal is not to eliminate stress completely. The goal is to be able to move through it and come back.

That return matters.

Because for many people, the problem is not that activation happens. It is that the body no longer trusts its way back to ease. So instead of moving fluidly between effort and recovery, tension and softening, stress and settling, we end up swinging between overdrive and exhaustion with very little middle ground.

That is part of what pendulation helps restore.

It reminds the nervous system that it does not have to get stuck in one state. That activation is not the end of the story. That the body can feel, respond, and still find its way back toward steadiness.

There’s something about summertime…Lately I’ve been reaching for titles like Embodied Self Awakening, Protect Your Energ...
07/13/2026

There’s something about summertime…Lately I’ve been reaching for titles like Embodied Self Awakening, Protect Your Energy, Body First Healing, and Joyful — each one reflecting something I keep coming back to in this season of life and practice. How to listen more closely. How to protect what feels essential. How to let the body lead a little more. How to make room for steadiness, beauty, and joy without needing everything to be perfect first.

That feels connected to this month’s focus too. Pendulation reminds us that the body is not meant to stay in one state all the time. We need rhythm. We need movement between effort and ease, activation and settling, doing and receiving.

Sometimes summer support looks simple. A quiet corner. A good book. A little warmth.

Which of these books would you pick up first — or what’s something you’re reading this summer that’s helping you feel more grounded?

Well... life has had a beautiful surprise for me.I’m so excited to share that I’m pregnant. 🤍Along with all the joy has ...
07/12/2026

Well... life has had a beautiful surprise for me.

I’m so excited to share that I’m pregnant. 🤍

Along with all the joy has come a level of pregnancy sickness that has been much more challenging than I expected. After listening closely to my body (and practicing the very work I teach every week), I’ve made the difficult decision to take a leave of absence through at least the end of July because I am simply too sick to teach.

If you’ve been practicing with me this month, you know we’ve been talking about The Art of Pendulation—learning to move with the nervous system instead of against it. I couldn’t have imagined how personally this lesson would meet me.

If you attend one of my regular classes, please check directly with the studios over the next few weeks for updates on schedules and substitute teachers. Eden is going to sub the Tranquil Soma classes for me through the end of the month.

Thank you for being such a kind, supportive community. Your encouragement, your prayers, and your understanding mean more than I can say.

I’m looking forward to returning when my body is ready. Until then, I’ll still be here sharing bits of this season and continuing to explore nervous system wellness together in a new way.

07/09/2026

Reading Fair Play by Eve Rodsky with this month’s theme in mind has had me thinking a lot about how the nervous system carries more than we often realize.

When the mental load stays high — the planning, tracking, anticipating, remembering, and holding of so many moving parts — it doesn’t just live in the mind. The body feels it too. In the breath. In the shoulders. In the low-grade sense of always being “on.” In how hard it can become to truly come down, even during moments that are meant to be restful.

That’s part of why this month’s focus on pendulation feels so meaningful. The body was never meant to stay in a constant state of output without rhythm. We need movement between effort and ease, activation and settling, responsibility and recovery.

Fair Play names something so many people live with, and it’s a powerful reminder that when the load is constant, nervous system support cannot just be about coping better. It also has to include honesty about what the body has been carrying.

Book: Fair Play by Eve Rodsky

A hard truth:Sometimes what we praise in ourselves is actually a nervous system that doesn’t know how to come down.Alway...
07/07/2026

A hard truth:

Sometimes what we praise in ourselves is actually a nervous system that doesn’t know how to come down.

Always staying busy.
Always needing to be ahead.
Always feeling like rest has to be earned.
Always pushing through because slowing down feels unfamiliar.

On the outside, that can look like discipline or productivity. But in the body, it can feel like constant activation with nowhere to go.

This is part of why pendulation matters so much.

A healthy nervous system is not one that never gets activated. It is one that can move into effort, stress, or stimulation and then return out of it again. It knows how to swing back toward ease instead of getting stranded in overdrive.

For many people, that return does not happen automatically anymore. And when it doesn’t, being “high functioning” can quietly become exhausting.

That is part of what we practice in somatic work. Not forcing calm. Not judging activation. But helping the body remember that it can move between doing and resting, tension and softness, effort and recovery.

Because productivity is not the same thing as regulation.
And constantly pushing through is not the same thing as capacity.

A lighter week on the schedule.Good Foundation is closed this week, so there will be no 10:00am Morning Soma Yoga classe...
07/05/2026

A lighter week on the schedule.

Good Foundation is closed this week, so there will be no 10:00am Morning Soma Yoga classes on Monday or Wednesday. We’ll still gather for Gentle Soma Yoga at 11:45am on Monday and Wednesday, plus Tranquil Soma Yoga on Monday at 5:00pm.

Sometimes a lighter week can be its own kind of practice.

When the schedule changes, it can bring up more than inconvenience. It can also give us a chance to notice how we relate to rhythm, routine, and support. A little less structure can sometimes show us what the body has been relying on, what it has been bracing against, and what it may be needing more of.

If you’d like to practice with me this week, I’d love to have you in class.

You can sign up at alisonpoundsyoga.com.

July’s schedule is here. 🤍This month’s focus is an invitation to keep coming back to the body with steadiness, softness,...
07/02/2026

July’s schedule is here. 🤍

This month’s focus is an invitation to keep coming back to the body with steadiness, softness, and support — especially in the middle of summer, when routines shift and it can be easy to move through life a little more disconnected from ourselves.

You’ll see a few studio closures and schedule changes this month:

Good Foundation will be closed July 6–10
Blossom Yoga will be closed July 26–31
I’ll also be out of town July 23–29

The grey 10:00 AM class on Monday, July 27 will be subbed by Shelby, so class is still available that morning even while I’m away.

Because both studios are taking a week off at different times this month, Good Foundation and Blossom Yoga are offering a special July unlimited pass that gives members access to both studios for the month. It’s a really beautiful way to keep your practice steady, even with the closures, and to enjoy more support and flexibility throughout July.

My regular schedule this month includes:
Mondays
10:00 AM Morning Soma Yoga
11:45 AM Gentle Soma Yoga
5:00 PM Tranquil Soma Yoga

Wednesdays
10:00 AM Morning Soma Yoga
11:45 AM Gentle Soma Yoga

If you’ve been wanting to stay consistent with your practice, try a new studio space, or simply give your nervous system a little more support this month, I’d love to practice with you.

You can sign up for classes and learn more at alisonpoundsyoga.com. Link in bio!

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