Natalie Peach
Model

When you miss your girl, but also so happy that she’s living her best life! Xo @yogawithshannon 📷 @ikj_photography

My first yoga session and photoshoot since injury was this past week, and both experiences have been very special for me. Before moving to Alabama about 8 years ago, I never had a female yoga instructor. I was surprised and unfamiliar with the energy. However, while I am not in any way grateful for being attacked by someone and having someone violate my body and break my clavicle, in a sense- I never would have deeply learned the resilience and strength of women and the female leaders in our Birmingham community. The yoga is strong with this one ❤️‍🔥 📷 @bhamdcphotography 🪴 @botanica_plantshop

One of these is not like the other… “much”

@botanica_plantshop is an amazing shop to find your next in-home friends. I myself bought 3 cacti (my favorite plant) On this rainy Monday, the little cacti remind me of bright, dry, hot summer days ahead. Visit this amazing shop and experience the inspiration and magic it brings 📷 @bhamdcphotography

Maybe you don’t have control over what happens to you. But you do have control over how you respond to them. Never underestimate a broken woman, because she is rebuilding herself stronger than before. ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🔥♈️ 📷 @bhamdcphotography

The thing about depression is, we know the world does not revolve around us. The other day I accidentally interrupted a bird snacking on a tomato hornworm. I immediately retreated back inside the house hoping that she’d finish her snack, but she never came back. For the rest of the day I felt so guilty about disturbing this little bird, then my mind became flooded by all the other times I have disrupted other people. The things you say to a depressed person linger in their head for years. “You aren’t capable of helping”, “I feel hopelessly lonely in this relationship” “you are not strong enough to…” It’s more than an echo, it’s a burial of confidence. Not only must we choose our words wisely, we must also choose who we listen to. Listen to your inner child. When I am feeling most depressed, I try to think back to me being 4yrs old in Seattle WA, playing dress up. I want to make that little girl proud to dress up as me, today. 📷 @jamesacomb

It’s taken work and vulnerability. I have been asked to represent Birmingham in an upcoming article featuring “20 of the Most Inspiring Women to Watch Out for in 2021” 💜💕 There is a lot of criticism and heartache that has come over this 2021 year. Nonetheless I am very proud to be launching “Yoga Safe” and offering free yoga classes and a safe place to bond together for women and LGBTQ+ community. New article with magazine spread coming out this August along with the full launch of Yoga Safe. #yogateacher @women__icons

✅Some people don’t like being touched and THAT IS OK! ✅Some people need time for quiet meditation and THAT IS HEALTHY ✅Some people say “no” and THAT IS A BOUNDARY ☯️ It doesn’t always take “trauma” for you to have your space, time, and boundaries. It is something we must all respect about each other and our own body. Yoga Safe is not only a safe place for you to talk and express yourself through words, because if your like me, sometimes you don’t want to say anything at all and you just want a safe place with your feelings. The body reveals the physical and emotional scars from the past. Maybe it’s time to start exploring them. Yoga Safe is a platform for free yoga classes offered by me and a few other yogis who believe in the karmic work of healing the mind and body through meditation and movement. Classes release summer 2021 ❤️‍🩹 📷 @jamesacomb

I’m not an advocate for much. Yes I have my personal views on social, political, and environmental affairs and don’t argue or debate them much with others of same or different views. However, I will always be an advocate for normalizing and bringing awareness to mental health and quality. I am also resolutely intolerant to domestic abuse and violence. With this year halfway done I have decided to teach free yoga classes at multiple halfway homes and domestic violence shelters in Birmingham Al, and also nationally will launch free yoga classes on a new website for women advocacy. The website is currently in progress and will launch this summer of 2021. The life is too short to abuse yourself, and allow abuse in your life. As a survivor of domestic abuse. I’d like to help. I’d like to help encourage all women to be strong and be fully supported in this amazing life and yoga journey. Let’s collaborate and end violence on women. More posts to follow this week on teasers for the website, classes, and locations for the new yoga journey we are on. 💜💕💜💕💜💕