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Beginner and Intermediate Yoga
Intentional classes that integrate strength, mobility, breath, nervous-system awareness, and spiritual connection in an environment where students can learn without feeling pressured to perform.
Physiotherapist Trained in Mexico · Registered Yoga Teacher
Meet Abigail “Abi” Uribe
Where clinical understanding meets movement, breath, and a deeper relationship with the body.
Abi’s relationship with the body began through two very different doors: physiotherapy and yoga.
Trained as a physiotherapist in Mexico through an intensive five-year degree, Abi spent years working with rehabilitation, injury, recovery, movement, and complex physical conditions — including professional MMA athletes and patients within a collaborative holistic clinic.
Yoga opened another dimension.
It showed her that movement is not only about muscles, joints, and biomechanics. It can also be a way of experiencing breath, awareness, emotion, nervous-system regulation, and connection with oneself.
Today, Abi brings those worlds together in the way she teaches.
She does not simply teach people how to move. She helps them understand and reconnect with the body they are moving through.
Her Approach
The Body Is Always Telling a Story
To Abi, the way a person moves, breathes, holds tension, and responds to the world tells a story.
The physical body is not separate from a person’s emotions, thoughts, nervous system, spiritual life, or lived experiences. Each one influences the others.
This understanding is at the heart of Abi’s approach.
Rather than focusing exclusively on an area of pain or limitation, she considers the whole person. She helps students become more aware of their movement patterns, muscular engagement, joint positioning, breath, internal state, and the sensations arising throughout their practice.
Her intention is not to make the body conform to a particular shape.
It is to help each person build a more conscious relationship with their own body—and recognize that they can become an active participant in their own well-being.
Where Her Journey Began
The Grandmother Behind Both Callings
At the center of Abi’s journey is her grandmother—the woman she describes as one of the great loves of her life.
Her grandmother was the first person to bring Abi into a yoga studio. She loved yoga and invited Abi to attend a class as a way for them to spend time together.
Abi arrived expecting a gentle experience.
Instead, she discovered just how physically demanding and internally challenging yoga could be. She was fascinated by the strength, awareness, breath, and concentration the practice required.
What began as an opportunity to share time with her grandmother became the beginning of Abi’s own relationship with yoga.
She fell completely in love with the practice.
Her grandmother would also become the inspiration behind Abi’s decision to pursue physiotherapy.
After experiencing an aneurysm, her grandmother began losing physical abilities that had once been part of her everyday life. Abi witnessed more than the physical changes. She saw the emotional pain that accompanied the loss of movement, independence, and connection to the life her grandmother had known.
Abi wanted to do more than stand beside someone she loved and watch that loss unfold.
She wanted to understand the body. She wanted to learn how to guide someone through pain and change, help them reclaim function, and give them tools they could use to participate in their own healing.
That desire led Abi to complete five years of intensive physiotherapy education in Mexico and shaped the practitioner she would become.
In a beautiful way, the same woman opened both doors.
Through her grandmother’s love of yoga, Abi discovered the power of movement as a personal and spiritual practice. Through her grandmother’s physical challenges, she discovered her calling to understand the body and accompany others through healing.
What began as love between a grandmother and granddaughter became the foundation of Abi’s life’s work.
Physiotherapy Foundation
Five Years of Study. Years of Clinical Experience.
Abi earned her Bachelor of Physiotherapy from the Professional Institute in Therapies and Humanities in Mexico.
Her five-year education gave her an extensive foundation in anatomy, biomechanics, therapeutic movement, rehabilitation, physical agents, electrotherapy, and the clinical assessment of movement and function.
Her professional experience in Mexico included:
- Sports rehabilitation
- Work with professional MMA athletes
- Spinal-cord injuries
- Immediate postoperative recovery
- Treatment planning in collaboration with neurosurgical teams
- Therapeutic movement and mobility
- Professional wheelchair education
- Therapeutic and fire cupping
- Integration of Western and Eastern approaches to the body
- Collaborative care within a holistic clinic
- Service within rural and underserved communities
While working at a holistic clinic, Abi practiced alongside acupuncturists, chiropractors, massage therapists, and other practitioners.
This collaborative environment took her beyond the boundaries of a single therapeutic perspective. It allowed her to observe how different systems of care could contribute distinct pieces to a more complete understanding of the person.
Her work with professional MMA athletes gave her firsthand experience with bodies exposed to intense training, repetitive impact, physical strain, and the demands of high-level performance. It strengthened her ability to recognize the relationship between mobility, stability, body awareness, recovery, and sustainable movement.
Working with people experiencing serious injuries, physical limitations, and complex recovery processes also taught Abi that the body cannot always be understood through anatomy alone.
The nervous system matters.
Breath matters.
Emotional experience matters.
A person’s sense of trust, agency, and connection to their body matters.
These realizations expanded Abi’s understanding of healing and eventually allowed her to see how physiotherapy and yoga could become part of the same approach.
From Physiotherapy Back to Yoga
Where Two Paths Became One
For a time, physiotherapy and yoga appeared to be two different parts of Abi’s life.
Physiotherapy gave her a deep understanding of anatomy, biomechanics, pain, rehabilitation, and the physical processes involved in restoring movement.
Yoga invited her to experience the body differently—through breath, awareness, nervous-system connection, inner listening, and spiritual presence.
Eventually, Abi understood that the two paths had always belonged together.
Her clinical experience showed her that physical symptoms do not exist in isolation. The nervous system, emotions, thoughts, breath, personal history, and relationship with the body all influence how a person moves and experiences pain.
Yoga gave her a way to work with those dimensions while helping people turn inward and recognize their own capacity to participate in healing.
Today, Abi’s physiotherapy background allows her to offer detailed anatomical guidance, understand how joints and muscles are working, and help students recognize the purpose behind a movement.
Her yoga training allows her to guide that movement with breath, intention, presence, and spiritual connection.
She is no longer choosing between physiotherapy and yoga.
She is bringing them together.
Her Yoga Teaching
More Than Moving Through Poses
Abi is a Registered Yoga Teacher who completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training through Y2 Yoga in Charlotte.
Her classes bring together:
- Mindful strength
- Mobility and flexibility
- Anatomically informed alignment
- Breath awareness
- Nervous-system support
- Intentional movement
- Mind-body connection
- Spiritual exploration
- Hands-on guidance, with permission
- Adaptations for different bodies and levels of experience
Abi pays attention to more than whether a pose appears correct from the outside.
She helps students notice which muscles they are engaging, where they are holding unnecessary tension, how their joints are positioned, what their breath is doing, and how their internal experience changes through movement.
She wants people to understand what they are doing and why—not simply follow instructions.
Every class is guided by an intention. Whether the focus is strength, mobility, deeper stretching, nervous-system settling, or spiritual connection, the physical practice becomes part of a larger inner experience.
A Physiotherapy-Informed Experience
Where Clinical Understanding Meets Conscious Movement
Abi’s physiotherapy background gives her a distinctive perspective as a yoga teacher.
She understands that no two bodies arrive with the same history. Previous injuries, repetitive movement, athletic training, surgery, stress, limited mobility, fear, and disconnection from the body can all influence how someone experiences a class.
She does not expect every person to perform movement in exactly the same way.
Instead, she offers thoughtful cues, modifications, and guidance that allow students to explore movement with greater understanding and respect for their own bodies.
Her work is especially meaningful for athletes who want to develop a more conscious relationship with mobility and recovery, as well as people seeking a deeper connection between the physical body, nervous system, breath, and inner life.
Abi’s goal is not to push someone deeper for the sake of achieving a pose.
It is to help them become more aware, more connected, and more empowered within their own body.
Specialized Movement
Strength, Mobility, Deep Stretching and Pelvic-Floor Awareness
Abi’s training extends into hands-on yoga guidance, hypopressive exercise, pelvic-floor awareness, mobility, and deep-stretch practices.
Her work at Blue Root will include experiences such as:
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Deep Stretch and Mobility
Slower, Yin-inspired experiences focused on sustained stretching, mobility, body awareness, and hands-on guidance when desired.
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Pelvic-Floor Awareness
Educational movement experiences informed by Abi’s physiotherapy background and additional training in pelvic-floor awareness and hypopressive exercise.
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Athletic Mobility and Recovery
Purposeful movement for athletes who want to support mobility, body awareness, recovery, and a more balanced relationship between effort and restoration.
Across every class, Abi brings the same intention: to help people understand their bodies rather than feel separated from them.
Teaching as Service
Guided by Knowledge. Grounded in Love.
What most distinguishes Abi’s teaching cannot be found on a list of credentials.
It is the love she brings to the work.
Abi sees teaching as a form of service. She does not enter a room to perform or prove what she knows. She enters with a genuine desire to share what she has learned and help others recognize the strength, wisdom, and healing capacity within themselves.
Her spirituality is an important part of how she understands this work. She believes the knowledge and love she has received are meant to move through her in service to other people.
She wants every person practicing with her to feel welcomed, respected, and free to be themselves.
More than anything, she wants them to feel at home.
Service Across Communities
Different Stories. Shared Humanity.
While practicing in Mexico, Abi provided services in rural and underserved communities.
Those experiences deepened her respect for the extraordinary diversity of human life. She encountered different circumstances, cultures, needs, perspectives, and ways of relating to the body.
Yet beneath those differences, she continually recognized something shared.
No matter where she went or whom she treated, Abi could find some part of herself within the person in front of her.
This understanding continues to shape the way she teaches today. She approaches people with curiosity rather than assumption and believes every person brings a story worthy of being heard.
To Abi, diversity gives the world its color, beauty, and richness—while our shared humanity reminds us that we belong to one another.
The Practitioner Behind the Work
Always Learning. Always Practicing.
Abi’s curiosity extends far beyond her professional education.
She loves studying, reading, and encountering ideas that expand the way she understands the body, healing, spirituality, and human experience.
For Abi, knowledge is meant to be embodied. She does not want to simply read or memorize something—she wants to practice it, experience it, and understand how it lives within the body.
Meditation and time in nature are meaningful parts of her life.
She also loves speaking with people, including those she has just met, because every conversation offers an opportunity to discover another way of seeing the world.
Her connection with children is especially important to her. Their openness, presence, and sense of play help her remain connected to her own inner child and remember that growth does not require losing wonder.
Whether she is studying, teaching, moving, meditating, spending time outside, or listening to another person’s story, Abi remains guided by curiosity, connection, and the desire to continue becoming more fully herself.
How Abi Teaches
Knowledgeable. Loving. Intentional.
A Place to Return to Your Body
Abi brings clinical knowledge, intuitive awareness, and genuine warmth into every class.
She observes alignment and movement, but she also pays attention to breath, hesitation, effort, energy, and the ways a person responds internally to the practice.
She does not believe yoga should be about forcing the body into a predetermined form.
She does not believe pain should be ignored in pursuit of a pose.
She does not teach movement without helping students understand its purpose.
Instead, Abi creates an environment where people can explore, ask questions, receive guidance, and become more conscious of what their bodies are communicating.
Hands-on support may be offered with clear permission to help a student find greater awareness, alignment, or depth without overriding the body’s boundaries.
Her intention is to create a space where each person feels safe enough to be themselves, supported enough to explore, and empowered enough to recognize that the path inward belongs to them.
Education and Professional Training
Education and Registration
Formal Education
Five-Year Bachelor of Physiotherapy
Professional Institute in Therapies and Humanities, Mexico
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training,
Y2 Yoga, Charlotte
Registered Yoga Teacher,
RYT-200, Yoga Alliance
Bilingual in Spanish and English
Physiotherapy Experience in Mexico
- Sports rehabilitation
- Physiotherapy for professional MMA athletes
- Spinal-cord injury care
- Immediate postoperative recovery
- Collaborative treatment planning with neurosurgical teams
- Therapeutic movement and mobility
- Professional wheelchair education
- Physical agents and electrotherapy
- Therapeutic and fire cupping
- Integration of Western and Eastern approaches
- Collaborative work with acupuncturists, chiropractors, massage therapists, and other practitioners within a holistic clinic
- Community service in rural and underserved areas
Additional Movement Training
- Hypopressive exercise
- Pelvic-floor awareness and movement
- Hands-on yoga guidance
- Mobility and deep-stretch practices
- Nervous-system-centered movement
- Strength and flexibility training
Your Body Is Not Something to Overcome
Learn to Listen to It, Understand It and Work With It
You may want to become stronger or more mobile.
You may be an athlete whose body is accustomed to constant effort but less familiar with intentional recovery.
You may want to reconnect with movement after feeling limited, disconnected, or uncertain about what your body needs.
Or you may be seeking a practice that reaches beyond physical exercise and helps you connect with your breath, nervous system, inner life, and spiritual self.
Abi will meet you with knowledge, compassion, and respect for the story your body carries.
Her intention is not simply to lead you through a class.
It is to help you return to your body—and feel at home within it.
Yoga and movement experiences at Blue Root are coming soon.