Yoga on the Block

Yoga on the Block is a yoga studio in Murphysboro, IL. The studio serves beginners looking to start a yoga practice as well as experienced students seeking to deepen their current practice, offering classes designed to help students manage stress and anxiety, experience less pain, improve mobility and strength, gain flexibility, improve breathing and posture, enhance sleep, and nourish and rejuvenate themselves. The studio also provides chair yoga as a gentle way for all ages and fitness levels to learn breathing, posture, yoga poses, and relaxation. Yoga on the Block is led by two instructors. Martha Peebles is a registered nurse with a B.S.N. and R.M.A. credentials, and a 200-hour yoga teacher training graduate from November 2018. She has been a fitness instructor for John A. Logan College Continuing Education for 30 years and has taught stretching and strengthening with gentle yoga through that program since receiving her training. She has also taught yoga classes at the Oasis Spa in Murphysboro and occasionally teaches goat yoga at Lovin' The Farm in rural Campbell Hill, IL. Annie Bowsher is a 300-hour registered yoga instructor with a dance and gymnastics background who has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and teaching since 2018. Her classes are customized, compassionate, and light-hearted, and she offers an approach to movement that honors each practitioner's individual needs. The studio is located on Walnut Street, about a tenth of a mile from Town Square, a short walk from the Murphysboro Post Office, and roughly a fifth of a mile from the Jackson County Courthouse and Murphysboro City Hall. Martha Peebles can be reached at 618-708-2901. With two registered instructors bringing decades of combined fitness and yoga teaching experience to a single Walnut Street location, Yoga on the Block offers Murphysboro residents a dedicated space to begin or enrich their yoga practice.