Meet Jenni, Nurture’s Founder

Jenni Derryberry Mann (eRYT500, RPYT, YACEP, RES) is a mother, movement educator, and prenatal + postnatal yoga teacher trainer. She founded Nurture Nashville to give women knowledgeable movement guidance and a welcoming community through pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and the changes beyond.

Teaching yoga since 2003, Jenni brings more than two decades of experience to her classes. Her approach connects yoga, biomechanics, breath, and birth education to help you move more comfortably, prepare for birth, support postpartum recovery, and understand your core and pelvic floor.

She also teaches teachers. As a longtime prenatal + postnatal teacher training leader, Jenni has trained instructors who support families at Nurture, elsewhere in Nashville, and around the country. When you come to Nurture, you’re joining a community built around this specialty since 2014.

Motherhood Shaped the Mission

Jenni’s direction became clear after the birth of her eldest daughter, when she helped create the original Blooma Yoga in Minneapolis. As a new mother, she experienced the difference that thoughtful movement and a community of other parents could make. She found her calling in helping others feel that same support.

She apprenticed with Blooma founder Sarah Longacre, becoming a certified prenatal yoga teacher and a lead instructor in Blooma’s Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training program. That foundation became part of what she brought to Nashville when she opened the studio now known as Nurture.

Jenni’s personal experiences with postpartum depression, miscarriage, parenting, marriage, and entrepreneurship deepened her respect for self-care. She understands that caring for yourself can be complicated, especially when so much of your energy goes toward caring for others. Her teaching makes room for that reality.

Experience You Can Feel in Class

Jenni has trained with Ana Forrest, Dianne Bondy, and Katy Bowman. She is a Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher and a Nutritious Movement® certified Restorative Exercise Specialist, with a focus on core and pelvic floor function.

Alongside her experience as a mother, Jenni has completed trainings in birth doula support, childbirth education, yoga nidra, self-care coaching and women’s circle leadership. Her classes combine practical movement education with warmth, conversation, and permission to be exactly where you are.

During pregnancy, that means movement for comfort, strength, breath awareness, and preparation for birth. In postpartum, it means a gradual approach to rebuilding strength, supporting the core and pelvic floor, and easing the aches that come with feeding, holding, and carrying a baby. Through midlife and beyond, it means continuing to care for a body whose needs keep changing.

Read more about Jenni’s training.

Supporting Mothers Beyond the Mat

Jenni is the editor of Belly Button Bliss: A Collection of Birth Stories (2009), co-founder of the Nashville Birth Collective (2017–2022), and a former board member of The Rooted Bridge, a nonprofit supporting perinatal mental health in the Southeast.

She also created Embodied Mindful Muse, a self-care and movement immersion combining yoga, biomechanics, and mindset coaching. The program grew from a question at the heart of her work: How can we care for ourselves while staying connected to the people and lives we love?

Outside the studio, Jenni loves neighborhood walks, Warner Parks hikes, books, movies in the theater, concerts at the Ryman, meaningful conversations, and skygazing from her hammock. Originally from Oklahoma, she has called Nashville home for nearly 15 years with her husband, two daughters, and two rescue pups.

Come Find Your Nurture

Whether you’re preparing for your first birth, finding your footing with a new baby, or making room for yourself in a later season of life, we’d love to welcome you.

Try your first two weeks of unlimited classes for $39. Your two weeks start with your first visit.