FAIRVIEW PARK, Ohio -- After spending the last four years teaching yoga around the west side of Cleveland, Fairview Park native Jackie Walsh decided the time was right to open her own hometown facility.

The grand opening of Hope Yoga Studio, which is located at 21571 Lorain Road, is scheduled for later this month.

"There's no studio in Fairview, North Olmsted and West Park," said Walsh, a 2008 Magnificat High School graduate. "If you want to practice, you have to go to a gym or rec centers or attend events over an actual studio.

"When I moved back to Fairview and bought a house a year ago, the wheels started turning that this would be a good place to open a studio. The more times I mentioned it to people, they were getting excited about the possibility. That kept the momentum rolling and now this will be the first studio in Fairview."

Hope Yoga Studio, which will have 11 instructors and be open seven days a week, will mainly focus on different levels of vinyasa yoga.

"I want it to be a space where the average person can walk in and feel comfortable going to a class whether they've have been practicing for a long time or are brand new," Walsh said.

"I know a lot of studios in the area are specifically hot and power studios. That's kind of what I want to get away from. I want it to be really beginner friendly and I want to do a lot of restorative classes."

The latter is tied to yin yoga, which varies from vinyasa by incorporating seated or lying down poses held for a longer period of time.

"There are different props we can use to keep you in place for that long," Walsh said. "It's definitely beginner friendly, but it also can be a great class for pretty much anyone because holding the poses longer and being seated or lying down is going to be a deeper opening of all your muscles and connective tissue."

First exposed to Yoga as a teenager, Walsh in 2014 took a major step traveling to Bali, Indonesia to complete a 200-hour teacher training with Alicia Cheung and Oliver Reinsch of YogaWorks. While overseas for more than two months, she also completed a 100-hour yin yoga training.

Aside from obviously loving yoga, Walsh said there's another deeply personal aspect tied to the opening of Hope Yoga Studio.

"The studio is actually in memory of both my parents, Helen and Jim, who passed away from different forms of cancer," Walsh said. "The name behind it is from when my mom was re-diagnosed with cancer. She brought home a new puppy and named it Hope.

"That was her way of telling us that everything was going to be OK. So the name is a dedication to both of my parents."