Circle Yoga Shala

Circle Yoga Shala A Wisdom School. Traveling Yoga and Ayurveda certifications. Online courses.

We offer exquisite in-person programs that enhance longevity, vitality and personal evolution. Our offerings include

RYT200

RYT500

Visheshya: Performance Training

Yoga Therapy Training

“Lost Ways of Knowing” podcast

Affiliate Yoga School

Ayurveda Cooking Foundations

“Yoga in Action” Quarterly Magazine

Enneagram Course

Seva

Retreats

The Bhagavad Gita continually returns to a deep, and very personal, question:Who are we underneath the roles we play?🪷 T...
06/03/2026

The Bhagavad Gita continually returns to a deep, and very personal, question:

Who are we underneath the roles we play?

🪷 Teacher.
🪷 Parent.
🪷 Partner.
🪷 Professional.
🪷 Caretaker.

These roles matter.
But they are not the whole story. 🕊

Practice invites us to discover what remains when identity is no longer built solely from what we do.

This inquiry sits at the heart of Yoga and at the heart of the Bhagavad Gita.

Registration for the Bhagavad Gita course is now open.
Get the intro lesson for free at the link in bio.

The Bhagavad Gita continually returns to a deep, and very personal, question:Who are we beneath the roles we play? 🪷 Tea...
06/03/2026

The Bhagavad Gita continually returns to a deep, and very personal, question:

Who are we beneath the roles we play?

🪷 Teacher.
🪷 Parent.
🪷 Partner.
🪷 Professional.
🪷 Caretaker.

These roles matter.
But they are not the whole story. 🕊

Practice invites us to discover what remains when identity is no longer built solely from what we do.

This inquiry sits at the heart of Yoga and at the heart of the Bhagavad Gita.

Registration for the Bhagavad Gita course is now open.
Get the intro lesson for free at the link in bio.

For years, we've watched people come to yoga looking for many different things:🪷 A stronger body.🪷 A calmer mind.🪷 A dee...
06/03/2026

For years, we've watched people come to yoga looking for many different things:

🪷 A stronger body.
🪷 A calmer mind.
🪷 A deeper spiritual practice.
🪷 A sense of purpose.
🪷 A place to belong.

What we've learned is that most people aren't looking for more information.

They're looking for rhythm. 🍃
A place to return to. 🌀
A community of practice that helps them stay connected to what matters, long after the retreat ends or the course is complete. 👭

This fall, we'll be opening something new at the Shala.

A space for ongoing practice, study, reflection, and community.

🪶 A place to deepen roots.
🪶 A place to be supported.
🪶 A place to remember.

We're not quite ready to share the details on social media, but if you'd like to be the first to hear when registration opens, then join our mailing list.

An announcement will go out soon.
Go to the link in bio to Get in our Circle.

Sometimes the hardest part of practice is believing we are ready for it. 🪷Yoga does not ask us to arrive as better versi...
06/02/2026

Sometimes the hardest part of practice is believing we are ready for it. 🪷

Yoga does not ask us to arrive as better versions of ourselves. It asks us to arrive as we are. 🍃

Every practice begins from the same place: this breath, this body, this moment. 🌀

If you've ever felt like the movement education you received left you with more rules than understanding, MoveWise was b...
05/31/2026

If you've ever felt like the movement education you received left you with more rules than understanding, MoveWise was built for you.

Most teachers are taught what to teach.

Far fewer are taught how to see.

How to recognize compensation patterns.
How to adapt practice to real bodies.
How to understand movement beyond alignment cues and one-size-fits-all solutions.

MoveWise is our professional certification in biomechanics and movement intelligence for yoga teachers, movement professionals, and practitioners who want to develop a deeper understanding of how the body moves, adapts, and changes.

This is not a weekend workshop.

It's a comprehensive training designed to change the way you observe, assess, and teach movement.

If you're ready to move beyond memorized cues and develop practical skills that will serve you and your students for years to come, now is the time.

We being in June .spaces

Learn more and apply today at the link in bio.

What if the thing in the way isn't actually there? 🪷So much of our suffering comes not from what is happening, but from ...
05/30/2026

What if the thing in the way isn't actually there? 🪷

So much of our suffering comes not from what is happening, but from what we're holding onto.

🌀 A story about ourselves.
🌀 A role we feel obligated to play.
🌀 A belief we've stopped questioning.
🌀 A habit of control.

We assume peace is something we need to achieve. That if we could just fix, heal, understand, or resolve one more thing, then we could finally relax.

But what if the obstacle is not the feeling, the circumstance, or the moment itself?

What if it's our grip on it? 🍃

At Circle Yoga Shala, we often return to a simple practice:

Pause.
Notice.
Breathe.

Not to become someone else, but to soften into what is already here.

Sometimes the path is not about adding more.

Sometimes it is about discovering there was less in the way than we imagined. 🪷

The Bhagavad Gita begins with a human moment:🍃 confusion,🍃 uncertainty,🍃 dread,🍃 and the feeling of standing at a thresh...
05/29/2026

The Bhagavad Gita begins with a human moment:

🍃 confusion,
🍃 uncertainty,
🍃 dread,
🍃 and the feeling of standing at a threshold without knowing what to do next.

This is part of what makes the Gita timeless. 🪷

It does not speak only to monks or philosophers.

It speaks to anyone trying to live with greater clarity, integrity, and awareness in the middle of ordinary life. 🪷

This is why we’re offering the first lesson of our Bhagavad Gita course free 🆓 for anyone who would like to explore this remarkable text with us.

Together we explore the Gita not simply as philosophy, but as a living practice of attention, action, relationship, and self-understanding. 🍃

If you’ve been curious about yoga beyond postures—or searching for a deeper conversation about what it means to live well—we invite you to begin with us. 🍃

You can access the first 🆓 lesson through the link in our bio.

05/28/2026

Most people think the Bhagavad Gita is about a battle.

It’s actually about what happens when we don’t know what to do.

When every option feels imperfect.
When responsibility feels heavy.
When the old way no longer works.
When life asks something of us that we aren’t sure we’re ready to give.

The Bhagavad Gita begins there.

And perhaps that’s why it still speaks to us today.

Only few spots remain in Matt’s Bhagavad Gita course at the early enrollment price!

Link in bio for details.

Most people know when food tastes good. 🥕Fewer people understand **why** something tastes balanced.Part of what we explo...
05/28/2026

Most people know when food tastes good. 🥕

Fewer people understand **why** something tastes balanced.

Part of what we explore during the Ayurvedic Cooking Retreat is how flavor develops throughout the cooking process — how spices behave differently depending on when they’re added, how the six tastes interact, and how small adjustments can completely change a meal.

The weekend is very hands-on.

Participants prepare the ingredients themselves: chopping, washing, organizing, tasting.

Matt handles the stove while explaining what he’s looking for at each stage of cooking.

There’s also unstructured time built into the retreat. Time to walk, rest, sit outside, or simply step away from the usual pace for a couple of days.

No prior experience with Ayurveda or cooking is necessary.

Just an interest in learning how to cook with a little more understanding and attention.

🌿 Ayurvedic Cooking Retreat
📍 Kindred Forest, just outside St. Louis
📅 June 26–28

More information at the link in bio. Early birds ends soon!

One of the central questions of the Bhagavad Gita isHow do we act without becoming consumed by the results? 🔥Many of us ...
05/27/2026

One of the central questions of the Bhagavad Gita is
How do we act without becoming consumed by the results? 🔥

Many of us spend our lives swinging between control and avoidance.
🌀 Trying harder.
🌀 Giving up.
🌀 Trying harder again.

The Gita offers another possibility.
🪷 To act wholeheartedly.
🪷 To offer your best effort.
🪷 And to release the outcome, which was never yours to control.

This is not passivity.
This is freedom.

Today, we are launching Matt's new online course 'The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita'.
Join to explore these teachings and their relevance for modern life.

All the info is at the link in bio.

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Jasper, AR

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Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 3pm

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