Edge Yoga School

08/13/2026

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08/13/2026

The Modules are Coming! Join yoga teacher training one season at a time to work with your life...rather than the other way around.

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08/12/2026

What my photoshoot looked like back in the day. 😜

08/10/2026

One of the easiest retreat-planning mistakes is believing that more programming always creates more value. A thoughtful retreat needs room to breathe. Participants may need time to rest, explore, enjoy coffee, connect with others, or choose not to participate in every activity.

Creating a balanced rhythm is an important part of retreat leadership. A retreat can offer meaningful experiences without scheduling every minute of the day.

Discover Yoga Retreat Specialist | YACEP at Edge Yoga School: https://www.edgeyogaschool.com/product-page/yoga-retreats

08/09/2026

Yoga Retreats Don’t Have to Wait for Summer

A yoga retreat does not have to mean airfare, a resort, or an entire weekend away.

One of my favorite approaches to retreat planning is creating a micro-retreat close to home by renting an unexpected space for a few hours.

Think yoga, an indoor pool, a sound bath with crystal singing bowls, time to float and unwind, healthy refreshments, meditation, journaling, conversation, and absolutely nowhere else you need to be.

Platforms such as Peerspace can make that possible. Search for a private venue with an indoor pool, and suddenly your retreat season can extend throughout the entire year.

A winter retreat can feel especially luxurious. Guests arrive bundled in coats and step into a warm, light-filled pool environment. Begin with yoga, transition into a crystal singing bowl sound bath, then allow time for the pool, quiet reflection, meditation, refreshments, or a workshop.

The acoustics and atmosphere of a beautiful indoor space can make sound part of the retreat itself. Crystal bowls introduce another sensory dimension alongside movement, water, stillness, and community.

For yoga teachers, this also changes the economics of retreat planning. Instead of committing to a permanent facility or coordinating a destination retreat, you can rent an interesting space for a defined block of time and design the experience around it.

When evaluating a Peerspace or similar rental, confirm that your intended activities are permitted, particularly yoga instruction, sound baths, group events, food and beverage service, photography, and pool use. Also verify occupancy, insurance requirements, changing facilities, accessibility, parking, lifeguard requirements, and exactly what is included with the rental.

Retreat planning idea:
Yoga + Crystal Bowl Sound Bath + Indoor Pool + Meditation + Refreshments + Community
= a four-season local retreat.

Sometimes creating a retreat isn’t about going farther away. It’s about creating enough space to feel as though you did.

Yoga Retreat Specialist
Creating thoughtful retreat experiences, one space at a time.

08/07/2026

Meandering Into a Resort Studio: A Fifteen-Minute Travel Yoga Practice

While traveling, I meandered into a quiet resort studio, slipped on my headphones, rolled out a mat, and allowed my personal practice to unfold.

Travel can make us feel tight. Long flights, car rides, unfamiliar beds, carrying luggage, and extra time spent walking or sitting may leave the hips, spine, shoulders, and neck asking for attention. A short yoga practice can help us reconnect with those areas and create a little more ease.

Rather than arriving with a complicated plan, I listened to what my body was asking for. This practice moves through standing folds, gentle twists, hip opening, side-body movement, and grounded shapes on the mat. There is room to pause, breathe, explore, and choose what feels supportive.

A personal practice does not need to be long or perfectly choreographed. It does not require an elaborate setting, either. A resort studio is lovely, but a quiet corner of a hotel room can work just as well. The practice begins when we give ourselves permission to stop, notice, and move.

This is not about forcing flexibility or achieving a particular shape. Move with curiosity, modify as needed, and let your body guide the experience.

If travel has left you feeling a little tight, join me for about fifteen minutes of thoughtful movement. Find a comfortable space, roll out a mat if you have one, and let’s practice together.

08/07/2026

Same day. Same world. Different front pages.

Travel has a way of reminding us that where we stand influences what we see. From Rome, I took a closer look at how newspapers from different places tell the story of the world around us, and why curiosity about another perspective matters.

Read “What’s on the Front Page?”

https://michelleraesobi.blogspot.com/2026/08/whats-on-front-page.html?m=1

08/06/2026

🧘🏻‍♀️ THE ART OF DOING NOTHING

Yoga Retreats | Edge Yoga School

Somewhere along the way, rest became something we thought we had to earn.

We fill calendars. We answer messages. We care for families, students, clients, businesses, homes, and seemingly endless lists of things requiring our attention. Even our vacations can become itineraries filled with places we need to see and things we need to accomplish.

And then you encounter a little pile of sleeping cherubs in Rome.

No productivity.

No urgency.

No apparent concern whatsoever about what comes next.

Just rest.

There is something wonderfully yogic about that.

A yoga retreat isn’t simply an opportunity to practice yoga somewhere beautiful. It is an opportunity to interrupt our usual rhythm long enough to notice what happens when we aren’t rushing toward the next obligation.

We practice. We explore. We eat. We laugh. We photograph beautiful things. We learn something about the place we’re visiting and, occasionally, something unexpected about ourselves.

And we rest.

That last part matters.

Yoga teaches us that effort and ease are not opposites. They belong together. We strengthen and soften. We move and become still. We engage with the world and periodically withdraw from its noise.

A thoughtfully designed yoga retreat can hold both.

Perhaps that is why this little sculpture caught my attention while traveling through Rome. Among monumental works of art, elaborate architecture, and centuries of history, here was this delightful reminder that sometimes the most appropriate thing to do is simply curl up beside somebody you trust and call it a day.

The cherubs seem to have mastered savasana.

The rest of us may still need a little practice.

Edge Yoga School | Yoga Retreats
Practice. Explore. Connect. Rest.

Photography © Michelle Rae Sobi | Rome, Italy

08/05/2026

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08/04/2026

Yoga retreat, anyone? 🇮🇹