A Wisdom School located in the foothills of Arkansas’ Ozark Mountains.
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
01/10/2026
You might be thinking…
I am intrigued by 'Esoteric Christianity' but...
“I’m not a practicing Christian.”
“I don’t know the Bible very well.”
“I’m spiritual, but not sure about religion.”
“I’m not sure I have the time for spiritual study.” 🤔
If any of that sounds familiar, take a breath — you’re not alone.
The work we do in 'Esoteric Christianity' isn’t about belief, dogma, or having the “right” answers.
It’s about learning how to read sacred stories as mirrors of human experience — stories that speak to doubt, longing, failure, courage, and transformation.
You don’t need prior knowledge.
You don’t need certainty.
You just need a willingness to listen a little more deeply.
If you’ve ever felt drawn to scripture but unsure how to approach it — or felt something sacred there that you couldn’t quite name — this space was created with you in mind. 🤍
📅 Esoteric Christianity is a Live course that begins Jan 21
👉 Link in bio to join
01/08/2026
We rarely remember instructions.
But we remember stories. 📖✨
A story stays with us because it doesn’t just speak to the mind —
it speaks to the heart, the imagination, and the body.
It gives us a way to enter meaning, rather than stand outside of it.
This is why sacred traditions have always taught through stories.
Not to explain life, but to reveal it.
In Esoteric Christianity, we approach scripture this way — not as information to memorize, but as living narratives that show us how transformation actually happens. Stories that meet us where we are, and gently invite us forward.
If you’ve ever felt a story working on you long after you heard it —
you already understand this kind of learning. 🤍
📅 Course begins Jan 21
👉 Link in bio to join
01/07/2026
Creation didn’t only happen once, at the beginning of time.
It’s not a finished event sealed in the past.
Creation is a living pattern — still unfolding.
In the world.
In history.
And quietly… in you. ✨
Every moment, something is being formed:
a thought, a choice, a response, a way of seeing.
The same creative movement described in scripture continues to shape our inner lives — if we learn how to notice it.
In Esoteric Christianity, we explore ancient stories not as explanations, but as maps of an ongoing process — a way of understanding how meaning, order, and consciousness emerge again and again.
When you begin to see creation this way, life feels less accidental…
and more like an invitation. 🤍
📅 Esoteric Christianity begins Jan 21
👉 Link in bio to join
01/05/2026
Next week, Circle Yoga Shala will be back at to complete another intensive of the 200hr Yoga Teacher Training!
If you’re interested in bringing a Shala training or workshop into your space, reach out through the form provided on our website!
01/04/2026
Many believe spiritual study is about memorizing facts 📚
Knowing the right verses. Holding the right ideas. Saying the right words.
But real transformation doesn’t happen in the head alone.
It happens when meaning becomes lived experience 🔥
When a story isn’t something you learn about —
but something that works on you, opens you, and reveals you to yourself.
This is why “Esoteric Christianity” is a course about recovering imagination as a spiritual faculty 🌱
The ability to see beneath the surface…
to read sacred stories as maps of inner transformation…
and to let them shape how you live, choose, and perceive the world.
If you’ve ever felt that scripture holds more than you’ve been taught to see, this is your invitation to join us. ✨
👉 Link in bio to join Esoteric Christianity.
📅 Begins Jan 21
01/03/2026
🔥 New Online Course ‘Esoteric Christianity' with Matthew Krepps 🔥
If you feel there's more to sacred texts, it's because there is.
Have you ever read a story in scripture and felt like something more was trying to reach you — but you didn’t know how to listen?
That’s because sacred texts aren’t just old words. They’re patterns of transformation and they were meant to be read that way.
Starting Jan 21, Matthew Krepps, co-founder of Circle Yoga Shala, is teaching a 7-week interactive online course where we rediscover scripture as living meaning, not just literal facts.
Together, we’ll:
✨ Learn to read scripture symbolically and psychologically
✨ See biblical stories as maps of inner development
✨ Recover imagination as a tool for spiritual perception
✨ Practice the inner work these stories actually point to
This isn’t a theology class. Rather, this is an initiation into seeing the world differently, where meaning is not imposed on reality, but revealed through it.
Join Holly live in our Wisdom Community on from 9:00 to 10:30 AM, for a grounding, embodied morning together. 🍃
Energy Exchange (Instead of a Fee): No cost. Your “donation” is participation in the community.
For the next 48 hours:
✨ Post inspirational words in our wisdom community feed OR
🎥 Share a short video of your favorite movement for getting physically unstuck—squats, push-ups, crawling, warrior pose, core work, shaking, or whatever brings you back into your body.
🌀 This is not about resolutions.🌀
It’s about presence, vitality, and belonging.
12/31/2025
FREE LIVE YOGA CLASS WITH HOLLY ON THURSDAY!
Join Holly live in our Wisdom Community on New Year’s Day, Thursday, 9:00–10:30 am, for a grounding, embodied morning together.
We’ll begin with one hour of asana, pranayama, and meditation (you’re welcome to sign off after this portion). We'll then move into 10 minutes of guided journaling and 20 minutes of optional sharing in circle: a simple way to begin the year in community.
FREE - Energy Exchange (Instead of a Fee)
No cost. Your “donation” is participation in the community.
For the next 48 hours:
✨ Post inspirational words in our wisdom community feed OR
🎥 Share a short video of your favorite movement for getting physically unstuck—squats, push-ups, crawling, warrior pose, core work, shaking, or whatever brings you back into your body.
We are overflowing with joy and gratitude as we celebrate Alicia, the newest graduate of the Circle Yoga Shala’s 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training.
What an absolute gift it has been to walk this journey with you. 💕
Alicia--thank you for your dedication, curiosity, warmth, and presence. We are so grateful for the connection we’ve built and for the way you now carry this work forward — tending the fire for yourself, your students, and your community. 🔥
Alicia shared that the training “profoundly enriched my teaching by rooting me in both the wisdom traditions of old and the science of now.” 🌀
Over the past year, Alicia
🪷 Integrated a wide range of biomechanical and Ayurvedic techniques into her teaching
🪷 Expanded her teaching language to serve different purposes and situations
🪷 Upgraded her sequencing skills to make practice transformative and digestible for her students
🪷 Grew her own presence as a competent, confident, adaptable teacher
Congratulations, dear Alicia. Much love to you from your Shala family. 💖
Please join us in celebrating Alicia -- and if you're in the St. Louis area, treat yourself to a class with her!
12/27/2025
Matt’s gift is that he can take esoteric ideas from Indian philosophies and make them relatable and digestible for all. 🌀
Here, he talks about Karma as ‘action’. 🪷
12/26/2025
⏰ Last Chance to Give Before Year-End ⏰
As the year comes to a close, you still have time to make a powerful, life-saving impact — and receive a tax-deductible benefit for 2025.
🌹 The Rose Angel Foundation, founded by Holly Krepps, is dedicated to rescuing horses from the slaughter pipeline and providing them with safety, medical care, and a chance to heal.
🐴 Your year-end donation helps cover:
✔️ Veterinary care & rehabilitation
✔️ Feed, hay & winter needs
✔️ Sanctuary care for rescued horses
✨ 100% of donations go directly to horse care
✨ All gifts made by December 31 are tax-deductible
Your donation is a decision to end the year with compassion and begin the next with hope.
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Circle Yoga Shala is a School for Yoga, Creative Movement, and Self-Inquiry in Arkansas’ Ozark Mountains. We are a Member School of the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and a registered school with the National Yoga Alliance.
At the heart of all we do is contemplation, self-observation, and service.
We offer yoga teacher trainings in our 200-hour, 500-hour, and 800-hour Professional Yoga Therapy programs. We teach principles and methods that are grounded in somatic inquiry, and not inherently limited to a style of practice. To take a posture that is filled with one’s attention, ‘sensing’ what is happening (seeing and recognizing rather than thinking about), and then responding intelligently is to move with reality rather than projecting onto it. This somatic inquiry is taught in asana (movement and stillness), in meditation (sitting and walking), and in a felt relationship to the three centers: head, heart, and gut. This method lays the foundation for self-inquiry and contemplation.
Join our Seva program available each June for an opportunity to immerse in practice, community and nature without enrolling in a formal teacher training.
We also specialize in developing movement strategies from the simple to the complex to the spontaneous. We work with professional athletes and are consultants on Team Slukova' and Hermannova', Czech Republic's Olympic Women's Beach Volleyball team.
The philosophical basis for our teaching comes from 'East meets West': the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Pancha Maya Model, the Five Elements, the Kleshas, the Gunas, Ayurveda, and the Enneagram, as well as evolutionary theory, neuroscience and bio-mechanics, and Integral Psychology.
The school is also a living farm. The property consists of approximately 1/2 acre organic vegetable gardens, edible flowers and herbs, an orchard, chickens and horses. The Shala is an approved farm with the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms Organization, WWOOF.
We focus on sustainability practices, including composting and water conservation. Life here is a living example of the inter-connectedness of all things.
All meals are served in part from the farm and constructed with an understanding of Ayurveda, and the most current scientifically backed practices in nutrition.
We can accommodate up to 20 people residentially at the Shala for scheduled activities only. There are spaces available for couples.
