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

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.

Action and non-action both have consequences. 🌀Sometimes we hesitate because we are afraid of making the wrong choice.We...
05/26/2026

Action and non-action both have consequences. 🌀

Sometimes we hesitate because we are afraid of making the wrong choice.

We wait for certainty.
We wait for clarity.
We wait until we feel ready.

But choosing not to act is also a choice. 🪷

The Bhagavad Gita reminds us that life is asking for our participation.

Not perfection.
Not guarantees.
Participation.

Perhaps the question is not:
"What if I make the wrong choice?"

But, rather:
"What is being asked of me now?" 🪷

The Bhagavad Gita begins with someone faced with an impossible decision. 🌀Prince Arjuna stands between competing respons...
05/25/2026

The Bhagavad Gita begins with someone faced with an impossible decision. 🌀

Prince Arjuna stands between competing responsibilities, conflicting emotions, and difficult choices.
He is overwhelmed.

Like Arjuna, many of us imagine spiritual practice begins when life becomes peaceful. 🕊

But the Bhagavad Gita suggests otherwise.

Wisdom begins in the middle of confusion.
Not after uncertainty has passed.
Not after all the answers arrive.

Right here. 🪷

In the life you are already living. 🪷

Our upcoming course on the Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita begins soon.

Get on the mailing list to get the introductory pricing. Link in bio.

Many of us were taught to ask:"What is the correct posture?" 🤔But a more interesting question might be:"What is my body ...
05/24/2026

Many of us were taught to ask:
"What is the correct posture?" 🤔

But a more interesting question might be:
"What is my body trying to tell me?" 😮

The body is constantly adapting, communicating, and responding to the conditions of our lives. 🪷

Practice becomes more meaningful when we shift from controlling the body to listening to it.

This kind of listening requires curiosity.
It requires patience.
It requires slowing down long enough to notice what is actually happening.

This spirit is at the heart of our upcoming MoveWise certification, where we'll explore biomechanics not as a collection of rules, but as a way of seeing the body with greater clarity, compassion, and skill. 🪷

Because understanding movement isn't about controlling the body.
It's about learning how to relate to it. 🪷

As always, you can learn more at the link in bio.
We begin this June at Empowered Spaces in St. Louis.

There are times when what we need most is not more information, but a return to simple things. 🪷🥕 A nourishing meal.🥕 A ...
05/23/2026

There are times when what we need most is not more information, but a return to simple things. 🪷

🥕 A nourishing meal.
🥕 A slower pace.
🥕 A conversation around the table.
🥕 A chance to remember that caring for ourselves can be both practical and deeply meaningful.

This June, we invite you to join us for our Ayurvedic Cooking Retreat, just outside St. Louis at

Ayurveda, the traditional healing system of India, teaches that health begins with relationship.
Relationship to food, to daily rhythms, to the seasons, and to our own inner experience. Yet many of us move through our days disconnected from these simple sources of support.

During our time together, we will gather around the kitchen and the table to explore food not simply as nutrition, but as practice.

We will cook together, eat together, learn together, and reflect together.

Along the way, we will explore questions such as:

🌀 How do I nourish myself well?
🌀 What habits support steadiness and vitality?
🌀 What changes when I slow down enough to pay attention?

You do not need any previous experience with Ayurveda or cooking to join us. Come as you are, with curiosity and an appetite for learning.

More than anything, this retreat is an opportunity to step out of the speed and demands of everyday life and into a rhythm that feels more connected, grounded, and alive.

We hope you'll join us. Early Bird ends soon!

Go to the link in bio to register.

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There are moments when the mind moves so quickly that we forget we are living inside a body. 🪷We drift into planning, ma...
05/21/2026

There are moments when the mind moves so quickly that we forget we are living inside a body. 🪷

We drift into planning, managing, anticipating, reacting. 🌀

And slowly, almost without noticing, we leave ourselves.

Sometimes practice begins very simply:
with pausing long enough to return.

To feel the contact between your feet and the earth.
To notice the breath.
To soften the urgency of thought.

Not to escape life —
but to inhabit it more fully.

Again and again, practice invites us back into direct experience.

Back into sensation.
Back into presence.
Back into the body.

Slow down.

Feel your feet.

MoveWise is not about performing impressive movements. 🪷It is about reclaiming trust in the body. 💧To move through life ...
05/19/2026

MoveWise is not about performing impressive movements. 🪷

It is about reclaiming trust in the body. 💧

To move through life feeling:
capable,
supported,
adaptable,
strong enough for what life asks of you.

Real movement intelligence is not built through force.
It is built through awareness. 🪶

Through understanding how the body organizes itself.
How strength and mobility work together.
How breath, stability, balance, and attention create freedom.

The goal is not perfection.

The goal is to move without unnecessary tension.
To feel resilient instead of fragile.
Connected instead of disconnected.

Our goals are simple.
Kneel down and stand back up with ease.
Carry what needs carrying.
Hike, play, lift, age, recover, practice, and live fully inside your body.

Movement becomes a form of participation in life.

Not performance.
Not punishment.
Not aesthetics.

Just the unshakable confidence of knowing: your body can meet the moment.

To join us this June, go to the link in bio to get all the details.
You don't want to miss this!

Congratulations to the newest Shala teachers! We are So proud of you!To understand what this journey has meant for them,...
05/18/2026

Congratulations to the newest Shala teachers! We are So proud of you!

To understand what this journey has meant for them, here is what Ana, of the the graduates, shares:

“Last year I decided that I wanted to become a yoga teacher. My husband questioned why because I already do other things for work and I really didn’t know why except to find a new tool for stress management.

We started learning in November, continued in January, March, and finally finished this weekend. And every intensive we had, my “why” became even clearer: to help others feel better, move better, and be able to live more regulated and stress-free. 🩵

As I begin this new additional journey, be on the lookout for upcoming classes both in English and Spanish, a new page with wellness and yoga info, and much more!

And I couldn’t forget to thank Eastern Livity and Circle Yoga Shala for all of their wisdom, kindness, and support along the way.”

Ayurveda teaches that healing does not begin in extremes. 🔥It begins in relationship. 🥕With rhythm.With nourishment.With...
05/18/2026

Ayurveda teaches that healing does not begin in extremes. 🔥

It begins in relationship. 🥕

With rhythm.
With nourishment.
With the way we prepare food, sit down, breathe, and receive.

This is how cooking can become another form of practice. 🪷

Sometimes the most profound shifts begin with simple things:
🥕 warm meals,
🥕 shared tables,
🥕 spices blooming in ghee,
🥕 eating slowly enough to arrive inside your own life again.

If this resonates, join us this June for our Ayurvedic Cooking Retreat, just outside St. Louis.

More info at the link in bio.

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