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
02/20/2026
Hi! I’m exploring something and would genuinely love your input.
I’ve been contemplating how to deliver advanced yoga study in a format that allows for both rigor and personalization.
So I’m considering offering a 1:1, online 300hr Yoga Teacher Training.
Here’s what I’m imagining:
• The same 300hr rigorous, comprehensive curriculum that the Shala is known for.
• Personalized mentorship and direct feedback 100% of the time.
• Biomechanics, Ayurveda, therapeutic sequencing, assessments, yoga philosophy, evolutionary anatomy, and more!
• Year-long program with flexible pacing for folks with full time jobs, or irregular schedules
• Live 1:1 sessions for integration, assessment, and depth plus pre-recorded lectures to move through on your own time
Rigorous.
Personal.
Flexible.
Would this format interest you?
Let me know by dropping a comment or sending a DM.
Your feedback will shape what happens next. 🌿
02/18/2026
Over the past weeks, so many of you have reached out in response to the news about the sale of the land. Your messages have meant so much. 🪷
We wanted to especially thank those who have invited us into your spaces to teach — your interest is a reminder that this work has never been about one place. It has always been about relationship, study, and shared practice.
Circle Yoga Shala was never just a piece of land. It is a living community of inquiry. And that continues. 🔥
📆 We’ll be sharing our 2026 offerings soon — including trainings, retreats, and contemplative offerings — both online and at hosted locations near you.
If you’ve been feeling the pull to study more deeply, stay tuned.
The next chapter is already unfolding. 🐛
02/18/2026
Have you ever left a yoga class feeling full… but not truly nourished?
We just published a new blog that explores this experience — and why it matters more than we often realize.
Many yoga classes deliver a lot of movement, variety, and intensity — and while that can feel satisfying in the moment, it doesn’t always lead to clarity, integration, or actual transformation. In this piece, I invite you to ask a different question:
Does your practice feel like you just visited an all-you-can-eat buffet?
And if so, could it be the sequence itself?
Because more poses, more transitions, and more “creative flow” don’t necessarily mean more benefit for the nervous system, the body, or the mind.
If you’re curious about how sequencing can nourish rather than overwhelm — and what it looks like when practice actually organizes rather than distracts — you might enjoy this read. 🌿
👉 Read the full post on our blog or click below.
Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments — We’d love to hear what you notice in your own practice.
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Have you ever left a yoga class feeling full — but not necessarily nourished? It may be the sequence. You moved through dozens of poses. You worked hard. You may have even felt accomplished. And yet, beneath that fullness, there was a subtle fog. A sense of overstimulation rather than clarity. In
02/16/2026
Sometimes that post-class fog isn’t “a good workout.” 💪
It’s nervous system overload.🔥
In a culture that equates intensity with value, yoga can quietly become another form of consumption.
But real practice builds coherence.
It organizes the system.
It leaves you clearer than when you arrived.
This is the kind of discernment we cultivate at Circle Yoga Shala — for students and for teachers.
Less choreography.
More intelligence.
If you’re interested in deepening your understanding of how yoga actually works, stay close. 🌿✨
02/15/2026
Loving reality doesn’t mean approving of everything.
It means meeting what’s here without immediately resisting, fixing, or explaining it away. 🪷
It’s the shift from “Why is this happening to me?”
to “What is this asking of me?” 🌀
Curiosity softens defensiveness.
Wonder interrupts certainty.
And something in us relaxes enough to actually see. 🍃
This is the Work of Spiritual Sobriety — learning to stay open to life as it is, and discovering the freedom that lives inside that openness. 🪶
If you feel drawn to practice in a steady, supportive container, we begin this Tuesday.
Don't wait to join us. ✨
Go to the link in bio for details and to book a call with Holly.
02/14/2026
We are all addicted to something. 🔥
Maybe it’s not a substance.
Maybe it’s control.
Distraction.
Being right.
Staying busy.
Avoiding discomfort.
Addiction isn’t always what we consume.
Sometimes it’s the strategies we use to not feel what’s here. 🌀
Spiritual Sobriety is the work of staying, of no longer buffering reality and discovering what’s steady underneath. 🌿
If you’re ready to meet what’s running you with honesty and support, join us. There is no time to wait. 🪷
Spiritual Sobriety begins on Tuesday. 💥
Go to the link in bio to book a call with Holly now.
02/14/2026
Valentine’s Day & Love 💖
Love (called Shringara) is the essence of beauty, attraction, art, intimacy, and divine connection.
Shringara teaches us something profound:
✨ Whatever we love becomes beautiful in our eyes.
✨ Whatever we find beautiful, we naturally fall in love with.
And yet — Love can exist even without beauty.
To focus on Shringara is to focus on the divine beauty of creation — a universe made to be experienced, honored, and loved.
This Valentine’s Day, practice Shringara:
💗 Realize beauty is everywhere — waiting to be loved
💗 Give love without expectation
💗 Enhance beauty through art, decoration, and care
💗 Appreciate imperfections — see divinity instead
💗 Love the drop of consciousness in every soul
💗 Love yourself
Love is not just romance.
Love is the essence revealing the purpose of the universe.
02/13/2026
What kind of Work happens during Spiritual Sobriety?
Audra uncovered a childhood memory she had never fully processed. At eight years old, she lived with constant fear shaped by end-times theology — terrified she would be “left behind.”
With no safe space to process it, she learned to manage her anxiety alone.
She would sit outside her parents’ bedroom door at night. As long as she could hear her mother snoring, she felt safe.
Inside Spiritual Sobriety, she was able to meet that little girl again — the one who believed she had to face fear alone. 🤍
This is the Work.
A steady, relational container where old survival strategies are seen, softened, and integrated. 🪶
Where what was carried alone can finally be held in presence and compassion. 🌿
If you’re ready for something honest, we begin next week.
It’s learning how to stay when you want to scroll,
numb, justify, blame, or disappear.
It’s noticing the subtle ways we leave ourselves —
and choosing, gently, to remain. 🪶
Not rigid.
Not self-punishing.
Honest.
Open.
This is where freedom actually begins. 🪷
We begin next week, Tuesday, Feb 17.
To join, book a call with Holly at the link in bio.
02/12/2026
Most of us don’t realize how much of our energy is spent managing old strategies. 🌀
🪶 Strategies that once protected us.
🪶 Strategies that helped us survive.
🪶 Strategies that now quietly limit what is possible.
Spiritual Sobriety is not about becoming someone new.
It’s about releasing what no longer serves, so what is truest can lead.
This work is slow enough for real integration.
Honest enough to be transformative.
Relational enough to be supported.
If you are tired of circling the same patterns and ready to live from something steadier — this path is here.
We begin Tuesday, Feb 17. 🪷
Link in bio. ✨
02/12/2026
When Audra saw the words “Spiritual Sobriety,” something in her just said yes. ✨
A widowed parent navigating grief, fear, and years of moving too fast to feel it all, she didn’t need another program with a manual — she needed space to unfold. 🌿
Over the past year, she’s slowed down enough to be radically honest with herself. To stop numbing. To sit with what’s true. To gently tend to the version of herself who thought she had to survive grief by herself. 💛
“I have not spent one second regretting saying yes. It was exactly the right thing at exactly the right time.” 🤍
There is still time to join. 🌙
Go to the link in bio and book a call with Holly. It’s that simple.
02/11/2026
For over 32 years, I’ve walked alongside seekers through yoga, somatic inquiry, recovery, the Wisdom Enneagram, Christian mysticism, Indigenous earth-based practice, and the humbling curriculum of life itself.
Spiritual Sobriety is the synthesis of what has endured. 🌀
Not trends. Not techniques.
But teachings refined by fire and lived experience.
This is not self-improvement.
It is initiation. 🔥
A steady, relational container where you are supported in shedding what is false and coming home to what is real.
In a culture hungry for wise eldership, this Work offers time, depth, humility, and integration. 🌿
Inside the 12-month journey you receive:
🤎 Twice-monthly live teaching & support
🤎 Personal access to Holly
🤎 1:1 sessions
🤎 An immersive retreat
🤎 A private community space
🤎 Bonus courses
Liberation — without adding more to achieve. 🪶
If something in you feels quietly stirred…
Let’s explore.
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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.
