Circle Yoga Shala

Circle Yoga Shala 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

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’. 🪷

⏰ Last Chance to Give Before Year-End ⏰As the year comes to a close, you still have time to make a powerful, life-saving...
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.

🙏 Give before midnight on Dec 31
🔗 https://www.roseangelfoundation.org/
📍Tax-deductible

Help us close the year by saving lives — one horse at a time 🤍

❄️ This Holiday Season, Be a Miracle for a Horse in Need ❄️While we gather with loved ones and celebrate the season of g...
12/23/2025

❄️ This Holiday Season, Be a Miracle for a Horse in Need ❄️

While we gather with loved ones and celebrate the season of giving, thousands of horses are still facing uncertainty — cold, hunger, and the threat of slaughter.

🌹 The Rose Angel Foundation, founded by Krepps, is a labor of love dedicated to saving horses from the slaughter pipeline and giving them safety, care, and a second chance at life.

✨ Give a gift that truly saves a life ✨
Every dollar goes directly to the care of rescued horses, and your support makes hope possible — even in the coldest months.

🙏 Make a tax-deductible donation today and become a Rose Angel this season
🔗 Click https://www.roseangelfoundation.org/

From our rescued horses to you — thank you for spreading compassion this holiday season 🤍🐴

Tim’s story isn’t unique. Many of us stay in situations we claim to hate—not because we’re weak, but because we value wh...
12/16/2025

Tim’s story isn’t unique. Many of us stay in situations we claim to hate—not because we’re weak, but because we value what they provide.

Read more in our newest blog:
https://www.circleyogashala.com/the-cys-blog/loving-what-we-do-even-when-we-dont-like-it
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Yoga and self-inquiry invite us to tell the truth about our choices. When we stop arguing with reality, suffering loosens its grip.
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What story are you telling yourself right now—and does it match the life you’re living?

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12/10/2025

How often do we place our needs onto someone else?

For those of us seeking spiritual solutions, we often come to find that we are the only ones who can authentically and sustainably meet our own needs.

12/02/2025

What does true liberation look like?🪷

In the newest podcast episode “Devotion as Freedom”, we explore the Bhagavad Gita’s final teachings on devotion, purpose, and freedom — and how an ordinary life of family, work, and responsibility can become a profound spiritual path.

If you’ve ever wondered what it means to live with a tranquil mind, to act without ego, or to see your daily duties as sacred, this one’s for you.

Season 5 Episode 8 — now live.

Tap the link in bio to listen. 🙏🏽✨

✨ What does it really mean to belong to a lineage?At Circle Yoga Shala, lineage isn’t a marketing word or a borrowed lab...
11/26/2025

✨ What does it really mean to belong to a lineage?

At Circle Yoga Shala, lineage isn’t a marketing word or a borrowed label—it’s a living relationship. A commitment. A way of honoring the teachers and teachings that shaped us.

In our newest blog, we explore:

🪷 What lineage actually is
🪷 Why it’s more than attending a class or following a famous teacher
🪷 How true mentorship forms: over years, not moments
🪷 Why giving credit strengthens, rather than diminishes, your own voice
🪷 What it means to receive your teacher’s blessing to share the work

If you’ve ever wondered what separates a lineage-based school from the rest—or why it matters for your practice and your training—this blog is for you.

👉 Read the full post at the link in our bio.
May we honor where our teachings come from, so we can carry them forward with clarity and integrity.

www.circleyogashala.com/the-cys-blog/what-it-means-to-belong-to-a-lineage

11/25/2025

What is Yoga, according to ancient texts? 🧘

Hint: it’s not just what you do on the mat.

Sometimes, in the ancient texts, Yoga is described as the means, or the techniques, and sometimes it’s described as the goal, or what it looks like when it’s happening.

🔥 Curious about the philosophy behind yoga practice? 🔥 Matt’s course, “Intro to Eastern Philosophy,” is now available t...
11/24/2025

🔥 Curious about the philosophy behind yoga practice? 🔥

Matt’s course, “Intro to Eastern Philosophy,” is now available to take at your own pace.

In 3 video lessons, you’ll:
🔥 Explore Samkhya Cosmology, the philosophical framework underlying yoga and Ayurveda.
🔥 Learn about the Pancha Maya Kosha, a five-layer model of the human experience.
🔥 Get access to a bonus lecture: The CYS Vision of Yoga Therapy.

The course includes over 2 hours of video content, plus full transcripts — designed for both practitioners and teachers who want to deepen their understanding of yoga’s roots.

Cost: Only $47
Unlimited access for the lifetime of the platform.

If you’re looking to bring more clarity, depth, or context to your practice or teaching, this course is a solid place to begin.

👉Click link to get started circleyogashala.com/eastern-philosophy

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Jasper, AR

Opening Hours

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

Telephone

+15013501430

Website

https://www.circleyogashala.com/newsletter

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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.