Essential Yoga Studio

Essential Yoga Studio Essential is a non-heated yoga studio where OM is for ALL. 💜 Welcome home to Essential!

Yoga means different things to different people, but at its most essential, it means union. It means finding connection with yourself, your breath, your teacher, your community, and your world. So whether it’s your first time on a mat or your thousandth time in crow pose, when you walk into Essentail Yoga, you are welcome because we are one.

Happy Saturday! ✨Your body remembers how to come home to itself. And we’ve got new opportunities every week to do just t...
11/08/2025

Happy Saturday! ✨

Your body remembers how to come home to itself. And we’ve got new opportunities every week to do just that - Saturday evenings at 7p!

Join us on the mat this week. 💜

Xo,
Rachel

Hi angels! Happy Friday!! 🙌Today is the LAST day for this discounted intro offer - we’ll have a whole new offer next wee...
11/07/2025

Hi angels! Happy Friday!! 🙌

Today is the LAST day for this discounted intro offer - we’ll have a whole new offer next week. 👀

Start your journey to feeling at home in your body and at ease in your mind and come see why our students share that they feel welcomed, supported, and empowered in their yoga practice at Essential! 💜

This offer includes all of our classes - both in-studio and online - so you’ve got plenty of opportunity to learn which classes are best for your schedule and yoga goals and which teachers are your faves! 🙌

Book at www.essential-yoga.com/specials!

Current student? Don’t forget: our 12-month memberships (that we don’t even offer at all times of the year!) are on sale for $1199 this month AND you can bring a new friend for FREE all month long! 🥳

See you on the mat this weekend! 🫶

11/06/2025

Days 5 & 6 of things that fill my heart, inspire me, or teach something profound for three whole years of business ownership! 🤗

🧘‍♀️✨ Nourish Your Body, Calm Your Mind ✨🥗Yoga isn’t just about what happens on the mat — it’s also about how we take ca...
11/06/2025

🧘‍♀️✨ Nourish Your Body, Calm Your Mind ✨🥗
Yoga isn’t just about what happens on the mat — it’s also about how we take care of ourselves the rest of the day. When we move mindfully and eat mindfully, everything starts to feel a little more balanced. 🌿
Think of yoga and healthy eating as the perfect pair:
🩵 Yoga helps release stress and bring awareness inward.
🥦 Nourishing foods give your body the energy to move, breathe, and feel grounded.
So, on this National Healthy Eating Day, whether it’s a slow Yin class and a warm cup of tea afterward, or an essential flow followed by a smoothie — it’s all about listening to what your body needs.
Take care of yourself today — inside and out.
– Michele 🌷

11/05/2025

📣📣 Alert alert:
Essential Flow tonight at 730p is cancelled! Sorry, friends! See you for Hatha at 6p or back on the mat tomorrow! 🫶

📣📣 Bring a Friend for FREE All Month Long!! 📣📣Did you see? 🥸I’m high on gratitude all month long so you get to bring you...
11/05/2025

📣📣 Bring a Friend for FREE All Month Long!! 📣📣

Did you see? 🥸

I’m high on gratitude all month long so you get to bring your friends in for FREE! 😆

Here’s how it works:

1️⃣ Grab your friend who’s never been to Essential before.

2️⃣ Bring them to class a few minutes early.

3️⃣ We’ll set up an account for them and get them checked in!

4️⃣ You’ll get 100 extra Loyalty points as a Thank You gift!

Easy peasy! PLUS your friend still qualifies for our new student intro offers too!! 🙌

Meeting your friends and family is such a beautiful experience every time - it’s such a compliment to be trusted with their practice too! 💜

I can’t wait to see you! 🤗

Happy evening, Essential friends & fam! 🌝Welcome to Day 4 of things that inspire me, fill my heart up, or teach me somet...
11/05/2025

Happy evening, Essential friends & fam! 🌝

Welcome to Day 4 of things that inspire me, fill my heart up, or teach me something profound from my time as a small business owner for three whole years now. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Tonight, I am marveling at the gift that is hosting retreats! 🥰

As my husband and I shopped for groceries for the upcoming Wintering Retreat I’m co-hosting with Altruistic Energy this coming weekend, I just felt so grateful (for my husband pushing the shopping cart AND) for the opportunity to intimately connect with women seeking a little peace and introspection on Retreat. At each of our Retreats, I have the deepest honor of being the cook (chef sounds a little tooooo fancy) - and the act of planning for and sharing delicious and nourishing meals is just so COOL. 😍

Honestly, I never saw myself hosting Retreats - but, let’s be real, I never saw myself owning a business either! 😅 But now it comes so naturally - creating safe spaces for folks to just be themselves is literally my favorite thing to do. The softening that we get to do when we step away from “real life” for a few days just offers such clarity, nervous system support, and opportunity to check out to check back IN with what really matters and the people I get to meet and bonds I get to see form between participants just feeds my soul every time. 🙏

So, here are a few photos of some of the gorgeous angels who have made time and space for themselves at Camp Crystal and Reset, Receive, Retreat the past few years. 💖

Happy anniversary to me (and to you!)! 💜

Feeling stuck, anxious, or like you’re just going through the motions? 🌿 Your body isn’t broken—it’s asking you to slow ...
11/04/2025

Feeling stuck, anxious, or like you’re just going through the motions? 🌿 Your body isn’t broken—it’s asking you to slow down and listen. Join us for a somatic self-attunement practice to reconnect with your body’s wisdom, restore safety, and experience true nourishment and pleasure. ✨

When: This Sunday, Nov. 9th at 1pm.

What to bring: Yourself in your favorite, most comfy clothes. We’ll provide the rest!

No experience required, just the desire to unwind. 🥰

Facilitated by Nichole Harrison, Trauma-Informed Somatic Facilitator and Kristin Gearhart, MS, NCC, LPC

$40 per person. Book at the Events page of our website!

Day 3 of sharing something that inspires me, fills my heart with love and gratitude, or has taught me something profound...
11/04/2025

Day 3 of sharing something that inspires me, fills my heart with love and gratitude, or has taught me something profound in the past three years of owning Essential Yoga Studio:

✨ Celebrate EVERYTHING. ✨

Every new student, every returning student, every autopay that renews every month, every time a student brings in their friend or family member, each new leaf on the Studio plants, the way the light changes across the studio floor through the seasons (even when it highlights the dust 😅), all the times a student says “that was just what I needed,” when students connect and friendships form, every positive review or mention of Essential on socials, every time someone says “oh, I’ve heard of Essential before!,” the way teachers who have never met support and encourage each other, when all the bills are paid and we get to do it all again for another month (or more lol!), every compliment, every piece of feedback that helps us grow, every idea shared with vulnerability and enthusiasm, every loss too and the lessons they bring.

Everything. 🥹

The big and the small. 🙌

Celebrate it all! ✅

I’m grateful for you! Happy Monday!! 🤗

And Happy Anniversary to me (and to you)! 💜

Starting your first yoga class? Take a deep breath — you’ve got this. 👍Everyone was new once, so there’s no need to be n...
11/03/2025

Starting your first yoga class? Take a deep breath — you’ve got this. 👍

Everyone was new once, so there’s no need to be nervous. You don’t have to be flexible, know the poses, or have the “right” outfit. Just show up as you are! That’s what yoga's all about.

You don't have to bring a mat (we have plenty) but if it makes you feel more comfortable, you can. Wear something comfy and stretchy, and be sure to bring a water bottle. We also have water and hot tea in the studio. A light snack an hour or two before class is helpful. And, arrive 5-10 minutes early. Just remember, sometimes the hardest part is walking through the door, and once you do, you’ll feel right at home.

We can’t wait to welcome you to Essential Yoga Studio. You belong here. 💜
– Michele 🌷

Remember how it’s my 3-year anniversary of owning Essential and I’m unashamedly posting something that has inspired me, ...
11/03/2025

Remember how it’s my 3-year anniversary of owning Essential and I’m unashamedly posting something that has inspired me, filled my heart, or taught me something profound over the past few years? 🤔

Well, NOW you remember… and we’re on Day 2!! 🤗

Today, I’m remembering that ole trickster “feel the fear and do it anyway” and its bestie “showing up is the hardest part!” They’re my MVPs (most valuable phrases 😉)!

Here’s what they mean to me:

In this photo, I’m teaching at the gorgeous FlowFest event held this past September (and hosted by The Mindful Living Movement). I had never worn an over-the-ear mic (is that even what they’re called?) or taught in a space the size of the Barley House (we all start somewhere!). 😬

I had no delusions about being the BEST teacher (PS there’s no such thing) - instead, I was deeply honored to be asked to teach, trusted myself and my spirituality to lead me in the right direction, and carefully prepared a session wrapped up in the mythology of Virabhadra - a set of poses and process of embodiment I find personally inspiring. 🙏

And I did it. I shook off the nerves of not being Britney Spears despite being asked to wear her mic (obviouslyyyy it was hers) and we breathed, moved, and learned together. TOGETHER. I’m never alone (add that to the MVPs, please!).

And let me tell ya: that’s all this practice (and this biz) asks of me. 🤯

The parallels between our practice on the mat and the opportunities we are presented with in the real world are ever present.

And every step of the way, we’re asked to just show up. To keep going. To prepare for what we can control and trust that we’ll find the right path and we’ll know it when we see it. 😍

If this is resonating with you, I’d love to see you at Essential - I’d love to learn and grow together with you too! Our special intro offer this week is 3 weeks of yoga for $40 plus a couple freebies. 🥳

I promise, if you show up, we’ll find a place for you to fit in. OM for ALL. 😘

Happy anniversary to me (and to you too!). 🤗

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1343 E Montclair Street
Springfield, MO
65804

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 7pm
Tuesday 9am - 7pm
Wednesday 9am - 7pm
Thursday 9am - 7pm
Friday 9am - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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