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.

You know how much I LOVE love, right? If you’ve met me once, I guarantee I’ve told you “I love you” and meant it too. I ...
02/04/2026

You know how much I LOVE love, right? If you’ve met me once, I guarantee I’ve told you “I love you” and meant it too. I wanna hold you, and squeeze you, and keep you forever! Is that too much? Meh, maybe. 🥹💜😅

Our Flow Together February intro lets you start yoga alongside someone you trust. After all, February is about love and connection, and that doesn’t have to mean ROMANCE (especially if the idea of romance makes you feel barfy). Friends, siblings, coworker besties, and intimate partners - this one’s for you AND just like always, you get to choose who your (yoga) partner is! 😘

Come practice with your person: two people get three weeks of unlimited yoga to begin together, each on their own schedule. 🙌

You’re not required to attend the same classes or start on the same day or even live in the same household. This is simply a shared beginning, a shared introduction to your new yoga home! One that’s full of love and empowerment and guided practice - oh, and the best little community too!! 👯

Head to the link in our bio to purchase - or just DM me if that’s confusing as heck to navigate. 🤠

I got you! 🫶

Happy February!! 😘

This past weekend, I hosted a deep wintering retreat I dubbed Cozy Cocooning Retreat - the intention was hunkering down,...
02/03/2026

This past weekend, I hosted a deep wintering retreat I dubbed Cozy Cocooning Retreat - the intention was hunkering down, grounding in, being, feeling, and THEN MAYBE seeing what comes next for us. 🐛 Just as winter calls us to do. ❄️

Like very hungry caterpillars, we ate nourishing food, drank so much tea (and maybe a little wine 😅), filled up our hearts and souls in conversation and connection, crafted and colored, rested SO MUCH, practiced restorative yoga and screamed Hope inside ourselves, turned our yin yoga time into a game night because sometimes you need laughter and community more than you need a deep stretch (but I played sound bowls in the background so I think it’s ok 🤗).

We cocooned. 🦋

All of this to say: hi, I’m Sunni and I create safe and cozy spaces for you to turn the world off for just a moment, to pour into yourself, to get vulnerable, to remember how worthy you are just as you are, and to get back at it when you’re ready. 🙌

I’m not here to alter your life with plant medicine or fancy rituals (though I believe there are times and places where those are useful on your journey and I know incredible humans who can guide you along your way). ✨

I’m here to help you slow it down so you can hear what you already know to be true inside yourself, to remind you you’re already Whole. Oh, and to nourish you along the way with good food and a kind-to-yourself yoga practice or two too. 😋

I’m incredibly grateful for the humans who showed up this weekend. What a gift this life is to live together. 🙏

Ready for the next one? I’m working on a gorgeous Spring hiking retreat and I’ll keep you posted! 🥾

For now, I’m steeping myself in gratitude and abundance as I move through the rest of my week - I hope you get to do the same! Sending you so much love! 🥰

PS thank you to our sweet friends Becca and Michelle for sharing these photos with me! 🤗

Hello, February! 🤍A new month means a fresh start, new energy, and lots of opportunities to connect — with yourself and ...
02/02/2026

Hello, February! 🤍

A new month means a fresh start, new energy, and lots of opportunities to connect — with yourself and with our community.

We have some really special things happening this month at Essential Yoga Studio, including Embodied Her: Galentine’s Day & The Art of Loving and our Peri/Menopause Support Group with TK Esthetics. These gatherings are all about connection, support, and showing up exactly as you are.

Of course, our regular classes are here for you too — whether you’re craving movement, stillness, or a little bit of both. Be sure to check out our February class and events calendar at essential-yoga.com and find what speaks to you.

We’re so glad you’re here, friends. 💜
– Michele 🌷

Happy February!! ❤️💜❤️💜❤️💜Our February class schedule very much echoes January’s - but don’t worry: our biannual student...
02/01/2026

Happy February!! ❤️💜❤️💜❤️💜

Our February class schedule very much echoes January’s - but don’t worry: our biannual student survey (hitting your inbox tomorrow) will help us make informed and intentional class schedule changes for the Spring! 🌱

What this also means: all your faves are still here! 🥳

Our monthly Pranayama Essentials class with Natalie is tomorrow evening. This one’s booked the same way as our other classes and included in all our regular pricing options. 👍

What are you excited about for February? 🤠

I’m excited to hear what students have to say about their Essential experience in our biannual survey, start planning (and planting!) my garden, to support one of my fave nonprofits with their strategic planning for the next few years, and to wrap it all up in a bow with a little weekend trip with my husband at the end of the month! ❤️💜

See you soon! 🤗

Women (and, like, HUMANS in general) need to feel seen and heard and held. 🤗And this photo? Might not look like anything...
02/01/2026

Women (and, like, HUMANS in general) need to feel seen and heard and held. 🤗

And this photo? Might not look like anything special - I don’t have photographers at my Retreats for a reason (feel free to ask me about it if you’re curious) - but throughout Day 1 of our Cozy Cocooning Retreat today, we’ve found connection, coloring, crocheting, hot baths, hot tea, hot meals, laughter, rest, and love to and from complete strangers. 🥰

This is why I host Retreats - to create safe spaces to take the armor off and remember how insanely worthy we are of all of the above, just as we are. 🙌 I feel so honored to be part of deep post-dinner conversations every single time. 🥹

I hope you’re enjoying your Saturday. Big love to you! 💜

I was just talking to students about how yoga as a spiritual practice provides guidance on how to fight the good fight (...
01/30/2026

I was just talking to students about how yoga as a spiritual practice provides guidance on how to fight the good fight (not sure what I mean? Check out the Gita for one!) BUT ALSO: our practice on our mat can provide a necessary pause and reprieve from the chaos of it all - so we can rewrite our internal narrative and own our safety, abundance, and courage in small, controlled moments - making it easier to do so when we’re saturated with content and experiences that trigger fear and uncertainty. 🙌 Sounds necessary, right? 🫣

So, if yoga has been calling you back, this is your sign. I’d love to help you take care of you at Essential. 😘

Tomorrow is the last day of these special offers for new & returning students.

Remember, in order to take care of yourself:

Baby steps are still steps.
One hour, once a week is a start.
You’re worth it. 💜

Our January Reset options are here to support students exactly where they are right now. That might look like one class a week, a few quiet moments on your mat, or simply walking through the door again. All of that is still yoga! 🤗

Questions? Not sure what works best with your schedule? Just need some reassurance? Message me. I got you!! 🥰

Oh, and head to our website when you’re ready to purchase. Link in bio, yall! 🤠

Friends, this last snowstorm was a good reminder to slow things down. ❄️The world got quiet for a bit, plans shifted, an...
01/30/2026

Friends, this last snowstorm was a good reminder to slow things down. ❄️

The world got quiet for a bit, plans shifted, and many of us were tucked inside with nowhere to be but right where we were.

We’re grateful for moments like that - a pause to breathe, to notice a little more stillness, and to reconnect with what really matters. At Essential Yoga Studio, community is at the heart of everything we do. It’s showing up for class, checking in on each other, sharing a smile, and finding calm together...even when life (or the weather) feels a little chaotic.

Whether you spent the snow days resting, moving, or just trying to stay warm, we hope you found a moment of inner peace along the way. And if you didn’t, that’s okay too. That’s what this space is here for.

We’re so thankful for this community and for each of you. 💜

Stay cozy, friends, and we’ll see you on the mat soon.
– Michele 🌷

Hi again! 🥰Remember how I said I’ve got TWO events this weekend to share with you? Well! Here’s the second one! 🤩On Sund...
01/28/2026

Hi again! 🥰

Remember how I said I’ve got TWO events this weekend to share with you? Well! Here’s the second one! 🤩

On Sunday evening, we’re welcoming Alyssa Marie for a Cacao Ceremony in celebration of Imbolc. Imbolc marks the halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, a threshold moment when the first stirrings of new life begin beneath the surface. 🌱 Were celebrating not only the slow returning of the light but also renewal, clarity, and gentle ignition of what is ready to grow. I bet you’re feeling PRETTY READY for spring this week! 😅

The ceremony will include guided meditation, smudging, drumming, light language channeling, cacao rituals, and more. Alyssa uses pure, ceremonial-grade cacao that is dairy-free and refined sugar-free, lightly sweetened with raw honey, agave, or maple syrup.

I love that Alyssa offers these ceremonies as gender, race, and religion inclusive for adults 16 years and older. So welcoming! 😍

Booking for this one’s a little different - it’s actually through Alyssa’s business page. Head to Essential’s Facebook Events page or just DM us for the link - it’ll take you to all the details and booking. 🤗

Ok, now get to planning your weekend! 🥳

So grateful to have started my own day off representing Essential at the Missouri Realtors Conference! This gal group wa...
01/28/2026

So grateful to have started my own day off representing Essential at the Missouri Realtors Conference! This gal group was so welcoming and took time to ask so many good questions before and after our practice. 💜🤗

Happy Wednesday, sweet friends! 🤗 Time for a mid-week check-in! How you holding up? Anything I can do to support you (or...
01/28/2026

Happy Wednesday, sweet friends! 🤗 Time for a mid-week check-in! How you holding up? Anything I can do to support you (or your yoga practice)? You know where to find me, if so! 🙏💜

Today, I have TWO amazing events to share with you and I’m going to do that sharing through TWO separate posts because algorithm be damned! They both deserve their own spotlight and I want you to have time to plan your weekend. So here we go! 😍

The first is an opportunity I’m so grateful for - to host one of my favorite humans and yoga teachers Larissa Herrington and her friends Ashish from KC Kirtan and Madi for a yoga and mantra music Kirtan event on Saturday evening. 🎶

Curious about Ashish? He plays the harmonium and regularly practices Kirtan in the Kansas City area. He says his focus is “to help people feel comfortable with their own voice and not let pronunciation get in the way of chanting. What you carry in bhaav (heart feelings) matters more.” 🥰 So important for feelings of inclusion and belonging, right? After all, spirituality is just tapping into our deepest Selves which are whole and beautiful. ✨

A Kirtan, from my perspective, is like a special kind of devotional sound bath - where instruments and voices come together in celebration of community and oneness. It’s truly unique and beautiful. 🤩

Movement and singing totally optional - feel free to sit and soak it all in if that’s more your style!

If you’d like to join Larissa, head to our Events page to book. 💜

Keep an eye out this afternoon for info about our second special event this weekend at Essential!

YOGA IS FOR EVERYBODY. 🧘🏼‍♀️✌🏼☮️Not just the matching sets. Not just the “athletic” people. Nope, nope, nope. Everybody....
01/27/2026

YOGA IS FOR EVERYBODY. 🧘🏼‍♀️✌🏼☮️

Not just the matching sets.
Not just the “athletic” people.
Nope, nope, nope.

Everybody. 💜

And all classes are on today, as scheduled. Not sure which one fits your body best? Just DM us - we’ll take care of you! 🤗

xo, Rachel
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Feeling a little blue with all this winter weather? You’re not alone — but don’t forget, you’ve got options. 💙Even when ...
01/26/2026

Feeling a little blue with all this winter weather? You’re not alone — but don’t forget, you’ve got options. 💙

Even when the roads are icy or plans change, you can still roll out your mat at home and join us through our virtual classes. Same familiar faces, same calming energy - just comfier socks.

Because winter likes to keep us guessing, be sure to check our social media for the latest updates on classes, schedules, and what’s happening at the studio. We’ll always keep you in the loop.

However you’re practicing right now in studio or at home, we’re here for you. Stay warm, take a deep breath, and keep choosing what feels good.

See you soon, friends.

– Michele 🌷

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1343 E Montclair Street
Springfield, MO
65804

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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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