You have practiced for years now, and somewhere along the way you began to sense that the classes have only shown you some of it. Most yoga is taught as fitness, and in that translation the philosophy, the breath, and the lineage are quietly left behind. Those are the very things that make a practice worth keeping for a lifetime.
The gap does not close on its own. Another year spent at the edge of something is another year of not crossing into it, and the classes that brought you this far are not the ones that will carry you further.
What closes it is the part most classes leave out: the philosophy, the breath, and knowing where any of this came from. That is what is taught here, in a room small enough that you are known.
What most classes leave behind
It is the ground that holds everything else in place. Take it away, along with the breath and the lineage behind it, and what remains is a workout performed slowly with no root. That absence is what you have been feeling.
Three ways in
Most people begin with one of these. Many end up walking all three, and we have come to see that as the strongest case for any of it. Write to Rachel and she will help you find where to begin.
The whole of it, led by a yoga therapist. Philosophy, breath, anatomy and alignment, and enough practice teaching that the first public class you lead is not the first time you have stood in front of a room.
A week somewhere quiet enough that the practice has room to do its work. Greece twice in May 2027, five days apart, so you may join one or both.
For a particular body, a particular injury, or a studio that is not yet what you hoped it would be. Rachel takes these one at a time.
Your guides
I built this school because I went looking for it as a young practitioner and could not find it. I lead every training, and the guest teachers I bring in add what I cannot. What I hope you feel, from the first evening, is that you are known here.
Rachel Cieslewicz · Co-FounderEric quietly develops all of the infrastructure, so that Rachel can give her whole attention to the room.
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Univ. of Utah · B.S. ESSLineage · KrishnamacharyaWorld Yoga Federation Grandmaster. The lineage runs directly to Sri T. Krishnamacharya. Rachel and Eric are both authorized by Manju Jois to teach Ashtanga primary and second series, and both studied Vinyasa Krama with Srivatsa Ramaswami and have his permission to teach it.
How to begin
Where to begin, or whether this is your season at all. Sometimes the answer is not yet, and she will say so.
A training, a retreat, or a single session. No one has ever told us they began too soon.
Before you pay anyone
Most people choose a training on price and schedule, and then discover in the third month what they might have asked in the first week, after it is too late. These are the seven. Ask them of us, and ask them of everyone else you are considering.
…and four more that most schools would rather you did not ask.
Comparing trainings? Read our guide to yoga teacher training in Utah →
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Who you become
The practice stops being somewhere you go and becomes something you carry. What you could not reach is simply how you practice now. It arrives in rooms that have nothing to do with yoga, and the people around you tend to notice it before you have found the words for it yourself. You become a practitioner rather than someone who attends classes, and that difference is not subtle to anyone who knows you.
From the other side of it
I have practiced yoga for 20 years. I value what I learned here as much as I do my MBA.
“A year later I’m racing again, but that’s almost secondary to how I feel every day.”
“I’ve been on retreats before. This one was different. There was nowhere to hide from yourself, in the best possible way.”
“I spent two years trying to manage a hip injury on my own. Six sessions gave me more progress than everything else combined.”
You already knew that. It is why you are here.