Salt Lake City · Since 2013
You have practiced for years now, and somewhere along the way you began to sense that there is more here than the classes have offered you. 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 most classes leave behind
It is the ground that holds everything else in place, and the same is true of the breath, and of knowing where any of this came from. Without them, what remains is a workout performed slowly. 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 most honest argument for any of it. Write to Rachel and she will help you find where to begin.
The whole of it. Philosophy, anatomy, breath, and enough practice teaching that the first 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 next May, 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 myself, and in eighteen years I have never handed a weekend to someone else. 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.
World Yoga Federation Grandmaster. The lineage runs directly to Sri T. Krishnamacharya.
How to begin
She reads every one herself, and answers within a day or two.
Where to begin, or whether this is your season at all. Sometimes the answer is not yet, and she will say so.
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 they are too late. These are the seven. Ask them of us, and ask them of everyone else you are considering.
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.”
Thomas · 200-Hour Graduate
“A year later I’m racing again, but that’s almost secondary to how I feel every day.”
Alex R. · Coaching Client
“Rachel’s sessions have helped me move without pain for the first time in years.”
Tammy N. · Yoga Therapy Client
You already knew that. It is why you are here. The gap does not close on its own.