About YogaSoul
East Millcreek, Salt Lake City
Something about the practice has already done something to you, and now you are looking for people who take that seriously. Most yoga instruction treats it as fitness and strips out the philosophy, the breath and the lineage. That is what we have been building against since 2013.
Every year spent in a practice that does not go deep enough is a year without the philosophy, the community and the transformation the tradition actually holds. There is more in yoga than you have been able to reach.
Why we exist
That yoga taught with depth and honesty changes people. Not as fitness and not as trend, but as a living practice that reshapes how you move, think and show up.
More than a decade later, over 300 teachers have trained here. Students have traveled with us to Greece and Central America. People come for a retreat and return for a training, and they stay because something real happens.
Rachel Cieslewicz
I know what it is to feel called toward something in the practice long before you understand what it is. I was exactly where you are, and I built this school for that person.
What I want you to feel here, from the first evening, is that you are known.
Rachel Cieslewicz · Co-Founder, Lead Teacher, Yoga TherapistHer practice began at five and deepened through formal study at the University of Utah and decades of training under teachers including Manju Jois and Srivatsa Ramaswami. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and a World Yoga Federation Grandmaster, authorized through Manju Jois to teach the primary and second series of Ashtanga, and she grounds her teaching in both yoga therapy and traditional lineage.
At YogaSoul she is the program. She designed both the 200-hour and 300-hour curricula, leads every teacher training, runs the yoga therapy practice, and shapes every retreat from the first idea to the final session. The programming, the arc, and the part that makes it land are all hers.
C-IAYT Yoga Therapist · WYF Grandmaster · Ashtanga, primary & 2nd series · Vinyasa Krama · lineage direct to Sri T. Krishnamacharya.
Eric Martin
Eric is the back office. The marketing, the website, the financial systems that keep the lights on. If YogaSoul feels like it simply works, that is him, and a career in finance, technology and business leadership is how he learned to do it.
He is no stranger to the mat either. He came to yoga in 2003 through Manju Jois, earned authorization to teach the primary and second series of Ashtanga, and studied Vinyasa Krama under Srivatsa Ramaswami. He still practices. And he is the first to say that Rachel is the reason YogaSoul is what it is.
Co-Founder · Operations & Marketing · WYF Grandmaster · Ashtanga, primary & 2nd series · Vinyasa Krama
From graduates and clients
“I have practiced yoga for 20 years. I value what I learned from this program as much as I do my MBA.”
Thomas · 200-Hour Graduate
“Rachel’s mentorship has completely changed my life. I will be forever grateful.”
Lacy · YTT Graduate
“Rachel’s yoga therapy sessions have helped me move without pain for the first time in years.”
Tammy N. · Yoga Therapy Client
How to start
Tell her where you are in your practice, or simply that something here caught your attention. She reads every one herself.
Which of these is yours, or whether this is your season at all. Sometimes the answer is not yet, and she will say so plainly.
A training, a retreat, a single session in the shala. No one has ever told us they started too soon.
Who you become
Not someone who took a course, but someone whose practice holds up on the hard weeks and who can say where it came from. That is the only outcome we have ever been building for, and it is why the school still runs the way it does.
Where to begin
If none of them fit yet, write to Rachel and she will point you somewhere useful.
Immersions that honor the full depth of the practice. Two certification levels, both led by Rachel.
Two retreats in Greece next May, five days apart, so you may join one or both.
One-to-one work shaped around your body, your goals and where you actually are.
Small-group classes at Rachel’s shala, or a private gathering for your own people.
There is more in yoga than you have been able to reach.
Train with us, travel with us, or work with Rachel one to one. If none of it fits yet, say hello and she will point you somewhere useful.