RACHEL
WILKINS

She/Her

Vinyasa
Restorative
What is something that would surprise me about you?
All through middle school and high school, I played the baritone horn and the tuba. I was even in our school’s marching band!

What can I expect from your class?
I hold space for a soulful, intuitive, empowering, and thoughtfully sequenced class experience. While my classes may challenge you in different ways, the heart of my teachings is accessibility because this practice is for everybody. You will always be encouraged and shown how to adapt your practice so it can best meet you where you’re at every time you show up.

What is the most essential part of practice for you?
Coming home to yourself.

For Rachel Simone Wilkins E-RYT 500, our yoga practice is a celebration of the cosmic, creative pulse that connects us all. Her personal practice and public offerings are a soulful tapestry of creative movement, somatic awareness, spontaneous flow, intuitive sequencing, open meditation, and transformative pranayama. Our practice is a way to reconnect with the sacred within and to recognize the universal reflected within all of us. Rachel’s approach to yoga is inspired by seasonal energetic shifts, lunar cycles, the radiance of the sun, the steadiness of the mountains, the fluid churning of the waves, the cleansing flow of the wind and the wild dance of the heart flames.

After growing up a dancer, a mixed media artist, and immersing herself in philosophy, post-modern feminism, queer studies, womanist theology, and critical race theory in college, teaching yoga was the next evolution on her path. She completed her initial 200 hour certification in 2011 with Tracey Rich and Ganga White of the White Lotus Foundation, followed by advanced studies under their guidance. Rachel began studying with Shiva Rea in 2014 and completed her 500 hour certification under the Prana Vinyasa lineage, as well as an initiation into Kalaripayattu in Kerala, India. In 2021 she completed a 300 hour certification with Jason Crandell focusing on yoga philosophy, modern asana, anatomy, and injury-management techniques. She is currently immersing herself on the bhakti path with Janet Stone.

Besides her beloved private and public class offerings, Rachel’s dharma is leading her empowering Embodying Shakti Goddess retreats and her Intuitive Vinyasa Flow RYS teacher trainings locally and globally http://www.rachelsimonewilkins.com/

 

What is something that would surprise me about you?
All through middle school and high school, I played the baritone horn and the tuba. I was even in our school’s marching band!

What can I expect from your class?
I hold space for a soulful, intuitive, empowering, and thoughtfully sequenced class experience. While my classes may challenge you in different ways, the heart of my teachings is accessibility because this practice is for everybody. You will always be encouraged and shown how to adapt your practice so it can best meet you where you’re at every time you show up.

What is the most essential part of practice for you?
Coming home to yourself.

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Jack started practicing yoga at the young age of 13 with his father at the local gym in Fort Collins, CO. Pretty much instantaneously Jack caught the yoga bug and decided to take his yoga to the next level. Jack found a local Ashtanga yoga studio and started practicing the primary series every day from the age of 13 to 15. Jack was lucky to have skillful and attentive teachers that helped him hone his yoga practice. At the age of 15, Jack traveled to San Francisco and attended his first 200 HR yoga teacher training with Jason Crandell. After 12 years of experience teaching and many hours of training later, Jack is a confident and skillful teacher that weaves elements of ashtanga, Anusara, functional movement, Bhakti vinyasa, and giggles into his unique approach.