Meet Our Founders

When Matt and Holly met in 1997, they were already both practitioners in the yoga tradition. He was an Ashtanga Yogi, and she a Bhakti. They merged their practices and studies and soon after married. Holly worked as an executive at a CBS Affiliate, and Matthew was a Chef. They left their respective careers and spent the next ten years developing their yoga studio into the state’s premier studio at that time.

In 2009, they sold everything to purchase a 25-acre working homestead where the vision for Circle Yoga Shala began to take shape.

The area they settled consists mostly of national forests, and the National Buffalo River. It’s the ideal location with scenic trailheads, pure springs, and natural wonders to immerse in nature, beauty, and service to others.