Tula Yoga Studio

HUGE thank you to Kara for lending us the chairs to support the training that we hosted! 🙏 Logan Square yoga studios unite💪

I’ve been wearing this small red string on my wrist since completing the Dharma Yoga Mindfulness Training at - over 2 years ago!

It has three knots.

One for the Buddha — the possibility of waking up.
One for the Dharma — the teachings, the path, the truth of things as they are.
One for the Sangha — the community of practice.

As Tula reopens on Monday, July 13, I’ve been thinking a lot about what these three reminders mean for our little studio.

Tula has always been a place to practice, but I hope it continues to become something deeper than a place to take class. A place to return to the body. To steady the mind. To remember the heart. To practice together, imperfectly and honestly, in community.

The thread itself is simple. It will eventually loosen or fall away. But what it points to feels lasting:

practice as refuge,
teachings as guidance,
community as support.

As we reopen, this is what I am carrying with me.

May Tula continue to be a place where yoga is not something we ‘do’, but something we live, study, question, and practice together.

We reopen Monday, July 13. I’m so looking forward to welcoming you back. ❤️🕉️

We’re so happy to introduce **Supported Practice + Sound Bath** - a gentle, accessible class for anyone wanting a slower, more supported way to practice.

This class is inspired by the Accessible Yoga Training with Jivana Heyman, which I recently completed. The training affirmed something we believe deeply at Tula: yoga should adapt to people, not the other way around.

You are welcome to practice in a chair, on a mat, or with a combination of both. We’ll explore gentle somatic movement, accessible yoga postures, breath awareness, meditation, and simple yogic teachings woven into the practice.

And we’ll end with a **harmonized sound bath** - intentionally created to feel soothing, spacious, and supportive. Rather than using strong dissonance or intensity, the soundscape will be harmonized, gentle and calming, offering time to rest, receive, and let the body settle.

This class may be especially supportive for older adults, people navigating injury, chronic pain, fatigue, balance concerns, stress, or anyone who wants a softer entry point into yoga.

No experience needed. No flexibility required.
Just come as you are.

**Supported Practice + Sound Bath**
Sundays 9:30am
Starting July 19

Register through tulayoga.net 🕉️

I’m so excited to share a little glimpse of something we’re planning way ahead of schedule…

October 2027: Return to the Earth: A Yoga & Mindfulness Retreat 🌿

This retreat will take place over Indigenous Peoples’ Day weekend — a meaningful time to slow down, reconnect with the earth, and remember our relationship with the land beneath our feet.

Seven Springs is a rustic retreat center nestled at the base of the Smoky Mountains, with spring waters, forested surroundings, a walking meditation labyrinth, fire circles, and plenty of space to breathe.

My hope is to create a weekend that feels grounding, spacious, and deeply nourishing — a chance to step away from the noise of daily life, feel the ground beneath us, practice together, rest together, and reconnect with nature in a simple and meaningful way.

It’s early, but mark your calendars now and put down a deposit to save your spot!

October 8-11, 2027
Seven Springs Retreat Center
Yoga, mindfulness, nature, rest, and community

I’m so grateful and excited to begin dreaming this into being. 🌲

One of my favorite memories from Seoul was walking through Gyeongui Line Forest Park (Yeontral Park) and stopping for warm Korean salt bread (소금빵, sogeum-ppang) - one of the best things I’ve ever eaten in my life! 🥐

I only went a couple of times while I was there, but it was memorable enough that I still think about it. Paired with a black tea infused with fresh grapefruit, it was absolute perfection.

In fact, if anyone knows where I can find authentic Korean salt bread in Chicago… I’d seriously consider bartering yoga classes for it. 😂

One of the very first practices we do in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is learn how to eat mindfully. It’s such a simple exercise, but it teaches us to slow down, engage our senses, and truly experience what’s right in front of us.

For me, those mornings in Korea became their own mindfulness practice. Not because the bread was healthy, but because I was fully there - walking, noticing, savoring, appreciating.

Sometimes yoga looks less like a pose and more like paying complete attention to a warm piece of bread and a really good cup of tea.

What’s something simple you’ve slowed down enough to truly savor lately? 🫶

Two lead teachers. Two complementary perspectives. One integrated 200-hour yoga teacher training. 🧘‍♀️💜🕉️🙏

At Tula, our 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training is shaped by the different backgrounds, strengths, and lived teaching experience that we each bring to the room.

Rhiannon brings many years of teaching experience and a deep foundation in the Ashtanga Vinyasa tradition, with an alignment-based approach to asana, sequencing, technique, and the art of teaching a skillful class.

Maile brings a background in mindfulness, meditation, somatics, and yoga therapy, with an emphasis on accessibility, individuality, trauma-informed considerations, nervous system awareness, and applying yoga as a practice for the whole person.

Together, we offer a training that honors traditional yoga practice while also asking: How do we make yoga meaningful, accessible, embodied, and responsive to the person in front of us?

This training is for those who feel called to teach, and also for sincere students who want to deepen their relationship to yoga beyond the postures.

✨Enrollment is open for Tula’s 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training. ✨

Learn more at tulayoga.net

We have renamed our classes Embodied practice.

But it’s not about being perfect at listening to your body or feeling calm all the time.

For us, embodied practice means slowing down enough to notice what’s here.

Your breath.

Your posture.

Your habits.

The places you hold tension.

The moments you push when you might need to pause.

It’s a practice of becoming more familiar with yourself - not so you can judge or fix what you find, but so you can respond with a little more awareness, choice and compassion.

That’s the kind of yoga we’re interested in. 💜

At the beginning of May, we celebrated the graduation of our newest Yoga Teacher Training cohort (number 8!)and my heart is so full. 💜

It is always moving to witness students step into this work with sincerity, courage, curiosity, and care. Yoga teacher training is not just about learning to teach poses. It is a process of deep study, self-inquiry, practice, relationship, and transformation. I am so proud of this group and excited to see how each of them carries yoga forward in their own authentic way.

As you may know, in past years, we have often been able to offer a donation-based graduation weekend and create opportunities for new graduates to be added to our sub list. Because of the changes and transitions happening at the studio this year, we are not able to offer that in the same way right now.

That said, these new teachers are ready, thoughtful, and deeply committed. If you are a studio owner, wellness space, community organization, gym, school, workplace, or anyone looking for dedicated new yoga teachers, please reach out to me. I would be so happy to help connect you.

✨Please join us in celebrating these beautiful graduates and the next step on their teaching path. 🙏

Tula is growing our teaching circle.✨

We are looking to connect with experienced yoga teachers who are interested in supporting workshops, teacher training, mentorship, and continuing education at Tula Yoga Studio.

We are especially interested in teachers who hold an RYT 500 or higher, or who bring 10 or more years of dedicated teaching experience.

This is a good fit for teachers who love yoga as more than movement alone. We are looking for educators who can hold depth, nuance, and care, and who are excited to teach within a studio culture rooted in yoga philosophy, mindful movement, somatic awareness, breath, meditation, nervous system support, and accessible practice.

Areas of interest may include:

Yoga philosophy
Anatomy and biomechanics
Somatics
Restorative yoga
Pranayama
Meditation and mindfulness
Trauma informed practice
Accessible yoga
Subtle body practices
Specialty workshops
Teacher training modules

If you are an experienced teacher who feels aligned with this direction, we would love to hear from you.

Please send a short introduction, your teaching background, areas of specialty, and why you feel drawn to Tula to:

[email protected]

We are excited to continue building a thoughtful, skilled, and heart centered teaching community. 💕

Today I am celebrating the completion of my 1,000-hour yoga therapy training with Yoga North 🙏

It is hard to put into words what this journey has meant to me. Of course, there was learning. There was study, practice, anatomy, philosophy, somatics, breath, meditation, and the deep work of learning how to support another human being with more skill, humility, and care.

But what I will remember most is the people.

My teachers and my cohort became a circle of support that I did not even know how much I needed. They witnessed me, challenged me, encouraged me, laughed with me, held space for me, and reminded me again and again that healing is not something we do alone. It happens in relationship. It happens in community. It happens when we are met with steadiness, kindness, and truth.

I am going to miss being inside that circle in the same way.

And I am also so proud of myself.

Proud of the hours, the effort, the vulnerability, the growth, the nervous system rewiring, the learning, the unlearning, and the devotion it took to arrive here.

This training has changed how I teach, how I practice, how I listen, and how I understand the body as a doorway into something much deeper.

To my Yoga North teachers and my beautiful cohort, thank you. You have meant more to me than I can say. I will carry you with me into every room where I teach, every session where I listen, and every moment where I remember that yoga is not just something we do.

✨It is a way of coming home.✨