“With my deepest gratitude and adoration for the teachers who have helped shape my practice and my teaching. I humbly thank you for the love you’ve shown me and your guidance in helping me connect to my True Self. Each of you has a special place in my Heart.”
— Rebekah Gunn
Question: Where is Circle City Studio?
Answer: It's wherever Rebekah happens to be teaching at the moment!
Circle City Studio is not a traditional brick-and-mortar studio (although Rebekah does occasionally teach private or small group sessions in her hOMe studio). Rather, Circle City Studio is entirely mobile, teaching in various yoga studios and fitness facilities as well as corporate establishments and even in the comfort of one's own home. In short, Circle City Studio is wherever Rebekah happens to be teaching at the moment! Rebekah created this website as a means through which she and her beloved students can stay connected on and off the mat.
The name "Circle City" pays tribute to the nickname of Rebekah's home town (the courthouse is located right in the middle of the traffic circle, hence the name!) It's also one of the many locations where Rebekah is currently available to guide Yoga practices. Rebekah developed www.circlecitystudio.com as a place to connect with other Yogis, near and far. It's a place where you can find her current teaching schedule, links to tutorials (coming soon!), various other resources, and more!
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Even after completing 3 teacher trainings and logging over 1200 hours of teaching, Rebekah feels that her journey has just begun.
Rebekah felt that her body practiced yoga long before her mind knew what it was doing. It was the stretching she did in between sets of weightlifting reps. But it was more than just stretching. Without conscious effort, her body found its way into various asanas (poses) that she later learned had names. Rebekah still remembers taking her first “real” yoga class. It was at once familiar and different, soothing and exhilarating. She felt like she was unlocking parts of herself that she hadn’t gotten to know before.
Over a decade later, she still experiences the same sensations whether it’s an expression of an asana she’s never tried before or an asana she has practiced thousands of times.
Naturally, Rebekah wanted to share this love of the practice with others. Even after completing 200-hour training programs with both Dharma Richards (Yoga Garden, Apex, NC) and Lila Rasa Brown (Abundant Heart Yoga Teacher Training) and a 500-hour with Dharma Richards (Yoga Garden, Apex, NC), Rebekah feels like she's only beginning to scratch the surface of her studies of yoga.
With over 1200 hours of teaching, Rebekah seeks to create an engaging, encouraging, nonthreatening environment that helps students explore what yoga means to them. She employs her knowledge of alignment principles to help students find safe, pain free avenues to a sustainable, ever-deepening asana practice.
