About Holly —
Some people find their way to this work through books and trainings. Holly found hers through a life that demanded it.
Before the school in the mountains. Before three decades of teaching. Before any of this.
Holly Krepps spent years building a life that looked like success from the outside.
A career in broadcast media and marketing. Account Executive and then manager in radio, marketing director for an advertising agency, then Account Executive at CBS and NBC television affiliates. She understood how to build something, how to position it, how to make it matter. And she built a yoga studio in Little Rock that became the state's premier space for practice and study.
And then something shifted. Not a crisis. Just a knowing.
At 44, she and her husband sold the studio, sold the home, and drove into the Arkansas Ozarks with $27,000, a circle of trusted friends, and a clarity that was equal parts terrifying and true.
What they built there, Circle Yoga Shala, a wisdom school and internationally accredited yoga therapy center, became one of Arkansas's most respected centers for deep practice and teacher formation. For nearly two decades, students arrived on that mountain land and left changed.
That willingness to reorder a life around what's real is not just Holly's story.
It's the work she now helps others do.
Who She Is
A Teacher Shaped by the Full Range of It
Holly doesn't teach from concept. She teaches from territory she has actually crossed.
Thirty-plus years in the recovery tradition. A full Kundalini awakening in her late twenties, three years of disorienting, extraordinary experience she navigated largely alone, until a Catholic priest from Portugal quietly pointed her toward the Bhagavad Gita and said: you'll find more direction there. Study with Father Richard Rohr in his prestigious three-year Living School at the Center for Action and Contemplation. Decades of work with the Wisdom Enneagram, somatic practice, Ayurveda, and contemplative Christianity. A life with horses that continues to teach her things no book can.
She turned 60 in 2024. Her life has been, as she puts it, a crucible. For forgiveness. For a resilience that transcends and includes. For learning to parent oneself into genuine adulthood.
What has emerged from all of it is a teaching presence that is grounded, direct, and impossible to perform your way through.
The Streams That Feed This Work
Holly's approach draws from traditions she has not merely studied but lived:
TRADITIONS / WHAT SHE DRAWS FROM
Yoga & Yoga Therapy
Ayurveda
The Wisdom Enneagram
The AA Recovery Path
Self-Observation & Self-Remembering
The Native American Tradition
Contemplative, Mystical Christianity
Natural Horsemanship
“When I am feeling especially anxious, unsure about a decision, doubting myself, doubting life, and feeling scared, the only person I trust is Holly. She has this uncanny way of leading another person to the truth with no tricks and nothing to learn or figure out. Inquiry is the most honest, hopeful work you could ever do, and Holly is a master.”
—Zoe
"Observing Holly lead individuals through the inquiry process is witnessing mastery in action. Her compassionate and patient approach is relentless in uncovering truths beyond mere narratives. The outcome is a glimpse of liberation that might leave one yearning for further exploration."
—Pat
“Holly makes self-inquiry accessible. She brings years of her own practice and training to the table, introducing ways to train attention, process emotion, and stay present in the body. What she teaches is simple but profoundly important.”
—Joy
If Something Here Resonates
The people who find their way to this work are rarely beginners. They are thoughtful, capable, often accomplished. They have done the reading, the therapy, the trainings.
And something still feels unfinished.
If that's where you are, the best next step is a conversation.