RACHEL SIMONE WILKINS
She/Her
E-RYT 500, YACEP, Reiki Master.
Vinyasa
Restorative
Yoga Nidra
Pre & Postnatal
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.
Rachel’s empowering, soulful, intuitive classes are an invitation to reconnect with your own inner wisdom, and reclaim a sense of embodied Self knowing. She truly believes you will always be your own greatest healer: she is here to hold space for you to remember and re-awaken to your inner teacher. Her 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.
Rachel has been formally teaching since 2011, and has completed over a thousand hours of advanced trainings and mentorships: from studying non-dual Tantra and creative prana vinyasa with Shiva Rea, bhakti with Janet Stone, pre and post natal yoga with Jane Austen, to biomechanics, anatomy and injury management with Jason Crandell.
She is the founder of Intuitive Vinyasa Flow RYS 200hr & 300hr teacher trainings, Ritual & Renewal retreats, and loves leading her monthly ritual Moon Circles locally around the Bay Area https://www.
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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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/