What is True Light Yoga?

True Light Yoga is more than just a Yoga Studio located in Ocean City New Jersey, it is a wellness community focused on embodiment, authenticity and blissful living. 

 In her book, "How to Be the Love you Seek" Dr. Nicole Le Parra writes that our body is wired to connect with others.  Our body's nervous system communicates with other people's nervous systems through electrical hormonal and energetic signals that we can't see but only feel.  TLY is a group of people being that for one another. Aiming to bring body, mind, and heart back to regulation + joy through wellness offerings. These offerings include group classes,  private sessions, workshops, retreats, and teacher trainings.  Rachael O'Brien started and named TLY  in 2022 but it had existed, in a way, long before its name.

We are a community of yogis practicing with the intention that while yoga is an ancient & sacred practice, it can still be light & fun while being transformative. 

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We, at True Light Yoga, stand in the belief of taking yoga beyond maintenance for the body, and into transformation for life. The practice of yoga can help us to become "unstuck" and create a life that feels truly authentic and joyful to us. 

Our struggles as a country with the mental health crisis are at an all-time high right now. We believe at TLY that this practice + community can be the antidote. We aim to develop tools within the yoga studio, to take with us outside and help us to live an embodied life.

We move to learn, unlearn, & relearn.

Each person who comes to TLY and stays will attain a knowing that they belong, are not alone, and are better equipped to handle the stresses of life. 

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Mission Statement

After working for 15 years in emergency service and being in recovery for 8 years, I (Rachael Founder of TLY) have seen what we are up against in the growing mental health crisis around us.

There is extreme importance in this time to understanding the nervous system and reconnecting with our inherent bliss, which yoga has helped me to do. I believe no matter who you are, or how far you have gone, we can help you to come back to alignment. 

Embodied Yoga, Conscious Community, + a joyful approach to life, are the tools I hope to offer in the growing mental health crisis we have in this world.

You will leave these classes with new connections + tools to help you with the stresses we all must inevitably face in this life. My mission is to help as many people as possible, to remember that life is to be enjoyed not survived. 

I aim to teach Yoga that is graspable and friendly, that we can take into our lives + make tangible.

We put ourselves in uncomfortable and hard positions on the mat, and practice pausing, breathing, and responding with love, so that hopefully, when life inevitably puts us in uncomfortable and hard positions, we can pause, breathe, + respond with love. 
 

It is my wish that through this practice, you can find your most

true & authentic self. Not become more like me, move like an ancient yogi sage, or talk and act like any other yoga teacher. But that you can connect with the truest version of yourself, your intuition, and your inner light. 

The message of True Light Yoga is that we can release ourselves from the constant fluctuations and judgments of the mind, to find joy in this moment. We can release the idea of identifying as stuck, or as only the physical body, and connect with our highest self, the true self in the present moment, and make that key to our liberation. 

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