By Shweta Jain
Address Imbalances and Unlock Your Potential
In our daily lives, the way we use our body often creates imbalances - some muscles are overused while others remain underused. These imbalances can lead to tightness, discomfort, pain, or even injury, making physical activities like yoga or workouts feel harder than they should. Without addressing these underlying issues, even simple movements can become ineffective or unsafe.
Another challenge is that many beginner-level exercises - whether yoga, gym workouts, or other fitness activities - are taught as one-size-fits-all approaches. Social media, blogs, and YouTube tutorials often showcase movements like planks, downward dogs, or lunges as easy and beginner-friendly. However, these exercises require a baseline of strength, balance, and flexibility that isn't always addressed, leading to challenges when performed without proper preparation. When practices with incorrect form, due to body limitations or imbalances, they can:
1. Increase the risk of injury: Misaligned poses can strain joints and muscles
2. Reduce effectiveness: When the intended muscles arent activated correctly, progress becomes slower, and results are limited.
This is where Mindful Yoga Level One comes in. An innovative 3-month program carefully designed to be the preparation before yoga for beginners, this program systematically builds the foundational strength and flexibility necessary for safe and effective movement. Through isometric exercises that isolate key muscle groups and increase joint mobility, participants can refine their techniques and prepare their bodies for more advanced yoga practices and other fitness goals.
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Movements like planks or downward dogs requires strength in the shoulders and core, which may be limited by imbalances or tightness in other areas.
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Lunges, commonly seen as beginner poses, require proper hip stability and control - without which the movement can shift the effort to unintended compensatory areas.
This program doesn't just teach yoga, it prepares the body step-by-step through targeted preparatory movements. These foundational practices allow participants to progress safely, avoid injuries, and feel empowered as they gradually move toward more advanced variations of poses or other physical activities like gym workouts.
A Program Born From Experience
This program isnt just a theoretical model - its shaped by the personal and professional journey of Shweta, a yoga therapist and educator with over 10,000 hours of teaching experience.
Shweta's personal story is one of persistence and refinement. In her early practice, she often struggled doing some of the supposedly beginner level poses. She often found herself frustrated by the judgement from others and herself, but even more by the lack of guidance available to help her address her body's limitations. Advanced movements were overwhelming, and there was little instruction how to safely build the strength and flexibility necessary to achieve them. It was later that her self-study helped her realize that it was the limitations of her body structure and lack of strength in some specific muscle groups that made it challenging for her to do certain yoga poses.
Through years of continued self-study, research, training, and teaching individuals of all fitness levels, Shweta developed a systematic approach: instead of knowingly or unknowingly pushing the body into difficult poses, she focused on preparatory movements that build the foundation for advanced practices. She also promotes learning the technique to get in and out of a pose with the engagement of right muscles better than imitating an image of a yoga pose. This program reflects her philosophy of gradual, mindful progress and her belief that yoga should be safe, effective, and accessible to everyone.
Shweta understands what it feels like to struggle with poses, feel less confident in a group setting, or face physical restrictions. She created this program to guide others systematically, helping them achieve foundational strength and flexibility while building confidence in their bodies and practice.
A Program Rooted in Expertise, Precision, & Care
Mindful Yoga Level One is unlike other yoga programs. It bridges the gap between instruction and therapy, focusing on foundational strength, balance, and progression through a methodical, personalized approach.
Designed from Personal & Professional Experience
This program is thoughtfully curated by Shweta, whose journey shaped her philosophy of slow, mindful progress. Combining her teaching experience with her personal struggles, she developed this program to address gaps in modern yoga instruction - where foundational work is often overlooked, leading to injuries or slow progress.
Therapeutic Principles with a Holistic Lens
Shweta's non-compensatory model of yoga focuses on addressing overused & underused muscles to balance the body and prevent compensatory habits. Participants learn how to activate the right muscles and create functional strength.
Focused on Safe & Effective Progression
Many yoga programs and beginner exercises assume that everyone has the same baseline strength & mobility required for 'simple' movements. This program breaks down poses into preparatory exercises that build strength, increase range of motion, and improve alignment gradually, ensuring safe and sustainable progress.
Skill Building for
Independence
Beyond improving strength & flexibility, this program equips participants with the skills to refine their practice independently. the goal is not just to follow instructions but to understand the body and practice mindfully, developing confidence to progress safely on their own.
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Recurring Schedule
Weekly Group Classes:
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55-minute sessions
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1 learning session every Sun at 7am EST
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3 practice sessions every Mon, Wed & Fri at 6am EST
Real Stories, Real Results
"Transformation begins with the smallest steps. By honouring your body's limitations today, you build the strength and confidence to go beyond them tomorrow. Progress isn't about perfection, its about persistence."
Shweta Jain