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Morning batches open for August · Besant Nagar, Chennai

Not the pose. The breath inside it.

Hatha and prenatal yoga, taught the traditional way — slowly, with attention to every body in the room. RYT-500, nine years, 4,000+ hours of teaching, and students who started with back pain and stayed for a decade.

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4,000+Hours taught
RYT-500Yoga Alliance
9yrsTeaching
12Max per batch
Classes

Choose your pace

Groups of 12 · the shala

Hatha, taught slowly

Classical asana, pranayama and ten honest minutes of savasana. No music, no mirrors, no performance — the room is quiet enough to hear your own breath.

₹2,800per month · 3 classes a week

Small groups of 6 · Tue & Thu

Prenatal & postnatal

Trained specifically for pregnancy — what to strengthen, what to release, what to skip entirely. Doctor's clearance required; partners welcome once a month.

₹3,500per month · includes WhatsApp support

One-on-one · home or shala

Private & therapeutic

For injuries, chronic pain, or a practice built around your body. Starts with a one-hour assessment and a written plan your physiotherapist can read.

₹1,500per session · packages available

No unlimited-classes memberships, no lock-in contracts. Yoga three times a week, done consistently, beats seven days of enthusiasm followed by a cancelled subscription.

"Flexibility is not the goal. It is a side effect. The goal is a nervous system that trusts you again."

What I tell every new student

Student stories

Three bodies, three years in

Shared with permission, names changed. Yoga's results are slow and boring — which is exactly why they last.

Desk back · started 2022

The engineer who couldn't sit through a meeting

Fifteen years of software, an L4-L5 disc bulge, and a surgeon offering an operation. His physio suggested yoga first. We spent six months on basics — hip hinges, gentle backbends, breath. Surgery indefinitely postponed, per his own orthopaedist.

Pain-free days: most

Prenatal · two pregnancies

The mother who came back with her second

Joined at 16 weeks with her first baby, terrified of everything. We worked on strength she could trust and breath for labour. Her second pregnancy, she walked in at 12 weeks like she owned the room. Her obstetrician now sends me two referrals a month.

Referred by her OB

Anxiety · started 2023

The student who slept through savasana

She came for flexibility and spent the first month unable to lie still for five minutes. We never discussed anxiety directly — we just practised. Eight months in, she fell asleep in savasana, and the whole class smiled.

The practice stuck
Portrait
About

How I came to the mat

I found yoga the unglamorous way: a corporate job, a frozen shoulder at 28, and a physiotherapist who said "the exercises will fix the shoulder, but something else is holding it." Six months of practice fixed the shoulder. The something else took longer — and became the career.

I trained in Rishikesh and then apprenticed for three years under a teacher in Mylapore who made me re-learn everything slowly. I teach hatha because it's what changed me: unhurried, precise, and honest about the fact that the mind is the hardest muscle in the room.

"I don't teach twenty-five-pose sequences. I teach five poses, properly, until your body stops negotiating with them."

RYT-500 · Yoga AlliancePrenatal certification · 85 hrsYoga therapy foundation · SVYASAEN · TA · HI

The path

2020 — NOW

Founder & teacher, home shala

Besant Nagar, Chennai

Six weekly batches, capped at 12 · prenatal programme · 2 teacher-mentees in training.

2017 — 2020

Yoga instructor

Wellness studio chain, Chennai

18 classes a week across 3 studios — the apprenticeship in teaching every kind of body.

2014 — 2017

Training years

Rishikesh · Mylapore

200-hr and 500-hr TTC · 3-year traditional apprenticeship · left a marketing career at 29.

Students say

Student · 6 years

"I've tried gyms, apps and two other studios. Meera's class is the only place where someone noticed my left knee before I mentioned it. Six years, and my mat is non-negotiable now."

Priya, 41 · sunrise batchStudent since 2020

Referring doctor

"I send my prenatal patients to Meera because she knows exactly where her scope ends and mine begins. Her students arrive at delivery stronger and calmer — measurably so."

Obstetrician, ChennaiRefers 2–3 patients monthly
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Your first class is free

Come practise, or just sit and watch a class before deciding. The shala is small on purpose — if a batch is full, the waitlist is honest and moves monthly.

Emailmeera.shala@example.com
Phone+91 98400 56789
Shala4th Cross St, Besant Nagar, Chennai