Shaphali Singh

A Bit About Me

Namaste, I am Shaphali.

I come from Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, and my relationship with yoga began long before it became a profession. It began as a personal necessity,  a quiet, determined search for self-care at a time when I needed it most.

Despite holding multiple academic degrees, I did not enter a professional teaching career until I completed my YCB Level 2 certification. That milestone did something more than formalise my knowledge. It gave me the clarity and confidence to establish my own yoga centre, a space where I work closely with individuals navigating chronic illness, weight concerns, stress, and women's health. What I offer there is not a standardised programme. It is a genuinely personalised practice, shaped by each person's needs and circumstances.

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My classical foundation is in Ashtanga Yoga, which I had the privilege of practising under the guidance of Saraswati Jois in Mysore. That experience remains one of the most significant of my life as a practitioner. Ashtanga taught me that yoga is not about what the body can perform; it is about what consistent, disciplined practice builds from the inside. The precision and internal awareness the practice demands are qualities I carry into every teaching context, and I particularly enjoy sharing these subtleties with students in the TTC programmes, where the depth of classical practice is often encountered for the first time.

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My work in facial wellness has an equally personal origin. I came to face yoga through my own challenges with skin health,  looking for something that worked without dependence on chemical-based products. What I found through sustained practice exceeded what I had hoped for, and that experience convinced me of its genuine therapeutic value far more than any academic study could have. I now teach facial wellness not as an aesthetic pursuit but as an extension of yogic self-care, integrating breathwork, facial movement, and relaxation practices into a coherent approach to natural skin health and radiance.

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At Ayushman Yog, I contribute as faculty across two programmes. In the YCB Teacher Training Courses, I guide aspiring yoga teachers through the practical components of their certification, bringing to that role both my classical training and my experience of building and running an independent yoga centre. In the Yogic Management of Facial Wellness programme, I teach the principles and practices that I have lived with and refined over the years, offering students not just technique, but the understanding that makes technique meaningful.

What I am working toward, through both programmes, is something larger than individual sessions or certifications. I want students to leave with a relationship with yoga that sustains them, one that serves their health, their appearance, and their inner life, not as separate concerns but as parts of a single, integrated practice.

Yoga, for me, has never been about exercise. It is a way of living. And my deepest aim is to help others find it that way too.