ASHTANGA YOGA | HERRIMAN, UTAH
Learn Ashtanga the traditional way. Start with the Foundations course.
Foundations is an 8-week course that teaches you the method, the breath, and how to practice on your own, so you arrive at the Mysore-style room ready. Everyone who practices at the shala begins here.
Whether you’re
just getting started or developing your personal practice,
I’m here to help you show up and build trust in your personal practice from the first breath.
Waitlist open now. Enrollment opens March 8; the first cohort starts April 13, 2027. Limited to 12 students.
Taught by Mandi Gardner. Over 12 years of Ashtanga practice. In teacher training with Angela Jamison who teaches the lineage of R. Sharath Jois. Studying in Mysore, India, in January 2027. Author of RISING.
HOW I CAN HELP YOU
The Consultation
A free 10-15 minute consultation with me, Mandi Gardner, to see if we’re a good fit for each other.
The Foundations Course
8-week container that teaches you the method, the breath, and how to practice on your own, so you arrive at the Mysore-style room ready. Everyone who practices at the shala begins here.
The Shala
Online only, for now. An in-person yoga school is coming to Herriman, Utah in late 2027.
THE PRACTICE
Ashtanga is a daily practice, not a class
Ashtanga comes from Mysore, India. It is a set sequence of postures linked by breath, practiced the same way each day until the practice teaches you what you need to know. In a Mysore-style room you practice at your own pace while the teacher guides you one-on-one.
It is simple. It is not easy. It asks for patience and daily effort, and it repays both.
WHY FOUNDATIONS COME FIRST
You build the base before you enter the room.
Mysore-style practice works when you already know the sequence, the breath, and the rhythm. Foundations gives you all three, in a small group, before you walk into the shala.
Foundations is small and runs a few times a year, so there may be a wait. That is deliberate. It protects the room for students who are ready to practice.
THE ROUTE: 8 WEEKS
What you learn
Weeks 1-2
Breath & Sun Salutations
Weeks 3-4
The Standing Sequence
Weeks 5-6
Seated postures and the finishing sequence
Weeks 7-8
How to practice on your own, room etiquette, and your home practice plan
WHO THIS IS FOR
She is already drawn to discipline.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF
You want to understand the deeper teachings of yoga, not just the poses.
You practice yoga, or are curious about Ashtanga, and want to learn it properly. You are willing to practice several days a week. You want a teacher, a method, and a room to grow into.
NOT THIS
Not drop-in yoga for fitness or flexibility. This asks for daily, committed practice.
Not a quick fix or a one-time workshop. This is a structured course with a clear next step.
Not inspiration without structure. You learn a method and practice it.
HOW I TEACH AND WHO I AM
The practice is traditional. The teaching is steady.
The teaching is shaped by how the nervous system learns steadiness: breath, repetition, and structure. You will learn to notice when you push, when you collapse, and how to stay with yourself in the practice. The steadiness you build on the mat is the same steadiness you want in hard situations in life.
I am a long-time Ashtanga practitioner, an author, and a teacher in training, based in Herriman, Utah. I have practiced Ashtanga for more than 12 years and am studying in Mysore, India, in January 2027.
Having grown up with childhood trauma and an instable upbringing, I have struggled with the symptoms of cPTSD. The specific lineage, that of R. Sharath Jois, has been the practice that has healed my mind, body and nervous system the most. Because it has helped me so much, I naturally want to share these technologies for peace with others.
THE TRAINING ECOSYSTEM
Where to begin
A free nervous system tool for high-functioning women
You know the feeling. The conversation ends — and you don't.
You're still in it. Replaying the exchange. Rehearsing what you should have said. Lying awake at 2am running the same loop.
That's not overthinking. That's unfinished activation.
This reset teaches you how to close the stress cycle so your nervous system can actually discharge what the conversation triggered — in three minutes, in real time.
This is not a breathing exercise. This is trained regulation.
Download the reset. Experience the pause.
For the woman who has done everything right and still finds herself falling apart in the moments that matter.
RISING is Mandi H. Gardner's deeply personal account of rebuilding identity and reclaiming steadiness — not through more insight, but through ritual. Through practice. Through the daily act of coming back to herself until it became the only thing she knew how to do.
Part memoir, part framework, part invitation — this is the book for the woman who is ready to stop surviving her life and start training for it.
The story begins here. The method follows.
A 90-minute private session with Mandi H. Gardner, Ashtanga Yoga Teacher and Self-Help Author of RISING: A Woman’s Journey of Healing Through Rituals | $222 — applied toward The Daily C.A.L.M. Practice.
Before you train, you assess. This is a private, diagnostic Zoom session designed to give you complete clarity on where your nervous system is breaking down in relationships — and exactly what it will take to change it.
In 90 minutes, you will leave with:
A precise map of your relational dysregulation patterns
An understanding of which C.A.L.M. tools are most urgent for you
A personal plan of action for The Daily C.A.L.M. Practice in a customized pdf
Clarity on whether the 8-week container is your right next step
This is not a sales call. It is a working session — structured, diagnostic, and specific to you. If you move forward into The Daily C.A.L.M. Practice 8-Week Transformation Mentorship group cohort or 1:1 coaching, your $222 is applied in full toward your enrollment fee.
You don't need more insight about why you react the way you do. You need a clear plan for what to train next. This is where that starts.
Want the paperback of RISING: A Woman’s Journey of Healing Through Rituals?
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Insight does not override activation. Repetition builds capacity.
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The mat prepares you for the conversation. That is the point of the practice.
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You are not too sensitive. You are under-trained for emotional intensity.
Ready to train — not just understand?
A Practice Assessment is a private diagnostic conversation to clarify what is driving the pattern and what your training needs to look like. No pitch. Just precision.
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