About Shaileen
I am not a person who was born calm.
And I did not come to yoga peacefully.
For years I worked as an attorney at a BigLaw firm in Manhattan — a world that rewards endurance, suppresses everything else, and calls that success. By the time I found my way to a yoga mat in 2017, I wasn’t looking for flexibility or fitness. I was looking for a way out of a body that had been running on adrenaline for so long it had forgotten how to stop.
What I found was something I didn't expect: a system. Not a workout. Not a wellness trend. A centuries-old map for working with the human mind, through the body, through the breath, through the simple and radical act of paying attention.
That discovery changed the direction of my life.
Over the years that followed, one practice led to another — each one deepening my understanding of how the body holds what the mind has been through. Yoga led me to meditation. Meditation brought my breath into focus. Breathwork led me to study the Buteyko Method and the Oxygen Advantage. A profound experience with my Teacher in Chennai, India in 2023 reoriented my entire approach to yoga philosophy.
And then my body asked something of me that I could no longer ignore. My own history of chronic stress and trauma, long managed and long deferred, finally needed to be met. That is how TRE® found me — not the other way around. I completed my dual certification in TRE® and Neurogenic Yoga™ in 2025, and I have not looked at the nervous system the same way since.
I share all of this not to impress you with a resume, but because I want you to know: I am not a person who was born calm. I am a person who learned — slowly, imperfectly, and sometimes reluctantly — that the body is not the obstacle.
It is the way through.
That is what I bring to this work. And that is what I am here to offer you.
Credentials
◆ 200-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher, Be Yoga, Charlotte, NC — 2017
◆ Mindfulness Meditation Certification, Charlotte Meditation — 2018
◆ Buteyko Breathing Method Certified Instructor — 2022
◆ Oxygen Advantage Certified Instructor — 2024
◆ 100-Hour Meditation Facilitation Certification, Chennai, India — 2023
◆ Dual Certification, TRE® and Neurogenic Yoga™ — 2025