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Mandy Leman | SEP 29, 2025


The Yoga at Home Guide Season One Release September 29th, 2025.
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Starting Yoga at Home for Beginners

When I sat down to create the Home Yoga Guide, I didn't just want to produce more yoga classes. We're already building a library of classes with new videos on Sundays and Wednesdays. This needed to be something different.


Really it felt more like a passion project—21 conversations, more like coffee chats than classes—about how to actually start and sustain yoga at home.


Because let’s be honest: walking into a studio can feel intimidating. Life is busy. Maybe you're an introvert, sensitive, or simply need something more practical like I did. You don’t want the extra “noise, ” but you do want the benefits—calm, strength, nervous system regulation, healing.


So, that's how this guide was born: by stripping away the pressure to show you how accessible, meaningful, and even joyful it can be to build a yoga practice at home.


Season One is designed to help you understand yoga basics so you can begin and sustain your own home yoga rhythm. It isn’t about dogma or doing yoga “right.” I'm sharing my perspective from a decade of yoga at home in the hope that it encourages you to try yoga and discover how it can support your healing and personal growth journey.


“a home yoga practice can change your life. It can be the self-care ritual that grounds you and helps you feel more like yourself again.”
Home Yoga Guide, Day 2


Why a Home Yoga Practice Matters


Studios can be beautiful places, but they can also feel intimidating — not knowing what to expect, the fear of doing it wrong, the pressure to “get it right,” and breathing just a few inches away from someone you don’t know may not be your vibe. Not to mention rearranging life around class times, the commute, and the cost of membership.


That’s why a home yoga practice matters: it removes those barriers and gives you a safe, consistent place to show up as you are. For me, that safety was everything.

I'm not against yoga studios and not suggesting you avoid them, what I'm suggesting is learning basics and setting up some space so you can drop into your yoga practice on your schedule and your terms.

It’s not just the experience of practicing yoga at home that brought this guide into existence, it’s the deep well of tools and teachings that my practice gave me. Without yoga, I wouldn’t have healed from chronic anxiety or the fear of being seen. I wouldn’t have softened the constant worry about getting it right or the fear of letting someone down.


Even while creating this guide, those fears would bubble up. And it was the same tools that would guide me through. Breath reminded me to pause. Mantra carried me when doubt was loud. Philosophy gave me perspective when I felt overwhelmed. My practice steadied me when I worked too hard, held me when I was tired, and reminded me to release the outcome when I thought no one would care.



What’s Inside the Home Yoga Guide


The Home Yoga Guide is a complete guide to starting and sustaining yoga at home. Inside, you’ll discover:

  • Why yoga at home matters and how it can change your life (Day 1).

  • What a home yoga practice actually looks like—finding space, when and how often to practice (Day 2).

  • How to make your yoga practice fit into your life when time feels scarce (Day 4).

  • How yoga supports self-healing—why it’s more than a workout or flexibility (Day 8).

It’s practical and grounding, but also deeply personal. My hope is that each video feels like a conversation with a yoga friend and an invitation to make yoga safe, healing, and truly your own.


By the end of the Home Yoga Guide, you’ll have more than just information—you’ll have a foundation to actually establish your yoga practice at home with confidence.


Your Invitation

“Take a breath. Take a seat...

Launching Season One of the Home Yoga Guide feels like a way of giving back to what yoga has given me.


This isn’t about rules or doing it “right.” It’s simply me sharing what I’ve learned (unscripted), in the hope that it encourages you to try yoga at home for yourself—to explore how it can bring healing and steady ground into your daily life.


If this speaks to you—if yoga has been calling you—please join me:

✨ Watch the Home Yoga Guide: A Complete Guide to Yoga at Home and let it be the gentle start to feeling better and more like yourself.


Then, we’ll keep practicing together. Join me for a weekly yoga ritual (30-min mat practice released on Sundays) and a mid-week reset (short chair yoga released on Wednesdays) to keep your home practice steady and supported.


..Let’s begin together.”
Home Yoga Guide, Day 5


Thank you for being here,

Mandy


May your home yoga practice become the safe space you return to again and again for calm, grounding, and renewal 🙏🏼



P.S. Whenever you’re ready, Home Yoga Therapy can help you in 3 ways:

  • How Yoga Works Guide — a practical companion for understanding yoga and how it supports your healing journey.

  • Yoga Therapy — thoughtful discussions and mindful practices that foster change, balance, and well-being in body, mind, and spirit.

  • Practice with Me on YouTube — weekly yoga rituals on Sundays and mid-week resets on Wednesdays to keep your home practice steady and supported.


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Mandy Leman | SEP 29, 2025

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