When you book a class at Brinda Yog Studio, you are not booking a slot on a timetable — you are booking time with one teacher. Every class here is led by Vaishali Modi, the studio’s founder and lead instructor, and for most students she is the reason they stay. If you are looking for a yoga instructor in Duluth, GA who will know your name, your stiff shoulder and your goals, this page is her introduction.
New to the studio? Start with our complete beginner’s guide to yoga classes in Duluth, then come back and meet the teacher behind it.
Twenty years of teaching, one small studio
Vaishali is an internationally certified Yoga Trainer (RYS 200 – Yoga Alliance) and a certified practitioner in Yogic Sciences from Yog Sadhan Ashram. She has been teaching yoga for more than 20 years. Her journey began with personal coaching, yoga camps (Yog Shibirs) and deep study through books and spiritual practice; yoga became her own path to greater focus, happiness and inner peace, and teaching is how she shares it. She later completed formal certification, including the Teacher Training Program at Yog Sadhan Ashram in Ahmedabad.
Today she teaches from her home studio in Duluth, GA 30097, near Sugarloaf — small, by-appointment classes where the teaching builds week over week because the teacher is the same person every time. Read more about the studio on our About page.
Trained across the whole practice — including yoga therapy
Vaishali’s training covers the full breadth of the practice, not one style of it:
🫁 Breath and stillness
Pranayama and meditation techniques — the practices she uses to help busy minds settle. See meditation classes in Duluth and breathwork & pranayama.
🌿 Yoga therapy
Formal training in yoga therapy and in yogic anatomy & physiology — the background she draws on for one-to-one work with students managing sensitive backs, stiff joints and long-term conditions, always as supportive care alongside, never instead of, medical care. See yoga therapy in Duluth.
🌅 Asana, taught step by step
Asana practice, bandha and mudra, and shatkarma — taught with clear, step-by-step cueing and props, so a posture is something you build, not something you force. Beginners start safely with beginner yoga.
How Vaishali teaches
Students describe her teaching in their own words below, and the pattern is consistent: warm, friendly and grounded. In practice, that means three things you will notice in your first class:
- She prepares for who is coming. Classes are by prior appointment only, 9 AM–6 PM, so she knows the students in the room — and their limitations — before the class starts.
- Variations come first, not last. Props, blocks and gentler versions of a posture are offered as the normal way to practise, not as a concession. Stiff, senior, pregnant and returning-from-injury students work at their own level, safely. That is the same approach behind her prenatal yoga, kids yoga and seniors & chair yoga classes.
- Nothing is promised except good teaching. Yoga is not a cure for anything, and Vaishali makes no promises about outcomes. Her stated mission is simpler: to bring the strengthening, calming benefits of a regular practice to every person she meets, one honest class at a time.
Want to meet her in person? Call (678) 989-6125 or see classes & book your spot — book a first class, and the introduction happens on the mat.
🎥 Watch: what a fellow yoga therapist says about Brinda
Credentials on a page are easy to write; a peer’s judgement is harder to earn. In this video from our YouTube channel, yoga guru and therapist Dr. Birju Acharaya shares his own review of Brinda Yog Studio and of Vaishali’s teaching. Watch it, and then come and judge for yourself — that is exactly what a first class is for.
What Vaishali’s students say
Two students, in their own words, taken word for word from the studio’s testimonials page. These are individual experiences — not promises about what practice will do for anyone else:
“Vaishaliben is a excellent teacher and a friendly person too. Ambience is also nice and I would give A+ rating to both the teacher and environment”
— Mana Raval, student
“Great instructor with fantastic ambiance Healthy and fit , looking young then my age.”
— Jhanvi Tolani, student
Read more on our student testimonials page.
Frequently asked questions
Every class is led by Vaishali Modi, the studio’s founder and lead instructor — an internationally certified Yoga Trainer (RYS 200 – Yoga Alliance) and certified yoga therapist with more than 20 years of teaching experience.
Yogic anatomy & physiology, asana practice, pranayama, shatkarma, bandha & mudra, yoga therapy and meditation techniques — formal training she completed through Yog Sadhan Ashram, alongside two decades of teaching.
Yes. Vaishali cues every posture step by step and offers props and gentler variations as the normal way to practise. You do not need to be flexible — flexibility is a result of practice, not a requirement for it.
That is exactly what her yoga-therapy training is for. Tell her about any pain, injury or condition when you book, and the session is prepared around it. Yoga therapy here is supportive care — it does not replace medical treatment, and no outcomes are promised.
Classes are by prior appointment only, between 9 AM and 6 PM. A quick call to (678) 989-6125 books your spot — and lets Vaishali prepare the session around the students who are coming.
Brinda Yog Studio is in Duluth, GA 30097, near Sugarloaf. Call (678) 989-6125 when you book and we will confirm the details for your visit.
Come and meet your instructor
A teacher is not something you can fully judge from a web page — you judge her in a class. Book one, and you will know within the hour whether Vaishali’s teaching is the right fit for you. Most of our students decided exactly that way.
📍 Brinda Yog Studio · Duluth, GA 30097
📞 Call (678) 989-6125 · 🗓️ See classes & book your spot · ✉️ Ask us a question
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