Rashmi Shahbazker
Rashmi Shahbazker is a holistic life coach and movement teacher based in Bengaluru, widely recognised as a pioneer of Yogalates in India. Through her practice, Yogalates with Rashmi, she has built a reputation for making mindful fitness both accessible and enduring. Yogalates is a hybrid discipline that draws on the core-strengthening and postural intelligence of Pilates alongside the breath, flexibility and inward focus of yoga. Rather than treating these as separate systems, Rashmi weaves them into a single, coherent approach to physical wellbeing — one that asks the body and the mind to work together rather than in isolation. Her work sits at the intersection of movement, awareness and sustainable health.
Rashmi's offering covers a genuinely wide range of life stages and needs. Her Yogalates classes form the foundation, available both through live online sessions and structured digital fitness courses that allow students across India and beyond to practise with consistent, guided support. She has developed dedicated programming for prenatal yoga — meeting expectant mothers with care and specificity — as well as postnatal fitness for those rebuilding strength after childbirth. Beyond movement, she works as a holistic life coach, helping clients connect the physical habits they build on the mat with the broader patterns of their daily lives. She also leads wellness retreats that bring movement, rest and self-care together in an immersive setting.
What distinguishes Rashmi's approach is the refusal to separate fitness from the larger question of how a person is living. Physical conditioning, in her view, is not an end in itself but one thread in a wider picture of wellbeing. Her integration of mindful movement with life coaching means that clients are not simply working on their bodies — they are developing a more attentive relationship with themselves. Her pioneering status in bringing Yogalates to India also speaks to something of her sensibility: a willingness to work across boundaries, to find what is genuinely useful, and to build a practice that meets people where they are rather than expecting them to arrive pre-formed.
Rashmi's work is well suited to those who have found conventional fitness uninspiring, or who are navigating the particular demands of pregnancy and early motherhood, or who simply want a movement practice that also asks something of their attention. Her online reach means geography is no barrier, and her digital courses offer the structure and progression that makes self-directed practice stick. You can find her at yogalateswithrashmi.com, and follow her practice on Instagram at @therashmiramesh.