Expert profile
Original Body Care resourceWritten and reviewed by Mallika Some, instructor at Body Care by Mallika. Open her profile.Mallika Some
Face Yoga, women’s fitness, yoga and weight-management coaching. One instructor for the whole of Body Care — live, in Burdwan (Bardhaman), West Bengal, and online for students further away.
Around 25 years in the field — and still in the room.
Mallika Some started with yoga as a child, completed a yoga course at the University of Burdwan, and a physiotherapy course at Durgapur Hospital. She worked under a senior physiotherapist, then built her own classes in Burdwan after 2004. Face Yoga entered the method when she saw students finish a body programme with less glow in the face than they had earned in the rest of the work.
Areas taught: Face Yoga and facial massage, yoga, fitness and mobility, weight management at a pace that keeps muscle, and — when a student needs it — the extra few minutes after class that are about listening, not another set of reps. She reads Gita and other spiritual books; that is her language for grief and restlessness, not a clinical service.
How she teaches
Patience first. Subject knowledge second. Then the habit of noticing when someone enrolled for back pain and is actually carrying something else. She will refuse an unsafe 10 kg month. She will not let Face Yoga be the part of class people walk out of. Resources on this site are written from that teaching and reviewed as hers — see the FAQs section.
Where to go next
Practise with her, live
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