About Sinimalism Studio
What is Sinimalism Studio?
What is at the core of Sinimalism Studio that separates it from other online movement platforms?
Who do you get to practice with at the studio?
Our mission is to
Find ease and relief with specific movements and focusing on what matters.
Minimalism for wellness.
From chaos and brainfog to minimalism and focus
You may agree that nowadays it’s not a lack of options we are facing when looking for online movement platforms.
It’s rather too many options and after browsing for a while, you just get more cofused on wondering is this for me, is this what I need, what actually are my goals and would I do the online practices at home regularly?
From this indecisiveness and lack of clarity created by dozens of choices and options we have nowadays in daily basis in all aspects of life, Sinimalism Studio wants to offer simplicity and clear focus on only the one thing that matters.
Deeply inspired by minimalism and deep focus, Sinimalism Studio applies these into wellness.
It means finding your why.
SMALL STEPS, BIG IMPACT
WORK SMART, NOT HARD
Think of it like this:
Does it motivate you to do a morning yoga every morning?
When you could just hit that snooze button when you don’t know your reason to get up and dedicate to your daily wellness routine.
Why are you actually even doing daily morning yoga or routine?
You may have confused mind, anxiety or back pain, yet you choose a random 15 minute morning yoga which does not per se help with the feelings of unease you are feeling.
This may sound pessimistic, but at Sinimalism Studio we start with problems.
Because only then we can focus on what matters and finding the solutions and ease.
From problem-focused to solution-focused
Sinimalism Studio offers monthly and quarterly courses to build habits that actually help solving the mind-body-soul discomforts you are feeling.
All the courses are a response for practitioners who have come to Sini with their problem and want to seek solutions rather than just doing another random yoga flow without even knowing why.
Examples of the problems with Sinimalism Studio’s solutions:
“I like to do yoga, but I have sciatica
so I can’t always do it as it irritates my sciatic nerve.”
- This means the current yoga classes are focusing on
making body work for the asanas instead of the asanas working for the body.
To make asanas work for the body means finding the movements that actually support you.
Moves that activate small spinal muscles, decompresses the intervertebral discs making space for the nerves, like sciatic nerve, decompressing the nerves with nerve-gliding and mobilising the body gently, so that the nervous system doesn’t get irritated.
This works rather than forcing body into postures that “are good for you to do”.
From this was created course:
SCIATICA RELIEF
that launches 1 August 2024
If you would want to know more about poses that you should or should not do with sciatic pain, read article:
10 Yoga moves to avoid and 10 to do for sciatica
“I feel so good after the yoga class! I have an online yoga monthly subscription but I don’t know why I don’t manage to make it a routine.”
- With the help of community and clear weekly schedule we can find a yoga routine that actually sticks
This 3 month course
YOGA ROUTINE THAT STICKS
launches 1 September 2024
The course is divided into three months:
1. Month: Grounding practice to establish routines
2. Month: Core strength and ability to show up
3. Month: Opening heart and mind to consistency
You can join it for 1,2 or full 3 months.
It includes weekly schedule including one 60 minute class and 15 minute class that you can do daily or as often as you feel like.
“My mom would want to do yoga but
she can’t be on her knees and she is quite stiff”
- This means we need to find props to make poses accessible and skip the poses on knees
Yes, it is possible to enjoy the benefits of moving body and focusing on breath without kneeling.
From this was formed a 4 week yoga course without kneeling and without flexibility required.
This 4 week
ACCESSIBLE MIND-BODY CONNECTION WITHOUT KNEELING
launches on 1 December 2024
“I have anxiety and migraines and
I can’t really calm down my mind
to focus and to fall asleep.”
- This means our sympathetic nervous system has taken over and
we find it hard to activate parasympathetic nervous system
From this was formed also Sini’s personal life-changing course
as she used to suffer from chronic migraines, insomnia and anxiety.
Years of discovering the specific methods to help,
was finally formed a course
NERVOUS SYSTEM – FROM ANXIETY TO RELIEF
that launches 1 October 2024
“I am a runner and would need to mobilise my stiff body”
- Mobility and strengthening psoas can bring great benefits for runners
From this was formed a course
RUNNERS MOBILITY AND RECOVERY
that focuses on activating and mobilizing especially hip flexors,
hips and posterior chain muscles with principles from pilates, yin yoga and hatha yoga.
RUNNERS’ MOBILITY AND RECOVERY
launches 1 april 2025
“I watched your YouTube videos and I want to thank you for your verbalization so well!
I'm blind and I'd really like to do yoga, but it's hard to find videos, instructors and classes where you feel comfortable enough to focus.
I mean, "raise your hand" is still a long way from knowing which hand to raise and in which direction. Try to do with that cueing, let alone breathe and concentrate.
Please continue in the same way, focusing on accurate verbal description! There are few equally good videos.”
- From this lovely feedback I created a yoga course where you can
fully turn inwards and just listen to the cueing without screens.
The course is both in videos and just in audio tracks so you can do it without screen time.
The course is suitable for blind people and it encourages you to turn fully inward for the somatic movement.
This 4 week screenless online yoga course is ideal also for people who spend too much time on screens daily and want to really turn inwards with clear guidance while staying in the safe environment of home.
This course suitable for visual impairment called
NO SCEENTIME
INWARDS WITH AUDIO TRACK AND
SOMATIC MOVEMENT
launches 1 February 2025
These 1:1 discomforts brought to Sinimalism started the creation of solution-focused courses to back in four weeks all the most specific movements, principles and techniques to answer that problem.
What separates Sinimalism Studio from
other online yoga/movement platforms
Sinimalism Studio is not purely online yoga.
We are not focused on one principle, like yoga but on solutions and finding what works best for particular issues.
The goal of yoga is to calm the mind to reach higher, more clear state of consciousness and bliss called Samadhi.
At Sinimalism Studio we offer also yoga courses.
However, Samadhi is not the goal of all the courses, as we want to give tailored solutions for real-life problems.
Our goal is to
Help you find ways to move and breath that support your holistic health with specific, tailored solutions.
Work smart, not hard.
Sustainable habit building at core
Maintaining spine health, clear and content mind and creative soul requires routine.
It is all established in our tiny, daily habits and choices.
Therefore our memberships are focused on building routines and habits that last and help ease your discomforts.
Our memberships are
DIRECTION
HABIT
ROUTINE
LIFESTYLE
Habits are hard to stick to alone at home, so simply purchasing online yoga membership does not mean yet repeated showing up week after week.
That is why at Sinimalism Studio we give monthly courses and weekly schedules to help build a routine without confusion what to choose from 1000s of videos on online yoga platform.
It is also easier to show up with some group pressure, right?
That is why all memberships include also community.
If you find it hard to set consistent wellness habits,
you can start with reading these 9 tips to build consistent wellness routine.
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We believe the right people find to us that we can genuinely help and by subscribing to our newsletter you receive maximum two emails per month that include either optimized wellness hacks, information about upcoming courses, best tips for yoga and wellness or simple solutions asked by Sinimalism practitioners.
Who do you practice with?
Founder and Yoga teacher of Sinimalism
YOGA TEACHER & SINIMALISM STUDIO FOUNDER
SINI HIETAHARJU
Sini has personally found healing for many mind and body issues, such as chronic migraines, anxiety, a broken spinal disc, self-esteem issues, and feeling brain fog.
“I feel it's my duty to share this life-changing knowledge with others, which helps me feel good every day.
With passion to constantly learn more about yoga, pilates and other principles to find ease and relief, I offer classes that combine different techniques and principles, like vinyasa yoga flow, hatha yoga, raja yoga, pilates, mobility and breathing techniques to remain present with our breath.
My goal is to help find specific techniques relieving your issue, be it sciatic pain, migraines, insomnia, brain fog or stiffness in body.
Personally with these techniques and routines I share, I have found hormonal balance, confidence and happiness."
CERTIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION
- 200h Multi-Style Yoga Teacher Training with emphasis on Ashtanga, Yin and Vinyasa Style Yoga (Akasha Yoga Institute)
- 300h Multi-Style Yoga Teacher Training with emphasis on Hatha, Pranayama, Meditation and Ashtanga (World Peace Yoga School)
- 60 credits (approx. 1600h) of Dance and performing arts studies on dance, pedagogics, anatomy and classical dance principles (Etelä-Pohjanmaan Opisto)
- Master of Social Sciences (University of Lapland)
Master’s Thesis on Orientalist representations on western yoga narratives
Bachelor’s Thesis on The Importance of Responsible Tourism for Yoga Retreat Travelers - 60 credits of Applied Psychology studies focusing on i.e. self-management, positive psychology, work-life balance and meaningfulness, consciousness
- Bachelor of Hospitality Management (Lahti University of Applied Sciences)
Specialized in outdoor sports tourism and leisure activity management - 7+ years hobbies as Aesthetic group gymnastics, Dance gymnastics, Pilates and Dance which brings lot of anatomical, somatic, body-mind-connection and mobility knowledge and principles that I apply for the classes tailored for different body-mind-soul relief and easiness
- Method Putkisto Pilates learning and weekly pilates practices to widen my “movement bank” to classes
- Traveller, dog-lover, photographer and visual creator constantly finding art from creation of movement, photography and text.
My classes specifically aim to alleviate our different "problems" like sciatic pain or brain fog by giving practical instructional videos on how to maintain the well-being of the body, mind and soul.
My goal is to bring simplicity and easy to well-being that you can apply right away today.
However, quick tips and tricks are not the long-term solution. Therefore we aim to form together sustainable habits with the inspiring weekly calendars and the support of community to keep accountable to practice regularly. “
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