Do you want to…

  • Rapidly recover from injury?

  • Reduce or eliminate your back pain?

  • Learn to meditate, breathe, and get present?

  • Improve your performance on skis, bikes, mountains, rivers, trails, boards…?

  • Get better at just doing the poses in a yoga class?

Mastery is for you.

Our unique approach: Yoga taught in levels.

A proprietary learning curriculum that builds competence and confidence in your yoga practice and your life.

At each ribbon level, you’ll learn how poses are done, why they are done, how to customize them to your body and ability today, how to improve and progress, and how to get the most out of yoga, whatever your physical skill.

Students begin with White Ribbon foundations. You learn the alignment, breathing, and movement essentials necessary to build every pose.

You then progress to Red Ribbon and move at your own pace as your flexibility, balance, and strength grows.

The Levels

Warm up - Breath
Sun Salutations

Expanded Sun Salutations
Standing Sequence

Balances
Twists

Binds
Level I Inversions

Expanded Twists
Level II Inversions

Solo Practice
Level III Inversions

Learn by Teaching
Bound Inversions

Our Proprietary Curriculum

Movement

  • 55+ Poses

  • 7 levels of advancement

Meditation

  • Methods and practice

  • Meditation in each class

Mindfulness Training

  • Ideas from recognized thinkers

  • Something to think about off your mat

Within four weeks, you will experience a measured increase in your physical capabilities. But what will really change your life is the knowledge you’ll take off your mat
— Melissa Garland, Mastery Creator

A new approach.

Radical outcomes.

Deep knowledge.
Measurable flexibility.
Focused presence.

Get started

  • Max 12 students

  • $299 includes a Liforme mat ($140 value)

YMI origins & team

The YMI concept was created by Melissa Garland, a lifetime student of movement and mindfulness, and a studio owner and teacher/trainer since 2013. Melissa landed on the idea of a martial arts-style structure in 2022 and at that very moment, Jace Barrett, a 4th-degree taekwondo black belt and newly-minted yoga teacher, walked in the door. Since then, they have refined the curriculum and methodology of the YMI concept, testing it out with students, and working with physical and behavioral health professionals to ensure that all the elements are grounded in the latest scientific research.

Jace Barrett

Jace Barrett

Melissa Garland

Melissa Garland