Aditi Shah’s Peloton yoga workday: meditation, classes and entrepreneurship

Aditi Shah, a Peloton yoga instructor who teaches at the company’s Hudson Yards studio, described a workday that begins with a 5:30 a.m. meditation and ends with an after‑dinner walk, with classes, meetings and editorial duties in between.

Shah, 33, said she grew up in New Jersey, studied math at Rutgers and spent time modeling and acting in Mumbai before returning to the United States to teach yoga. Peloton invited her to audition for its yoga and meditation program in 2018; her morning “stack” typically includes a 10‑minute meditation followed by a 30‑minute yoga class, and she greets livestream participants and notes community milestones such as 100th and 1,000th classes. She is also managing director at the Startup Girl Foundation and the wellness director of The Shift, a new “impact magazine” focused on women that photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin helped start this summer.

Outside the studio, Shah said she makes time for meetings at Casa Magazines, physical therapy sessions at Reload, work on upcycling saris with designer Patricia Voto, and dinners with friends. She has proposed an advice column for The Shift and said she hopes to create a collection that could be donated to South Asian founders in the future; when she begins a day at 5:30 a.m. she usually goes to bed around 9:30 p.m.

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Culture, Aditi Shah, Peloton, Hudson Yards, Startup Girl Foundation, The Shift