Beth Shaw is a pioneering wellness entrepreneur, internationally recognized yoga and fitness expert, healthy chef, five-time author, motivational speaker, and the founder and CEO of YogaFit Training Systems Worldwide.
Since founding YogaFit in 1997, Beth has helped transform the way yoga and wellness are taught and practiced, creating an accessible, practical, and inclusive approach that has reached hundreds of thousands of teachers, fitness professionals, and practitioners around the world.
Beth is the author of five books on health, wellness, yoga, fitness, and longevity, including her newest book, Get Stronger, Live Longer. Four years in the making, the book reflects Beth’s evolving philosophy that longevity is about far more than simply adding years to life—it is about maintaining strength, vitality, mental clarity, mobility, independence, and quality of life as we age.
Her other books include Beth Shaw’s YogaFit, YogaLean, The YogaFit Athlete, and Healing Trauma with Yoga: Go from Surviving to Thriving with Mind-Body Techniques. Across her books and teaching, Beth combines yoga, strength training, mindfulness, nutrition, movement, and practical wellness strategies to help people build healthier and more fulfilling lives.
Beth is a Harvard Business School alumna and brings together more than three decades of experience in wellness, entrepreneurship, leadership, education, and conscious business. A lifelong learner, she continues to actively pursue new knowledge and skills. She is currently enrolled in culinary school, expanding her expertise as a healthy chef and deepening her understanding of food, nutrition, cooking, and the powerful connection between what we eat and how we live.
For Beth, lifelong learning is not simply an idea—it is a way of life. Her continuing education reflects her belief that there is always more to discover, whether in science, fitness, nutrition, cooking, business, mindfulness, or the art of living well.
A longtime advocate for strength training, particularly for women, Beth began lifting weights at age 15 and has continued to explore the relationship between strength, mobility, yoga, nutrition, brain health, and longevity throughout her career. Her work increasingly focuses on helping people not simply live longer, but live stronger.
As the founder of YogaFit, Beth has built one of the world's leading yoga and mind-body education organizations. YogaFit has trained hundreds of thousands of instructors and professionals and has brought yoga and wellness education to communities around the world. Beth has also developed programs addressing trauma-sensitive yoga, healthcare, seniors, athletes, personal training, and other specialized populations.
Beth is an internationally sought-after speaker and wellness expert who has presented at universities, corporations, conferences, and organizations around the world. Her work has been featured across fitness, business, health, and consumer media, and she has worked with professional athletes and sports organizations, including the NFL.
She is also the creator and host of Make America Healthy, a podcast focused on health, wellness, longevity, nutrition, fitness, mindfulness, and the science and practice of living well. Through conversations with leading experts and her own decades of experience, Beth explores the ideas and tools that can help people become healthier, stronger, and more resilient.
Service and social impact have always been central to Beth’s mission. Through YogaFit and her philanthropic work, she has supported veterans, at-risk youth, seniors, people with disabilities, incarcerated populations, and other communities. Her commitment to conscious business, philanthropy, and animal advocacy is an integral part of her life and work.
Today, Beth continues to teach, write, speak, study, cook, and innovate at the intersection of yoga, fitness, strength, nutrition, wellness, and longevity. Her philosophy is simple:
Don’t just live longer. Get stronger, live healthier, keep learning, and make every year count.
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