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Tejal Patel (she/they) is a first-generation Indian American yoga teacher, writer, podcaster, and community organizer. Tejal’s aim is to educate and empower individuals and groups around the world to practice yoga holistically and through a social justice equity lens.

Tejal can be found organizing and teaching at the revolutionary Tejal Yoga online studio, a primarily South Asian teacher-led yoga community focused on social justice actions and authentic, culturally-rooted spiritual practices. When not teaching yoga and running the studio, Tejal is out in the world: speaking to organizations and institutions about anti-racism and upleveling belonging in communities, co-managing the abcdyogi interactive community, which platforms and uplifts South Asian yoga and meditation teachers living around the world , sharing about their Yoga is Dead podcast, e-book, and signature cultural appropriation training all which raise necessary critical conversations about yoga, wellness, power, privilege and more.