Decolonising Wellness ~ The Podcast

Let's Talk Reclaiming Yoga


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Join Jyoti, Tejal & Jesal as they explore:

  • Tejal & Jesal's experience of yoga growing up in South Asian households in the USA
  • The experience of writing their e-book: The Original Godmothers of Yoga 
  • Why the questions 'what type of yoga do you teach?' is so challenging to answer
  • Tejal & Jesal's journey into doing 'all things yoga'
  • How yoga is all about relationships 
  • What Decolonizing Wellness & Decolonizing Yoga means
  • The intentions behind their podcast 'Yoga Is Dead' and how it came about
  • How we can honour and appreciate yoga

  • ABOUT TEJAL:

    Tejal Patel (she/her) is an Indian-American yoga teacher, community organizer, writer and podcaster offering yoga through a social justice lens. She is a co-host of the Yoga is Dead podcast and founder of the Tejal Yoga teaching space and the abcdyogi village. In all her projects, she aims to empower individuals and communities through relationship building and by acknowledging the cultural roots of yoga.

    Instagram: @tejalyoga


    ABOUT JESAL

    Jesal Parikh (she/they) is an Indian-American yoga teacher, movement educator, podcaster, author and disrupter working on creative solutions for equity in Yoga. She's co-host of the Yoga is Dead podcast and she offers movement education through a social justice lens. Her mission is to uplift those of us who are feeling isolated and marginalized by the yoga industry.

    Instagram: @yogawalla


    ABOUT YOGA IS DEAD 

    Yoga is Dead is a revolutionary team with a podcast that explores power, privilege, fair pay, harassment, race, cultural appropriation and capitalism in the yoga and wellness worlds. Join Indian-American hosts Tejal + Jesal as they expose all the monsters lurking under the yoga mat.

    Instagram: @yogaisdeadpodcast


    CONNECT WITH JYOTI:

    Jyoti (she/her) is the Founder of Jyoti Rani. She is a Menstrual Cycle Coach and Yoga Teacher.

    View her offerings & free menstrual meditations: ⁠www.jyotirani.com⁠

    Instagram: ⁠@_jyoti.rani_⁠

    Email: [email protected]



    With special thanks to Hanna Francis who has written & performed the music & song for this podcast

    Website: www.selfhelpsongwriter.com

    Instagram: @selfhelpsongwriter 

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