Grounding In Identity And Reclaiming Wellness Spaces with @TejalYoga, Host of the "Yoga Is Dead" Podcast: Lesson 54
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Join Komal and Tejal Patel aka@TejalYoga and host of the “Yoga Is Dead” podcast this week for a chat about reclaiming wellness spaces, embodying our identities, and fighting for social justice.
Here are this week’s time-codes:
5:10 - Tejal shares with us how she views her role as a yoga teacher that brings the lens of social justice to the wellness space and is trying to create a more resilient space in the yoga world
“I teach yoga in a way that is not of the mainstream. There are so many people that are craving spaces that do more than just teach movement, and there are people trying to understand yoga in terms of philosophy and a way of living.” - Tejal Yoga
10:11 - Tejal shares with us how she reconciles truth-speaking in a space that isn’t necessarily ready to hear it yet, and how she finds the strength to speak her truth. She also shares more about what it’s been like to reclaim space through her yoga practice
17:16 - Komal asks Tejal to share her experience creating ABCD Yogi, an online interactive community that is grounded in social justice and hosts takeovers from the South Asian community of yoga and mindfulness teachers every five days
22:03 - Tejal and Komal reflect on this past year together, and how it has revealed many truths to them individually. Tejal also shares her experience getting her birth chart reading done, and how it helped her feel affirmed in the identity that was interpreted for her in the chart of the eternal student, teacher, and philosopher.
28:30 - Tejal and Komal have a conversation about the four aspects of relationships in yoga and the importance of your relationship with yourself. They offer advice for how you can shut off the external world, reconnect with yourself, and root back into your truth.
Head to www.komal.com/54 to access this week’s episode, journal prompts, and art!
“On this path, no gain is ever reversed and no effort is ever wasted. Only a little of this work can undo great suffering and harm.” -Bhagavad Gita
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Until Next Time!
Love, Komal
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