Liberating Yoga

Creating Braver Yoga Spaces | Tejal Patel

May 19, 2025
Tejal Patel, founder of Tejal Yoga, champions the creation of inclusive yoga spaces focused on community and justice. She passionately discusses the importance of cultural humility and accountability, emphasizing how yoga can foster peace and empathy. Tejal highlights the challenges of navigating traditional views in modern yoga, advocating for deeper inclusivity, especially for marginalized groups. She envisions yoga as a transformative practice that promotes connection, reflection, and authenticity, urging communities to engage actively in social justice.
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Yoga as a Path to Peace

  • Yoga offers a lifelong path toward a more peaceful existence through its teachings.
  • It grounds the lofty goals of yoga in practical ways to find peace in daily life.
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Meditation Cultivates Compassionate Listening

  • Meditation is a practice of deep listening that cultivates stillness and compassion.
  • This practice helps us navigate imperfections and relationships with more kindness and communication.
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Yoga Teaches Dispassionate Reflection

  • Yoga teaches us to pause before reacting and to look at our experiences dispassionately.
  • It helps us reframe judgments and avoid identifying too strongly with our mistakes or hurts.
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