Kinjal Patel, MD, E-RYT

Kinjal is an experienced yoga teacher who grew up watching her grandparents practice yoga daily. She blends her knowledge and expertise as a physician with her lifelong relationship with yoga to offer her students a satisfying, soothing and deep way to practice. For Kinjal, practice is the sacred space where she can be with herself, heal herself, and be in conversation with the Divine. She aspires to guide you towards the same. Kinjal is an E-RYT teaching since 2019 who has completed over 700 hours of yoga training and studied classical hatha, ashtanga influenced vinyasa, pranayama, yoga nidra, and Vedic philosophy. She trained primarily in New York, NY at Pure Yoga. Her teacher, Yogi Charu, is an inducted disciple of the Saraswati lineage, one of the ten classical Vedic monk orders established in 8th century CE by Adi Shankarachariya. Kinjal received her M.D. from Columbia University, and holds a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Brown University. Kinjal loves enabling her students to feel empowered: she’s a lifelong student who shares the wisdom of yoga with depth of science to make yoga joyful and accessible to everyone.

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