Tejal Merchant

Tejal is a certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher, having graduated from the Iyengar Yoga South Bay Teacher Training program and continues to study with Jito Yumibe and Marla Apt. She has been teaching Iyengar yoga since 2018.

Influenced by her teachers, her late father and peers, she aims to bring dynamism, engagement and a unique sense of empowerment to her class through intention, invocation, meditation and asana. Yoga has helped find her inner self, made her life easier, enjoyable and more meaningful for her to share this joy with others.

Being in a research based pharmaceutical industry, she considers yoga as an applied field of research and strongly believes the combination of yoga and modern science has the potential to provide everyone with a holistic health.