Tanuja Devi Jagernauth

Tanuja Devi Jagernauth (YTT 500) is a writer, organizer, theater maker, and yoga educator who believes in creation during times of destruction. As a descendent of upper caste indentured laborers, born in Guyana, Tanuja applies a trauma-informed, access-centered, harm reductionist, healing justice-inspired, PIC abolitionist feminist, anti-colonial, anti-caste, and liberatory lens to her personal yoga studies and shared practices.
 

Tanuja's journey to develop her personal yoga practice began as a teenager, when her father gave her a copy of the Bhagavad Gita and her grandfather gave her his meditation mala and taught her how to chant "Om," the sound of the Universe. After decades of exploration and study, Tanuja has come to understand yoga as less of a physical practice of asana/poses and more as something we live through a consistent (not necessarily perfect) practice of the yamas and niyamas. 

Tanuja’s gentle and affirming yoga classes emphasize agency, bodily autonomy, adaptation, improvisation, breath, meditation, joy, and self-reflection. A former acupuncturist, Tanuja freely incorporates complementary practices that originate from Traditional East Asian Medicine. She looks forward to finding partners in practice at Bella Valore!