Kinjal Patel, MD, RYT is a yoga instructor and physician based in Los Angeles. She holistically blends depth of Western allopathic medicine with the wisdom of yoga to explore joyful ways to be healthy. Because yoga allows her to heal herself, she loves enabling others to develop that capacity.

Kinjal received her M.D. from Columbia University, and holds a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Brown University. She trained in Internal Medicine at Columbia New York Presbyterian, and in Nephrology at Harvard/Mass General Brigham. She’s completed over 700 hours of yoga training, and studied classical hatha, ashtanga influenced vinyasa, and Vedic philosophy. 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.