MY PATH
Seven years mapping the body's intelligence
I am a somatic alchemist, author, and artist. I work with the body as a map, specifically the emotional and alchemical intelligence held in each region, each symptom, each place that just won't let go.
I built the Embodied Alchemy map over seven years of working with women and with my own body. It draws on Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic wisdom, somatic intelligence, fascia science, and the electric understanding of the biofield. It is unlike any other framework I have encountered, because it doesn't ask what's wrong. It asks what's incomplete.
My path into this work was not linear. I left a corporate career in London not because I had answers but because the questions in my body were louder than anything my career could offer. I trained in yoga, energy medicine, trauma resolution, and embodied philosophy. I studied ancient wisdom traditions alongside modern neuroscience. I became a mother. I kept learning.
What I bring to every woman I work with is not a method she must follow. It is a map she learns to read herself, so that everything after our work together becomes information she can trust.
I am British-Indian, based in Arizona. I am a wife, a mother of a two year old, a painter, an author, and someone who takes the body's intelligence more seriously than almost any other source of knowledge.
LINEAGES & TEACHERS
The knowledge I bring has been gathered across two decades
The knowledge I bring has been gathered across two decades - formally, informally, and through the laboratory of my own body. What follows is not a list of credentials designed to impress. It is an honest account of the lineages, teachers, and traditions I have been shaped by, offered with gratitude and with the acknowledgement that my own discernment has always been the final filter.
Trainings
200hr Ashtanga-Vinyasa teacher training with Yoga London
CPD Module in Yoga for Anxiety, Stress and Panic (Building Emotional Resilience Through Yoga) with Yoga London
UAMSA (Urban Avatars Mixed Spiritual Arts) Teacher Training 16hrs with Felix Price and Diahann Holder
CPD Embodied Philosophy: Embodied Oppression by Dr Rae Johnson
First Class in Bachelor's Single Honours in Philosophy at The University of Nottingham including a dissertation and modules in Eastern Philosophy and Eastern Mysticism
Reiki 1 & 2 Practitioner Qualification with Reiki Maya
Releasing Patterns of Stress and Uncovering Patterns of Ease at The School for Body-Mind Centring®
Homeopathic First Aid by various teachers
Lineages
Ashtanga Yoga training under various (Mysore) teachers blessed by Sharath Jois and Sri K Pattabhi Jois
Uusui Reiki Lineage (Mikao Usui - Chujiro Hayashi - Chiyoko Yamaguchi - Hyakuten Inamoto - William Lee Rand - Miguel Chavez - Tejal Patel)
Rigorous self-study and notable teachers
Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma with The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine
Various work and publications of Stephen Porges, Dr Peter Levine, Dr Gabor Maté, Bessel Van Der Kolk, Resmaa Menakem, Dr Rae Johnson, Kelly Brogan, Sayer Ji, Dr Nicole LePera, Dr Thema, Dr Kathy Yeo, Rachael Maddox, Eileen McKusick, Dr Edith Ubuntu Chan and many others.
Extensive philosophy, metaphysics and mysticism study including but not limited to Daoism, Vedic and Ayurvedic study, Confucianism, Buddhist philosophy, Zen, sacred mathematics and various occult mystery schools.
Professional experiences include:
Corporate coaching and wellness facilitation roles in multiple London-based companies
Drivers for Change: Young Leader's Social Entrepreneurship programme funded by the British Council and PWC
Ongoing wholistic wellbeing, decolonisation and trauma-healing facilitation roles with community groups such as POCIMPACT
Decolonisation study which involves the psychology and emotional study of the oppressor-victim dynamics and other interpersonal and personal dynamics that perpetuate power imbalances and violent relational dynamics.
Self-taught and personal learnings across other holistic modalities such as EMDR, German New Medicine, Ayurveda, herbalism/functional medicine, permaculture and regenerative farming, scalar and sound healing, breathwork, EFT and TRE.
Tejal continues study in trauma-healing, German New Medicine, biofield awareness, sovereignty, Earth-connection, metaphysics & the breath and body.