ZOOM LINKPreeta Banerjee - Tufts UniversityThis session will focus on honoring and appreciating yoga in an intersectional interfaith context. Attendees can expect to gain the following: 1) deepening one's understanding of Yoga 2) exploring multiple paths of appreciation and engagement 3) discerning what is appropriation versus alignment.
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Preeta Banerjee, PhD is the first Hindu chaplain at Tufts University. She has been a spiritual companion who draws on a broad and deep range of experience, having spent over 20 years in academia, coaching and consulting as an advocate, educator, researcher, and author. She is a strong voice for combining spirituality, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and social change. Her passion lies in creating brave spaces at the intersection of contemplation, activism and healing and deepening in spiritually fluid ways, from a lens rooted in bhakti, gyan, karma, and raj yog, including her work as a founding board member of the North American Hindu Chaplains Association; Vice Chair of the Mystic Soul Project; and mentor of the Miller Center's Dignity Project at Hebrew College. She has a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the Wharton School and B.S. in Computational Biology and Business from Carnegie Mellon.