Sheena Sood, PhD (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Delaware Valley University, and a Philly-based activist, yoga practitioner, and healing justice visionary. Sheena earned her yoga certifications at Kailash Tribal School in McLeodganj, India. Her research, “Omwashing Yoga: Weaponized Spirituality in India, Israel, and the US,” examines how the far-right uses yoga to advance ethnonational, colonial, and supremacist agendas. Her work has appeared in Jadaliyya, Race & Yoga, Al Jazeera, and Colorlines. Sheena serves on the editorial board of Critical Yoga Studies Journal (formerly Race & Yoga) and the advisory board for American Yoga Council. She is a founding member of Yogis for Palestine – a collective of yoga teachers and students who politicize yoga toward action for Palestinian freedom and liberation; and Yoga Warrior Tales, an educational program that teaches kids yoga and mindfulness through a social justice lens. Read more at
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