Navtej Johar is a Bharatanatyam dancer-choreographer, a yoga practitioner, a scholar, and a social activist. He has formally trained in Bharatanatyam at Rukmini Devi’s Kalakshetra, and with Leela Samson at the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra, New Delhi; he later studied at the Department of Performance Studies, New York University. Johar is trained in Patanjali Yoga at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, Chennai, under the guidance of Sri T.K.V. Desikachar, and holds the Grand Parent Certification (500 hours) from the Yoga Alliance

Foregrounding the body in his embodied practice Johar has developed a unique style;which is a synthesis of dance, yoga, and somatics. For Johar, all embodied practices are about seeing the body mindfully, rather than doing or performing an action. With a combination of both praxis and a radical re-reading of ancient Sanskrit texts on performing arts, Johar’s practice empowers the body to embrace its uncensored sensual expressions and to forge a conversation between the body and the text which is accessible to a larger audience.