Kuhu Joshi is originally from New Delhi, India, and has been studying Iyengar yoga since 2007, when she was diagnosed with severe scoliosis at age 12. Her primary teacher is Deborah Wolk, founder of Samamkaya Yoga Back Care & Scoliosis Collective, whose classes she has been assisting since 2023. She has also studied with Jon Musgrave, Susan-Elena Esquivel, and Nivedita Joshi, among other senior teachers, and is completing the Yoga for Scoliosis Teacher Training with Elise Browning Miller. Kuhu's teaching is informed by her own experiences with back pain and scoliosis. She has a compassionate, adaptive approach. She is a total book-nerd and always has a book in her bag. Currently studying the nervous system. She is also a writer and writing professor at Pace University and CUNY. Her debut poetry collection, My Body Didn't Come Before Me (Speaking Tiger, 2023), illustrates her journey coming-of-age with scoliosis.