Mitra Malek is a health and well-being writer and former senior editor and contributing editor for Yoga Journal. She has taught yoga since 2006. 

She focuses on content related to yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and conscious living.

A longtime news reporter, Mitra spent more than a decade on Florida's turquoise coastline as a staff writer for The Palm Beach Post and Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
During those years, she covered a cancer-cluster investigation, election snafus, rampant real-estate growth, and poisoned polo ponies.

As a freelance news journalist, she has reported and written for The Washington Post, The Tennessean/USA Today and the Chattanooga Times Free-Press. 

In a past life, she worked in the investment world and was an acrobat and bank manager for Club Med at its sunny resorts in Mexico and The Bahamas.
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Mitra is a graduate of Rutgers College at Rutgers University and holds a master's degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.  

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