Jennifer Mohamed
Jennifer Mohamed, J.D., known as Jen the Yoga Lawyer, is a seasoned attorney, wellness educator, and business mentor.
With nearly 30 years of legal experience, Jennifer brings a rare blend of legal strategy, entrepreneurial insight, and wellness expertise to her work. A former Big Law litigator, she now leads her own boutique firm, where she advises yoga and wellness businesses on practical legal issues including business formation, contracts, employment matters, risk management, sustainability, and conscious business practices.
As the founder of the Yoga Business Incubator Retreat, Jen helps yoga teachers, studio owners, and wellness entrepreneurs move from inspiration to implementation. Her approach blends legal education, business strategy, mindfulness, and conscious leadership so participants can build businesses that are legally sound, financially sustainable, and aligned with their values.
Jen has trained thousands of students, lawyers, judges, and yoga teachers across the U.S. and internationally at bar associations, legal conferences, teacher trainings, and retreats.
Jen is a Level 3 yoga teacher with the American Yoga Council and earned her 500-hour yoga certification with Sue Elkind and Naime Jezzeny at Dig Yoga in New Jersey. She has also engaged in additional studies with Seane Corn, Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, the Four Winds Society, and Off the Mat Into the World through the Kenya Seva Challenge. She is also inspired by the ancient teachings of the Himalayan Tradition.
Jen earned her J.D. with a concentration in environmental law from Albany Law School and her B.A. in Russian language from the University at Albany, SUNY. She also holds professional certifications from the United Nations, Cornell University, and Harvard Medical School in green economy, entrepreneurship for women, and lifestyle wellness coaching, and is the author of Silent Spring +55: The Human Right to a Clean Environment, published by U.C. Davis School of Law.
Her mission is to help yoga and wellness entrepreneurs build businesses that are legally protected, ethically grounded, financially sustainable, and aligned with the deeper purpose of yoga.