About the Mayuri Group
Where language, leadership, and lifeways are reawakened and reclaimed.
The Mayuri Group is an ecosystem of reclamation.
Rooted in Telugu culture and IBR (Indigenous, Black, and racialized) lived experience, we exist to interrupt urgency, undo assimilation, and unlearn performance as survival. We don’t replicate harmful systems—we return to what we were never meant to lose.
Our four pillars—Sri Lalita Kalasala, Margam Leadership, Mooladhara Initiatives, and Mana Swag—offer spaces to reconnect with language, leadership, and lifeways that are culturally grounded, politically clear, and access-conscious by design.
We serve:
- Telugu heritage learners, intercultural partners, and curious learners of Telugu
- Women, IBR leaders, and system-shapers unlearning colonial, patriarchal, casteist, and ableist conditioning
- Anyone choosing to reindigenize—not perform
We move in rhythm. Not the rhythm of grind, but of memory and relation. Rhythm that honors bodyminds, neurotypes, caregiving, and rest. Rhythm that includes.
We are pro-Black, pro-LandBack, and pro-sovereignty. We actively uproot anti-Blackness, casteism, ableism, and queer/transphobia. We stand for the return of stolen land and wealth to Indigenous peoples. Sovereignty—personal and collective—is non-negotiable.
The Mayuri Group holds you in rhythm, not rush. Because what we’re rebuilding isn’t urgent. It’s human. It’s sacred. And it belongs to all of us.
A Note From the Founder
I didn’t build The Mayuri Group with a plan. I built it because I was tired of surviving systems that refused to see me whole.
Mayuri means peacock—a symbol of rhythm, memory, and ancestral presence in Telugu life. It’s also my daughter’s name. Her spirit reminds me what’s worth protecting. Her love for Telugu showed me that reclamation isn’t just resistance—it’s relationship.
This ecosystem rises from that remembering: Sri Lalita Kalasala honors our expressive roots—language as art, not performance. Margam means path—built for alignment, not extraction. Mooladhara is our root—the place beneath performance, where truth still lives. Mana Swag is our confidence—unapologetic, ancestral, ours.
I’ve performed fluency. Survived two brain injuries. Disappeared to exist. I’ve translated myself to be palatable, palmed off my difference as resilience, and carried the burden of being “the first” in spaces that were never built for me.
I’m done. I no longer shrink for colonial standards, patriarchal demands, casteist frameworks, ableist timelines, or queerphobic expectations.
I move in rhythm that honors my body, my recovery, my communities, and the many forms of access I once had to fight for. That rooting became the foundation for this ecosystem.
The Mayuri Group isn’t just about my return. It’s about ours. A space to unlearn harm, reclaim rhythm, and reindigenize—together. Not for performance. For remembering.
The Mayuri Group isn’t here to help you fit back in. It’s here to help you come back home. It isn’t about conformity. It is about convergence. It isn’t about repairing. It is about reindigenizing and rebuilding.
Warmly with joy,
Dr. Aparajita (AJ) Jeedigunta 🦚
OUR MISSION IS TWOFOLD
Across the Ecosystem
To empower Indigenous, Black, and racialized communities across the diaspora to reclaim their voice, leadership, and lifeways through rooted cultural learning, rhythm-based guidance, accessible practices, and community accountability—while standing firmly for trans rights, 2SLGBTQIA+ justice, caste abolition, and the return of land and power to those it was stolen from.
Within Our Telugu Work
To help Telugu diaspora individuals build ancestrally rooted, modern, and culturally grounded communities that honor our multilingual, multicultural, access-diverse, and caste-oppressed identities—without erasure or performance, and always in solidarity with the trans, queer, disabled, and displaced among us.
OUR VISION
We envision a world where survival doesn’t define leadership, where language and culture are sites of joy—not shame—and where Indigenous, Black, caste-oppressed, queer, trans, and disabled communities are free to move in rhythm, speak in truth, and rebuild from what was never truly lost.
A world shaped by care, cultural specificity, disability justice, queer liberation, and freedom from genocide, occupation, and assimilation—where no one is asked to abandon themselves to belong.
OUR CORE VALUES
At The Mayuri Group, our values are not marketing language.
They are what we embody, what we strive toward, and what we expect to be held accountable for—in every offering, relationship, and decision we make.
we choose reclamation, not replication
We don’t mimic colonial systems to prove we belong. We root into what was always ours—language, rhythm, leadership—and rebuild from there.
WE CHOOSE RHYTHM, NOT RUSH
We move at the pace of relationship, access, and breath. Rest is part of our method. Rhythm is part of our memory.
WE CHOOSE TRUTH, NOT PERFORMANCE
We don’t polish our words to be more palatable. We name what’s real. We honor intersectional lived experience, including caste-oppressed, queer, and trans truths.
WE CHOOSE US, NOT THEIR RULES
We lead from our roots, not their expectations. This is reclamation, not assimilation. We align with caste-oppressed, queer, trans, disabled, and displaced communities—in solidarity, not overstep.
We choose Access, not Perfection
Access isn’t an afterthought. It shapes how we teach, move, gather, and rest. If it’s not accessible—across language, body, or neurotype—it’s not liberatory.
we choose community, not extraction
We invest in people, not metrics. We build in reciprocity, not urgency. Our communities are sacred, interdependent, and made for continuity—not consumption.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER, DR. APARAJITA JEEDIGUNTA
Dr. Aparajita (AJ) Jeedigunta is a social psychologist, cultural strategist, and multilingual educator rooted in Telugu culture and diaspora truth-telling. She is the founder of The Mayuri Group, an ecosystem of offerings that supports IBR leaders, heritage learners, and cultural bridge-builders in reclaiming language, leadership, and lifeways.
With over 20,000 hours of online facilitation, AJ blends academic rigor, decolonial practice, and lived experience as a brain injury survivor, heritage speaker, and community weaver. She brings clarity, cultural rhythm, and unapologetic care into every space she builds.
Her work spans language reclamation, anti-assimilation leadership, and rhythm-based pedagogy. She is also the creator of the C3EB Summit, a certified executive coach, an award-winning DEIB strategist, and a nationally recognized speaker and facilitator.
This is who we are. And this is what we’re building.
If you’ve been holding grief, brilliance, or rhythm that doesn’t fit inside colonial timelines—if you’re trans, queer, caste-oppressed, disabled, displaced, diasporic—there’s room for you here.
Explore our pillars. Join a circle. Reconnect with your rhythm. We’ll meet you there.