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Harpinder Mann Yoga

🤸‍♂️ Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher, Mindfulness Educator, & Published Author
🌞 Helping BIWOC reclaim their power & intuition to be free
📕 Order my book now!

Liberating Yoga: From Appropriation to Yoga

02/25/2026

What a gift to lead my Liberating Yoga workshop with the community and 300hr Yoga in Context teacher trainees at 🤲🏽

Talking about cultural appropriation, yoga’s roots, and how to honor these sacred teachings isn’t easy! I find it shakes us up - asks us to question our identities and how we operate.

This group was open. My heart is full with how inquisitive, kind, and sincere everyone was.

Deeply grateful for this YTT having my book as the only required text for their training! Whew I was floored when I learned that.

Here are kind words from them:

“Much gratitude to this bright, graceful woman, Harpinder Mann whose book, Liberating Yoga, and workshop with our Yoga in Context trainees and wider community brought us into deeper knowledge and discussion of yoga’s roots, its modernization and how we can honor these sacred ancient teachings in our present studios, classes and practice. We feel better informed, equipped, opened and shook up and in general, enlightened by your presence.”

Thank you to for being such a supportive teacher and for making cha for everyone! And then getting to eat delicious homemade Indian food and singing kirtan together.

This day still gives me so such joy!

If you or your studio is offering a yoga training and wants to bring me in to lead a workshop, or order my books, please message me.

02/06/2026

We need a real and embodied commitment to nonviolence, truthfulness, non-hoarding, non-stealing, and non-coveting, and it’s clear what happens when these are violated.

On:
- Deepak Chopra and the Epstein files
- CorePower

You can read more at my Substack. Link in my bio.

02/02/2026

A spiritual practice doesn’t ask us to turn away or to numb. It never has.

It invites us to meet life fully, respond consciously, and turn inner work into outward actions.

I believe that the true heart of yoga teaches revolutionary love, a caring for the suffering of others, our inherent interconnectedness, and about liberation.

I would be lying if I said that staying updated on the constant onslaught of horrific news wasn’t deeply affecting me, as it is so many others.

I have felt myself freezing, unsure what to do or to say. A sense of helplessness crept in.

What has helped thaw the freeze has been my practices, turning for guidance from Durga Mata, Guru Nanak, and Ganesha.

Guru Nanak challenged the injustices of the ruling class, directly protesting against the tyranny and corruption of his time. This has given me faith.

It’s been reading many books from folks who have lived through times like these before, from Frantz Fanon, Thich Nhat Hahn, Angela Davis, and nonfiction writers like RF Kuang. This has given me hope.

It has been sitting in conversation for hours with people and friends who I love and admire. Who are sitting in this messiness with me. Who aren’t avoiding it. This has given me relational understanding.

My book Liberating Yoga speaks to these systemic rots of colonialism, patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism.

Let’s sit in this messiness together and figure out what we can do. I invite you to my workshop this Saturday 2/7 from 2-4:30 pm in Ojai, CA.

More info at the link in my bio.

01/19/2026

Healing your relationship with yourself isn’t just about changing or suppressing your thoughts.

Yoga helps open your heart so that you can accept (and ultimately embrace) all the parts of Self.

I’m excited to share more in the upcoming Power of Meditation Summit, hosted by therapist and Dharma teacher Kelly Bl**er. I’m honored to join more than 50 wisdom teachers for a program on healing self-talk and freeing the mind through practice.

It begins on January 20, and it’s free.

Join us at the link in bio!

12/15/2025

I will be away at this week for a retreat.

To dream.
To reflect.
To practice.
To go deeper into myself.

Here are some memes that have been speaking to me as I disconnect from technology.

For me, going away into silence and stillness is an opportunity to align myself to what truly matters to me. Especially when the external world seems to be continuously on fire.

It’s a way to reflect on whether I’m living into my values. Values of embodied spirituality. Of service.

As I wrote in my book Liberating Yoga,

“Bhakti yoga practitioners emphasize the practice of selfless service (seva) and to serve others with love and compassion. There is an understanding that we are all interconnected beings, and by doing service, we acknowledge how this helps everybody in the process—including ourselves. Sikhism was influenced by the Bhakti movement, and I was raised to learn from teachings from Sikh gurus like Guru Nanak and Guru Gobind Singh. Within Sikhism, there is the concept of the sant- sipahi, the warrior-saint. The warrior who fights and stands up for justice. And the saint who is wise and loves.”

I wish to live as a sant-sipahi.

May we all be happy, healthy, safe and at ease.

(Last slides are of my kitty Alfy and wishing upon a dandelion.)

12/08/2025

I know I bring up a lot of critique of the yoga industry — and it’s rooted in love and care (okay… and real annoyance and rage).

Being a yoga teacher is not easy - holding space for so many different students, never knowing what someone might be walking in with, discerning when you can support them and when it’s time to refer out.

There is so much in yoga. So many lineages, philosophies, practices, and pathways. And I admire the teachers who are doing the work to figure it out with humility and heart.

We teach from who we are, from our own life experiences, from the truths we’ve realized.

I’m so grateful for the students and teachers I get to walk alongside—those who care deeply, those who show up with intention, those who make this path so meaningful.

I’ve had the deepest, greatest honor of supporting and guiding the most sincere, kindhearted, beautiful, introspective yoga students and teachers this year! You know who you are.

This post came to me on Thursday, on the day of the Guru, of Dattatreya Jayanti, who is the Guru principle. Some of my most beloveds have been my own yoga teachers who have guided me through confusion. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for holding my hand compassionately AND lighting the fire under my ass when it was needed.

Here’s to the sincere yoga teachers transforming their own lives and the lives of their students.

Which slide do you resonate with? And tag the yoga teachers who have changed your life! I’ll begin in the comments 💓

And for yoga teachers wanting to work with me, I have 1 mentorship spot open! Please message me for more info.

To gain more knowledge about my critique of the yoga industry and my recommendations, read Liberating Yoga: From Appropriation to Yoga.

11/11/2025

This Fall season has been about reflection, integration, and anchoring into what’s important to me.

Between having a 7-day wedding, and launching the Liberating Yoga podcast and book (not to include the 100 other things humans have to hold!), it’s been a lot.

This has been the season of digestion our experiences - this was the theme I focused on for the meditation group last month. (This month we are focusing on connection to the Divine, to Grace, through Japa meditation).

This weekend (and past week) felt like a culmination of my values being embodied in my life.

- Lots of personal practice (sadhana) and being guided by others. That’s ’s sweet dog keeping me company as I practiced anuloma viloma, as guided by . In the busy-ness of life, turning to quiet and stillness almost felt scary, so it’s felt like a return home to return to my sadhana.

- Supporting a dear friend on her campaign for LA City Council (CD11) to represent the Westside. I can’t think of anyone more well suited. Faizah is a public interest lawyer who has fought to protect renters and improve the life of working families. With ’s win, we must find ways to connect locally to continue the good fight so I urge my friends on the Westside to plug into ’s campaign. Volunteer, donate, help spread the word.

- Attended Yoga Day! .amandalucia’s book White Utopias was so helpful when I wrote my book. Such a gift to hear her speak and chat with her further. And I loved being guided by . I am a lifelong student!

- Hosted a dinner party for my friends. It felt so good to be immersed in cooking and preparing to host. Also felt good to play games, talk for hours, and laugh our butts off.

- At the mental health center for teens I teach at, we got an abundance of plants for the space! While leading a mindfulness activity, I realized the absolute lack of nature and plants. It was joyful to see the young people who dived right into the soil and those who had no interest in getting their hands dirty. All are welcome and loved equally.

More to say, but I’ll end with: so grateful 📿🤲🏽

11/04/2025

I am honored to be a guest teacher for ’s online 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training 🙏🏽✨🧘🏽‍♀️

I will be leading a workshop on Teaching Yoga with Integrity: Dismantling Appropriation and Honoring Yoga’s Roots.

Studying and living yoga is one of the greatest blessings of this lifetime for me. I am passionate about all sincere students learning how to take our yoga practice off of our mat and into our daily life (including myself!) I am a forever student of yoga and life.

A reflection question here is: is your yoga study and practice making you a more considerate, compassionate, and ethical person?
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You can learn more about this training at https://www.ignitebewell.com/ytt-200

And on slide 3, my book Liberating Yoga was featured in the Yoga Changemaker Magazine!

“In a world where yoga is too often filtered, flattened, and sold back to us, Mann calls us in with care, with fire, and with clarity. This book doesn’t just ask for integrity, it embodies it.
Required reading if you care about where yoga comes from, and where it needs to go.”

Have you read my book yet?

11/02/2025

Sequoia Sunrise 2025 - a festival for friends, by friends 🏕️

It’s always a gift to offer my Liberating Yoga Class with music by in a festival setting. This was extra special, surrounded by the trees and flanked by the Kern River.

There are seven types of rest (as laid out by Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith), and spending time in nature last weekend, completely disconnected from technology, dancing into the wee hours, and playing with friends deeply allowed me to experience several of them. I know I desperately need extended breaks from my phone and laptop, and all screens.

I’ve been exploring the idea of aliveness with my spiritual mentor and yoga teacher. Questions like, What am I doing this for? Who am I? What makes me feel most alive? What fires me up and turns me on spiritually? How can I best serve from a place of devotion and integrity? How can I serve more? How do I receive nectar, wisdom, and guidance from the Divine, from Beloved?

One aspect of aliveness for me is laughter. I love laughing and making others laugh. This past weekend, there were moments and stretches of time where we were all doubled over, wheezing with laughter, tears streaming down our faces. Where making eye contact with someone else resulted in more howling and belly-aching laughter.

I smile even when recalling those moments.

Life is difficult for many and exacerbated by systems of oppression, by the Trump administration, ICE, the UAE, and Israel. Something else I’ve been continuing to speak on with my yoga mentor and teacher has been how do I make a difference? What is the balance between focusing on my own life and speaking up, donating, volunteering, doing something, anything?!

This continues to evolve and I continue to struggle.

May we find ways to connect to our aliveness.
May people be allowed to live with dignity.
May we have people around us we can authentically be ourselves.
May we laugh throughout the day, expanding our hearts.

10/21/2025

happy diwali/deepavali, bandi chhor divas, and new moon beloved beings 🪔

Wishing y’all light, intention, and ease into new beginnings. 🧿

For folks that have been separated or estranged from their culture, family, motherland, practices due to colonization, assimilation, violence, the pursuit of better opportunities - it is so vital we take the time to connect with our traditions through music, practice, language, nature, spirituality. Anything that brings us closer. Soon we’ll be the elders and will need to pass down the traditions. The intention is what counts / it could be the smallest act.

I remember as a kid loving following my mom around as she lit diyas (candles) 🪔 in each room. There was something so peaceful and satisfying in intentionally placing a diya and seeing the light of the flame in each room, in the darkness.

This year, I spent the weekend with my family. Celebrating my nephew’s first birthday. Going to the Nagar Kirtan at the Gurdwara and walked alongside the Guru Granth Sahib. Tomorrow I’ll light diyas, clean my space, chant, and play gurbani.

On Bandi Chhor Divas (Day of Liberation), Guru Hargobind Singh was released from Gwalior Prison. He could have walked away alone but instead, he helped peacefully free 52 Hindu kings who were wrongfully imprisoned and returned to Amritsar with them. This story reminds us to be selfless and to stand for justice.

And the times we are living through are asking us more than ever to anchor into our sense of goodness and stand for justice.

May we move with integrity and bravery on this path. May all beings everywhere with no limit be safe and free. Blessings of prosperity and love.

nanak naam chardi kala, tere bhaane sarbat da bhala.

Day 7/28.

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Tuesday	8am - 8pm
Wednesday	8am - 8pm
Thursday	8am - 8pm
Friday	8am - 8pm
Saturday	8am - 8pm
Sunday	8am - 8pm

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