Harpinder Mann Yoga

Harpinder Mann Yoga 🤸‍♂️ Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher, Mindfulness Educator, & Published Author
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Liberating Yoga: From Appropriation to Yoga

So excited and full of gratitude to be returning to teach yoga at this year! ⚡️ ⚡Lightning in a Bottle is one of my FAV...
05/19/2026

So excited and full of gratitude to be returning to teach yoga at this year! ⚡️ ⚡

Lightning in a Bottle is one of my FAVORITE festivals and I’ve added some pictures from my years in attendance hehe, including when Ali proposed to me at LIB in 2023. The first few pictures is the yoga class I led at LIB last year.

I remember walking by the yoga area 11 (!!!) years ago thinking, wow I would love to teach yoga here someday.

I started going to festivals when I was 18 years old and these were one of the first places I experienced true freedom, liberation, ecstasy, and joy. Being able to express yourself however you want, dance however you want, and being in community with your chosen family.

This yoga class is going to be in homage to that liberation and freedom. In honor of yoga being a path of and to liberation.

Here’s my full LIB teaching line-up:

⚡ Fri 12:15 pm Liberating Yoga Flow with music by @ Yoga Sol
⚡️ Sat 10:00 am Loving Kindness Practice: Awakening the Heart @ Oracle Cauldron

Honored to be amongst other incredible teachers like and many more.

So looking forward to going with a CREW this year! Quality time with friends and loved ones nourishes me like nothing else.

And this is a reminder that you can be spiritual and throw it down!!! We are divine AND human my loves! Dancing connects me to the divine within.

Let me know if I’ll see you there in one of my classes or on the dance floor 🪩🌹🪷

Yoga is liberation and we need to practice its depths now more than ever. For folks of the global majority, BIPOC, LGBTQ...
05/12/2026

Yoga is liberation and we need to practice its depths now more than ever.

For folks of the global majority, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and those from marginalized communities: Yoga has always been a tool for survival, reclamation, and healing. This is your space to deepen without apology, honor yoga’s roots, and lead in a way that reflects your truth.

For allies and those with privilege: Yoga calls you to more than personal practice, it calls you to responsibility, integrity, and action. This is a space to unlearn, to listen, and to commit to honoring yoga’s depth in real ways.

My friend Susanna Barkataki is offering a powerful, online yoga training that embodies this purpose. I’ll be teaching a workshop inside Embody Yoga’s Roots YTT 300: Teaching Yoga with Integrity: Dismantling Appropriation and Honoring Yoga’s Roots.

This is more than just another training, this is a space where yoga is practiced as a tool for personal and collective change. Get more details and reserve your spot now. Sign up at the link in my bio.

For the last three months, I have been part of a West African dance team: Love Tribe! A powerful traditional Yoruba Styl...
05/12/2026

For the last three months, I have been part of a West African dance team: Love Tribe! A powerful traditional Yoruba Style dance. 

Led by the radiant, beautiful, and wise . I am so privileged to learn from you.

This past Saturday, we performed at the Ojai World Dance Festival.

This style of dance has felt so free and liberating in my body. Moving between fluidity to power to sensuality to energetic to calling upon Oshun.

Just three years ago, I could not learn choreography to save my life. As I share with my students:

One of my recent favorite definitions of Yoga comes from Desikachar in his book, The Heart of Yoga:

“Yoga is to attain what was previously unattainable. The starting point for this thought is that there is something that we are today unable to do; when we find the means for bringing that desire into action, that step is yoga. In fact, every change is yoga.”

I find this encouraging. Each step we take towards something that, at one point, seemed unattainable, with faith and trust, and surrender, is yoga.

Learning choreography and West African dance has been my yoga - it is what I have been linking to for my transformation.

I am curious - what have you been linking to—whether a practice, a way of being, or something new you are learning—for your transformation? Please let me know! I am hoping to use my IG more intentionally to build and deepen connections.

What happens when 13 liberation centered, queer-aligned, and yoga embodying South Asians gather?You get a community of f...
05/01/2026

What happens when 13 liberation centered, queer-aligned, and yoga embodying South Asians gather?

You get a community of folks who intentionally love up on one another, practice mutual uplift, collaborate, and build a sangha. We met one another with such depth and tenderness. 

Shared values became lived practice: trauma-informed care, collaboration over competition, generosity, attunement, sensitivity. A space where we could soften and sharpen at the same time. Rooted in justice: anti-caste, pro-Palestine, committed to collective liberation, and making the world a better place for the children.

We built sangha through intention. Through laughter, rest, art, yoga practice, shared meals, long conversations and quiet presence. Through honoring land and lineage - spiritual, ancestral, blood, chosen. Naming both who was in the room and who wasn’t. Holding homeland loss, grief, and joy all at once. 

There was time in nature, singing to the Grandmother tree, communion in the sauna and tons of game play! Undiscovered talents emerging like small revelations. Sensuality, not as performance, but as aliveness. As permission.

And most of all, there was support, the kind that sees you, holds you, and expands you. 

This is what becomes possible when we gather with intention. When we trust each other enough to go there. More of this, please. 

We bow to the Indigenous peoples of this land, the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohicans, for cradling us into the earth.

Deep gratitude to everyone at and to for hosting our stay and deep bows to the facilities and kitchen staff for making the place and food feel a bit like home.

What do love, rage, and grief have to do with liberation Everything.During times of collective upheaval, most of us are ...
04/17/2026

What do love, rage, and grief have to do with liberation Everything.

During times of collective upheaval, most of us are either numbing out or burning out. But what if your emotions were actually portals for deeper clarity and action?

That's exactly what Lama Rod Owens and I explore in this episode of Liberating Yoga and it might just change how you move through these times.

We get into:

- Why love AND rage are both necessary for healing

- How spiritual practice can help us confront — not escape — oppression

- Why grieving should be a daily practice

- What it means to stay in integrity when everything feels apocalyptic

- How lineage and ancestry shape the way we show up in the world

Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist author, Harvard Divinity School graduate, and one of the most important voices at the intersection of spirituality and liberation. His books Love and Rage and The New Saints genuinely changed me, so having him on this podcast was a dream.

🎙️ Link to listen is in my bio and stories.

What emotion feels hardest for you to sit with right now? Drop it below 👇

When I was at a few months ago, a man I was speaking to deduced I was Sikhi through my name. He said, “My parents alway...
04/16/2026

When I was at a few months ago, a man I was speaking to deduced I was Sikhi through my name.

He said, “My parents always taught me, if you ever need help, find a Sikh.”

And he’s not wrong.

Vaisakhi represents the day Guru Gobind Singh Ji established the Khalsa, a casteless, saint-warrior community dedicated to equality, justice, and service to all humanity.

As Sikhs, we are called to live the principle of Ik Onkār (Oneness) not just as a belief, but as a practice of resisting oppression and offering seva as a way of serving all people, no matter what race, religion, class, color, or status.

From my bibiji and dadaji, I learned about Sikh gurus who believed in practicing gender equality, eliminating caste, being of selfless service (seva), working honestly (kirat karo), sharing with all beings for the highest good (vand chakko), and treating all people well, no matter their position in the world.

Within Sikhi, 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.

That left an impact on me and informs my worldview.

The formation of the Khalsa is about committing to justice and liberation of all beings. It’s never been about becoming a religion only serving those that are in it.

May we continue their legacy. Collective liberation for all.

To honor this day, I share with you an excerpt from my book, Liberating Yoga, about the story of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. He is the revolutionary who founded Sikhi, and one of the many Sikhi warriors, gurus, and saints who spoke truth to power and stood up for what they believed in.

Happy Vaisakhi!

Such an honor to share about appropriation with for her The Great Yoga Unlearning event! If you want to hear my convers...
03/30/2026

Such an honor to share about appropriation with for her The Great Yoga Unlearning event!

If you want to hear my conversation and many other wonderful teachers (some of them pictured), you can still sign up.

what a powerful gathering. There is so much for us to unlearn and embody as yoga practitioners, seekers, and teachers.

I’m holding tenderly getting to be in community in this way 💓💓

The team is growing! I will be welcoming 1 or 2 folks to support my work with operations and marketing tasks. These are ...
03/28/2026

The team is growing! I will be welcoming 1 or 2 folks to support my work with operations and marketing tasks.

These are the current needs:

🔸 Basic Squarespace website updates and page creation
🔸 General administrative support and tasks as-needed
🔸 Values alignment and basic understanding of trauma-informed care, yoga, and movements toward collective liberation
🔸 Content creation and editing for Instagram, Linkedin, Substack, and a MailChimp newsletter

Bonus points if you:
🔸 Are local to Los Angeles and can provide in-person content creation support
🔸 Can bring a strategic lens to marketing, project planning, and timeline management

If you resonate with any or all of these duties, I highly encourage you to apply! I would love to have a conversation.

Please fill out the application by Sunday 4/12 to be considered.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgq8ccTcNg3LpkPvBj4mCPMcbq2XmUsbA6Ofcxc0Jmqq6AjQ/viewform

Lately I’ve been asking myself what it really means to teach yoga at this moment.Students are carrying so much grief, te...
03/10/2026

Lately I’ve been asking myself what it really means to teach yoga at this moment.

Students are carrying so much grief, tension and confusion. It’s a bewildering and heartbreaking time to be living through right now if you’re paying attention.

We’re being asking to hold more and more complexity. To take in, process, and digest SO MUCH.

And many of us were never trained for that, and our nervous systems were never meant to hold all of it alone.

That’s why I said yes to speaking at The Great Yoga Unlearning. It’s a free live gathering for yoga lovers navigating trauma, ethics, and responsibility.

If you are feeling curiosity too, let’s talk about it.

March 27–29. Join the conversation at YogaUnlearn.com

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

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