the LIBERATING YOGA podcast

If yoga is a rich body of experiential knowledge rooted in South Asia, how did we end up with a mainstream yoga culture in the United States focused on promoting physical fitness and selling polyester “yoga pants” with pockets?

Join Harpinder Kaur Mann, trauma-informed yoga teacher, mindfulness educator, and writer, on an exploration of yoga’s history, philosophy, and contemporary culture to uncover its true nature as a path toward deep self-inquiry and collective liberation. Through interviews with a diverse range of yoga practitioners and experts, the Liberating Yoga Podcast dives into the harms of colonialism and capitalism while illuminating avenues for reclaiming yoga as a lifestyle grounded in freedom, community, and spiritual healing.

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Hi! I’m Harpinder Kaur Mann, your host as well as trauma-informed yoga teacher and mindfulness educator for women of color and allies. I help students learn all aspects of yoga as a spiritual path as a pathway for powerful embodiment and healing. Together, we study diligently and with devotion in the efforts to bring forth clearer integration of our body-mind-spirit and be grounded in our faith and presence.

Welcome to Liberating Yoga, a space to explore yoga as a practice of healing, resistance, and deep connection. Here to dive into the roots of yoga, dismantle appropriation, and uplift practices that honor tradition while making yoga truly accessible.

All of these conversations were recorded two years ago as part of my research and interviews for my book, Liberating Yoga: From Appropriation to Healing. Now, I’m bringing them to you—unedited and in full—to continue the dialogue on how we can honor yoga’s past while shaping its future. Let’s move beyond the surface and into the heart of yoga. This is Liberating Yoga.

To fellow podcasters, if you want me to be a guest in your podcast, send me an email at harpinder@harpindermann.com.