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Liberating Yoga

By Harpinder Kaur Mann

Liberating Yoga

By Harpinder Kaur Mann

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Yoga teacher Harpinder Kaur Mann shows yoga practitioners a path to reclaim yoga from appropriation and recenter the practice where it belongs. In the West, the practice of yoga comes to us stripped of cultural context. Colonized and appropriated by capitalism, dominant culture, fitness trends, and body shaming, yoga in America today is associated with expensive classes, trendy athleisure products, Corepower, Lululemon, and white women. However, yoga is not a one-hour fitness class aimed at stretching and flexibility. Yoga is a spiritual practice from South Asia with the ultimate goal of connection, self-realization, and liberation. In Liberating Yoga, yoga teacher Harpinder Kaur Mann draws from her own perspective as a Sikh-Punjabi woman who was alienated by the way yoga is practiced in the United States but found her way toward reclaiming the spiritual practice for herself. Mann demonstrates that moving away from appropriated forms of yoga and back to yoga's roots is the only true path to healing--both for yoga practitioners who desire to engage responsibly in the practice with cultural appreciation, and especially for folks who have been marginalized who wish to reconnect with their ancestral spiritual practices and reclaim their full identity.
Product details
Number of Pages:
232
Release Date:
2025-06-03
Publication Date:
2025-06-03
Publisher:
Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1506495028
ISBN13:
9781506495026
Weight:
432 g
Height:
146 cm
Width:
224 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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