Jivana Heyman

Liberating Yoga

World Religions

“In Liberating Yoga, Harpinder Mann explores the connection between yoga's deep roots and her personal experience as a modern day South Asian yoga practitioner and teacher. In particular, she skillfully unearths the many ways that white supremacy has attempted to strip yoga of its fundamental spiritual essence. Yet, somehow yoga has survived untouched and triumphant, much like the famous character, Draupadi from the Mahabharata. In an effort to humiliate Draupadi, she is stripped naked in public, but amazingly, her sari is never ending and keeps unraveling into a huge pile of cloth so big that it overwhelms her tormentors. Mann reminds us that yoga's eternal teachings will survive all of us, and truth will ultimately prevail.”