Helping BIWoC reclaim their power & intuition
Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher & Mindfulness Educator | Wellness & Decolonizing Activist
Yoga is a spiritual practice.
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Yoga. Mindfulness. spirituality.
“The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then, you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn’t belong to the soul.”
- Paramhansa Yogananda
Meet Harpinder
Rooted in trauma-informed practice and decolonial frameworks, I am a Los Angeles–based yoga teacher, mindfulness educator, and somatic experiencing practitioner. Through prāṇāyāma, meditation, āsana, and yogic philosophy, I support pathways toward embodiment, healing, and liberation. I work with women of color who want to reclaim their power and intuition through the lens of a spiritual, joyful, and sustainable path.
Through embodiment and somatic practice of getting out of our minds and connecting with our bodies, we are able to get back in touch with our internal sources of health and wisdom. I turned to yoga in 2015 during a time of heightened anxiety and found that this practice brought me to the present and instilled a great sense of gratitude for being alive.
My practice is rooted in my spiritual background of Sikhism and Buddhism and my ancestral roots in Panjab, India. My name “Harpinder” means “God’s Home” and true to my name, it is now my life’s work to continue the practice of arriving home to my body with a sincere desire to share in sangha (community). As an Indian-American yoga teacher, I am fuelled by teaching yoga as a spiritual path - as it was meant to be shared.
My studies have spanned from reading the Japji Sahib since I was 3, to over 1000 hours of yogic training within the traditions of Raja, Vinyasa, Bhakti, Kundalini, and Prenatal Yoga from the Ananda Sangha Center in New Delhi, India, Stretch Yoga in Brisbane, Australia, Swaha Yoga in New Orleans, and Living Now Yoga in New York. Without my teachers, ancestors, and women before me, none of this would be possible.
This practice gave me the freedom and power to be seen and live authentically.
Now, I specialize in private sessions designed to meet your wellness and spiritual needs. My classes focus on (pranayama) breathing techniques, accessible postures for all body types (asana), meditation, and connecting back to source. My hope is that you leave feeling a little more grounded, connected, and loved.
Private Sessions
I believe that the practice of yoga is best shared one-on-one. In 2016 I began working one-on-one at the Ananda Center in the Larchmont Village in LA and this one year of private practice changed my life. Since then I have worked one-on-one with several skillful and compassionate teachers that have transformed the way I move through the world - with more intention, awareness, and compassion.
Yoga was traditionally taught by one teacher directly to one student. There is great importance in individualizing each yoga experience to meet the needs of the individual student.
I specialize in personalized private sessions that honor each student’s unique needs, lived experiences, and intentions. I deeply value the sacredness of the student–teacher relationship and approach this work with care, attunement, and presence.
My clients include women and people of color, yoga teachers, pregnant and postpartum people, individuals in recovery, and those seeking a deeper, more embodied relationship to yoga beyond āsana alone. Drawing from trauma-informed yoga, mindfulness, somatic practice, prāṇāyāma, meditation, and philosophy, I support students in cultivating healing, resilience, self-awareness, and meaningful transformation.
It is a profound privilege to walk alongside my students on the path of embodiment, practice, and life.
In practice, I am interested in working with discipline and devotion, with consistent practice (Abhyāsa) and detachment (Vairāgya).
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My Offerings
Outside of private sessions, I create workshops and retreats. Please check out my Events page and sign up for my newsletter at the bottom of my website to be alerted on future events.
Workshops
retreats
Yoga For Anxiety
This 8-hour Yoga for Anxiety Course aims to empower individuals, yoga teachers, and anyone who has anxiety or works with students who have anxiety, with knowledge, practical tools, embodied practices, and community to cultivate self-awareness and self-compassion and transform their relationship to anxiety to find deeper understanding, peace, and enhanced well-being. To move from a place of heightened fear to trust and faith.
There is no shortcut to healing. There is no shortcut to remembering. This will be a space that honors how our anxiety is sacred, and learn to work with this part of ourselves with compassion and patience. One small step at a time my love. You got this.
