Simran Uppal

🌈 yoga teacher, poet and writer ✊🏾 secretary at yoga teachers union @iwgb_yoga ✨co-creation, queer mysticism stuff, translation, @bypoets 🌚 they/them

[Simran Uppal @simransuppal]

Wrote this for the independent on our launch as the UK's first yoga teachers' union, my experiences in the industry, and yoga's history of resistance #yogameansunion

[Yoga Teachers Union IWGB @IWGB_Yoga]

"The need for unity and action in the industry has never been clearer. " Powerful words from our very own @simransuppal on the material realities of being a yoga teacher, the need for political action in the sector and solidarity beyond it.
https://t.co/s8NdkNLixQ

[Heard @HeardOrg]

Highlights from the day included a poetry workshop on the theme of trans joy (run by poet @simransuppal) and delicious food from Majeda (a chef from the organisation @migratefulUK)

[Heard @HeardOrg]

✨2023 highlight: ✨In June @AllAboutTrans hosted a trans joy picnic for the transgender community to come together & celebrate trans lives. We brought together organisations & people from across the sector to share in a day of collective joy, care & nourishment for trans people.

[All About Trans @AllAboutTrans]

Special thanks to Luca Asta for taking such beautiful photos, @simransuppal for a moving and celebratory poetry workshop centred around trans joy & Majeda from The Syrian Sunflower for the delicious food (thank you @migrateful for putting us in touch)

[Scene LGBTQ+ Magazine @SceneLGBTQ]

LGBTQ+ voices amplified in a luminous poetry anthology by Barbican and @flippedeye. #Poetry #LGBTQ #Queer @BarbicanCentre @BellaCox19 @simransuppal https://t.co/p69jyF1JbV

[Simran Uppal @simransuppal]

@ArunKapur333 @SunnyOsahn 😅I think you're looking for a different simran uppal - I'm 26, nonbinary, cut hair, not the very sweet small boy with the patka in your film! Looks great tho haha xxx

[Simran Uppal @simransuppal]

@stripysocksrock @TSpaceInBetween @MohammadShawabI you're a babe dee <3 i teach classes and drop-ins at @YogaOnTheLane in dalston, and online with @nourishyogatt for courses and teacher trainings. dms open to chat about practice too ofc xxx

[Simran Uppal @simransuppal]

@barboras14 Yess - love to hear it ✊🏽 it's actually our AGM on Monday if you wanted to come to that, but no rush - always so many opportunities to meet people / see what's happening and get involved ❤️❤️❤️

[Simran Uppal @simransuppal]

@barboras14 So exciting!! Hope it goes so well ❤️❤️❤️🙌🏾

[Simran Uppal @simransuppal]

@zamarudd Not to totally miss the point of what you are saying but unions are winning all the time as much as they are losing all the time and this is the small speck of hope and joy and belief that I just do not want to let go of

[Simran Uppal @simransuppal]

@zamarudd I really really hear you in this - my core hope tho is that the one good reason to apply for a job is to unionise it and build power and potentially if not salvage a lot, salvage at least something from this violent disaster capitalism

[Simran Uppal @simransuppal]

Cc munoz

[Simran Uppal @simransuppal]

@shailjapatel So so so so so true, it's an absolute mess. Solidarity!!!! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

[IWGB @IWGBunion]

📢📰 "The union strives to break the misconception that yoga teachers are spiritual beings divorced from the material world, in one of the UK’s newest gig economy sectors"

Read from our @IWGB_Yoga members in this @AndrewKersley piece in @HUCKmagazine 👇 https://t.co/x8aWHU1ajB

[Bedtime Stories For The End Of The World @goodbyeworldpod]

Series Three has landed! Check out Episode 1: Beyond Old and Into Myth, featuring @RemiGraves and Fiona Benson. Subscribe now wherever good podcasts and old gods are found. https://t.co/q63aO12BVI

[IWGB @IWGBunion]

This video has us hyped for the #KillTheBill protest on Saturday ✊

[Simran Uppal @simransuppal]

@jiaqikangjiaqi @TheoWildcroft I really love seeing my faves connect like this (also ahhh that birdsong nidra!!!!!! Magic)

[Simran Uppal @simransuppal]

@jiaqikangjiaqi @TheoWildcroft has amazing nidra (sleep-adjacent day dreaming/napping meditation!!!!) practices on her website here https://t.co/qrWOJjtRUR for free here also https://t.co/d9O1l9fU4j, she is Amazing in every way ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Simran Uppal @simransuppal]

@jiaqikangjiaqi Convert to content made by leftist yoga teachers - good vibes only - no andy puddicombe!!!!!!

[Sisters Uncut @SistersUncut]

💜💚WE ARE NOT GIVEN JUSTICE, WE TAKE IT!💚💜 We stand on the shoulders of giants! In 1971, workers organised under the banner of #KillTheBill to fight against a tory government trying to take their rights from them.