My good friend Sat Dharam Kaur, a Kundalini teacher, helped to develop Compassionate Inquiry. Many people find it helpful, as I have witnessed.ģ. I am also in no position to advise against it. Although I do (in a modest way) follow a yoga practice, I don’t find Kundalini practice personally inviting, hence am in no position to recommend it. I am also neither a practitioner nor teacher of Kundalini Yoga, nor an advocate for it. I have never had any personal connection with or interest in Bhajan’s organization. For those interested in my exploration of this phenomenon, please see the YouTube discussion with spiritual teacher Adyashanti: (the discussion about trauma begins at about 42:00, of spiritual leaders exploiting their followers, at c. Such people are to be found in many lineages, both Eastern and Western, and more such instances are uncovered each year-for example, Shambala most recently. He belongs to a long line of opportunists who turn their spiritual power into a means of feeding their egoic desires, causing untold harm to their vulnerable followers. I am fully aware that Yogi Bhajan was a spiritual charlatan, an exploiter, manipulator, profiteer, and sexual abuser. The science of yoga is truly universal, reaching us in our very human quest for health, happiness and wholeness.To all those who have expressed your shock and dismay at the thought that I, or any program I am associated with, has anything to do with Yogi Bhajan, his organization 3HO, or with any Kundalini Yoga group:įirst, I thank you for posting your concerns. It is however not attached to any one belief system. Kundalini Yoga is taught in the tradition of Sikh Dharma and has been passed down to us through the ages via this path. Yogi Bhajan counts as one of most important and charismatic spiritual teachers of our times. Through his initiative, the 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organisation) was founded, which keeps and spreads his teachings. Over 35 years he taught about 8000 times, in which he gave thousands of different Kriyas (exercise sets) and meditations, touching on every aspect of human life imaginable. Yogi Bhajan left his body on the 6th of October 2004. Today, about 1 million people around the world practice Kundalini Yoga and enjoy its positive and transformative effects. Nowadays, Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan is going from strength to strength all over the world, proving to be a technology and an art that serves us profoundly and effectively in these times of great challenge and change. His maxim was always that he came not to gather disciples but to make teachers and to guide his students to become 10 times greater than he himself. In the years to follow he made these remarkable teachings available to thousands, changing many lives and consistently inspiring people to be their absolute best. When in 1969 Yogi Bhajan was invited to give a lecture at the University of Toronto, he opened the previously closely guarded techniques of Kundalini Yoga to the Western world. This Golden Chain ran through Sant Hazara Singh who declared his student Yogi Bhajan, Master of Kundalini Yoga, when he was just 16 years old.
Kundalini Yoga, the Yoga of Consciousness, is thousands of years old and is an original and powerful form of yoga, passed down orally through the ages from master to student in the so-called Golden Chain. The Chain of Kundalini Yoga across the ages