Around the World

By Teresa Blasi Martí aka Har Anand Kaur, Lima, Peru In November 2009 a group of young prisoners at Lurigancho Prison began practicing Kundalini Yoga. Lurigancho Prison is the most overpopulated prison on the South American continent and one of the most overpopulated in the world. In block number16 there are approximately 120 young men between 18 and 24 years of age who have been imprisoned for the first time. A multidisciplinary team is working with them to develop capacities which will allow them to return to society through the C.R.E.O. program, a penitentiary treatment program. The main focus of…

by Guruka Kaur This year was the seventh annual Yoga Festival in Chile. For the last two years the festival has been attended by about 350 people from all over South America: Venezuela, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Boliva, Ecuador, Peru, and Columbia, and Mexico and as far away as Spain! This year the Chilean Yoga Festival joined 3HO Foundation International in using the same theme—the First Sutra of the Aquarian Age: Reconoce que el otro eres tu – Recognize the other person is you!   It is a very cozy and inspiring event giving people the opportunity to experience the…

The Chilean Yoga Festival gets bigger and better each year.  Once it was an opportunity for the Chilean communities to come together living the teachings.  It has grown to be the ‘South American’ Yoga Festival, with participants from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Columbia, and Peru.  It is full body festival with Sadhana, Gurdwara, beautiful classes every day, and inspired fun.  This year Gurubachan Singh was there, teaching, connecting and sharing with future generations, and doing incredible diplomatic service.  Hari Nam Singh of NYC was there teaching and counseling – every minute that he wasn’t teaching.  Gurudev of Texas was there teaching, supporting…

BURUNDI – JANUARY 2013 – RAVINDER KAUR (Kundalini Yoga Belgium) Sat Nam, I only spent 1 week with the Burundese KY sangat in January 2013, but it seems like 1 month! The first days, the brand new Burundese KY teachers invited me to visit the places where they teach.  I was most impressed by Jeet Singh teaching a group of 40 mentally handicapped people. His strong projection, commitment and love to reach out and touch these people was inspiring. The directors of the institute told me about the positive impact this weekly yoga class has on their group. Sat Sansaar…