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27 May Community Articles

2014 Teachers Conference

By Ravi Khalsa

Teachers Together in ExcellenceGuru Ram Das Puri, New Mexico Friday, June 20th IKTYA Teachers Conference: 8 Elements of Excellence Course – Knowledge Come early to Solstice and join us for this exciting conference to experience transformation, growth and expansion. Coming together to present and learn together as students, teachers and trainers of Yogi Bhajan. An opportunity to co-create as a group of multi-generational yogis where every voice has a chance to be heard to build a culture of mutuality, collaboration and prosperity. Bring your mat/sheepskin, journal/pen, snacks and water bottle “It is very fortunate you have this Association. When I’ll be physically gone,…

12 Mar Personal Stories

Urban Yoga Chicago: Creative, Collaborative Kundalini

By Ravi Khalsa

By DukhNiwaran Kaur Khalsa Creativity and collaboration. These two Aquarian qualities guide Urban Yoga Chicago as we strive to make Kundalini Yoga a household name in Chicago. Founded by three yogis with different levels of experience and a shared passion for Kundalini Yoga, our roots are collaboration. Knowing that the model of a one-owner yoga studio would not work for us or for the coming Aquarian Age, we were looking outside the box to find a new way of bringing Kundalini Yoga out into the world. Our way of doing business needed to match our experience of Kundalini Yoga—empowering, life-changing,…

27 Feb Around the World

We went to the Chilean Yoga Festival!

By Ravi Khalsa

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…

25 Feb Personal Stories

How I fell in Love with Kundalini Yoga 40 years later

By Ravi Khalsa

By Ravi Kaur Khalsa Prologue My mother met Yogi Bhajan when I was 4 years old. Kundalini Yoga transformed her life and she had to meet “the Yogi.” My brother and I tagged along as she met with him. Our lives were never the same. We moved into the 3HO ashram in Eugene, Oregon and we did yoga. I went to boarding school in India from ages 11 – 16, and we did yoga. I moved to Tucson to work at 3HO SuperHealth when I was 17 and started teaching yoga. I got married at 18 and started working for…

04 Nov Personal Stories

Kundalini Yoga in South Africa: Opportunities for Expansion

By Dhanjot Kaur

By Pritam Hari Kaur South Africa is a multi-layered society; it reveals itself by degrees if you are committed to finding it and living here for a while. The first interface is the sometimes lush, sometimes stark beauty—the impossibly rich textured mountains and outdoor experiences, the deep valleys, blue oceans, healthy sunshine, abundant fruit and vegetables, and the smiling faces. The next layer is the abject poverty of the 40% that scrape by with barely anything and how this tears your heart right open and you ask how you can live with that. The next layer might be a dance…

03 Sep Personal Stories

A Letter to New Teachers

By Dhanjot Kaur

Sat Nam New Kundalini Yoga Teachers, “I’m not a man, I’m not a woman, I’m not myself, I’m a teacher.” The Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan proclaimed this one Solstice. I don’t even remember how long ago it was because I have heard him say it so many times over the years. At first, when I thought about it, I came to the conclusion that he meant that a teacher must first consciously and honestly put aside his/her ego when acting in the capacity of a teacher. I liked it. It’s was a good rule. I now know that what…

23 Aug Community Articles

A letter from Hari Jiwan Singh

By Dhanjot Kaur

“I’m not a man, I’m not a woman, I’m not myself, I’m a teacher.” The Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan proclaimed this one Solstice. I don’t even remember how long ago it was because I had heard him say it so many times over the years. At first, when I thought about it, I came to the conclusion that he meant that a teacher must first consciously and honestly put aside his/her ego when acting in the capacity of a teacher. I liked it. It’s was a good rule. I now know that what truth a person accepts and practices…

23 Aug Personal Stories

Portland Kundalini Yoga Community

By Dhanjot Kaur

Written by Bir Kaur and Guru Surya Kaur of the Portland Kundalini Yoga Community From our Hearts to your Home: What Makes Kundalini Yoga Portland Home We may have crossed paths at a Solstice Celebration, Sat Nam Fest, or another yoga gathering. Perhaps you were passing through town and decided to join us for sadhana or a Kundalini Yoga class. We are often blessed with the warmth and light that comes when others tell us how friendly the Kundalini Yoga Portland community is. Perhaps it is the breathtaking scenery of trees within a town that tries to be a city, a short…

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