In the yogic scriptures it says, “Even a glance from the eyes of a holy man can cure mental and physical imbalances.” Once in a very great while there is a picture that has a transcendent quality of neutrality that allows the person gazing at it to go through it and into their higher consciousness. This is a form of meditation called Tratakum. Years ago, a photograph was taken of Yogi Bhajan which had such a quality, and it has been used ever since by students as a link to their teacher and their inner consciousness. It is called simply,…

By Sirgun Kaur It was dark and I was extremely panicked. My 2 year old was missing during an eveningGurdwara service. He could have escaped through any door; he could have been taken;he could have… the scenarios played out in my head like a horrific slide show. In a moment of clarity, I remembered a rant I almost published on Facebook that sameday: “The 5 Sutras for the Aquarian Age aren’t lofty principles. They are for actual dailyuse. Vibrate the Cosmos isn’t a metaphor. It’s a first resort when trouble strikes.”Vibrate the Cosmos.What was I vibrating in this moment? In other…

 By Sat Purkh Kaur Khalsa “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”  I was never one to make a list of New Year’s resolutions—but sometimes one is just compelled to; so I would end up generating something like a list. But I would wait until January 6th or 7th, just to take some of the pressure off! In my experience, when I created resolutions that were to begin on the 1st, I had usually broken them by the 3rd—exasperating and not a little self-defeating! Eventually, I just quit making them at all and began living my life in the…

Excerpts from a lecture by Yogi Bhajan on 3/23/90, Los Angeles, California A teacher is one who guides a person to give the person an experience of his own purity, own piety, own strength, own totality, own identity, own Infinity. And that’s your job. I’m just explaining to you what a teacher is. If you do not follow these few rules, you shall be nothing but preachers. You’ll have huge congregations, you’ll be very charming, you’ll have a lot of charisma, and the end result is there will be nothing—no juice. It’ll be a very short-lived attitude. But once you touch…

By Pritpal Kaur This past weekend was a typical weekend for me. I was traveling to teach in a Level 1 Aquarian Teacher program. What was unusual were the circumstances of my travel. I was flying from Albuquerque to Chicago where an usual Arctic storm was bringing temperatures of 50 degrees below zero Fahrenheit and wind and snow to the area. After many hours of delays, I arrived in Chicago 9 hours later than expected. When I arrived at the airport there was a sea of people waiting in the airport. After my long journey, I was filled with gratitude….

By Michael Jaidev Singh When I began my level 1 Kundalini Yoga teacher training, the phrase “Start Now” rang in my mind like a choir of church bells. I was 22 at the time and teaching full time math and science at an inner city middle school in Los Angeles. In the first few days of training I approached my teacher, Gurmukh, for a meditation to share with my students. I was nervous that my enthusiasm to share this science would be frowned upon since I was not yet ‘certified to teach.’ Yet I received the opposite reaction. Gurmukh smiled…

“It’s very important that you should know you and it’s most important that everybody should know you as trustworthy, honorable, graceful, steadfast, serviceful, kind and compassionate. These are a few faculties of a Teacher.” —Yogi Bhajan, April 23, 1997 Yogi Bhajan’s teachings are astounding. He was given to long lectures at times and lengthy discourse about any and every subject and sometimes, many times, my head was in a spin listening to him or reading a passage. I needed them translated into down-to-earth language. Therefore, I appreciate those Kundalini masters such as Gurcharan, Guruatma and Mehtab that can interpret and bring them to me in a way that…

By Shakta Kaur When we are insecure we are afraid. When we are insecure we begin to compromise. When we are insecure we just want to survive. We’re thinking short-term, not long-term. When we are insecure there is no vastness, no connection with divinity nor a feeling of oneness with God or each other. “The only purpose of life is not to be scared of insecurity. Insecurity does nothing but scare a person,” said Yogi Bhajan. “It’s a scarecrow.”[1] And, instead of recognizing our power and reality as spiritual beings we allow this scarecrow to stop opportunity and grace from coming…

By Guru Singh Khalsa It is the brightest fire of the year—June 21: the longest day, the shortest night, a time spiritual communities have celebrated for thousands of years. This is the Summer Solstice, and in June of 1969 3HO began its now forty-nine-year-old tradition of gathering from all over the world for celebrating with Kundalini Yoga, meditation, and White Tantric Yoga®. The full story of our tradition actually begins the summer before. It was June of 1968, I had just returned to Espanola, New Mexico, from a year of studying healing music in Michoacan, Mexico. A flyer hanging in…

by Shakta Khalsa Our heads are logical and want “proof” about everything, which means they cannot understand anything that is outside of the limits of the mind. Our hearts can understand and intuit what the head does not know, yet our emotional heart can create a ball of confusion that clouds our judgement. With head and heart able to go haywire at at moment, it can seem that we don’t know anything clearly. But what if they can work together? What if there is a lovely line to walk where the head and heart complement and balance each other? That…