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13 Aug Personal Stories

Calmness in the Chaos

By Sukhpran Khalsa

By Doug Wilson In a time when we have more comforts, conveniences and opportunities available to us than at any other point in our recorded human history, why do we seem to have more chaos, illness and social problems than the generations before us? With technology and an ability to openly communicate with each other, why are the challenges and statistics surrounding these issues continuing to rise? The planets, moons and stars move with mechanical precision. Billions of biological organisms live and interact harmoniously with their physical environments, so why are human beings struggling to survive? Is this chaotic mess…

14 Apr Personal Stories

The Deep and Powerful Alchemy of White Tantric Yoga®

By Sukhpran Khalsa

By Tommy Rosen Back in 2003, my girlfriend, Kia, and I decided to go to Maui to celebrate my 36th birthday. We had been together for 3 years, long enough to know we had something special. We had spoken about the possibility of getting married someday, but I was quite happy to continue on as things were. The convention of marriage, as I had witnessed from my parents and most of the adults I had known, was fraught with difficulty and challenge. It was painful and in some cases, ruinous. When occasionally I would meet two people who seemed to be doing well…

12 Dec Personal Stories

5 Sutras for the Aquarian Age – The Blueprint for your Life

By Sukhpran Khalsa

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…

08 Nov Meditations & Kriyas

Keeping Up: Within You is All that You Need

By Sukhpran Khalsa

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…

26 Sep Personal Stories

The Aquarian Teacher: A Consciousness of Hope

By Sukhpran Khalsa

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….

12 Sep Around the World

The Yoga of Service: One Teacher’s Journey into Seva

By Sukhpran Khalsa

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…

29 Aug Personal Stories

Teaching Styles: “You Should Know You”

By Sukhpran Khalsa

“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…

24 Jun Personal Stories

Guru Singh’s History of Summer Solstice

By Sukhpran Khalsa

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…

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