By Yogi Bhajan 1. A Teacher will never alter the teachings because of personal opinion. You will teach by example. 2. The higher you grow as a Teacher, the more humble you have to be. 3. The Teacher always serves the students, so they can become ten times stronger than you, because every student is a Teacher for tomorrow. 4. A Teacher has to be extremely kind, caring, compassionate, and forgiving. 5. As a Teacher you should always poke, provoke, confront, and elevate your students to excellence. 6. As a Teacher you have to continuously imagine, visualize, believe, and expand…

By Devjot Singh Yogi Bhajan’s messages about the Aquarian Age may have been difficult to contextualise before now. We can forgive ourselves perhaps for hearing his teachings simply as an inspirational metaphor supporting personal commitment to a spiritual path. We may have felt confirmed in our preferences and justified in any stance against war, hunger, and a myriad of social injustices. But now that times have changed, perhaps we had better look again at what the Master was telling us and what will be asked of Aquarian Teachers. The Piscean Age, its values, achievements, and champions will not go gently…

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 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…

Yogi Bhajan described two styles of spiritual teachers, the Saturn teacher and the Jupiter teacher. Both look to the soul of the student, but each uses a different mode to evoke results. Saturn Teacher: The planet Saturn is the only planet with rings. The rings provide limitation and constriction. The Saturn teacher is all about discipline. He specializes in always doing the unexpected and he “carries a stick” so he can suddenly “whack” any student who gets out of line. His role is to give the discipline and the limits.  It is through limitation that we gather our strength and become potent…

Q: Is it permissible to chant Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo silently before teaching a Kundalini Yoga class? Yogi Bhajan: No. Sound purifies the inner and outer environments. Chanting it on one breath is preferred.   Q: Is there anytime one would teach a Kundalini Yoga class and NOT tune in with Ong Namo aloud? Yogi Bhajan: Is there anytime when a pipe is not fitted with the gas tank and you can fill the car? This mantra is for tuning the flow of personal energy with universal energy. That’s a fact. Do it with the group to tune them in too.   Q: Is…

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…

The Legacy of 3HO Excerpts from a lecture on January 5, 1994, the 25th anniversary of 3HO. (The Year IKYTA was Founded) We started a healthy, happy, holy way of life, and that became 3HO. It is a dream come true. It is a very pure path in which every human was worshipped equally. Everybody is a potential teacher. There is no 'yes' and 'no', rather there is a set discipline to follow. We built a foundation called the 3HO Foundation: a Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization of people. The first song I sang was, “We are the people, the people of…