Kundalini Yoga for All

Websites:

KRI Kundalini Research Institute

www.kriteachings.org

KRI exists to keep the practice of kundalini yoga intact and undiluted.   

http://www.kundaliniresearchinstitute.org/tools4teachers/toolsforteachers_5.htm

There is also a "Crisis Kit" that has wonderful sets and meditations for when under great stress

http://www.kundaliniresearchinstitute.org/Docs/KRI%20Crisis%20Kit.pdf

3HO Happy Healthy Holy Organization

www.3HO.org

A global community of those who practice and teach Kundalini yoga

Yoga at the Ashram, the Baba Siri Chand Yoga & Retreat Center

at Guru Ram Das Ashram,

Millis, Ma

fantastic events every week! Internationally Acclaimed Trainings, classes, workshops, and gong relaxations

http://yogaattheashram.org

Spirit Voyage- source for music, events

www.spiritvoyage.com

spirit voyage also does alot with Snatam Kaur and other wonderful leaders/teachers, with ongoing global meditations

Ancient Healing Ways- a source for books, yoga manuals, supplements and music

www.a-healing.com

 **You can also listen live stream to music that you select at Sikhnet.com Gurbani media center.  This is a great way to acces a huge library of Kundalini Yoga music, especially some of the more obscure recordings.  See link below under Sikh Dharma. 

Sikhnet.com

http://www.sikhnet.com/gurbani

This is a great website for Sikh Dharma.  Those practicing Kundalini Yoga will also appreciate the access to a HUGE database of music available to stream online.  Go to Gurbani Media Center and you can listen to any KY music artist.  Please donate to this free site, what a great service this is to use!

Books:

*Kundalini Yoga 

Unlock Your Inner Potential through Life-Changing Exercise

by Shakta Kaur Khalsa

this is a really great book packed with information, yoga sets and meditations.  I recommend this as the first book you might buy.  It will also serve as a rich resource for experienced pratictioners. 

*Kundalini Yoga: the Flow of Eternal Power

by Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa

this is a really terrrific book for anyone new to Kundalini Yoga.  It is very readable, funny, and clear.  It explains all of the main topics in KY and provides several sets and meditations.  Shakti Parwha was one of Yogi Bhajan's first students.  She remembers exactly what it is like to be new to yoga!

Sadhana Guidelines

( and numerous other manuals available via Ancient Heaing Ways)

The Kundalini Yoga Experience

Bringing Body, Mind, and Spirit Together

Guru Dharam S. Khalsa and Darryl O'Keefe

This is another great manual and explanation of KY concepts and yoga sets, well written and easy to use. Both this book and the one above use photos of people doing the sets rather than cartoons.  Both books represent people of both genders, all ages and flexibility practicing the sets, which is encouraging!

JapJi, Song of the Soul, by Guru Nanak as translated by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa

this is the poetry of Guru Nanak which is very beautiful and uplifting.  It it translated here in very neutral language

How to Know God (Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood) 

this is the classic "gold standard" of yoga philosophy.  It is a bit dense if you are unfamiliar with yogic terminology, but very entertaining in that the British editor has a dry twist on the interpretations...It is a great book to read several times, at different times in your evolution as a yogi!

Bhagavad Gita ( same translators as above)

A Woman's book of Yoga

A Woman's book of Meditation

(both by Hari Kaur Khalsa)

You don't have to be a woman to  love these books.  They are also really great for beginners.  Hari Kaur is a master at explaining deep yogic concepts in simple terms so we can "get it".  She provides hands on practice as well

Transparency:

Kundalini Yoga was reportedly "brought to the West" by Yogi Bhajan in 1969.  Over 50 years, he and his corporations built a worldwide community of persons who practice and teach Kundalini Yoga and/or Sikh Dharma.  

These corporations have been troubled by lawsuits between the for-profit and non-profit organizations over the decades.  In 2020, energy arose around multiple credible allegations of endemic clerical sexual misconduct by Yogi Bhajan.  

The organizations responded by hiring an independent third party investigator, An Olive Branch.  Details and updates available on this site:

https://www.ssscresponseteam.org/



 Hari Kirin's observations as of June 25, 2020:

When multiple women stand together in allegations against a male leader, I tend to believe them.  I have to collect that this is yet another tragedy of an alpha male leader's corruption letting down a spiritual community.  It breaks my heart that leaders in these organizations, either knowingly or unknowingly, possibly aided systemic dysfunction.  I see good intentions everywhere.  In this moment, intentions are being challenged to move into conscious action.  

I came to Kundalini Yoga in 2003 and was not aware of these troubles until recent months.  If I participated in organizations that upheld an unhealthy status quo, I deeply apologize for the fact that I was not aware. I hold this standard not only to the yoga world, but to the global work of anti-racism, and discrimination in all its forms, across all structures.  I now step back into greater pause for discernment before joining or aiding any group or organization.  

I remain hopeful that the kundalini yoga community may heal and rebuild, this time from grassroots upward.  

It is also my observation that this yoga works.  It teaches each of us to go within and listen deeply to our inner wisdom and compass. It fortifies our courage to fully express the unique purpose of our soul.  It is my prayer that each of us cultivates deep compassion for ourselves and each other, and that we move from a time of icons into a spirituality that fully blossoms from within. 

I welcome and embrace a world where yoga is simply yoga, people are simply people, and that we are kind to one another as our greatest act.