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New podcastListen to heartfelt and heart wrenching stories of real people from the early days of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga Community, those born into it, and those converted or influenced by the ”Teachings” in the last 50 years of ”light-washing” the truth. These are the stories you haven’t heard. The untold truths and abuses that have infused into the consciousness of the Healthy, Happy and Holy Community of KundaliniYoga globally. weblog
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Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Guru Gun Kaur, simply goes by Gigi, joined 3HO in 1972 at Mendocino Summer Solstice.
She became devoted to the practice of yoga, cleansing and detoxing from her young adult years during the time of sex, drugs and rock and roll; moving away from the “negative” lifestyle, while rapidly moving toward her new found faith and “conscious” family, led by Yogi Bhajan.
For the next 12 years she immersed herself in the Sikh tradition of sacred music, Kirtan and her faith as a sacred devotion. She was arranged to be married in 1974 and soon after in 1976, YB influenced her to relinquish her family inheritance, which was eventually used to purchase the Summer Solstice land, known in 3HO as Ram Das Puri, in Espanol, New Mexico.
In 1979 YB turned on Gigi, vowing to destroy her, and eventually influenced her to give up her children to her ex-husband. Yet she carried on as a devotee until December 1983, when she finally left; but remained devoted to the Sikh Faith.
2020 was an uproar which opened the old wounds and forced her into the swirl of all that went left unexamined. Today Gigi finds herself struggling to even keep a roof over her head, yet in spite of all of this trauma and loss, she knows she’s on the path to healing the deep emotional wounds she has suffered. She’s in contact with her children, who’ve also shared their stories with her of their abuse during the years after she was forced to leave them behind.
She’s grateful for all spiritual support and prayers in the spirit of brotherly and sisterly love.
* Show correction* The solstice land; Ram Das Puri is in the Jemez mountain range (not Truchas, which is to the East of the Sangres range) It is the Tewa People’s land.
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Thursday Jun 09, 2022
Episode 45: Kartar Diamond (In 3HO from 1974 - 1995; Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
Kartar Diamond was Born in 1961 and grew up in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles County with a Reform Jewish upbringing. First exposure to 3HO was about 10 years old. She started practicing Kundalini Yoga at age 14.
She took Sikh vows at age 19. She had a semi-arranged marriage at age 20, which lasted 2 years. She dropped out of college before marriage and worked as a secretary for a 3HO chiropractor for 10 years. Married again in 1986 at age of 25. She continued to work until the end of her pregnancy and had her son in 1991.
Her 2nd marriage ended in 1995 and she left 3HO while simultaneously getting a divorce. She’s a full-time fengshui consultant, published author, and mental-illness advocate, and still resides in the southern California area. Co-parenting her disabled son, now 31 years old, and interacts with, her ex-husband who remains in 3HO to this day. You can learn more about her brilliant writings, works and advocacy at www.fengshuisolutions.net
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Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Episode 44: Vandee Crane (formerly Pavandeep Kaur Khalsa; 2009)
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Vandee Crane is the author of My Body, My Soul: One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Both, as well as Founder and Director of Rise In Love Foundation, a grassroots nonprofit, whose mission is to support individuals, families, communities and companies in understanding and healing the individual and collective Mother Wound by bringing Women of all Nations together to heal through connection, culture and conversation. A process known in Indigenous Cultures around the World as ReMatriation.
Vandee, formerly Pavandeep Kaur Khalsa initially came to learn about KY/3HO in 2009 through a series of serendipitous spiritual experiences, after an early life of child trafficking and addiction. She’s here today to offer her unique perspective and share her own experiences in the community as an Indigenous Woman, a Survivor Leader, and Professional Disruptor.
Vandee lives in Northern New Mexico, on Ancestral Apache and Pueblo Territory. She herself is of Wazhazhe, Tsalagi, and European American descent. Her partner John SwiftBird and their Daughter TatankaSkaWin "Tata" SwiftBird are enrolled members of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She and her Family are passionate about Cultural Preservation and keeping their Traditional Values alive through their grassroots nonprofit work.
Vandee and their Daughter are also featured in the up and coming documentary Women of the White Buffalo, to be released in 7 languages internationally this coming month. Vandee's professional and academic background include addictions counseling, trauma informed care, and Integrative studies. She is also an outspoken CSET (child trafficking Survivor Leader) who has brought a lot of awareness and impactful change to the communities and cases she has been involved with.
You can donate to her profound work at www.riseinlovefoundation.org
Music Credit: Lyla June - Mamwlad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeGLDwfrvb8
Link to purchase her book: (It's also on Amazon where reviews are awesome...I just really don't like raising money for Jeff Bezos to play space cowboy ) https://www.target.com/p/my-body-my-soul-one-woman-s-journey-to-reclaim-both-by-vandee-crane-paperback/-/A-83270172
Donations for mutual aid and other grassroots work can be made at: PayPal vandee@riseinlovefoundation.org Cash App https://cash.app/$riseinlovenow Or made out to Rise in Love Foundation & mailed to: PO Box 425 Tesuque, NM 87574 You can
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Friday Jan 07, 2022
Friday Jan 07, 2022
Mark Bailey left home at a young age and lived as an artist on the fringes of society. From the ages of 15-18 experienced psychological manipulation and abuse from a member of 3HO while a student for Summit School for the Arts in Chisago City, MN before it was shut down in 1999.
He settled down after a serious accident in 2006 and spent the next decade painting pictures while learning to manage two chronic illnesses. Since 2014, Mark has worked primarily as a writer. He summarizes news reports for a nonprofit information service, writes articles for the cryptocurrency industry, and maintains a blog. Mark has also published seven science fiction novels. He works from home and rarely leaves his Minneapolis neighborhood.
You can learn more with Mark in his short book Navigating Dystopia - https://rstory.io/navigating-dystopia.pdf
Or his blog, where his art can be found - https://hive.blog/@mada
Song:
Laszewo - Don't Walk Away - https://open.spotify.com/track/3URS9FbHLDKOAFRgKk9pwv?si=e645a3a2f73845a8
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Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Discussing Predators and the "wise-man" predator formula and grooming behavior that is infused throughout all aspects of 3HO/Kundalini culture, "The Teachings", the Aquarian Academy and a false sense of safety in these spaces.
Help us raise awareness and money for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Host a “Lighting Up the Dark Watch Party” before the end of the year and/or LIVE-Stream the
BARE NAKED TRUTH: Breaking the Silence Barrier Spoken Word Burlesque Spectacular w/ GuruNischan on December 21, 2021.
You can Online Stream + 8 day replay of this special event happening on the darkest night of the ~ Tuesday, December 21st.
Join us as we light up the night with this embodied expression of healing.
+Online Streaming + replay and Live in Chicago at The Edge Theater
+ Highlighting All Male Survivors Panel post-show
+ A portion of all proceeds will go to Childhood Fractured, a local non profit supporting childhood survivors of abuse through writing, art, and performance.
+ Two spoken word and music opening acts
+ GuruNischan making her stage debut as Lala Luminosity in her One Woman Show — “ The P*ssy Whisperer”
Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 6pm CST
Get your ticket at the link below or make a donation to the art and healing process.
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Monday Nov 29, 2021
Episode 41: Our Shared 3HO Identity of ”Exceptionalism” and ”Otherness”
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Today's episode I share my experience of being unravelled the last few months in my sense of IDENTITY, the challenge of "otherness" that we perpetuate as real, the lie of 3HO "exceptionalism" and its roots in white supremacy; and all things indoctrination, hidden in plain sight., including, NO BANGS ALLOWED!
Break free with me...and let's discover what's hidden in our layers of SELF.
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Today we explore White Supremacy in all it's forms of White Silence, White Exceptionalism, White Superiority, Tone Policing, the prey and predator of the Spiritual White Woman and more ways it exposes itself in our actions, thoughts, behaviors and communication within the context of 3HO and the World.
Book referenced and played: ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY: Combat Racism, Change the World and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
Link to purchase: https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/
Song Credit: White Lies by Death
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Monday Aug 30, 2021
Episode 39: Shanti Oshan (Started Practicing Kundalini Yoga in 2014- 2021)
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Shanti Oshan, previously known as Shanti Karam Kaur has been practicing Kundalini Yoga since 2014 but became deeply involved when she met her teacher in 2019, Isa at a Sufi retreat in Southern California. This is when she vowed to seek Truth through the guidance of God’s voice no matter what. She started Teacher Training in Oceanside, CA and dove headfirst into her path, going to the Sat Nam fest, Summer Solstice, followed by Winter Solstice. Last March, she went to the Espanola Ashram to be a farm intern on Khalsa Family Farms, and I wound up getting caught in the web of illusions in the 3HO/Kundalini Yoga community.
There were red flags everywhere, but ended up falling in love with a man in the community this past June, marrying him then breaking it off on her honeymoon.
Having experienced narcissistic, and misogynistic behavior, lies, manipulation, and abuse within the 3HO Community and with this man, she is here to share her story.
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Friday Aug 20, 2021
Friday Aug 20, 2021
Dr Ron Alexander (formerly Shama Singh) is a Mind- Body psychotherapist, international trainer of health care professionals specializing in creativity and trauma.
He was recruited by Yogi Bhajan to co-found the original Kundalini Research Institute in 1973 as well as co-founder the Center for Health and Healing at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
He conducted the early scientific research on Kundalini Yoga, and other forms of meditation, including Zen and Vipassana through the Veterans Memorial Hospital in Topeka, KS, and Santa Rosa Psychiatric Hospital in Santa Rosa, CA. Both in association with the Menninger Psycho-analytic Institute in Topeka, KS.
He has been teaching yoga psychology, mindfulness and trauma informed yoga since 1974 and travels the world now teaching and conducting trainings and workshops.
He’s the author of Wise Mind Open Mind: Finding Purpose and Meaning in Times of Crises Loss and Change.
His forthcoming book in Spring of 2022, Core Creativity: A Mindful Approach to Unlocking Your Creative Abilities Also listen to podcast episode #8 to hear
Dr. Ron Alexander's early 3HO history https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-r8uhm-f5a25d
Article Referenced: From Maharaj to Mahan Tantric: The Construction of Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga by Philip Roland Deslippe https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6r63q6qn For more information, go to www.RonaldAlexander.com
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Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Episode 37: Taran Kaur (Started KY in 2014 - 2020; U.K.)
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Today’s guest is Taran Kaur. Her birth and original name was Alice, and she started practicing Kundalini Yoga in 2014 (late 20s) following guidance from 3HO’s website on Kriyas, meditations and doing many 40 days practices with them.
Through this she quit drinking alcohol and focused on getting on the mat everyday rather than nursing a hangover. Alice continued to practice Kundalini Yoga with teachers on Youtube, at the end of 2016 after switching to health care and doing Radiant Body Kriya for 40 days she realised the reality of the destructive relationship she was in with her partner of nine years, left and returned home.
Alice went on to study Kundalini Yoga Level 1 at Sahej TT, in the UK with Hari Har Kaur and Sat Siri Singh in 2017. following a calling to finally teach Yoga after years of practice and styles (Hatha in teens, Bikram in early 20s), here she got given the name Ajeet Amrita Kaur.
Through the training Alice/Ajeet fell in love with the Sikh Dharma and went to Khalsa Camp to discover it’s depth, Alice/Ajeet went on to learn and embrace Sikhi from more Sikh camps, was blessed with Amrit in 2018 and given the name Taran Kaur, then legally changed it to Taranjeet-Kaur to honour a Kundalini background, ironically she has always shortened it to Taran.
Taran (now 31) is navigating married life, mother to one daughter named Satnaam Kaur Evie. She ditched Kundalini Yoga in 2020 and continues rising early to meditate, is studying to be a therapist and makes Art in any free time she has.
Song Credit: Stay Gold by First Aid Kit
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