Note to reader. I have been a practitioner of Kundalini yoga since 2013 and completed the IKYTA/KRI teacher training over a two-year period, from 2013 to 2015. While there have been lawsuits, stirrings, rumors, and speculation around whether Yogi Bhajan, the founder of Kundalini Yoga, abused his followers and members of the 3HO community for years, the release of the book
I went to THE Ashram myself for Summer Solstice(i now live in Albuquerque, NM) and once they got to the part about ‘Get out your checkbooks’ I was very abruptly confronted with an uneasy WTF is this shit moment?! And I left feeling sad but thankful that I had the clarity to scrutinize, and that I listened to my body’s visceral reaction to something that could have eventually hurt me mentally, physically and spiritually. Thank you so much for this post and for holding yourself accountable as an example to us all.
Ps~ my partner ADORES Micheal Jackson’s music, and we have very different feelings on where we stand with it now, so I plan on showing him this article. I think it’s easy for him because of everything you’ve laid out so eloquently here. Thank you again.
I went to THE Ashram myself for Summer Solstice(i now live in Albuquerque, NM) and once they got to the part about ‘Get out your checkbooks’ I was very abruptly confronted with an uneasy WTF is this shit moment?! And I left feeling sad but thankful that I had the clarity to scrutinize, and that I listened to my body’s visceral reaction to something that could have eventually hurt me mentally, physically and spiritually. Thank you so much for this post and for holding yourself accountable as an example to us all.
Ps~ my partner ADORES Micheal Jackson’s music, and we have very different feelings on where we stand with it now, so I plan on showing him this article. I think it’s easy for him because of everything you’ve laid out so eloquently here. Thank you again.