![]() Her energetic relationship with him and all mentors has changed for the better since taking people of authority ‘off the pedestal’. Prior to knowing about the allegations, Bir Kaur had a strong connection to Yogi Bhajan. ![]() She feels that no one deserves to be subject to any kind of sexual, physical or emotional abuse under any circumstances, especially by a person in power. On a personal level, Bir Kaur believes the stories of the survivors. Our hearts goes out to the survivors who bravely contributed to this investigation, and to all others affected in any negative way by Yogi Bhajan or by this community’s practices over the years. That it was kept hidden so well for so long was also shocking and saddening. While many stories from survivors were shared in social media over these past few months, the depth of Yogi Bhajan’s sustained, horrific misconduct, captured in the report, was still shocking and saddening. Over the months that followed more survivors came forward with claims of sexual misconduct by Yogi Bhajan, with the result that a 3rd party organization, An Olive Branch, was hired to investigate and report on this. While difficult to comprehend this spiritual teacher’s conduct, we believed Pamela’s story which began a process for many in our practice of deep reflection regarding this spiritual teacher, and of these yoga teachings which we deeply appreciated. ![]() In early 2020 a book was published by Pamela Dyson, “White Bird in a Golden Cage – My Life with Yogi Bhajan”, which shook the kundalini yoga community since it included ethical breaches by Yogi Bhajan that are an important part of this spiritual practice. ![]() Bir Kaur began studying kundalini yoga in 2011 and has been a certified level 1 teacher since 2014. Over the course of 35 years, he taught extensively in the US and around the world, until his death in 2004. The kundalini yoga practice is based on the teachings of Yogi Bhajan, who emigrated from India to Canada (briefly) in 1968, and moved on to Los Angeles in early 1969. ![]()
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