Healing Your Handicaps
by Yogi Bhajan
We are starting on the subject, "Healing Your Handicaps", and one of the psychological and biological, and also mental feelings is that when a person starts aging, to everybody... whether you lie about it or you are truthful... it doesn't matter... aging, you feeling like you are handicapped, and that over 40's, over 60's, "I am this, I am that"... and the skin is not that soft, and hairs are not that good, and actually to be very frank and honest with you, you bring on you more wrinkles than you help yourself...
2009 3HO Featured Event
2009 Summer Solstice
Sadhana Celebration
EARLY REGISRATION NOW OPEN
2009 3HO Women’s Camp
EARLY REGISRATION NOW OPEN
Quote of the Month
Yoga was made for us to be healthy, happy, and holy. Kundalini Yoga was made for us to be healthy, happy, holy and aware. The secret of your soul is awareness.
- Yogi Bhajan -
Community Corner
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2009 Events and Workshops
February 7
White Tantric Yoga®
Hamburg, Germany
February 11 – April 30
KRI Teacher Training Level 2 Module: Vitality and Stress
Washington, DC, USA
February 14
White Tantric Yoga®
Stockholm, Sweden
February 20 – 22
2-day women’s exploration using Kundalini Yoga, creative movement and Massage
Patagonia, Argentina
February 20 – 26
KRI Teacher Training Level 2 Module: Mind and Meditation, and India Yatra
Anandpur Sahib, India
February 21
White Tantric Yoga®
Austin, TX, USA
February 21 – 28
Journey through the Chakras
Risikesh, India
February 23 - March 9
Indian Yoga Journey of a Lifetime
Northern India, India
February 27 – March 1
Childplay Yoga Teacher Training – A training for all interested in children’s yoga
Barcelona, Spain
February 27 – March 1
Radiant Child Yoga Program – Comprehensive Children’s Yoga Teacher Training
Centerville, MA, USA
February 27 – March 1
Guru Prem Singh in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
February 28
White Tantric Yoga®
Phoenix, AZ, USA
March 2 – 9
Sacred Chant Retreat with Snatam Kaur & GuruGanesha Singh
Jalisco, Mexico
March 6 – April 5
KRI Teacher Training Level 2 Module: Lifecycles and Lifestyles
Santa Fe, NM, USA .
March 7
White Tantric Yoga®
Millis, MA, USA
March 7 – 8
The Conscious Man:
2-day workshop for Spiritual Men
Phoenix, AZ, USA
March 13 – 18
KRI Teacher Training Level 2
Module: Vitality & Stress
Bangkok, Thailand
March 15
White Tantric Yoga®
Rome, Italy
March 20 – 22
Kundalini Yoga Workshop with Sunder Singh Khalsa.
Nakorn Pathom, Thailand
March 20 – December 6
Kundalini Yoga Level I Teacher Training Course: Ten Weekends
Hollis , NH, USA
March 21
White Tantric Yoga®
Barcelona, Spain
March 28
White Tantric Yoga®
Miami, FL, USA
April 4
White Tantric Yoga®
Chicago, IL, USA
April 9 – 14
KRI Teacher Training Level 2 Module: Mind & Meditation
London, UK
April 11
White Tantric Yoga®
Oakland, CA, USA
April 18
White Tantric Yoga®
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Visit the 3HO Events page for more listings.
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Team 3HO Foundation
Team 3HO's Bookkeeper, Merle Wallace and Treasurer, Gurucharan Kaur... budgeting, budgeting, budgeting, budgeting, budgeting...
Happy 2009!
The 2009 3HO Foundation Celebrations calendar is now available.
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Online Spiritual Name Request
Your spiritual name defines your destiny and is a sacred technology of claiming your spiritual identity. The practice of receiving a spiritual name, initiated by Yogi Bhajan and continued now by Nirinjan Kaur, is an opportunity for a rebirth in consciousness. To request a spiritual name online, hear how to pronounce them, and/or print out hard copies of the updated Spiritual Name Request Forms in 6 different languages for your Kundalini Yoga students and friends, go to: spiritualnames.3HO.org
“When you call a person by the destiny name (spiritual name), you pray for that person, and that person is blessed by your prayer each time. Destiny name is the first step to connect you to your destiny.”
~Yogi Bhajan
Aquarian Times magazine
The February issue of Aquarian Times magazine, about Cleansing the Body, Mind and Soul will be released February 9. Enjoy great feature articles on cleansing and detoxing by Dr. Kartar Singh (“The Art of Cleansing”), Dr. Gurusahay Singh (Detoxing through Massage) and Dr. Linda Lancaster (Healing on a Cellular Level); lectures by Yogi Bhajan (“Food: the Human Medicine” and “The Window of the Mind”); and cleansing yogic foods and recipes. Learn about helping children love yoga (“Playing with Yoga”), the quest for peaceful co-existence at Artsbridge – an art/dialogue camp for Palistinian and Israeli students and where the Long Time Sun song originated (“May the Long Time Sun Shine upon You”). Contact Guru Tera Kaur for information.
Did you know that you can receive multiple copies of Aquarian Times to share with your students, friends, and family? The only cost to you is for shipping and handling; please see visit the Aquarian Times website for more details or contact Guru Tera Kaur (505) 629.1687.
Sikh Dharma International
Sikh Dharma International is very excited to announce the launch of its community network website, a home for discussing, learning and sharing anything related to Sikh Dharma. Come join the fun!
Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa will be teaching “The Aquarian Age: Kundalini Yoga and Human Evolution” in Austin, TX on February 6-8. The course will focus on how we can meet what this new age of consciousness is bringing effectively and gracefully through the practice of yoga. With special reference to Japji Sahib and the Anand Sahib.
The latest in a series of FREE pod-casts, "Prosperity is in Your Projection" with Guru Kaur, is available.
Yogis List
Prosperity is a click away! Sell your products and services on Yogis List or find something you are looking for.
Global Happenings
My Winter Vacation
by Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa
MI, USA
Yogi Bhajan has said if we get to Solstice (Winter & Summer) then infinity will take care of us. Winter Solstice Sadhana at Lake Wales, Florida, was predictably wonderful! It was inspiring, uplifting, fun, funny, delicious and over too soon!
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Thailand Hosts First
Yoga Festival
There was palpable excitement in the air at Baan Phu Whan, Thailand, as people came together from all over Asia: Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Sri Lanka, Australia and New Zealand... different cultures and different languages, but all with a common purpose. It felt as if Sunder Singh Khalsa was calling everyone together, to feel and be a community, part of the 3HO worldwide family.
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Images from the Yoga Festival in Thailand
by Adarsh Singh, Shanghai
Phnom Penh's yoga studios
reaching out to youth
very few yoga studios in the country, some Cambodian youths, as well as a large number of young people involved with NGOs, are nevertheless feeling the benefits of the practice so popular abroad.
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Festival de Kundalini Yoga 3HO Chile
Looking back at this years celebration.
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Festival de Kundalini Yoga Website
Kundalini Yoga Resources
Adi Shakti Yoga Centre
Ontario, Canada
3HO Kundalini Yoga
Mindroads Meditation Center
Saint Paul, MN, USA
3HO Kundalini Yoga
Kids and Yoga!
Yoga's gifts for children are immense!
3HO Family & Youth
chakra-designs
Kurtis for Yoga & Sadhana
3HO Maketplace
Infinity Yoga Shop
Designs on T-shirts and more
3HO Maketplace
Share your stories with the Global Community. Please submit your news, articles and blogs to Liv Kaur.
Organizations founded
by Yogi Bhajan
3HO Foundation
Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization
3HO IKYTA
International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association
Aquarian Times magazine
Serving the Aquarian Age
KRI
Kundalini Research Institute
White Tantric Yoga®
A one–day meditation workshop
Prosperity Technology
Getting started on your path to prosperity
Breathwalk®
Breathing, walking and meditation into specific exercise patterns that create vitality
Miri Piri Academy
A unique Aquarian school founded by Yogi Bhajan
Sikh Dharma International
Creating a spiritual way of life
SikhNet
Connecting Sikhs worldwide
Hacienda de Guru Ram Das
The 3HO Mother Ashram in Española, NM
More Resources
Welcome to the world of 3HO
February 2009: HEALTHY, Happy, Holy
Featured Community
The Journey of Kundalini Yoga in Australia and New Zealand
By Suraj Kaur, Sydney, Australia
In the early 1970s the first Kundalini Yoga teachers arrived in Australia to do as their teacher, Yogi Bhajan, had asked: spread the teachings of Kundalini Yoga in this part of the world. Akal Kaur and Ram Ravi Singh worked hard for years teaching and raising a young family. In the early 1980s more teachers arrived, Sardar Singh and Seva Kaur, who only stayed a few years before heading off to Europe. Also arriving at that time were Guruneil Singh and GuruJivan Kaur with their young daughter, Mukhande Kaur, coming from Hong Kong where they had lived and taught Kundalini Yoga for eight years prior.
All of the teachers moved to different cities hoping to create new teachers and build a thriving community of Kundalini yogis. It was not easy in those early years, but they kept up as best they could: teaching, adapting and continuously learning more to help those who came to them. Some were blessed to go back and forth to America or Europe on a regular basis to keep that connection to the sangat open and alive within. Others stayed and kept up on their own through sadhana, without the global input. GuruJivan Kaur was one of those who stayed and taught and taught and then taught some more. By the Grace of God and Guru it has all paid off 1,000-fold with the growth of our community, which eventually became the lead Teacher Trainer and founding member of the Kundalini Yoga Teachers Australia and New Zealand (KYTANZ) we have created.
It did take a while but now in the 21st century we have teachers all over Australia and New Zealand. This year there are three Level 1 Teacher Training courses in Australia, one Level 2 Teacher Training, specialist seminars, pre- and post-natal yoga classes, as well as regular Kundalini Yoga classes running continuously around Australia and New Zealand. There have been many guest teachers visiting, which has been wonderful for the community, and we held our very first White Tantric Yoga® course in Sydney in 2008. Wahe Guru! There were over 200 participants and what a day we all experienced.
Our new KYTANZ president, Suraj Kaur, is doing an excellent job of keeping us all motivated and organized. The KYTANZ committee members (Gurubala, Jaswant, Billie, Siri Gopal, and GuruJivan, to name but a few) have all worked hard for years to organize and get the association running smoothly to serve our growing community into the future of the Aquarian Age. May God and Guru continue to guide us all.
Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru
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Message from the 3HO Chief Executive Officer
Sat Nam,
The focus this month is on the Healthy of the Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization. What a great name we have and get to share and to identify ourselves as being a part of. Our name represents the technology that Yogi Bhajan has given us to achieve a sense of well-being and to help others with theirs. Healthy, Happy, Holy is a mantra; Yogi Bhajan purposefully gave us this mantra.
Healthy: being healthy is an available choice we can make in every moment on every level; mental, physical, emotional and spiritual. What stands between us and a new way of being are matters of sensible choice. We can make choices that either serve our well-being or go against our well-being; we are capable of acts that lead us to a fulfilled life or take us away from our higher power.
We have the tools to live our lives consciously: being aware of our choices, the consequences of the choices we make and choosing accordingly. Recognize the power of consciousness; as we live and make conscious choices each moment and each day we fill ourselves with strength. Choose with wisdom because the power is in our own hands to create the life we want.
So health isn’t just about the foods we eat or if we exercise or the supplements we take, although these things play an important part in supporting good health, it’s about making healthy choices that keep us in alignment with our divine power.
There are many inspiring articles on good health within this month’s 3HO eNewsletter and in the upcoming February/March issue of Aquarian Times magazine. I hope that you will take the time to read through the information and find it to be helpful on your path of personal growth and for your yoga students, friends and families.
Cheers,
Bhajan Kaur
3HO Foundation
February 2009: HEALTHY, Happy, Holy
Infinite Health
by Dr. Siri Atma Singh Khalsa, NM, USA
Life is not about earthly outcomes, riches or a perfect body. The question I find most valuable in working with yoga students and patients is: Can you listen to and act on the voice of your soul? The simple act of not listening to that voice can lead to your fate; conversely, acting on the voice of your soul can deliver you to your destiny. You are on these parallel tracks your whole life, and at each stage in your spiritual growth the test is of greater magnitude until you are free of ego.
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The Principle of Eleven Feet
When you put the key in the car say,
Aad Guray Nameh
Jugaad Guray Nameh
Sat Guray Nameh
Siri Guru Dev-ay Nameh
“Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa, Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh.”
All that is just to give you a few seconds in space
and time to be late, because time you cannot
change but you can be a little late—11 feet away.
It’s called the principle of 11-feet distance. If a person
can be delayed in such a way, so that in space
and time, they have 11 feet, the accident or incident
can be avoided. But it cannot be avoided more
than four times. You must remember that. So there
are four chances to be delayed by 11 feet.
©The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan
Wake Up and Roar...
By Siri Datta Kaur, United Kingdom
You know that feeling … when suddenly a surge of wild energy soars through you? Perhaps triggered by a club anthem, walking into a stadium at a football match, or when you are just about to leap from a bungee … and of course, the moment when your lips kiss against the lover of your dreams!
What is that? I have asked that very question since the age of 12 after feeling it within rush through for the first time. What is that surge, that rush, that aliveness that fills your whole being, and in that moment you are IT ALL.
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Kundalini Yoga for People Living with Diabetes
By Shanti Shanti Kaur, NM, USA
Diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the world’s most common diseases. In the United States alone:
- Approximately 1 in 11 adults has diabetes
- Diabetes is the 6th leading cause of death and the leading cause of kidney failure
- Annual cost for people known to have diabetes exceeds $220 billion in medical expenses, disability and lost productivity
Meditations for Addictive Behavior
A System of Yogic Science with Nutritional Formulas
Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan®
By Mukta Kaur Khalsa Ph.D, NM, USA
Learn the Super Health way from Recovery to Self Discovery with specific meditations and nutritional formulas for behavioral addictions and lifestyle changes.
Meditations for Addictive Behavior is a system of yogic science to inspire and uplift the human spirit. These simple techniques will help break habits, tendencies and addictions. It contains 12 specific meditations with delicious nutritional formulas and inspirational quotes. It is effective with today’s behaviors linked to smoking, food, alcohol, drugs, co-dependency, stress, anxiety, depression and many others. This technology provides the psychological edge necessary to remain calm and non-reactive under challenging situations and protect oneself from the pressures of society. It is our belief that the human potential of each individual is unlimited.
These meditations create a relationship with one’s higher consciousness and instill the dignity of self-autonomy. Healthcare professionals, people in recovery, yoga practitioners and individuals looking for a self-exalted experience will find this book an inspiring introduction to life-changing habits.
Eco-3HO
Water Consciousness and Give to 3HO
LivingWaters™ Engineered Water Treatment Systems is the provider of our water filtration system at the Winter Solstice Sadhana Celebration. They are offering the 3HO Global Community a 10% discount off all systems with free shipping in the continental United States. Living Waters will donate 10% of the cost of each system sold to 3HO Foundation. Use the discount code: 3HO. Visit Living Waters
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SEVAlicious!
Breaking Bread Together
3HO Foundation celebrated its 40th anniversary on January 5. To honor such a momentous passage Team 3HO Foundation sponsored, prepared , and served langar at the Mother Ashram, Hacienda Guru Ram Das in Española, New Mexico. It is a blessing to break bread with community and to take the time to connect and share.
Translation Seva
3HO routinely receives requests to offer our eNewsletter and Special Announcements (and ultimately our webpage) in languages other than English. 3HO seeks Sevadars who are fluent in reading and writing English as well as one (or more) of the following languages: Spanish, German, and French. If your skill is with a language other than one of these and you wish to serve, please let us know. Contact Liv Kaur to learn more about Translation as Seva.
Women's Technology
Take three minutes a day to bless yourself
As we begin a New Year and set new intentions; make a conscious connection to your Soul. Be kind to yourself!
Meditation – Self-Blessing
POSITION: Sit straight in a cross-legged position. Arch the right arm over the head, palm facing down 6 inches above the crown of the head. Raise the left forearm parallel to the ground and bend the elbow so that the hand is touching your chest, palm facing down.
EYES: Eyes are closed.
CHANT: Continue to chant in a monotone for 3 minutes:
I bless myself, I bless myself, I bless myself. I am, I am.
To end, inhale deeply, hold the breath and repeat the mantra mentally. Exhale. Repeat 2 more times. Relax
©(2000)The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan
Healing the Body, Mind and Soul
Diet According to Ayurveda
Ayurveda is a vast science of life which recognizes that health is a state of balance between the body, mind, and consciousness, as well as a state of inner balance between vata, pitta, and kapha. (See Tridoshas below.) It recognizes that food is medicine, and uses this principal as one of the many ways of restoring health.
Tridoshas
According to ayurvedic thought, the tridoshas are three factors or forces whose balance is crucial to health. They are intuitively formulated symbols of the actual primal forces generating and maintaining the physical and mental bodies. The continuous production and balance of the tridoshas is partially determined by the food.
Vata (air) sustains the body and originates every kind of physical movement in the body, It controls the mind and senses and causes elimination of waste.
Pitta (bile) is responsible for digestion, heat, the digestive fire, and the formation of blood.
Kapha (phlegm) nourishes and lubricates the body, maintains sexual potency, and lends mental balance to the individual.
From "The Aquarian Teacher Level One Textbook" by Yogi Bhajan,
published by the Kundalini Research Institute
©The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan
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Sacred Eats
Vegan Tropical Homemade Energy Bars
- 1 ½ cups ground almonds
- 1 ½ cups ground walnuts
- ¼ cup raw sesame seeds
- ¼ cup raw sunflower seeds
- ¼ cup raw pumpkin seeds
- ½ cup rough chopped macadamia nuts
- ½ cup dried cranberries
- ½ cup chopped dried natural apricots
- ½ cup thickly shredded coconut
- ¾ cup agave nectar
- ½ tsp vanilla
- ¼ tsp. Cinnamon
Preheat oven to 275 degrees
Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl. The mixture will be somewhat sticky. Using wet fingers press it down into a 7” x 11” baking dish that has been very thinly coated in grapeseed oil.
Bake 30 min. to one hour depending on how toasty you prefer it. Cool and then cut into 16 pieces.
Store in the refrigerator. Or freeze in airtight freezer bags.
Submitted by: Sat Nam Kaur, TX, USA
Breaking bread together is a blessed and sacred act. To honor that consciousness, the 3HO team in Espanola is taking turns cooking up a recipe to share with the rest of the team. Yum! If you have created a wonderful vegetarian dish and would like to see it featured in our e-newsletter or on our website please send it to Livk@3HO.org. Be sure to include who the credit goes to!
Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan®
A 1,000-Day Sadhana:
Meditation for an Invincible Spirit in the Aquarian Age
We are quickly approaching the long awaited transition to the Aquarian Age. Much has been written about this. In essence it is humanity’s transition from adolescence to maturity. We leave behind the Piscean Era and enter into an age of global awareness, radiance, intuition and cooperation, an era that will usher in an age of equanimity and prosperity, accompanied by an evolution in our capacity to perceive, think, feel and sense. Such growth would mean that much would need to be left behind—old structures and ways of thinking, communicating and living will pass. Confusion, depression, and conflicts will increase as the old ways of holding power—politically, religiously, socially and personally—all fight their last fight. This period of testing and growth will last until 2038, when a new stewardship of this planet and our selves will be realized and peace will have an opportunity to prevail on Earth.
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