A Global Community of Living Yoga

Message from the 3HO Chief Executive Officer

Sat Nam,

The beginning of this month also finds me in travel. I am returning from spending four days at Guru Ram Das Ashram kundaliniyogane.com in Millis, MA. 3HO held its recent Board of Directors meeting here, which included members coming from Italy and Germany and people calling in from Brazil and California. It was inspiring to have those present who traveled from faraway countries to be in Millis for only three to four days.

We received a very warm greeting from the Millis community, which included a delicious home-cooked meal for our first lunch in Millis. That same night I received a phone call to come over for some pie and tea; an invitation that I happily accepted and giggled and laughed a lot while in the company of fabulous women.

Thank you to the Millis community for providing us with the space that had us truly feeling at home during our time with you. We as the 3HO Global Community are fortunate to have each other around the world to greet, serve, and love one another in life and as we travel. What a blessing and a gift to be able to travel the world and be welcomed by and connect with our extended family members.

Next community visit on my list is Los Angeles, CA, for the week of Thanksgiving. So watch out LA, because you may find me in a yoga class with you soon.

Speaking of community and extended family; I hope that you are making plans to be with the 3HO Global Community next month at Winter Solstice. Yes, next month; my how time seems to be passing more quickly.

Winter Solstice has a great lineup of teachers, workshops, and of course three days of White Tantric Yoga®. Come and be with your spiritual self, extended family, and good vibrations just before heading to your other holiday celebrations. If you don’t have a place to go to for a holiday celebration, we will be having one on the night of December 24. So stay the night, hang out, be loved, be fed, and then enter back into the world with a slightly different perception than you had upon arriving at Winter Solstice. Register before the end of this month and save some money doing so.

It is a great pleasure and great honor to be connected with you and to have Kundalini Yoga as a way of living and being. Thank goodness it found me and found you.


Love and blessings,
Bhajan Kaur
3HO Foundation

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“The Fundamental Principle of Kundalini Yoga Is to Unite.”

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Laundry Seva
Each month Team 3HO performs a community service project. Notable experiences include packing groceries at a food pantry, planting trees along the Santa Fe River, serving food at a free kitchen, and doing laundry. If you participate in community service you might wonder, "What does laundry have to do with seva? The laundry seva is a connector between how we serve the 3HO Global Community through the Summer Solstice Sadhana Celebration and how we serve our local Española community.

The laundry seva is chapter two in the story of the Summer Solstice lost and found. When we receive your calls after Solstice inquiring about your lost stuff, we do our best to find it. After a few months, however, when we've helped who we can, it’s time to do something with the leftover items which are mostly blankets and clothing. For the second year in a row 3HO has washed and sorted all of the unclaimed Summer Solstice Lost and Found items for donation to Interfaith Leap.

Interfaith Leadership for the Empowerment of All People (I-LEAP), is a nonprofit organization that serves the northern New Mexico community by providing food and clothing to the poor, assisting drug and alcohol addicts with counseling and yogic therapy, community organizing, and much more. For more information, call 505.351.2163.

This year, Team 3HO filled 36 large commercial washers with clothes, sleeping bags, and towels—lots of towels. That's 280 quarters at our local laundromat! Doing the laundry required 15 man hours of labor which doesn’t include the time spent sorting, bagging, and hauling the Lost and Found from Guru Ram Das Puri. Team 3HO enjoyed the work and had a good laugh at some of the stuff that was left behind and we are happy that these items will have a new home with those in need.

Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan®

November 11 (this day is also 11.11.09, this is a significant number in numerology) is 40 days before December 21 and the first day of White Tantric Yoga® at the 2009 Winter Solstice Sadhana Celebration. At Solstice, the gathered Global Community will be meditating with the Narayan Kriya for clearing and prosperity as we work with the Water Tattva and our second chakra. Consider powering up to the Solstice by starting a 40 day sadhana with the Narayan Kriya.

As a Global Community let's join together in conscious connection on Saturday, December 19 at 6:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (United States) for the Narayan Kriya. At Winter Solstice as part of our Welcoming Ceremony we'll share the Narayan Kriya with each other. Please join your brothers and sisters in Florida in spirit from wherever you are gathering together in community whether in your home with friends or in a yoga center - Join us!

2009 Meditation: The Water Element
Narayan Kriya: Clearing and Clarity for Prosperity

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Posture: Easy Sitting Pose. Tuck the elbows into the body with the forearms angled up so that the hands are at the level of the Heart Center, chest width or slightly wider. The hands are in Gyan Mudra, palms up.

Eyes: 1/10th open at the tip of the nose

Mantra: Take a deep breath and sing the mantra in a monotone on one breath. Take a deep breath between each recitation of the mantra.



Sat Narayan Hari Narayan Hari Narayan Hari Hari
(Pronunciation: sut naraayun haree naraayan haree naraayan haree haree)

To End: Inhale deeply and hold. Exhale. Repeat twice more.

Time: 11 Minutes

After doing this meditation for 11 minutes, chant Wahe Guru for 3 minutes. Hands are in Gyan Mudra at the knees or relaxed in the lap, right hand resting on the left, with palms up. Chant it in a monotone long form—Wha-Hay-Guroo—with equal time given to each of the three parts of the mantra. This seals the effects of the practice.

Comments: As you hold the breath, visualize your relationships and bless, forgive and understand. Use this breath to heal these relationships; use the mantra to knit back together any tears within the fabric of your relationships.

Other Tips for Success: The 'r' is a quick, percussive sound, almost like 'duh'; the sound is dental, using the tip of the tongue against the palate, for example, the name, Tara, would be pronounced 'tu-duh'. The 'a' in many mantras sounds like a short 'u', for example, sat is pronounced like hut.

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