Meditation - The Way to God
by Yogi Bhajan
Sometimes we feel our lives are normal. We make money, we have children, we are very happy. Then why meditate? Well, basically a man as a human being has no defense mechanism except a meditative mind. You have to be intuitive. You don’t have claws, you don’t have hooves, you can’t protect yourself. Cause will have an effect. And life is cause and effect...
Featured Events
3HO Global Meditation for the United Nations International Day of Peace
On this day of global cease-fire and nonviolence, let us plan events and activities within our communities in support of the International Day of Peace September 21, 2008. Participate in the 3HO Global Meditation and get connected to the Global Mala Project.
Let there be Peace
Let there be Peace of Mind
Let there be Peace with Mankind
Let there be Peace of the States
Let the World dwell within the Force of Peace.
- Yogi Bhajan -
Yogi Bhajan Remembrance Day, October 6
11 days of meditations
September 26 – October 6
Guru Ram Das Birthday Anniversary, October 9
11 days of meditations
September 29 – October 9
Quote of the Month
Within you, unite with your own higher self, and create a friendship. Meditate to clean the garbage so that through the subconscious you can see your supreme conscious.
- Yogi Bhajan -
Community Corner
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Events and Workshops
Cork, Ireland
Radiant Child Yoga Program - Training for Teachers, Parents and Therapists Levels 1 & 2
September 5 –7
White Tantric Yoga
São Paulo , Brazil
September 6
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Balancing the Male & Female Forces, a Journey through the Chakras
September 6 – 13
3HO – Excel & Celebrate Training for Women: Tele-Course
Empower Women Worldwide -
Share, grow, change, transform.
September 8, 15, 22, 29 &
October 6, 13
Tele-Class
Mudra – Asana for Your Hands
September 10
Perth, Scotland, UK
Radiant Child Yoga Program - Training for Teachers, Parents and Therapists Levels 1 & 2
September 12 – 14
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Celebrating 40 Years of Kundalini Yoga
September 12 – 14
White Tantric Yoga
Sydney, Australia
September 13
London, UK
The Inner Alchemy of Male/Female Polarities
September 13 – 14
White Tantric Yoga
Guadalajara, Mexico
September 20
Great Falls, Virginia, USA
KRI Teacher Training Level 2 Module: Conscious Communications
September 20 & 21, October 18 & 19,
November 15 & 16
Tele-Course
Journey into the Heart of Sikh Dharma, Minister’s Training
September 22
Milan, Italy
Men's Camp
September 26 – 29
Aurovalley Ashram, Rishidwar, India
The Yogi: experience your magnetic field as a Yogi
September 26 – October 3
Germany
Kirtan Tour with Sat Kirin Kaur
September
The 6th Lord of Miracles Tour in Honor of Guru Ram Das
Traveling to 12 cities and 8 countries in South America
October 1 – 31
White Tantric Yoga
Knoxville, TN, USA
October 4
3HO Global Meditations – Yogi Bhajan Remembrance Day
October 6
3HO Global Meditations – Guru Ram Das Birthday Anniversary
October 9
Española, New Mexico, USA
Kundalini Yoga Level I Teacher Training Course
October 10, 2008 – March 23, 2009
White Tantric Yoga
Frankfurt, Germany
October 11
Marrakech, Morocco
Sun, Spices, Souks & Superb Yoga
October 15 – 22
White Tantric Yoga
New York, NY, USA
October 18
Millis, Massachusetts, USA
Kundalini Yoga Fall Festival
October 18
Tele-Class: Meditation to Kick Butt
October 21
White Tantric Yoga
Herndon, Virginia, USA
October 25
Northeast Coast, USA & Canada
GuruGanesha Singh Live in Concert
October
Singapore
Self Awareness Youth Camp
Fall
Anandpur Sahib, India
Connect with the Subtle Body of Baba Sri Chand
November 4 – 7
KRI Level 2: Stress and Vitality at Ojo Caliente Hot Springs and Spa
November 11 – 16
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Miracle Mantra of Guru Ram Das CD
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News, Articles and Blogs
Live Class from the European Yoga Festival: “Living a Spiritual Life: A Yogi’s Connection with Prana”
Featuring Karta Singh Khalsa – world-renowned teacher who travels through Europe, Russia and Northern Africa offering the teachings of Kundalini Yoga to new venues, training teachers and creating community wherever he goes!
This is the first video in a series that 3HO will be launching this fall. Stay tuned for more short videos featuring Kundalini Yoga teachers in places such as Israel, South Africa, Russia, Italy and many more! Hear inspiring stories of what people are doing around the world and learn practical tools for building community and starting service projects utilizing the teachings of Kundalini Yoga.
Mexican Prisons Turn to Yoga
Inmates at prisons in Mexico are being taught Kundalini Yoga as a form of rehabilitation. CNN's Harris Whitbeck reports.
Your Yoga Instructor Is a Key to Kids’ Success!
If you have a child who is having difficulties with staying focused, is wired, tired, grumpy, anxious, or for lack of a better word hyper, Shakta has an activity for you...
Kundalini Yoga Centers
Kundalini Yoga Narayan
Vigo, Spain
SKY the School of Kundalini Yoga
Newbury, Berkshire, UK
K-Yoga Corporate Kundalini Yoga
Toronto, Canada
Closed Eyes Yoga
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Resources
3HO Foundation
Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization
Aquarian Times
Serving the Aquarian Age
KRI
Kundalini Research Institute
3HO IKYTA
International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association
White Tantric Yoga
A one–day meditation workshop
Prosperity Technology
Getting started on your path to prosperity
Sat Nam Rasayan®
The art of healing
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
Creating a spiritual way of life
SikhNet
Connecting Sikhs worldwide
Ancient Healing Ways
Bringing you the art and science of Kundalini Yoga
Spirit Voyage
Sacred music source
Guru Ram Das Center for
Medicine and Humanology
Brings the techniques of Kundalini Yoga into the health care field
More Resources
Welcome to the world of 3HO
International Global Meditations
Kundalini Yoga Community in Russia
On Summer Solstice, June 21, 2008 we truly joined as family around the world through our participation in the worldwide Solstice meditation. In 3HO communities throughout Russia – Tula, Moscow and Karelia – people gathered together locally to celebrate Summer Solstice and enjoy the blessing of being together and practicing Kundalini Yoga.
Russia is quickly growing and expanding making Kundalini Yoga available to those who have an interest and longing for these ancient teachings.
Kundalini Yoga Teachers in Moscow have committed to doing Amrit Vela Sadhana together daily at a newly developing yoga center.
To participate in a global project started in Russia where you can “share with us and the rest of the global sangat your stories of Yogi Bhajan, your personal spiritual journey living in Ashrams, Kundalini Yoga festivals and Solstices,” see lighttravel.org.
“Let it be the Travel of Light from one part of the world to all parts of the world, from one heart to all hearts. And let this travel be light.”
Please send us your 3HO and Kundalini Yoga related photos so that we can share them with the global community. Send them to
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Message from the 3HO Chief Executive Officer
Sat Nam,
I am waking up on another Sunday morning...the difference this time is that I am in my new home. I moved over the weekend and was reminded just how challenging moving is. I am grateful to all of my friends who helped me move; I don’t know what I would have done without them.
I have been in my new space for just 2 days, and I am enjoying it even more than where I was before. The house supports the same sustainable living as my previous home. I am on the same property, only 100 feet from where I was living. The change is that I am in a smaller house, one that suits me better.
I experienced a moment in this month that I would like to share with you. I was at the Española local coffee house, the Oasis. I was alone, standing at the condiment table adding cream to my Earl Grey tea, when Jimi Hendrix began serenading the customers through the sound system. An 8-year-old (or so) boy, with the longest mullet I have ever seen, appeared by my side and started to play his air guitar along with Jimi. It is times like this that I wish I carried a video camera with me always to capture these moments so that they can be more than just a visual in my brain.
This boy made my day. He was jumping around, swinging his head and big hair, jamming really hard with his air guitar. Soon after he began, he was joined by another boy with an identical mullet, either his brother or his friend, so the show was now a double feature.
When the song finished, they ran over to the computers, and I stood there alone with a very big smile on my face and in my heart, deeply appreciating the expression of freedom that I had just witnessed and puzzling over the fact that the terrible 1980s mullet is still alive (but that’s just my impression of the hairstyle).
So here’s to change, which is always taking place, even when we can’t see it. To life’s unexpected moments and the pleasures it brings when we stop to take the time to notice. And to our friends, who help us move and keep us going even when we want to give up.
In memory of Jimi Hendrix and the air guitar performance to The Wind Cries Mary.
Blessings and peace,
Bhajan Kaur
3HO Foundation
September 2008 Updates
Winter Solstice Registration Opens this Friday, September 5
Winter Solstice takes place on the shortest day or longest night of the year, marking the beginning of winter. Winter represents the time of rebirth, renewal and regeneration. Connect with your spiritual community, honor the sacredness of Winter Solstice, and share the warmth, support and comfort of community while experiencing deep personal transformation. Registration for Winter Solstice Sadhana Celebration and applications for teaching workshops, Service Scholarships and Financial Aid Scholarships will be available beginning September 5 at 3HO.org
European Yoga Festival
Over 1,500 people from as many as 20 different countries came together for 8 days on the grounds of a country estate in the Loire Valley in France to practice Kundalini Yoga, White Tantric Yoga® and other activities related to the teachings of Yogi Bhajan. Teachers included Karta Singh of France, Sada Sat Singh and Kaur of Italy, Guru Dev Singh of Rome and Nanak Dev of Germany. Here are some fun clips that were captured:
Karta Singh’s class – “Living a Spiritual Life: A Yogi’s Connection with Prana”
Live sadhana
Juggler performing at Talent Night
Promotional video for European Yoga Festival
Irish dancing with the kitchen staff
New Products for Your Practice
Prosperity Mandala poster – Enhance your meditation practice and prosperous growth.
Light of the Shabad Guru – Here, for the first time ever, are video lectures given by the Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Yogiji about the power and technology of the Shabad Guru as embodied in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
A Sneak Peek inside Aquarian Times August/September Issue
The Power of Sound & Mantra issue includes these featured stories: “The Unstruck Melody,” “Changed Forever by the Power of Sound,” “Tea with God” and “Destiny Calls.” The annual 3HO Foundation Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association Directory, the International Calendar of Events, Numerology, Kundalini Yoga Sets and Meditations are included, too!
Read the August issue online soon.
Request a Spiritual Name
A spiritual name reinforces and accelerates your progress on your path to your highest destiny. Making the choice to receive a spiritual name (and using it) is taking a rebirth in consciousness. Request a spiritual name online, learn how they are given, hear the pronunciation and print request forms to give to students and friends.
Information on Spiritual Names
Yogis List – Resources for 3HO Global Community
Post your services, find job opportunities, living opportunities, teaching opportunities and connect to the global community of modern yogis.
Yogislist.3HO.org
Healing the Body, Mind and Soul
Navigating the Inner Spaces of the Mind
Four of Patanjali’s eight limbs of yoga practice deal with navigating the meditator through the inner space of the mind. They are pratyahar, dharana, dhyan and samadhi. In Kundalini Yoga, we recognize the integrative nature of these states. Emphasis is on mastery through identifying and utilizing these states.
Pratyahar To control and synchronize the mind to the Infinite. It is the science of finding the nucleus of every finite, which is Infinite.
Dharana Concentration. Consistent penetration of thought, consistent projectivity. Holding the mind within a center of consciousness or on an object.
Dhyan Meditation. Deep merger into the object of concentration, which causes a flow of thought waves, uninterrupted and continuous, to which the meditator does not react. One is aware of the thoughts, but not involved with them.
Samadhi Total identification with spirit. The deep experience of “Me and God, God and Me, are One.”
© The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan
From "The Aquarian Teacher Level One Textbook" by Yogi Bhajan,
published by the Kundalini Research Institute
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Recipe
Nut Curry Supreme
This is an almost perfect food for women. Almonds are for the eyes, watermelon seeds for anemia, walnuts for the brain, and chilies for the intestinal tract. It can be served plain, with rice, with chapattis or with pakoras.
1 large raw Onion, chopped
4 cloves Garlic, finely chopped
1 ½ inches fresh peeled Ginger Root, finely chopped
1-2 Green Chilies, chopped
¼ Cup Ghee
3 rounded Tbsp. Garbanzo flour
¼ Cup Lemon juice
2 tsp. Turmeric
1 ½ tsp. Cumin
1 ½ tsp. Coriander
1 ½ tsp. Garam Masala
4 Cups Yogurt or Buttermilk
⅛ Cup peeled Almonds
⅛ Cup Walnuts
¼ Cup Cashews, Pecans or Apricot kernels
⅛ Cup Watermelon or Pumpkin seeds
2 Zucchinis, chopped
Mix 1/4 cup yogurt or buttermilk with garbanzo flour and stir until it forms a smooth paste. Then stir in the rest of the yogurt or buttermilk. Sauté onions in ghee until they are clear to golden brown. Add chilies, ginger and garlic and sauté until ginger and garlic are golden. Add turmeric and sauté on a low heat until golden brown. Then add other spices. Add yogurt or buttermilk mixture. Then add lemon juice. Continue cooking on low heat. Add zucchinis, nuts, and seeds and continue simmering until zucchinis are soft. Serves 4
© The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan
From “Food for Health and Healing” based on the teachings of Yogi Bhajan,
published by the Kundalini Research Institute
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Kundalini Yoga
Meditation for Peace
On September 21, 2008 the world will celebrate an International Day of Peace. The United Nations dedicates this special day to non-violence and invites all governments and citizens of the world to support this peace initiative through education, meditation, and peaceful action.
3HO is a Non-Governmental Organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and extends this invitation specifically to our worldwide Kundalini Yoga Community. As 3HO is committed to the excellence of the individual and the elevation of humanity through the technologies of Kundalini Yoga, meditation, and conscious living, we urge all communities, yoga centers, families, and individuals to dedicate September 21 to peace and healing through education, meditation, and prayer.
We invite your creativity. Consider planning an event at your yoga center, or dedicate your sadhana or yoga class to peace, or visit your child’s school to include the participation of children in this worldwide event.
Meditation Suggestions
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Mantra for Peace
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Matamandir Singh Khalsa recorded this beautiful mantra. If you are interested, you can purchase it through Ancient Healing Ways, Spirit Voyage, or satnam.de for those based in Europe.
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