by SS Awtar Kaur Khalsa, San Francisco CA Spring 2012 I was a highly-stressed teenager when I got my first chance to speak personally to Siri Singh Sahib Ji. I was ushered to his Solstice tent when I freaked out about my karma yoga assignment. I believed I “should” be willing and able to make the sacrifice to operate the showers during the frigid mountain dawn, but I was not. He was calm and attentive. I was desperate and tense. I felt guilty about not wanting to subject my anorexic body to an hour in a wet swimsuit, and I told him
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Archives for Yoga & Meditation
Sacrifice the Guilt
Culture of the Spirit
by SS Sada Anand Singh Khalsa, Nara, Japan Spring 2011 During the April 2011 Siblings of Destiny meetings, Sangeet Kaur had an opportunity to interview Sada Anand Singh from Japan. He spoke about living, teaching and serving in Japan, especially in light of the recent tragic events there. I originally went to Japan in 1968 as a university exchange student. It was during the war in Vietnam. Every day there were antiwar demonstrations in the streets. The universities were closed and so I never did attend school, but I got involved in the demonstrations and came to love the country
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Unconditional Love
by SS Simran Kaur Khalsa, Hamburg, Germany Spring 2011 Sikh Dharma Newsletter Team Member SS Sangeet Kaur (Espanola, NM) had an opportunity to interview SS Simran Kaur, from Hamburg, Germany, while she was in Espanola, NM for meetings of the Teacher Training Executive Committee in April 2011. Please enjoy her words of wisdom! Q: In these Aquarian days of extraordinary change, please talk about how things are the same and perhaps different, in your day-to-day life and work. My daily work is primarily teaching Kundalini Yoga and Nonviolent Communication. Every weekend I hold a seminar and I teach many classes
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Training the Mind
by SS Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa, Kansas City MO Spring 2011 The Siri Singh Sahib once said, “You cannot live by feelings and emotions; you have to live by your intuition and consciousness.” It seems pretty clear (actually, VERY clear!) which path we should be walking. By what method or methods can we master our feelings and control our emotions while at the same time expanding and sharpening our intuition and raising our consciousness? Well, let’s see. I could practice the “Kriya for Changing Emotion to Devotion” or maybe “Ghost Kriya: Clearing the Ghosts and Opening Intuition.” Then of course
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Life as Art and Science
by MSS Nirvair Singh Khalsa, Espanola NM Summer 2011 The Aquarian Age is something of a mystery to those of us born in the Piscean Age. As in all major changes on Earth, it will move at its own pace, in the consciousness of those that have the privilege to be incarnated during this marvelous time. We can find hints about what this Age means in the teachings of Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji. We can also find hints in our own consciousness. I have discovered, through life experience, that sometimes it is more useful to find
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