Kundalini Yoga – rishiknots

Thirteen Years…

rishiknots blog — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:53:05 +0000

I’m coming up on the 13 year mark of blogging about growing up in Yogi Bhajan’s 3HO Kundalini Yoga cult. I left the cult in 1994 (got kicked out actually). I could have fully walked away and just never looked back. Sometimes I question why I didn’t do just that. But, I didn’t. I spoke …

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“3H-NO”

rishiknots blog — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:42:35 +0000

This new blog Unhealthy, Unhappy, Unholy is a first person account of life at Miri Piri Academy.

To Khalsa Council

rishiknots blog — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:21:00 +0000

On Saturday 4/25 Khalsa Council asked 3HO second generation-ers to come forward to the council and tell them about our experiences. They held a zoom meeting that went on for about 9 hours, no breaks. I sat in for about a third of it. Bearing witness–to even a short segment–has put me in Fight or …

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An update…

rishiknots blog — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 17:10:00 +0000

Okay, so I decided to go ahead talk to both Olive Branch and to SatNam at the office of legal counsel after all. Why though, after such a vehement position? I had to give a lot of thought to this. It’s not healing to revisit our abuses, and it’s important to do so in a …

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Correspondence with An-Olive-Branch.org (a long read)

rishiknots blog — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 19:00:00 +0000

The Siri Singh Sahib Corporation Collaborative Response Team has decided to team up with a religious non-profit organization called An Olive Branch to conduct an independent investigation into the recent allegations of sexual misconduct by its leader Yogi Bhajan. Below is my letter from March 11 2020 to An Olive Branch regarding the issues that …

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It is not our responsibility to make them see. IT IS THEIR FAILURE TO LOOK.

rishiknots blog — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 01:43:00 +0000

This post is for my fellow SGA’s. To the 1st generation: I see you, but I’m not here to talk to you right now. SGA’s: if you are having conflicting emotions, it’s okay. It’s okay to want to take some aspects of your upbringing, leave others behind, and make the most of who you see …

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To the New Wave of Kundalini Yoga Gurus

rishiknots blog — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:27:00 +0000

Um, your boy is a dud. And all you’re doing is trying to capitalize on this dude’s name and image. And you have no idea what you’re saying. The below excerpt is from a draft in 2018. I decided to go ahead and publish it because I think it’s funny. It’s now 2020 and stupid …

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That one thing that makes me think MPA is worse:

rishiknots blog — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 23:02:00 +0000

It’s the Yoga. I grew up in 3HO in the 80’s and I attended GNFC for six years and GRD Academy for two years. While at GNFC, we did absolutely no yoga. The only time we had to do yoga was in the winter months when school was not in session. At GNFC, while we …

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Um, what?

rishiknots blog — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 23:21:00 +0000

How insulting is this: Hey. Assholes. RIGHT NOW there are 3HO Sikh Dharma children who are thousands of miles apart from their parents–children who have been separated because Yogi Bhajan told their parents to do it. Told their parents that their “children don’t love them”. Told their parents that “distance therapy” is a thing. And …

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Separating children from parents is wrong. Very wrong.

rishiknots blog — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 19:43:00 +0000

What’s happening now–Children being torn from their parents at the US border–might feel all-too personal. It can trigger a lot of unhappy memories. I have a clear memory of how I felt in my body and in my mind when I was really young and separated from my parents. I remember not feeling, and just …

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