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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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SGA Stores: An Open Letter

rishiknots blog — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 19:05:10 +0000

Dear Community, Like many of you, I’ve been really shocked at all the truth that has come out recently in our community. I’ve started to realize that although our community has some really wonderful people in it, I feel like it has big and widespread flaws that began with YB but definitely haven’t stopped with …

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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.

Halloween, 1984 – an update

rishiknots blog — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:38:00 +0000

It’s been ten years since I wrote about what it was like to be in India on the day Indira Gandhi was assassinated. What took place on Halloween 34 years ago still remains a Specter that haunts. It’s the specter of memory. Let’s neutralize this ghost with knowledge. Read this book: Amritsar: Indira Gandhi’s Last Battle …

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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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Miri Piri Academy… Meet your new boss. Same as the old boss.

rishiknots blog — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 01:00:00 +0000

There are a lot of reasons why I believe things have not changed for the 3HO children at boarding school at Miri Piri Academy in Amritsar, India. There’s one reason why I believe it’s worse: Mandatory Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training in order to graduate. I’ll talk more on that later. Those 3HO kids over there, …

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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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As If I Needed A Reason…

rishiknots blog — Fri, 10 May 2013 00:11:00 +0000

A child separated from his or her parents experiences profound emotional trauma and damage to his or her true sense of security. This is the fundamental reason not to send children to boarding school. But in addition to that, there are other reasons NOT to send a child to boarding school in India through the …

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