Abuse in Yogi Bhajan's 3HO Kundalini Yoga World
In 2012, SNR instructor Hari Singh
sexually abused two female students.
In 2013 two students informed Els Coenen the organiser of the SNR training in Belgium (and host of this website) that they were sexually abused by their teacher Hari Singh.
When Els reached out to Hari Singh and the Sat Nam Rasayan leadership to ask for recognition of the harm done and reparative actions, she was repeatedly requested to keep silent. When she insisted, she was ex-communicated from the Sat Nam Rasayan organisation and Belgium was declared a 'No-Go' zone for all SNR activities for two years. Link to her full story.
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In October 2020, Els approached Guru Dev Singh in an open letter to see if after 8 years and in this new #MeToo climate and revelations in the 3HO Kundalini Yoga world, he was ready to formulate a proper response towards the two women involved in the abuse. That seemed impossible.
In GuruDev's reply to Els's open letter, you can sense how the SNR master perceived sexual abuse.
Sep 29, 2020
Open letter
from Els Coenen
to Guru Dev Singh
The reply from
Guru Dev Singh.
Marina Rondelli read this beginning Nov 2020. She reached out to Els:
What happened in Belgium is peanuts compared to what I experienced with Guru Dev Singh.
Hari Singh was just copying his master.
Marina expressed her intention to bring her story into the open
before Guru Dev would leave this earth.
She knew he was very ill.
Els promised to help her translating from Italian to English.
In March 2021 Marina Rondelli and her daughter Olivia Taglioli told their stories.
That was just before Guru Dev Singh died on April 5, 2021.
