Yogi Bhajan - Abuse in 3HO and Kundalini Yoga

Abuse in Yogi Bhajan's 3HO Kundalini Yoga World

Newspapers & Documentaries & Blogs

2024


A Conversation with Kamalla Rose KaurOn Breath of Fire, and Going After Yogi Bhajan Before It Was Safe

Nov 16, 2024 - Twenty Million Sweethearts - Grace Lovelace - Link


Breath of fire: spirituele uitbuiting als businessmodel

Nov 12, 2024 - De Standaard - Pim Raes - Link copyLink


Kundalini Yoga: The Sinister Story Behind a Yoga Teacher Who Created Her Own Cult

Oct 30, 2024 - Cultura Colectiva - Celina Lozano - Link (English)


Yoga Kundalini: la siniestra historia detrás de una maestra de yoga que creó su propio culto

Oct 29, 2024 - Cultura Colectiva - Alan Cruz - Link


Who Is Guru Jagat? What to Know About the Kundalini Yoga Instructor From HBO's 'Breath of Fire'

Oct 25, 2024 - Marie Claire - Quincy LeGardye - Link


HBO series spotlights protégé of tarnished Yogi Bhajan and yoga movement with ties to New Mexico

Oct 2, 2024 - Santa Fe - New Mexican - Phaedra Haywood - Link


HBO’s Breath of Fire Explores the Sudden Fall of Celebrity Yoga Teacher Guru Jagat

Oct 23, 2024 - Time - Olivia B.Waxman - Link


'Breath of Fire' Review: A Sham Spiritual Leader on HBO

Oct 22, 2024 - The Wall Street Journal - John Anderson - Link


HBO Original Four-Part Documentary Series BREATH OF FIRE Debuts October 23

Oct 11, 2024 - Warner Bros. Discovery - Link


Cult of Spirituality: Inside the sordid scandals that rocked the world of Kundalini yoga

'Breath of Fire' explores Guru Jagat’s evolution while uncovering the shocking secret of Kundalini.

Oct 10, 2024 - Meaww.com/entertainment/TV - Link


Breath of Fire: The Unbelievable Story of the Elizabeth Holmes of Yoga

Oct 9, 2024 - Vanity Fair - Hilary Busis - Link


Sikhs Protest 3HO's 20th Barsi Celebration of Yogi Bhajan's Death in Espanola New Mexico

Oct 8, 2024 - YouTube Gursant - Link


Children of the Cult review – fierce doc about the Osho commune survivors

Oct 2, 2024 - The Guardian - Peter Bradshaw - Link


British woman reveals harrowing childhood abuse in Osho's cult

Oct 1, 2024 - The Times of India - Link


Zoom Q&A with HariJiwan - about Rama Closure and workshop in Hungary during 'Breath of Fire' release

Sep 29, 2024 - Vimeo - Link


SSSC Mission to Ukraine

July 2024 - Siri Singh Sahib Corporation - Office of Global Affairs - Link


'Yoga has no significance in Sikhism' the Jathedar of Akal Takht said ...

Jun 24, 2024 - The Times of India - Link


The Many Facets of Identity Recovery on Escaping a Cult - Peter Blachly

Aug 9, 2024 - ICSA conference 2023 - International Cultic Studies Association - Link


Cults and Media Stereotypes - Does Media Coverage of Current and Former Cult Members Hinder Victims’ Recovery?

International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation - Dhyana Levey and Roderick Dubrow-Marshall - Link


Insurance Co. sues Yogi Bhajan Organizations

(see also News page July 2024)

July 6, 2024 - Wheeler Cowperthwaite - RioGrandeSun.com - Link


3HO Reparations with Philip and Stacie (on their Baaz article of March 27, 2024)

Jun 24, 2024 - Podcast Generation Cult - Link


A Cult Within a Cult: Charlotte Medlock on Guru Jagat

June 10, 2024 - Podcast 'A little bit culty' - Link


The Truth About 3HO Boarding Schools | Deslippe & Stukin

June 5, 2024 - Rambling YouTube - Link


This Woman's Viral Story Of How She Unwittingly Joined A Yoga Cult Is An Important Warning

April 6, 2024 - Megan Liscomb - Buzzfeed.com - Link


3HO's Boarding Schools Were A Living Hell

March 27, 2024 - Philippe Deslippe & Stacie Stukin - BaazNews - Link


Screening documentary Long Time Sun at Austin Texas SXSW FilmFestival

March 10, 2024 - SXSW Film Festival - Link


Reappraising the Construction of Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga

(re-visit of the 2012 article by the same author 'From Majaraj to Mahan Tantric')

March 8, 2024 - Philippe Deslippe - Sikh Formations - Link


Amrit Singh, CEO of KRI announces to the Trainers he takes a step back after SSSC removed all KRI board members

March 2, 2024 - YouTube - Link


How Narcisstic Yoga Guru Jagat Exploited Her Followers

February 17, 2024 - YouTube Cults to Consciousness - Link


When Misseeing Is Believing: Self-Reflected Image and Kundalini Yoga

February 7, 2024 - Philippe Deslippe - The Revealer - Link


IMDB in development: Queen of Myself: Sexual Slavery to Radical Forgiveness - Mahan Kirn Khalsa

    January 26, 2024 - IMDb - Link


    Seksueel misbruik in de yoga: 'Yogi Bhajan was een ziekelijk genie'

    (tr: Sexual abuse in yoga: 'Yogi Bhajan was a pathological genius'

    January 10, 2024 - KNACK - Brecht Castel - original in Dutch - Link to the translated version


    Monoloog van ex-sektelid in de yogawereld: ‘Ik was een pion in de machtsgeile set-up’

    (tr:Monologue of former sect member in the yoga world: 'I was a pawn in the power-hungry setup.'

    January 10, 2024 - KNACK - Brecht Castel - original in Dutch - Link to the translated version


    2023

    Lawsuit 3 women for the SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA -FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

    December 23, 2023 - Link


    A kundalini yoga master in France caught in a difficult pose

    December 4, 2023 - Le Monde - Lucas Minisini - Link


    Dérives sectaires: un maître yogi accusé d’agressions sexuelles sur des employées et élèves

    October 19, 2023 - Le Figaro - Etienne Jacob - Link


    En France, un maître du kundalini yoga un mauvaise posture.

    October 19, 2023 - Le Monde - Lucas Minisini - Link - Link English translation


    Russell Brand has long followed Kundalini yoga, which has been linked to brainwashing tactics, rape, and abuse

    Septemer 19, 2023 - Insider - Haven Orecchio-Egresitz - Link


    The Troubling Background of Yogi Tea

    July 25, 2023 - Women Grace - Susan Brinkmann - Link


    What Spiritual Bypassing Looks Like - A very tempting path that leads nowhere.

    April 19, 2023 - Medium - Kimberly Fosu - Link


    The surprising afterlife of a '70s L.A. cult: How the Source Family became Hot IP in 2023

    April 12, 2023 - Los Angeles Times - Erin Osmon - Link


    The Disturbing History of Yogi Tea's Founder

    Apr 10, 2023 - Tasting Table - Automn Swiers - Link


    4 psychological techniques cults use to recruit member

    Feb 27, 2023 - BigThink - Matt Davis - Link


    When Misseeing Is Believing: The Self-Reflected Image and Kundalini Yoga

    Feb 7, 2023 - the revealer - Philip Deslippe - Feb 7, 2023 - Link


    2022


    The Scandalous Celebrity Cult Leader From Suburbia | Guru Jagat and Yogi Bhajan Documentary

    Dec 27, 2022 - YouTube Not the Good Girl - Link


    My Experience With a False Guru

    Dec 14, 2022 - Yoga Journal - Jennifer Davis-Flynn - Link


    Review:Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage. My Life with Yogi Bhajan, by Pamela Saharah Dyson; The Inner Circle—Book One: My Seventeen Years in the Cult of the American Sikhs, by Peter Macdonald Blachly

    Nov 2022 - University of California Press - Nova Religio - Vol 26, Issue 2 - Link - Full version


    Un-silencing of the Lamb: Interview with MahanKirn Khalsa

    Aug 17, 2022 - Inmag.com - Link


    How "Siri Singh Sahib" Yogi Bhajan Created An Empire

    Jul 19, 2022 - Baaz - Deslippe & Stukin - Link


    Memorial highway in northern New Mexico should be renamed

    Jul 2, 2022 - Rosswell Daily Record - Link


    Inside The Dubious World Of A Cult That Turned 550-year-old Religion Into A Commodity

    Jul 2, 2022 - Indiatimes.com - Gurcharan Bhalla- Link


    A Sustained Crisis for Local Sikhs

    Jun 23, 2022 - Rio Grande - Vol 65 Nr 37 - Espanola New Mexico 87532 - Link


    What are cults and why do people join them?

    Apr 26, 2022 - BBC documentary - Link


    True Believers - Empire of Yoga

    Apr 11, 2022 - Vice Documentary - Link US version - Link 47 min version


    Sikh leader gets restraining order against critic

    Apr 14, 2022 - Santa Fe New Mexican - Phaedra Haywood - Link


    Sexual Abuse in Buddhism: An Interview with Carol Merchasin

    Mar 22, 2022 - Shambala Report - The Bad Buddhist Podcast - Link


    Bath musician opens up about ‘cult’ experience in new memoir

    Peter Macdonald Blachly tells his story, decades later, in 'The Inner Circle.'

    Jan 9, 2022 - PressHerald - Bob Keyes - Link


    2021


    Legacy of Yogi Bhajan swirls in controversy years after his death

    Dec 20, 2021 - Santa Fe New Mexican - Phaedra Haywood - Link


    Bhajan’s Yoga: The Roots and Context of Kundalini Yoga As Taught By Yogi Bhajan (2021)

    2021 - www.academia.edu - Rob Zabel - Link


    When meditation turns toxic: the woman exposing spiritual sexism (Tara Brach)

    Dec 8, 2021 - The Guardian - Rachel Mabe - Link


    Kundalini yoga guru who was accused of running a 'cult within a cult' and defending controversial founder amid sexual assault accusations is the focus of new docuseries following her death.

    Dec 6, 2021 - MailOnline - Erica Tempesta for Dailymail - Link


    Before the sudden death of its leader, Ra Ma Yoga Institute was accused by some former members of being a cult. What happens now?

    Oct 30, 2021 - Insider - Link


    How to Respond to Sexual Abuse Within a Yoga or Spiritual Community

    Oct 2021 - Yoga International - Karen Rain and Jubilee Q.Cooke - Link


    Getting Real with East-West Spirituality Part 4: A New Approach to Wisdom Traditions

    Aug 19, 2021 - The Profuturist - Medium - Link


    The Long Reach of Gaslighting's ToxicityGaslighting plays a role in social schisms, even when we see through it.

    Aug 17, 2021 - Psychology Today - Terry Apter PhD - Link


    What a Cult Steals from You - Money. Time. Bodily integrity. Relationships. Opportunity. Altruism.

    Aug 13, 2021 - Medium - Matthew Remski - Link


    MahanKirn Kaur Khalsa testifies about how she was groomed to be in a sex harem

    Aug 11, 2021 - Instagram - Link


    Before Krishna Kaur, there was Thelma Oliver - She’s been a yoga teacher for the past half century, but in the 1960s she was a busy triple threat in New York.

    Aug 11, 2021 - American Theatre - Link


    Getting Real with East-West Spirituality Part 3: The Big Bang

    Aug 9, 2021 - The Profuturist - Medium - Link


    Getting Real with East-West Spirituality Part 2: The War of the Dharmas

    Jul 21, 2021 - The Profuturist - Medium - Link


    Guru - Yoga - Power Abuse

    Jul 15, 2021 - BBC News World Service - Link


    Inside the Dubious World of RA MA Yoga, and Its Girl Boss Guru to the Stars

    Jul 13, 2021 - Vice - Link


    The Goodness of a Cult Comes from Those it Abuses. That ideal façade is often built by people trying to survive.

    Jul 6, 2021 - Medium - Matthew Remski - Link


    Getting Real with East-West Spirituality Part 1: Our 150 Year Experiment

    Jul 2, 2021 - Medium - The Protofuturist - Link


    'Coercian and rape': Investigating my yoga school.

    Jul 1, 2021 - BBC News - Ishleen Kaur - Link


    THE PAINFUL PROCESS OF AWAKENING: HARM AND HEALING IN THE HEALTHY HAPPY HOLY KUNDALINI YOGA COMMUNITY

    May 9, 2021 - Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa-Baker, Ph.D. - Sacred Matters Magazine - Link


    How the Model of Money Laundering Can Help Us Understand Abuse within 3HO

    May 2, 2021 - Philip Deslippe - Sacred Matters Magazine - Link


    Lessons from fall of rockstar evangelists Ravi Zacharias and Yogi Bhajan – Part 2

    Mar 22, 2021 - Asia Samachar - Link


    Lessons from fall of rockstar evangelists Ravi Zacharias and Yogi Bhajan – Part 1

    Mar 6, 2021 - Asia Samachar - Link


    Spiritual Bypassing: The Misuse of Spiritual Tools.

    Jan 23, 2021 - The Elephant Journal - Ian Faulkner - Link


    Spirituality is all very well but don't let it turn you into a smug monster

    Jan 2, 2021 - The Guardian - Barbara Ellen - Link


    2020


    The Five Qualities and Attributes of the Mahan Tantric

    Nov 17, 2020 - Students of Yogi Bhajan - Guru Hans Singh Khalsa Douqué - Link


    An exploration of spiritual superiority: The paradox of self-enhancement

    Oct 20, 2020 - Radboud University Nijmegen - Roos Vonk, Anouk Visser - Link


    New Study Finds That Kundalini Yoga Can Help Treat Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Aug 26, 2020 - Yoga Journal - Andrea Rice - Link


    A Statement from Krishna Kaur

    Aug 26, 2020 - Krishna Kaur - Link


    Yogi Bhajan, yoga guru and founder of 3HO, 'more likely than not' sexually abused followerrs, says report

    Aug 18, 2020 - RNS - Philip Deslippe - Stacie Stukin - Link - LIEN vers la traduction française (via Instagram Kundalini-Yoghurt)


    Yogi Bhajan ‘more likely than not’ raped his followers

    Aug 15, 2020 - Asia Samachar - Link


    A New Report Details Decades of Abuse at the Hands of Yogi Bhajan

    Aug 15, 2020 - Yoga Journal - Jennifer Davis-Flynn - Link


    An Olive Branch' Shocking Report on Yogi Bhajan Revealed

    Aug 14, 2020 - The Guru Magazine - Be Scofield - Link


    Yogi Bhajan Turned and L.A.Yoga Studio into a Juggernaut, and Left Two Generations of Followers Reeling from Alleged Abuse

    July 15, 2020 - Stacie Stukin - Los Angeles Magazine - Link


    PREMKA: ON KUNDALINI YOGA, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND SPIRITUAL BYPASSING

    Mar 29, 2020 - Blog Hip Sobriety - Link


    “Rape is always invited. It never happens.” Say what? - Updates from Collaborative Response Team into Yogi Bhajan sexual abuse investigation

    Mar 24, 2020 - Asia Samarach - Link


    Yogi Bhajan investigation: What are they telling us - Updates from Collaborative Response Team into Yogi Bhajan sexual abuse investigation

    Mar 23, 2020 - Asia Samarach - Link


    “But Kundalini Yoga Works!” | Some Considerations

    Mar 9, 2020 - Matthew Remski - Link


    Master of Deceit: How Yogi Bhajan Used Kundalini Yoga for Money, Sex and Power

    Mar 5, 2020 - The Guru Magazine - Be Scolfield - Link


    Yogi Bhajan and the Kundalini Community: Premka’s Own Your Self Journey

    2020 - Kelly Brogan MD - Link


    2019

    Why our fast-paced society loves yoga - This ancient practice is not only a fitness regimen, but science shows it's also an antidote to modern stress.

    Dec 17, 2019 - National Geographic Fran Smith - Link


    Sektes in Vlaanderen: de goeroes van yoga en wellness

    Aug 13, 2019 - Jana Antonissen - Humo - Link


    Yoga Reconsiders the Role of the Guru in the Age of #MeToo

    The NewYorker - Eliza Griswold - Jul 23, 2019 - Link


    The Guru Syndrome - When spirituality turns sour.

    Apr 16, 2019 - Psychology Today - Steve Taylor Ph.D. - Link


    American yogis distort Sikh scripture. Part I: Bhajan's yogic theories from framework of Englisch translation of Sri Guru Granth Sahib

    Sikh Free Press - March 27, 2019 by Anju Kaur, April 14, 2015 - LINK


    Bikram - Yogi - Guru - Predator

    2019 - Netflix docu on Bikram Choudhury - Link


    2018

    Questions about Akal Security - Should a non-profit, tax-exempt church oversee a for-profit security contractor tasked with enforcing ICE-policies?

    Aug 27, 2018 - Medium - Philip Tanzer - Link


    Judge dismises lawsuit over rulership of Sikh business empire

    Apr 26, 2018 - Oregon Live - The Oregonion - Maxine Bernstein - Link


    Netflix - Wild Wild Country

    2018 - Netflix docu on Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh - Osho - Link


    2017


    A phenomenology of spiritual bypass: Causes, consequenses, and implications.

    Dec 28, 2017 - Gabriela Picciotto - Taylor&Francis Online - Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health Vol 20, 2018 - Issue 4 - Link


    30 Ways An Empath Can Identify A Narcissist & Take Your Power Back

    May 15, 2017 - Ajna Mantra - Link


    Long court battle over Sikh business empire takes another turn

    Jan 9, 2017 - The Oregon Live - Maxine Bernstein - Link


    2016

    Troubled Akal Security loses Federal Courts contracts after federal fraud settlement

    Aug 17, 2016 - Stand for Security - Link


    3HO in the Light of Experience, A Study of Experiences in the Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization  (3HO)

    2016 - Juan Francisco Lafontaine - Facutly of Arts at the University of Helsinki, 27 - 46 - Link


    Message de 3HO sur la démission de Karta Singh

    (Message from 3HO on Karta Singh's resignation. It is written in French, but includes at the bottom a link to the English translation.)

    Mar 28, 2016 - Navjeet Singh - Link


    ANS quitte KRI

    (ANS leaves KRI. ANS is the Amritnam Saroval School of Karta Singh in France. It includes a list of actions taken by KRI related to Karta Singh's school. Actions are written in English.)

    Mar 17, 2016 - French Federation of Kundalini Yoga & KRI - Link


    2015

    American yogis distort Sikh scripture - Part 1: Bhajan's yogic theories form framework of English translation of Sri Guru Granth Sahib 

    Apr 14, 2015 - Sikh Free Press (published March 27, 2019) - Anju Kaur - Link


    2014

    Beware of the Charismatic Leader - Cultic leaders do not liberate their followers but entrap them.

    Aug 22, 2014 - Tricycle The Buddhist Review - republication of a 1982 article of John Snelling - Link


    Using Jailed Migrants as a Pool of Cheap Labor

    May 24, 2015 - New York Times - Ian Urbina -  Link


    2013

    The Troubling Background of Yogi Tea

    Sep 23, 2013 - Women of Grace - Susan Brinkmann - Link


    Punjabi Sikhs and Gora Sikhs

    July 1, 2013 - Verne A.Dusenbery - Chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies -  Link


    3HO/Sikh Dharma - Some issues for consideration

    March 14, 2013 - Verne A.Dusenbery - Sikh Formations, Vol. 8, 2012 - Issue 3:The 3HO Sikh Community - p 335-349 - Link


    3HO Kundalini Yoga and Sikh Dharma

    March 14, 2013 - Michael Stoeber - Sikh Formations, Vol. 8, 2012 - Issue 3: The 3HO Sikh Community - p 351 - 368 - Link


    Yogi Bhajan and the Emergence of Sikh Dharma International

    March 14, 2013 -  Shanti Kaur Khalsa - Sikh Formations, Vol. 8, 2012 - Issue 3: The 3HO Sikh Community - p 389-401 - Link


    2012

    From Maharaj to Mahan Tantric: The Construction of Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga

    2012, Dec - Sikh Formations - Philip Deslippe - Link - Lien vers la traduction française (via Instagram Kundalini-Yoghurt)


    2011

    Yoga: Claims of sleepovers, group massages

    Dec 30, 2011 - Tom Sharpe - The Santa Fe New Mexican - Link


    "Strong as Steel, Steady as Stone": Skirting Pitfalls in 3HO/Sikh Dharma

    March, 11, 2011 - Constance Elsberg - Oxford Academic - Violence and New Religious Movements, p 325-350 - Link


    2010

    Yogi’s legacy in question - Former followers say he abused his position for power, money and sex

    May 9, 2010 - The Register-Guard - Sherri Buri McDonald - Link


    Khalsa vs Khalsa

    Jul 7, 2010 - Santa Fe Reporter - Corey Pein - Link


    The Disturbing Mainstream Connections of Yogi Bhajan

    Aug 10, 2010 - HuffPost - Steven Hassan - Link


    2009

    SDI Legal Action Summaries

    Oct 10, 2009 - Mukhtiarsingh's Blog - Link


    American Sikhs Run Billion-Dollar Security Firm

    Jun 13, 2009 - NPR - John Burnett - Link


    2008

    3HO/Sikh Dharma of the Western Hemisphere: The Forgotten New Religious Movement

    Oct 23, 2008 - Academia Religion Compass - Doris Jakobsh- Link


    Appeal For Info-Murders of Dylan Ellis + Oliver Martin 1800222tips

    Jun 19, 2008 - YouTube Toronto Crime Stoppers - Link


    2005

    Keeping America Secure - Interview with the founder of Akal Security GuruTej Singh Khalsa

    Sep 2005 - The Global Sikh Trail - Stories of Eminent Sikhs - Kushwant Singh - Link


    Yogi Bhajan Memorial Highway

    Apr 29, 2005 - Sikhnet - Gurumustuk Singh - Link


    Yogi Bhajan - Recognition

    Apr 6, 2005 - US Congress Concurrent Resolutions 119 Stat.3630 - Link


    2004

    A yogi’s requiem

    Oct 23, 2004 - Los Angeles Times - Link header - Link


    Clouded, and Clear, Legacy - Link

    Oct 23, 2004 - Los Angeles Times


    Yogi Bhajan, 75. Sikh Leader Taught Kundalini Yoga

    Oct 10, 2004 - Los Angeles Times - Link


    Yogi Bhajan, 75, 'Boss' of Worlds Spiritual and Capitalistic, Dies

    Oct 9, 2004 - Douglas Martin, New York Times - Link


    2002

    "My soul still feels abused and raped"

    May 2002, Terry Michelle Kurtz, MA - Cult Education - Link


    2000

    Toner bandit gets 2 years in prison

    Aug 17, 2000 - DenverPost.com - Link


    1998

    Second Generation Sikhs in the US: Conscensus and Differences

    1998 - Academia Edu - Karen Leonard - Link


    Press Release FTC: Gemstone Telemarketers Agree to Pay Monetary Judgment to Settle FTC Charges

    Aug 18, 1998 - Federal Trade Commission (Protecting America's Consumers) - Link


    1994

    2 Accused on Bilking Investors in Artwork: Crime: Chatsworth Dealer and Sherman Oaks lawyer are charged. Police says clients lost nearly $1 million.

    April 22, 1994 - Los Angeles Times - Josh Meyer - Link


    1993

    Khalsa Financial Services, Inc., Gurujot Khalsa and Darshan Khalsa Sanctioned

    Oct 1, 1993 - News Digest page 2 - Link


    1988

    Gurujot Singh Khalsa v. United States of America

    Feb 19, 1988 - Link


    1987

    Legal Confrontation Sunders U.S. Sikhs - Link

    Albuquerque Journal (New Mexico) July 19, 1987


    1986

    Women Claim Yogi Brainwashed them - Link

    Rio Grande Sun (Espanola, New Mexico) July 31, 1986


    Sikh Leader sued for Sexual, Psychological Abuse - Link

    Santa Fe (New Mexico) - Local News July 24, 1986


    1985

    Former Sikhs Tell Why They Left New Mexico Religious Community

    Santa Fe Journal, 1985 - Mary Frei - Link is not working anymore - text on this website


    1981

    Article about Fraud by YB followers - The New Mexican Aug 18, 1981


    1977

    Sikhs seeking retraction from Time Magazine

    Oct 7, 1977 - Santa Fe New Mexicaln - Link


    Sought Sikh woman 'in India'

    The New Mexican - Bill Garland - Oct 9, 1977 - Link


    Woman gives Sikhs 1.3 million, mother asks sanity hearing

    The New Mexican - Bill Garland - Oct 7, 1977 - Link


    Religion: Yogi Bhajan's Synthetic Sikhism

    Sep 5, 1977 - TIME Magazine - Link


    1970

    World Must Purify Self Soon, Yoga Warns

    The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) - May 31, 1970 - Newspapers.com - LINK


    2023

    Under the Yoga Mat: The Dark History of Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga

    by Els Coenen and GuruNischan - Link


    2021

    The Bone Mother: A Memoir Paperback

    by Rose Khalsa (Author) - Link


    The Inner Circle - Book One: My Seventeen Years in the Cult of the American Sikhs

    by Peter Blachly - LINK (including audiobook version)


    Terror, Love & Brainwashing - Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems

    Alexandra Stein - www.alexandrastein.com


    2020 - The year the Kundalini Yoga World was invited to Wake Up - starting with this book:

    Premka - White Bird in a Golden Cage - My Life with Yogi Bhajan

    by Pamela Saharah Dyson - pamelasaharahdyson.com


    See No Stranger - A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

    Valarie Kaur - valariekaur.com/see-no-stranger/

    TED Talk on Revolutionary Love Valarie Kaur


    Sikhism and Tantric Yoga (the original version of 1999 reviewed and completed by the son of Trilochan Singh)

    by Trilochan Singh and Anurag Singh - Nov 2, 2020 - Link


    2019

    Practice and all is coming - Abuse, Cult Dynamics, and healing in Yoga and beyond.

    Matthew Remski - matthewremski.com


    2018

    Messenger from the Guru's House - Biography of Yogi Bhajan

    Guru Fatha Singh - link


    2016

    3HO in the Light of Experience - A Study of Experiences in the Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization.

    Juan Francisco Lafontaine - Link


    2012

    Confessions of an American Sikh - Locked up in India, corrupt cops & my escape from a "New Age" Tantric Yoga Cult

    GurSant Singh - Link


    2004

    Bounded Choice - True Believers and Charismatic Cults

    University of California Press Ltd. - Jajna Lalich - Link


    1999

    C.G.Jung - The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga - Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932 by C.G.Jung

    carljungdepthpsychologysite.blog/2020/04/18/carl-jung-and-kundalini-yoga-quotations


    1993

    The Guru Papers - Masks of authoritarian power

    by Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad - Link to free pdf version


    1977

    Sikhism and Tantric Yoga

    by Dr.Trilochan Singh - SikhismAndTantricYoga


    1919

    The Serpent Power - The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga

    Arthur Avalon - Sir John Woodroffe



    Kundalini Yoga institutes and organisations


    SSSC - Link


    3HO Foundation - Link

     

    3HO Europe - Link


    Ethics and Professional Standards - Link

    links to the report of An Olive Branch on the allegations against Yogi Bhajan


    Kundalini Research Institute - Link


    IKYTA - International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association - Link



    Other sites


    Children's abuse stories - RishiKnots - Link


    3HO Cult Info 'It's a cult. Stay away!' - Link


    Wacko World of Yogi Bhajan - Link


    Kundalini Yoga No - Link


    GuruNischan's Uncomfortable Conversations - The untold stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga Community - Link


    Premka Memoir - the website linked to the historically important book of Pamela Dyson - White Bird in a Golden Cage - My Life with Yogi Bhajan - Link


    Freedom of Mind - Link


    International Cult Studies Association - Link

    - What do we need to know about being born or raised in a Cultic Environment - Link

    - Born and Raised in Closed, High-Demand groups: Developmental Considerations - Link


    Association for Spiritual Integrity

    Transforming the paradigm of Spiritual Leadership - Link


    Analysis of the AOB report - An unfair and illegal process which lead us to a bogus report - Link


    Yogi Bhajan - Kundalini Yoga - 3HO - Akal Security - Tripod - Link


    Yoga Lafontaine about link between Baba Virsa Singh and Yogi Bhajan - Link


    Wikipedia on Harbhajann Singh Khalsa - Link


    GuruNischan's Uncomfortable Conversations - YouTube - Podcasts


    "I was in a Yoga Cult" - Breath of Fire: 8 years in Hollywood's Predat*ry Kundalini Yoga Cult - interview with Jules Hartley

    Oct 23, 2024 - Cults to Consciousness - LINK


    Birthday celebration Yogi Bhajan

    August 26, 2024 - 3HO post - TikTok post by UtYM


    'Rape is always invited' and other striking teachings of Yogi Bhajan - August 2024 - LINK English - in other languages: ESP - ITA - FRA - DEU


    Nirinjan Kaur - Reclaiming My Voice: On the Exit from a Spiritual Cult, Healing and Integrity

    Aug 2, 2024 - Going Out / Looking In - YouTube


    Dr. Steven Hassan - Unmasking the Kundalini Yoga Cult of Yogi Bhajan with Els Coenen

    Jul 20, 2023 - Blog - YouTube - ApplePodcast - Spotify


    Gursant Singh: Whislteblower & Survivor of Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga Cult

    Feb 8, 2023 - YouTube Channel Esoteric Atlanta - Brice Watson - Link


    Rachel Bernstein Podcast with Sat Pavan Khalsa 

    • Part 1 - May 4, 2022 - Link
    • Part 2 - May 12, 2022 - Link


    3HO Cult Info - YouTube Playlist


    Generation Cult - Link


    International Cultic Studies Association - ICSA - Link

    • What Do We Need to Know About Being Born or Raised in a Cultic Environment? - Link


    Pamela Dyson's YouTube's in 2020

    • Part 1: "To the Teachers" - Pamela Saharah Dyson - Link
    • Part 2: "Day 1 with Yogi Bhajan" - Pamela Saharah Dyson - Link
    • "we went along with it" Pamela Saharah Dyson, interview clip 3 - Link
    • Part 3: "It was strictly rotating around him at all times" - Link
    • Interview Steven Hassan - Ex-3HO Official Pamela Dyson Discusses Yogi Bhajan’s Use of Sex, Money & Power to Deceive & Control - Link


    Interview with Matthew Remski - 30 april 2019 - Link

    Cultic Mechanisms and After Effects of High Demand Group Life


    Philip Deslippe presents a 'History of Yogi Bhajan & the 3HO' at the UKPHA Virtual Bookclub - Apr 27, 2020 - Link


    An Interview with a Sociopath - Living with Antisocial Personality - Special Books by Special Kids - Link


    A Voice for Love Podcast - Episode 32 - Surya Devi talking to GuruNischan - "The Kundalini Exposé" - Link


    Gursant Singh YouTube channel - Link - Hari Jiwan Singh talking on jewels & sexual allegations - Link


    SkyLife - The Yoga Cult You Didn't know existed - Mar 28, 2021 - Link


    En español

    • Limpiando el tapete de Yoga - LINK

    • REDUNE - RED DE PREVENCIÓN DEL SECTARISMO Y DEL ABUSO DE DEBILIDAD - LINK
    • SEKTAS Podcast - LINK


    En français

    • Kundalini Yoghurt Instagram - LINK
    • Les enseignements marquants de Yogi Bhajan - LINK


    Auf Deutsch

    • Yogi Bhajans aussergewöhnliche Lehren - LINK

    Vice - May 31, 2023

    Yoga Is Having Its MeToo moment.

    Vice - June 22, 2023

    Inside the 'Abusive' World of Yoga Guru Yogi Bhajan

    Vice documentary - April 12, 2022

    full version

    From 3HO Cult Info channel:

    RishiKnots Instagram Account

    & Website tell the stories of the second generation adults

    Mina Bahadori

    discusses abuses in the Kundalini Yoga community with survivors on her Instagram account