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Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureDo You Stand for Palestinian Existence?Today’s episode covers the remainder of the From the River to the Sea: A Coloring Book by Nathi Ngubani and Social Bandit Media. Coloring book reference: From the River to the Sea: A Coloring Book. To purchase, go to this link.Please Contribute to Gurunischan’s reclamation and recovery work by making a one time or monthly contribution to this publication.Don’t miss another episode by SUBSCRIBING to my Conversations You Can Feel Podcasts & Publishings. Stay tuned for more musings on provocative and taboo topics hiding in plain sight.To be a gues...
2024-07-0530 min
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureShine on Palestine Series - The NakbaToday we continue learning with the coloring book From the River to the Sea: A Coloring Book, illustrated by Nathe Ngubane and published by Social Bandit Media. We learn about the Nakba in 1948 in order to have a better context for what the ethnic cleansing we are seeing in present day Palestine. I encourage you to educate yourself by reading The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe. There are many more Jewish and Palestinian authors, academics, and historians to learn from. I have listed a few resources below.To purchase From the River to...
2024-06-2707 min
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureShine on Palestine - The LandToday’s episode we continue to explore the From the River to the Sea: A Coloring Book, Illustrated by Nathi Ngubani and produced by @socialbanditmedia Please support this work by purchasing a copy @1804books (for USA purchases). Check out their social media for other locations worldwide to purchase. Page excerpts From the River to the Sea: A Coloring Book Illustrated by Nathi Ngubane Published by Social Bandit MediaRESOURCES TO LEARN: Jewish Historians/Academics/Activists who speak out on Zionism: Gabor MateAaron Mate...
2024-06-1019 min
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureBEING SILENCED on Palestine - How Are You Using Your Power?Kagiso Lesego Molope is an Indigenous South African, an award-winning novelist and playwright. She writes post-apartheid, feminist and resistance literature. Her work centres the history and experiences of indigenous South Africans and tackles issues of race, class, sexuality and identity and her books are read in schools across Southern Africa as well as in parts of Europe. Her published novels are Dancing in the Dust, The Mending Season, This Book Betrays My Brother and Such a Lonely, Lovely Road. Her play, Maya Angelou: Black Woman Rising has been produced and staged at Oslo’s Nordic Black Theatre. She became th...
2024-06-0149 min
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureListen to Palestinians - This is a GenocideToday’s episode offers words directly from Palestinians and further resources on Palestinian people and organizations to follow directly. We begin exploring the first page of the beautiful coloring book: From the River to the Sea illustrated by Nathi Ngubane, published by Social Bandit Media; and explore the symbolic meaning behind Freedom is Coming. Resources referenced in this episode: IG post read on episode was published by @thaferdan Donate to: @watermelonrelief -Feeding children in Rafah @operationolivebranch - Helping verified individualsOrganizations to learn about and get involved:Palestinian Youth Mo...
2024-05-3023 min
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureShine on Palestine - The Cult of ZionismToday’s episode speaks on the Cult of Zionism and why your voice matters NOW more than ever. Get educated by following Palestinian and Jewish activists, authors, organizers and voices on the frontlines of change for the 75 year ongoing struggle for the Liberation of Palestine. Your attention on the right people, at the right time, can and will, absolutely makes a difference. Start today. Start where you stand. Sources to follow: @middleeasteye @eye.on.palestine @BreakThroughNews and @ElectricIntifada for up to date, relevant news. Follow @mirna_elhelbawi to contribute financially w/ ESims, which directly support fo...
2024-05-281h 00
Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 66: Manju Sadarangani - Kundalini Yoga 2020 - KRI Global Teacher TrainingManju Sadarangani was born and raised in India, surrounded by yoga. Her yoga teacher mother insisted on an upbringing informed by yoga and traditional medicine. In her teen years, her deeply spiritual brilliant father joined a Hindu cult, resulting in upheaval resulting in her immigration to the United States with her mother and brother.
Manju found yoga in the US to be deeply puzzling. She would try yoga studios and styles of yoga in an effort to feel the spiritual solace of her childhood yoga practice, but felt extremely excluded at American yoga studios. Through most of...
2023-09-222h 25
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CulturePredatory Tactics in Business Coaching & Mentorship - Part 2Kalika Kanitkar is a small business owner, and cognitive scientist with a passion for mental health education. She was involved in the travel network marketing space for 7 years, and got out about a year ago. Since then she’s begun to share her experience to raise awareness around business opportunity scams, and the predatory tactics used in sales, coaching, and recruitment. You can follow her @kalikakanitkar on all social media channels, although she’s most active on Instagram and YouTube. :)Song credit: Whatever It Takes - Imagine DragonsThank you for reading Conve...
2023-09-122h 39Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 65: Shabd Singh {Born and raised in 3HO 1987 - 2016}Shabd Singh was born and raised in 3HO Herndon, VA in 1987. His parents are Gurutrang Singh and Gurumata Kaur. He attended MPA from 1999-2005, was in the Eugene, Oregon ashram from 2006-2012, and taught at Miri Piri Academy in India as an economics teacher from 2012-2014.
It’s been a slow but gradual disconnect from 3HO, and he fully disconnected in 2016. In 2017 he became politically active with Democratic Socialists of America and began to work in progressive politics eventually working on the Bernie Sanders 2020 Presidential Campaign.
He now lives in Washington DC with his wife Su...
2023-09-073h 09
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CulturePredatory Tactics in Business Coaching & Mentorship - Part 1Kalika Kanitkar is a small business owner, and cognitive scientist with a passion for mental health education. She was involved in the travel network marketing space for 7 years, and got out about a year ago. Since then she’s begun to share her experience to raise awareness around business opportunity scams, and the predatory tactics used in sales, coaching, and recruitment. You can follow her @kalikakanitkar on all social media channels, although she’s most active on Instagram and YouTube. :)Song credit: Whatever It Takes - Imagine DragonsThank you for reading Conve...
2023-09-042h 06Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 64: Mel Hofmann {1970 - 1972; San Rafael, CA}Mel Hofmann, at the time was Melanie Calhoon started studying Kundalini yoga classes in 1970, at the age of 15 in Berkeley, CA . The local area ashram at the time was known as the “Banana Ananda” ashram in San Rafael, CA. She moved into the ashram in the Fall of 1971 at the age of 16 years old. Shortly thereafter, the name of the ashram was changed to Hargobind Sadan.
Baba Bert, later named Sat Santokh Singh was the head of the ashram. She lived in the ashram until June of 1972, when her roommate, Jeannie, who later became known as GuruTarethKaur (Jiva...
2023-08-311h 41Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 63: Siri Whitecrow (1972 - 1988, Anchorage, Alaska)Siri Whitecrow, was born Elias Seneca Whitecrow in 1972 in Juneau, Alaska. His mom, Sat guru Kaur, joined 3HO with his older sister, Siri Kaur, in 1976 and his name was changed to Siri Singh Khalsa.
His early life was spent between two different ashrams in Anchorage, Alaska, then in 1979 he was sent to Española New Mexico at 7 years old, living with two different families. In 1981 he was sent to the newly (not yet) established India program GNFC, initially being sent to the girls school because he was so young and only in 3rd grade.
After f...
2023-08-232h 15
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureNotice the Cultural Conditioning - Growing Beyond Centering Whiteness in Everyday LifeFor over 20 years, Anika has worked to advance equity and eliminate disparities, through a strategic, relationship-based approach to transforming systems. A trusted advisor with a career spanning private, nonprofit, and government sectors, Anika has advanced statewide initiatives centering equity and inclusion within education, science, workforce development, community investments, cultural arts, and community health and well-being.A daughter of St. Paul’s historic Rondo neighborhood, Anika’s approach to leadership development reflects her value for the richness that comes from diverse perspectives, cultures and communities. Anika holds a Masters in Human Services, and Bachelors in Human Resource Management from...
2023-08-202h 42Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 62: Guruganesha Singh Khalsa (1972 - 2023) - Washington D.C. and Herndon, Virginia AshramsGuruganesha Singh grew up in Natick MA, 18 miles west of Boston. Graduated high school class of 1968. In Feb 1972, he attended his first KY class at the boathouse at Smith College in Northampton MA, after seeing YB's tratakum pic on a flyer in the Student Union.
Soon after he attended a weekend KY retreat at the Montague (montagew) in MA with Guru Shabd Singh. Very soon thereafter he moved into the Worcester (wooster)MA Ashram near Clark University where he was a senior year in college.
The first week of Jan. 1973 he moved into Ahimsa Ashram...
2023-08-172h 58
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureGoing Beyond "Well-meaning" Requires Examining Your ContradictionsDr. Obari Cartman is a father, son, brother, uncle, thinker, writer, therapist, photographer, drummer, and grassroots mental health advocate. He is a Chicago native, where his cultural and educational foundations were cultivated by several African-centered institutions.He received his undergraduate degree from Hampton University and a Ph.D in clinical & community psychology from Georgia State University. His recent work includes being a trauma focused clinician, restorative justice coach and program evaluator with H.E.LP., LLC (Healing Empowering and Learning Professions). Dr. Cartman has served as a professor of psychology at Georgia State University and the Carruthers...
2023-08-151h 02Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 61: Ravi Singh {Chicago/New York City - 1973 - 1999} - Evolving Kundalini YogaRavi Singh began practicing Kundalini Yoga in 1973 and lived in the 3HO ashram in Chicago, IL. In 1974 he moved to New York City to be a writer and continued to practice Kundalini Yoga and began teaching. In the late 70's I had a brief stint as a resident of the 3HO ashram in Brooklyn, NY. He attended every Summer and Winter Solstice gathering from 1976 to 2000 and before 1999 would typically teach Kundalini Yoga at those events.
In 1999 he discovered that YB had propositioned one of my students at Women's Camp. That was when the floodgates opened and the...
2023-08-112h 06
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureWe Live in a White WorldRicquel Harper is an astute MBA-level professional widely experienced in global business initiatives with a strong combination of cross-functional experience in diverse industries and markets. She is a creative outside-the-box thinker who is uniquely able to grasp the big picture, focus on details, and set priorities. With 20+ years of management, sales and marketing experience in various sectors, she is able to drive change, achieve objectives, and effectively manage projects to optimize long-term gains in performance, revenue, and profitability.Ricquel earned her M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School where she focused on...
2023-08-062h 43
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureClassism and Racism - Thinking Differently on Structural Inequity, Culture, and Social StatusCEO and Founder of Wolfkeeper University, Master Dog Trainer, Toriano Sanzone, has been training Professionally for 21 years all around the World (Chicago, Minneapolis, Park Slope-Brooklyn, Redondo Beach, Berlin, Mallorca, Zurich, Nairobi, and more) +Published Author: “A Wolfkeeper’s Guide to Training a Dog” +Co-Founder of C-Dog with Sam Pitroda (Former Advisor to Prime Minster of India): C-Dog is a Pet Software Company currently designing “The Wolfkeeper App”-- an online Dog University. +Founder and Creator of Wolfkeeper DOGA, a form of Yoga and Reiki for Dogs.+Former Master Dog Trainer for Cesar Millan at the Dog Psycho...
2023-07-301h 54
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureI Was Born in Defense - Changing Cycles of Violence in Everyday LifeYvonne M. Orr has been in the development, communications, and organizational management industry for nearly 30 years, and has an extensive working knowledge of religious, philanthropic, and cultural art communities. Yvonne is also an actor, dancer, choreographer, and spoken word artist who has been in the performing arts for over 25 years. She is the author of “Malaika's Soul: I Am Light, Vol. I and “Malaika’s Soul: I Am Healing, Vol. II (titles under the five-part poetry books from The Soul-journer Series. She has taught youth classes and set choreography for various theater and professional dance companies. As if the...
2023-07-233h 21Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 60: Els Coenen (Ravinder Kaur; Belgium, 2008 - 2018)Els Coenen (formerly Ravinder Kaur) lives in Belgium. She was 49 when she took her first Kundalini Yoga class, immediately fell in love with it and became a teacher in 2008. She taught Kundalini Yoga for ten years, gave multiple classes a week, organized workshops and teacher training programs in Belgium and East-Africa and assisted in them. Every year she went to the European Yoga Festival, had a boot at the bazar to collect funds for the seva-based teacher training programs in East-Africa, combining this work with a job in the Telecom sector.
She organized a Sat Nam Rasayan...
2023-07-182h 17
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureThe Melody of Early Childhood Illuminates the Predatory Patterns Inside of UsOur conversation today is with Anna Sumara, CPCC, PCC, M.Sc. She’s a leadership and wholeness coach, passionately bringing a holistic, body-oriented approach to support people in their transformative journey, to connect deeper with self and the world and to thrive in any area of their lives. She integrates unique methods--leadership, neuroscience of change, mindfulness, and embodiment--or in short, intelligence of the mind with wisdom of the heart. Her presence encourages safety and openness in individuals to deepen their courageous personal discovery process and actualize their hidden potential.She believes that in order to tr...
2023-07-091h 32
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureEveryday We Step Into Uncomfortable. We Have for Generations.Opal is a mid 40's professional woman who identifies as a "black-woman and global citizen". She's creative, working as a designer with high-end clientele. However, growing up in a modest home with struggling parents, who were artists, has helped her remain humble and grounded.In addition to her career, she's a caregiver to her mother, the youngest daughter with 3 siblings, and newly married, with 5 step-kids and no biological children of her own. Her friends group spans across the globe, from various regions of the world, and in every skin-tone, age group, sexual orientation and varied...
2023-07-021h 11
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureGet Out of Your White World and Try Some New Sh*tDean Brewington is an artist/creative born in the Minnesota. He currently resides in California however, has spent a decade in Seattle, Washington and continues to travel frequently. Dean is working on several experimental music collaborations this year, along with a few other creative ventures. He’s determined to live as balanced as possible while welcoming in new experiences and tending to his creative pull. “Say Yes,” is his motto when traveling and is now making a conscious decision to apply that in day to day living. Follow him on IG at indi_visual.1 T...
2023-06-251h 18
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureHow We See Ourselves Currently is Relative to Our Past Experiences - Getting Out of Your Box w/ Dee PhillipsMy guest today is Dee Phillips. He’s a philosopher, creator, and deep thinker. I encourage you to listen all the way through this episode to the end. We get to the gems and he brings it all the way home for us. Support the work and share it with a friend. Music credit: Endless, The Hang Drum ProjectThank you for reading Conversations You Can Feel . This post is public so feel free to share it.To be a guest on the podcast, please send an em...
2023-06-191h 20Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga Community2nd Generation Speaks Out - Open Letter requesting repairs to the Independent Healing and Reparations ProgramOver 100 Second Generation voices came together to craft an Open Letter requesting repairs to the Independent Healing and Reparations Program. Summer Solstice and European Yoga Festival are in full promotional swing--let's talk about it--and the recent resignation of Sahaj Singh Khalsa from the SSSC Board. Listen
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2023-06-171h 13
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureHow Do We Resolve and Evolve Ourselves into a Different Way of Being Without Violence?Yvonne M. Orr has been in the development, communications, and organizational management industry for nearly 30 years, and has an extensive working knowledge of religious, philanthropic, and cultural art communities. Yvonne is also an actor, dancer, choreographer, and spoken word artist who has been in the performing arts for over 25 years. She is the author of “Malaika's Soul: I Am Light, Vol. I and “Malaika’s Soul: I Am Healing, Vol. II (titles under the five-part poetry books from The Soul-journer Series. She has taught youth classes and set choreography for various theater and professional dance companies. As if the...
2023-06-113h 21
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureWhiteness in Wellness - Trends of Extracting Indigenous Wisdom & SpiritualityJamaica Carter is a community organizer and artist. Her work lies in the realms of spirituality, sacred sexuality, trauma-informed shadow work, and preserving indigenous practices. She has held space through ceremonies and facilitating workshops for the collective to heal and decolonize. Her mission is to return to what is sacred and to open up the minds to what is possible when we prioritize the legacy of black, brown, indigenous people who have maintained this Earth and relationship to spirit. Her works can be found on instagram: @cleopatruuhSong Credit: Recollections by Miles Davis.Thank...
2023-06-041h 35
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CulturePsychological Manipulation of Leaders & Leadership Training in the Multi-Level Marketing IndustryJennifer Rajala spent 8 years and recruited hundreds of people into Arbonne, a skin care & wellness company in the Multi-Level Marketing Industry, eventually morphing into an MLM coach and self-development junkie. Starting with learning to recruit others into MLM, all while having a newborn baby, her part time “success” got her moving up the ranks eventually quitting her job as a social worker, to build “her business” full time. In 2019 she was recruited into Rankmakers, a MLM Coaching Program run by Ray Higdon. She quickly became a top coach and a go-to coach within the Rankmaker System investing 3 years wi...
2023-05-283h 04
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureIt's Hard to Disrupt Systems if You Don't Participate in Your Own Personal Disruption of the Systems in Which You UpholdNike Aurea is an educator & consultant. She supports collectives in creating safer & more inclusive spaces that are harm reducing for Black & Indigenous Folks and People of Color. She is also host of Catalyst Podcast, a podcast that prioritizes black and indigenous healing while combating socialized and internalized oppressive mindsets. You can learn more with her at https://www.nikeaurea.com and follow her @nikeaureaSong Credit: "Long Way 2 Go" by CassieThank you for reading Conversations You Can Feel . This post is public so feel free to share it.
2023-05-211h 18
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureIf You Can't See My Color, You Can't See MeYinka is a man that has worn a number of hats throughout his life. Currently, he’s a father, a son, a friend, an IT Specialist, and a speaker at various rallies and protests for racial justice/equal rights. His goal in life is to make sure this world treats his kids and other kids of color a thousand times better than he was treated growing up.Song:Pray for me by The Weeknd and Kendrick LamarThank you for reading Conversations You Can Feel . This post is public so feel free to...
2023-05-151h 48
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureWhen Commitment to "Getting Better Daily" Becomes Coercion & Extraction of Yourself and OthersJulie Anderson is a survivor of two commercial cults, which she was part of simultaneously for 5 years, one was a Multi-Level Marketing company called Monat and the other was a Multi-Level Marketing Coaching group known as Rank Makers. She began speaking out about her experiences in December 2021 by creating anti-MLM content, mixing it into her established GenX content on TikTok. She quickly branched out to creating content on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.She is a fierce educator and advocate speaking out on Rank Makers and coercion in the self-development/coaching industry. Yo...
2023-05-072h 05
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureHow Society Forces You to Pick a Side of Yourself Based on Skin Color - The Complexity of Multi-Cultural IdentityDanneal Castillo is 44 years old, grew up in Arizona and has his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and a Masters of Science in Leadership and Development. He’s currently an Associate Pastor at a church and has been married to Andrea for 20 years, who is a white woman.Both he and his wife have had to deal with racist views from family members on both sides; and has dealt with a lot of racist issues over the years in all sorts of settings; but has come to realize that most racist views are just rooted in igno...
2023-05-011h 04
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureChild Molesters, Please Stop. Seek Therapy Today.Aleesha Barlow is a survivor of child sexual abuse, at the hands of her maternal grandfather. The abuse started as early as she can remember, and lasted until her teenage years. At age 6, she told her aunt what her grandfather was doing. Her aunt said that it was wrong, and promised the abuse would stop. Her aunt then told Aleesha's mother and other sister, and together they confronted their father. He admitted to the abuse, and said the devil made him do it. He told them he could not go to jail, as he knows what they do to...
2023-04-241h 22
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureProcess Your Own Sh*t - Your Niceness is Harmful to Your Own HumanityKathy Garland is a storyteller, memoirist, and essayist, who uses personal essaysand memoir to de-marginalize women's experiences with an intent to highlight andhumanize specific issues. Her work can be found in varied anthologies, as well as herpersonal blog kwoted.wordpress.com. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter @kegarland. kegarland.comkwoted.wordpress.comnavigatingthechange.comwritingendeavors.org Song Credit: Kanye West: StrongerPlease DONATE to this reclamation and recovery work by making a one time or m...
2023-04-171h 23Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 58: Guru Kartar Kaur (Rue) Born and Raised in 3HO: 1997 - 2016; Mexico City, MXGuru Kartar Kaur (she now goes by Rue) was born into 3HO in Mexico City in 1997 to her parents, Guru Hans Kaur Khalsa and Siri Simran Singh. A couple months after she was born, Rue and her sister, Partmatma Kaur, were brought to New Mexico by her parents, to attend the Summer Solstice where she met YB and received her spiritual name from him.
Rue’s parents were originally raised catholic but later converted to Sikhism and joined the 3HO community through her maternal grandmother, Hari Kaur Khalsa, who first became a member of Babaji’s Ashram; the...
2023-04-142h 02
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureBreaking the Silence Surrounding Childhood Sexual Abuse Jeremy Indika speaks out on child sexual abuse by using his own story to break down stigmas and help us understand how such a thing can happen. He wants to change the culture on how we talk about child sexual exploitation and abuse, and what we plan to do to prevent it from happening entirely.www.jeremyindika.comThank you for reading Conversations You Can Feel . This post is public so feel free to share it.Please donate to Gurunischan’s reclamation and recovery work by making a one time or mo...
2023-04-101h 05Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 57: Ratnavali Kaur Khalsa (Ratna); 1996 -2023 - Boulder, CO and Espanola, NMRatnavali Kaur Khalsa, (she goes by Ratna) was born in India in August 1996. At a few months of age she was adopted by Guru Nam Kaur Khalsa, of Espanola, NM and Sadhna Singh of Boulder, CO but it took over 1 year to actually get to the USA. In 1997 at 18 months old, she finally arrived to her parents: whom had adopted another child. in 1993, her brother, Guru Raj Singh, who is currently 29. She went to Miri Piri Academy in 2008 at 11 years old for 6th grade. She didn’t return in 2013 for 11th grade because of health reasons.
Sh...
2023-04-081h 52
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureAre You a Safe or Well-Meaning White Person? - Anti-Blackness, Getting Curious, and Learning to Take Feedback to HeartTazima Parris is a Sex Coach & Pleasure Mentor for high-achieving women 35+ who overthink, over-give, and end up overwhelmed. She creates space for women to prioritize pleasure and go from resentful to radiant. Tazima uses communication tools and practices from her 25+ years of research and experience to help women increase their sexual confidence, clearly communicate needs, and hold healthy boundaries.Social LinksIG: https://www.instagram.com/tazimaparris/ SociaTap: https://sociatap.com/tazima/ (goodies)Song Credit: "I Owe You Nothing" by Seinabo Sey Be sure to also SUBSCRIBE...
2023-04-021h 25
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureThe Lasting Impact of Family Abuse - I Didn't Know It was Trauma. It Just Didn't Feel RightJeff Dase has been committed to the students and communities of Illinois since 1998. Mr. Dase became the Assistant Superintendent of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion March 6, 2023, after serving as the Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning for Decatur Public Schools since July 2019. Previously serving as a teacher, Assistant Principal, Principal, Chief of Schools and High Schools Network Operations Manager for Chicago Public Schools.Jeff Dase is the author of the recently published book Rise Above. The book reveals the story of how he transcended obstacles in every chapter of his life to become a...
2023-03-2655 min
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureBe Willing to Follow & Not Take Up Space - "Diversity" in White Spaces that Re-TraumatizeDameun Strange is a sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, and award-winning composer conceptual electronic and improvised electro-acoustic works focusing on the African diaspora's stories and themes, often exploring surrealist and afro-futurist ideas with unique impressionism. Dameun is compelled to express through sound and poetry, the beauty and resilience of the Black experience, digging into a pantheon of ancestors to tell stories of triumph while connecting the past, present, and future.Dameun has worked with such artists as J. Otis Powell and Sha Cage and has been a featured performer on concerts celebrating the work of Thurston Moore...
2023-03-191h 35
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureYou're the Prey - Manipulation and Multi Level MarketingRoberta Blevins is a former “Hun”, who left the MLM world in 2017 and began publicly educating and speaking out against it. In her time in MLM, she was involved as a consultant for 3; It Works!, LuLaRoe and Modere, and a customer of many. Since leaving MLM, she has educated herself on the systemic structure of the business model, the psychological manipulation, the seedy underbelly and governmental ties, the cult indoctrination, and the history of Multi Level Marketing. She educates daily on TikTok, and podcasts in her "free time", talking to the survivors and victims of these commercial cult...
2023-03-122h 20Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 56: The Lasting Impact of 3HO After Childhood - Darci Larocque Part Two: (1976 - 2022)This is a follow up conversation w/ Darci Laroque to share the lasting IMPACT of childhood neglect, abandonment, and survivalist 3HO training to breed "spiritual-warriors" that she, and other children of 3HO/Kundalini Yoga, "Sikh Dharma" received.
Hint: It's NOT Healthy, Happy, or Holy. It's communal abandonment disguised as consciousness.
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2023-03-122h 33
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureSlow down. Deal With the Embers, Not the Flame - On Everyday WhitenessBernadette Pleasant is a fiery sensual Speaker, Somatic Healer, Sacred Grief Ritual Facilitator, Founder of The Emotional Institute and Femme!, a mind-body wellness program. With certifications in Somatic Healing Modalities and Sensual Movement, Reiki, and Integrated Energy Therapy—and studies in African, Tribal, and Free Dance—Bernadette promotes emotional freedom through movement and empowerment.Social Media:https://www.theemotionalinstitute.com/ https://www.instagram.com/theemotionalinstitute https://www.facebook.com/TheEmotionalInstitute https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkPGovwNgCU-bQlT2xBUneASong credit:Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On?"Please DONATE to this reco...
2023-03-051h 03Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 55: Darci Larocque (1971 - 2020 Dorchester, MA, Espanola, NM and Los Angeles Ashrams)Darci Larocque, was born Darci Clack in 1971. Her father joined 3HO in 1974 in the New Haven Ashram. Her mom and father were divorced and at the age of 5, she started visiting the ashram in Dorchester, MA, where her father had moved. One day in first grade catholic school, her dad and a friend in full Bana showed up in the middle of a school day and took her.
Darci was taken to the Dorchester ashram and even though her mom had full custody, her father wouldn’t give her back. It was the 1970s - her mom, th...
2023-03-053h 19
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureAn Everyday Cult - An Absolute, Upside Down Reversal of What is TrueGerette Buglion is author of An Everyday Cult, a memoir which shows howher innocent quest for meaning left her open to manipulation by acontrolling teacher. Gerette’s current work is in Cult Recovery andEducation. Her signature writing course called, ‘Writing to Reckon’ offers asafe space for cult survivors to tell their stories. She is co-founder of#iGotOut.org whose mission is to encourage people who have experiencedcultic abuse to tell their stories.Gerette Buglion #igotout she, her, hersAuthor...
2023-02-261h 39
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureDrowning for Black & Brown Children is 5-7 x's Greater Than for White ChildrenTechnologist turned Health and Wellness Coach, Ironman Derrick Q. Milligan holds certifications in Power Plate, GoSwim, Total Immersion, Professional Tennis Registry, Complete Health Improvement Project (CHIP), inerTRAIN and Heart Zones Systems. He is a passionate board member of two nationally recognized nonprofits: Curt’s Cafe and Tri-Masters Sports Initiative Programs. He combines Dr. Csikszentmihalyi's (Chitsimeyayeeh) Flow concept with Goeorge Leonard's Mastery process to guide his clients to peak fitness, personal and professional performances. Through his articles, presentations, workshops, training and teaching sessions, Mr. Milligan has positively influenced thousands to find balance and power in life through fitness tr...
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Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureI Did Not Consider It Abuse Because She Was An Older WomanRafer Weigel is the founder of WMG Communications—a content marketing firm. Weigel is a 3 time Emmy Award Winning journalist whose career began in print journalism at the Chicago Sun-Times, the Los Angeles Times. He then became a sports anchor at CNN Headline News and later ABC 7 Chicago before transitioning to news. Weigel was a news anchor at Fox 32 and was the reporter credited with breaking the story that Chicago police were going to charge Jussie Smollett with staging a fake hate crime. He’s covered Presidential Elections, major sporting events like the Olympics and Super Bowls and everything in b...
2023-02-1348 min
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureAre Your Efforts Really Creating Impact, or Just Making You Feel Like an Ally?Dr. David Freeman spent 16 years as a Systems Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he developed and fielded advanced technologies in support of national defense. He holds Master’s and Ph.D degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Civil and Mechanical Engineering, and attended the North Carolina A&T State University for his undergraduate studies. He has spent the last 8 years in study of somatic practices, such as Tantra and Orgasmic Meditation, crediting the organizations of The International School of Temple Arts, OneTaste, Source Tantra and The Human Awareness Institute. He has facilitated workshops and re...
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Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureMen Are Sexually Abused Too - When Women Prey on Young Boys (it happens a lot)Allen Vandever is a contemporary Artist and Activist based out of Chicago. He is a father, husband, and a son. Family and friends are very important to him. He live his life with the goal of making every year worthy of a good movie or a great book. He takes risks, embraces adventure and lives life to the fullest. And as a result, he has many wonderful stories.Founder of Childhood Fractured, a non profit dedicated to supporting adult survivors of sexual abuse with art writing and performance.Follow me on @allenvandeverpnos and...
2023-02-051h 30
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureWhen Every Part of Living Is About RaceUlysses "Butch" Slaughter is an artist, an alchemist and an “Alpha Black” who uses the power of forgiving to persistently pursue “radical, relentless, reconciliation” through all of his epic life journeys. For more than four decades, Ulysses has courageously answered “the call” to illuminate dark and difficult human relationships with unwavering determination to synthesize polarities and amplify potent possibilities. Ulysses’ signature forgiveness missions explore the inner, the interpersonal, the international and the intergalactic.Ulysses was the chief architect of The Philadelphia MOVE reconciliation campaign that led to an official apology for the urban bombing and killing of 11 people on May...
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Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureAn Unrecognized Holocaust - The Genocide of Native Americans & Modern Day ErasureVandee Crane, also known as Chante Washte Washagya Wi (Canté Waŝté Waŝagya Win); Lakota for “Good Strong Hearted Woman”, was raised by her Maternal Osage Nation Grandmother, Eleanor Grace Crane, a WWII Army Veteran, Nurse, and Artist in Ancestral Seminole Territory of Central Florida. As a child survivor of familial trafficking, she became a Child Sexual Exploitation & Trafficking Survivor Leader (CSET Survivor Leader) helping others in similar situations).In 2008, when Vandee had reached the pinnacle of her trauma and alcohol addiction, she incurred three traumatic brain injuries within one year and could no longer function professi...
2023-01-2938 min
Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureWhy Do All the White People Sit Together?Bio: April Preyar, is a criminal defense attorney, who was recently voted "Best Lawyer of 2021" in the Chicago Reader. Preyar has been practicing law for 22 years. She graduated from Duke University and George Washington University Law School. She is the creator of JustUs Junkie, an educational platform which uses videos, workshops, and her original board game, Trials & Triumph, to teach law in simple terms. April Preyar taught as an adjunct professor at John Marshall Law School and Malcolm X College. She is a regular recurring guest legal analyst on CourtTV. She has also been featured...
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Uncomfortable Conversations on Predators in Business, Community and CultureThe Predators in My Body - Dismantling the False Identity "running" MeAs a child survivor of a religious yoga cult, and the current host of the Uncomfortable Conversation Podcast: The Untold Stories of the 3HO/Kundalini Yoga Community, Gurunischan shares why she started this new podcast platform and how LISTENING has helped her discover the predators in her body — the false cultural conditioning that led to a firmly rooted identity in appropriation and “Otherness”.Links mentioned in episode:Uncomfortable Conversation Podcast: The Untold Stories of the 3HO/Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode: 39:Episode 40: Our Shared 3HO Identity of “Exceptionalism” and “Otherness”Episode 4...
2023-01-2351 minUncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 54: First Generation Fragility - Two Years in ReviewSpeaking on "1st Generation" Fragility: The impact it has on our lives in 3HO present day and historically. Listen to "Second Generation" perspective on how to listen and hear US in real time.
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2023-01-061h 35Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 53: Goldie (Started KY in Utah; 2001 - 2014)Goldie found her first Kundalini class at 10 years old in 2001 and by age 12 was regularly attending KY classes at her local community college in rural Utah. She then started going to 4AM sadhana and started a 40 day practice.
At age 17, she attended her first Summer Solstice and went every year for the next 5+ years and participated in the setup crew. Gradually, Goldie sank deeper into the lifestyle and was fully immersed in it until her early-mid 20s. Eventually, she left the KY community after finding abuse allegations from previous cases online and practiced Sikhism only for a...
2022-10-141h 34Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 52: Pritam Hari Kaur (Joined in 1981, Hamburg, Germany; 1987 moved to Johannesburg, South Africa)Pritam Hari Kaur born in Germany and grew up in Indonesia and Spain, of German post-war parents who wanted nothing better than to head out into fresh and new horizons.
After being kicked out of her house by father and step-mom at 19 years old, she felt orphaned, and eventually met Yogi Bhajan in 1981 at age 21; fully embraced the ashram lifestyle.
Comforted under YB’s tutelage and guidance at the European regional center in Hamburg. She was the European Regional Secretary from 1981 - 1987, co-organized the Annual Yoga Festival in France, the European Tantric Yoga Events and YB...
2022-10-092h 42Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 51: BethVandam - (Sat Atma Kaur-2007-2020 Los Angeles)Beth joined the Los Angeles Kundalini Yoga community in 2007 while at grad school earning her MFA in production design for film and TV at the American Film Institute. She discovered Golden Bridge Yoga studio in Hollywood and soon became a regular student there, then quickly a sevadar, then a part-time front desk manager, and ultimately a full-time front desk manager, teacher, and sadhana leader.
She tookLevel 1 Teacher's Training in 2013-14 with Gurmukh and Gurushabd, and also attended Level 1 Yoga Therapy training with Guru Dharam (of England/Sweden/NY) in 2014 at Golden Bridge. She also assisted 3 other Level 1...
2022-10-022h 23Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 50: Jules Hartley Part 2 (2011 - 2018 - Joined 3HO in Los AngelesPart Two with Jules Hartley.
We go into detail of her personal story of emotional/psychological abuse from her Teacher Tej Kaur (Los Angeles; Nine Treasures), other 3HO experiences including White Tantric Yoga for both Winter and Summer Solstice, Los Angeles, as well as the highly "coveted" position and privilege of volunteering at the SSS Cabin to serve the subtle body of YB and the "WTY Facilitators" who were the live in-person representatives of the Mahan Tantric himself.
Lots of details and stories revealed in this episode.
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2022-09-162h 26Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 49: Jules Hartley (Amrita Kaur - Los Angeles, CA - 2011 -2018 )Jules Hartley joined 3HO in 2011, changed her name to Amrita Kaur, and actively participated as a Kundalini Yoga teacher, worked for White Tantric Yoga (Health&Humanology), Golden Bridge Yoga, Nine Treasures Yoga, and performed work exchange for KRI and 3HO, and did seva (selfless service) at the RaMa Institute as well as the Guru Ram Das Ashram in LA through the end of 2018.
She grew up in San Diego and Northern Virginia, and then went to college in New York City where she began her career as an actress and producer in the film & TV industry. Upon...
2022-09-142h 16Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 48: Siri Om Singh; Mexico City, Mexico (Started KY 2006 - 2021)Siri Om was born Ivan Sanchezin Mexico City in 1971, graduated from the National University of Plastic Arts with a degree in Graphic Communication. Being a restless seeker of answers and in the midst of incessant alcoholism and deep depression he begins taking regular kundalini classes in February 2006. Making great changes in his life, he takes his practice to the next level with TT at RaMa Mexico City in 2009. By 2010 he dedicates himself to teaching Kundalini classes, and by 2017 he graduated as a Level II teacher. During those years teaching kundalini classes and along with his work as a graphic...
2022-09-032h 46Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEps.47 - 3HO Reparations Claims and ConcernsThe deadline for the Independent Healing and Reparations Program of Sikh Dharma (3HO/KY/SSSC) is coming up on August 19, 2022. The protocol and eligibility is available for all to read below.
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This episode discusses basic eligibility guidelines and the importance of legal representation vs. just using the independent facilitator process on your own.
Listen to shares from several second generation voices from the 1970's - 2000's and how they've decided to move forward towards filing their reparations claim.
2022-08-1046 min
Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 47: Peter Blachly (Sat Peter Singh Khalsa 1970 - 1987; Washington DC)Peter Blachly (Blatchley) was a devotee of the man who called himself Yogi Bhajan from 1970 until 1987, when he was finally disillusioned by his close contact with YB and made a break from the organization. Peter was one of the early adopters of the Sikh religion, had an arranged marriage, two children who attended schools in India, and served as a “Singh Sahib” and member of the Khalsa Council until his departure in 1987.
Earlier, with Steve Josephs, then known as GuruShabad Singh, and Livtar, who is still in the cult, he formed the Khalsa String Band, published several album...
2022-07-012h 19Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 47: Peter Blachley (Sat Peter Singh Khalsa 1970 - 1987; Washington DC)Peter Blachly (Blatchley) was a devotee of the man who called himself Yogi Bhajan from 1970 until 1987, when he was finally disillusioned by his close contact with YB and made a break from the organization. Peter was one of the early adopters of the Sikh religion, had an arranged marriage, two children who attended schools in India, and served as a “Singh Sahib” and member of the Khalsa Council until his departure in 1987.
Earlier, with Steve Josephs, then known as GuruShabad Singh, and Livtar, who is still in the cult, he formed the Khalsa String Band, published several album...
2022-06-292h 20Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 46: The Ram Das Puri Land Purchase Story with Gigi Kaur; (GuruGun Kaur - 3HO member from -1971 - 1983)Guru Gun Kaur, simply goes by Gigi, joined 3HO in 1972 at Mendocino Summer Solstice.
She became devoted to the practice of yoga, cleansing and detoxing from her young adult years during the time of sex, drugs and rock and roll; moving away from the “negative” lifestyle, while rapidly moving toward her new found faith and “conscious” family, led by Yogi Bhajan.
For the next 12 years she immersed herself in the Sikh tradition of sacred music, Kirtan and her faith as a sacred devotion. She was arranged to be married in 1974 and soon after in 1976, YB influenced h...
2022-06-221h 44Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 45: Kartar Diamond (In 3HO from 1974 - 1995; Los Angeles, CA)Kartar Diamond was Born in 1961 and grew up in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles County with a Reform Jewish upbringing. First exposure to 3HO was about 10 years old. She started practicing Kundalini Yoga at age 14.
She took Sikh vows at age 19. She had a semi-arranged marriage at age 20, which lasted 2 years. She dropped out of college before marriage and worked as a secretary for a 3HO chiropractor for 10 years. Married again in 1986 at age of 25. She continued to work until the end of her pregnancy and had her son in 1991.
Her 2nd...
2022-06-102h 01Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 44: Vandee Crane (formerly Pavandeep Kaur Khalsa; 2009)Vandee Crane is the author of My Body, My Soul: One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Both, as well as Founder and Director of Rise In Love Foundation, a grassroots nonprofit, whose mission is to support individuals, families, communities and companies in understanding and healing the individual and collective Mother Wound by bringing Women of all Nations together to heal through connection, culture and conversation. A process known in Indigenous Cultures around the World as ReMatriation.
Vandee, formerly Pavandeep Kaur Khalsa initially came to learn about KY/3HO in 2009 through a series of serendipitous spiritual experiences, after an...
2022-02-171h 47Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 43: Mark Bailey (Abuse from ex-3HO Member - 1996 - 1999) ”The Predatory Patterns We Weave”Mark Bailey left home at a young age and lived as an artist on the fringes of society. From the ages of 15-18 experienced psychological manipulation and abuse from a member of 3HO while a student for Summit School for the Arts in Chisago City, MN before it was shut down in 1999.
He settled down after a serious accident in 2006 and spent the next decade painting pictures while learning to manage two chronic illnesses. Since 2014, Mark has worked primarily as a writer. He summarizes news reports for a nonprofit information service, writes articles for the cr...
2022-01-081h 57Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 42: Predators and the Predatory Formula of 3HO/Kundalini Yoga CultureDiscussing Predators and the "wise-man" predator formula and grooming behavior that is infused throughout all aspects of 3HO/Kundalini culture, "The Teachings", the Aquarian Academy and a false sense of safety in these spaces.
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2021-12-201h 07Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 40: WHITE SILENCE, EXCEPTIONALISM, SUPERIORITY AND THE SPIRITUAL WHITE WOMANToday we explore White Supremacy in all it's forms of White Silence, White Exceptionalism, White Superiority, Tone Policing, the prey and predator of the Spiritual White Woman and more ways it exposes itself in our actions, thoughts, behaviors and communication within the context of 3HO and the World.
Book referenced and played: ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY: Combat Racism, Change the World and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
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2021-09-101h 35Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 39: Shanti Oshan (Started Practicing Kundalini Yoga in 2014- 2021)Shanti Oshan, previously known as Shanti Karam Kaur has been practicing Kundalini Yoga since 2014 but became deeply involved when she met her teacher in 2019, Isa at a Sufi retreat in Southern California. This is when she vowed to seek Truth through the guidance of God’s voice no matter what. She started Teacher Training in Oceanside, CA and dove headfirst into her path, going to the Sat Nam fest, Summer Solstice, followed by Winter Solstice. Last March, she went to the Espanola Ashram to be a farm intern on Khalsa Family Farms, and I wound up getting caught in th...
2021-08-313h 20Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 38: Dr. Ron Alexander (Mind-Body Psychotherapist; Original KRI Scientist 1970s)Dr Ron Alexander (formerly Shama Singh) is a Mind- Body psychotherapist, international trainer of health care professionals specializing in creativity and trauma.
He was recruited by Yogi Bhajan to co-found the original Kundalini Research Institute in 1973 as well as co-founder the Center for Health and Healing at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
He conducted the early scientific research on Kundalini Yoga, and other forms of meditation, including Zen and Vipassana through the Veterans Memorial Hospital in Topeka, KS, and Santa Rosa Psychiatric Hospital in Santa Rosa, CA. Both in association with the Menninger...
2021-08-201h 06Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 37: Taran Kaur (Started KY in 2014 - 2020; U.K.)Today’s guest is Taran Kaur. Her birth and original name was Alice, and she started practicing Kundalini Yoga in 2014 (late 20s) following guidance from 3HO’s website on Kriyas, meditations and doing many 40 days practices with them.
Through this she quit drinking alcohol and focused on getting on the mat everyday rather than nursing a hangover. Alice continued to practice Kundalini Yoga with teachers on Youtube, at the end of 2016 after switching to health care and doing Radiant Body Kriya for 40 days she realised the reality of the destructive relationship she was in with her partner of nine...
2021-08-121h 19Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 36: Narangkar Glover (Born and raised into 3HO;1974 in Hartford, CT)Narangkar is an artist and advocate for 3HO second generation adults. She lives in Oregon with her husband and two cats.
Narangkar was born and raised in 3HO in the 70’s. Her parents are the Gurujohns who headed the Hartford CT ashram in the 70’s & 80’s. She a big extended family in 3HO as well: 2 aunts & uncles, one set of grandparents, 5 cousins plus 1 aunt born in 3ho. And 2 sisters. Narangkar & her big sister were child-swapped when they were 7, sent to live in Ram Das Puri to live with strangers. In 1983 they got sent to India for boarding school...
2021-07-283h 15Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 35: Shiv Cook (Started Kundalini Yoga in 2001 - 2020)Today’s guest is Shiv Cook.
On September 1, 2001, super successful on the outside, broken and sad on the inside, as well as being over 220 lb, Shiv was as she called it, "kissed by Kundalini Yoga". Within 4 months of her first taste, her home burned down two days before the WorldTrade Centers fell and nearly took her with it and this led to her leaving her practice as a Corporate Securities Attorney who was “failing at life and winning in success”, to see if she could find a more peaceful way of being.
After sharing o...
2021-07-012h 00Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 34: Laurel Guruatma Khalsa (Joined 3HO in 1979-2020)Today’s guest is Guruatma Khalsa, now Laurel, has been in 3HO since 1978 until 2020. A native Chicago girl, just stepped into her 69th year, 43 of which were totally immersed in the 3HO/Sikh Dharma Community.
She attended her first KY class in Madison, Wisconsin in 1978 and received her spiritual name in March of '79. For a short while she lived in the Des Moines, Iowa country ashram where she met her future (first) husband. They attended Summer Solstice together and she was invited to come live in Houston TX to be in charge of the Children's Program ...bec...
2021-06-101h 42Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 33: Mira "HarKrishan" Khalsa (Born and raised in 3HO; 2002-2020; Los Angeles, CA)Today’s guest is Mira “Harkrishan” Khalsa. She was born in 2002 in the Los Angeles ashram. Her parents are Siri Atma Singh and Gobind Kaur Khalsa. She attended Summer Solstice and Khalsa Youth Camp every year growing up.
In 2005, her family moved to Nambe, New Mexico to be a part of the Espanola ashram and because her mother got a job at “The Ranch”, YB’s main property.
In 2019, her family moved from the Espanola community to Santa Barbara. In 2020, she decided to change her name to Mira.
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2021-05-282h 11Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 32: Bibi Bhani Khalsa (1970-2020; Phoenix, AZ)Bibi Bhani Khalsa joined 3HO in 1970 in Columbia, Maryland. She landed in Phoenix, AZ the following year and has lived there ever since except for a brief time in Heber, AZ.
She is a musician who has made several recordings over the years. She spent time in LA and Espanola under YB's direction. She taught Kundalini Yoga for many years, but never transitioned to become a teacher trainer. She has two children who both went to school in India. She decided to leave 3HO and Sikh Dharma last summer after learning of the widespread corruption and criminal...
2021-05-172h 37Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 31: Gérard Lach (Jap Nirantar; Germany, 2010 - 2017)Gérard Lach was born in 1978 in northern Germany.
He became involved in Kundalini Yoga/3HO during the years of 2010 to 2017 after suffering a herniated disc and cervical spine issues, seeking healing and repair after physical therapy. Keeping his original name, while integrating his new spiritual name, Gérard Jap Nirantar took to the intensity of Kundalini Yoga and Gong Meditation.
After practicing for several years, and feeling the tremendous impact of the gong meditations on his own body, he got referred to Nanak Dev Singh in Berlin, GE, in which he studied and learned Gong...
2021-05-102h 04Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 30: Simona aka Dharma Devi (Joined 3HO in Italy; 2000 -2019)Today's guest is Simona, aka Dharma Devi, a professional yoga and meditation teacher, as well as a dance educator. She's been practicing yoga and meditation since she was 9 years old.
She entered the Kundalini Yoga community in 2000/2001, and even though the red flags were quite red, she didn't listen to her intuition, and started her path within the 3HO/Kundalini community anyway.
She graduated from KY TT in Rome,Italy in 2003, and as an Associate Teacher Trainer officially in 2012. During this time frame, she alsa graduated as a Shakti Dance Instructor, which is a technology th...
2021-05-023h 22Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 29: GuruNischan Kaur Khalsa (Born into 3HO 1977; Phoenix, AZ)GuruNischan Kaur Khalsa was born and raised in the 3HO Kundalini Yoga community in 1977 in the Phoenix, Arizona area. Navigating a challenging early childhood with lots of chaotic changes, including her mother leaving the Dharma in 1978, custody battles and despicable communication between fighting parents, among other things.
She grew up resilient, feisty and full of positivity to give to the world that she thought was the "power of her light", rather than recognizing these symptoms as deeply rooted trauma patterns.
At age 19 she lived and worked in the Johannesburg, S.A. 3HO Ashram, and later...
2021-04-302h 37Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 28: Porter Singer aka Sirgun Kaur (2009 - 2020)Today's guest is Porter Singer (aka Sirgun Kaur)
Porter Singer took her first Kundalini Yoga class at the Golden Bridge in Hollywood, CA in 2009. Drawn to the allure of this space and (mainly) the music they played, she signed up for a children’s teacher training program that same day. It was in that training she met a fellow musician who invited her to be part of the Summer Solstice sound team, in June 2010.
At Solstice, she learned about the month-long Aquarian teacher training at the Española ashram in August, which she ended up tak...
2021-04-231h 52Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 27: Jivan Elizabeth Dorji (1994 -2012)Jivan Elizabeth Kaur found Kundalini Yoga in 1994 when she sought help and attended a holistic therapy center where she met Shiv Charan Singh (The Founder of the Karam Kriya School in Europe) who was the head counselor there.
In 2001 she qualified as a KY teacher at the Karam Kriya School , and in 2005 she went to India with her daughter (born 1995) who enrolled at MPA.
After 5 months in Amritsar, Jivan moved to Dharamsala HP Where she met her future husband. In 2008 they married.
She and her husband moved to London in 2012 where they live c...
2021-04-071h 38Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 26: Sofía Becerra (Joined 3HO in Mexico City; 2007 -2014)Sofía Becerra was born in Mexico City, to a non-practicing catholic family. She was always interested in spiritual experiences, and when she was 21-22 years old she lived two very traumatic experiences that involved sexual abuse and drugs, that left her very confused and in a cuasi schizophrenic state.
In 2007, as part of her search for healing, she started practicing Kundalini Yoga in a place called "Iztac". In 2008 she went to live in "Guru Ram Das Ashram" in Mexico City, led by a couple of Yogis named Jai Hari Singh and Jai Hari Kaur.
2021-03-302h 07Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 25: Olivia Taglioli (brought into 3HO in Italy at age 6; 1985 - 2010)Today's guest is Olivia Taglioli. Originally born in Italy and lived there until 1998.
At age 6 years old, her mom announced that Olivia was to receive her spiritual name, Atma Kaur, from Yogi Bhajan, whom she met in the summer of 1985 in Spain.
From then on, under her mom's guidance and sometimes insistence, she began practicing Kundalini Yoga and later Sat Nam Rasayan, and other 3HO lifestyle practices.
She met Guru Dev (Master of Sat Nam Rasayan) in 1990 at age 11. She attended her first European Yoga Festival in Loches, France in 1992 at age 13; Also the...
2021-03-242h 13Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 24: Kewal Wright (Joined 3HO in 1996 -2013)Kewal came into 3HO in the late 90’s. She met and became a student of Yogi Bhajan when she was 20 years old and spent the majority of her 20s and 30s working in the 3HO community. She was one of the founding owners of Yoga Yoga, opening and managing multiple yoga centers and living in Guru’s Grace Ashram in Austin, Texas. Later she became the director of Yoga Phoenix, the 3HO yoga center in Phoenix, Arizona, and was the assistant director of 3HO Foundation of Arizona.
Kewal was a KRI teacher trainer as well as doing work f...
2021-03-171h 45Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 23: Gurunam Atwal (Born in 3HO 1989; Eugene, OR)Gurunam Atwal was born and raised into 3HO in Eugene, Oregon in 1989. Her parents are Sarbjit Singh Atwal, a Punjabi Sikh who was raised on a farm in the Punjab and her mother, Simrit Khalsa, who joined 3HO in her early 20s while taking Kundalini Yoga classes in Seattle.
Gurunam and her brother Hargobind Atwal, both attended Miri Piri Academy for several years. During summer breaks, she worked at the 3HO owned, Golden Temple Enterprises as a temp worker.
After graduating MPA, she attended the University of Oregon in International Studies with a focus on Peace...
2021-03-101h 58Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 22: Ardas Khalsa (1981 - 2020)Ardas lives in the Austin area of Texas. She took her first Kundalini Yoga class in Hamburg Germany in 1981 when she was 21. She went back to the US and moved into the Roswell ashram just north of Atlanta in 1982.
In 1982/83 academic year she attended Association Montessori Internationale in Atlanta to be a certified Montessori teacher. Her plan was to teach at one of the Khalsa Montessori schools, either in LA, Phoenix, or Espanola. She went to Summer Solstice 1983 and, instead, was arranged to marry Siri Bahadur Singh in Dallas. The directors of the Dallas ashram sent a...
2021-03-052h 01Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 21: Dev Dharm Singh Khalsa (born in 3HO 1992; Alaska)Dev Dharm Khalsa was born & raised in Anchorage Alaska to his parents Guru Bandhu Singh & Hari Atma Kaur Khalsa, both 3HO Kundalini Yoga practitioners. Shortly after the Anchorage, Alaska Ashram (run by the Nirvairs) closed.
At the age of 13, he left Alaska to attend Miri Piri Academy in Amritsar, India. He spent five years at MPA before returning to the US for college & professional life. He is currently a freelance videographer & photographer specializing in environmental conservation & government.
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2021-02-231h 37Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 20: Lana April Reed (formerly Shakta Khalsa; Joined in1972)Lana Reed (formerly Shakta Khalsa) started practicing Kundalini Yoga in 1976. She lived in the Baltimore Ashram where she met Kartar, her husband. She lived fully committed to the path, worked with children in the dharma, and raised a son, Ram Das, who went to MPA for many years.
Lana started making inner shifts beginning in 2001, and around 2008 the Dharmic identity no longer represented her fully, and she changed her outer look, and more recently, she changed her name as well. She and her husband, who also has changed tremendously over the last decade, have found a way...
2021-02-191h 34Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 19: SatHanuman Singh Khalsa (Joined 3HO in 1972)Uncomfortable Conversations: The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga Community
SatHanuman Singh Khalsa started practicing Kundalini Yoga in 1972. He was one of the 13 original members of the Baba Siri Chand Ashram (founded by Yogi John Twombly and wife Soorya Kaur). He started teaching KY in 1972 and continued until 2007 after relocating to Portland Oregon in which he continued his interfaith work and lecturing at schools from Florida, New England and Portland Oregon on Sikhi! . His daughters are Sat Pavan Kaur and Siri Swami Kaur who are both married to son's of our community.
He worked a...
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Inspired Artist PodcastGuruNischan - RECLAIMING SEXUAL PLEASUREIn this LONG-awaited episode I welcome GuruNischan to the podcast. GuruNishan grew up in 3HO (the Kundalini Yoga community started by Harbhajan Puri, aka "Yogi Bhajan"). She is now hosting her own amazing podcast called "Uncomfortable Conversation: The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga Community." This is the vivacious bio from her website https://www.gurunischan.com||
"My name is GuruNischan. (I didn't make that up:) But I'm NOT your GURU.
I'm a Soul Provocateur. An Alchemist. A Breath Trainer. A Teacher of the sensory system. I will seduce you into experiencing more of y...
2021-02-051h 00Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 18: Mani Niall (Mani Singh Khalsa 1972-1985)Episode 18: Mani Niall (formerly Mani Singh Khalsa 1972-1985) was introduced to 3HO at the age of 12 when he attended the wedding of his sister at the Mendocino, CA Solstice.
He moved into an ashram at the age of 15 in Sedona, AZ as well as lived in other Ashrams: Cave Creek, AZ, Tucson, AZ, Salem Oregon, Portland, OR and then Los Angeles from 1979-1985. He left 3HO in 1985.
Mani has been a baker, private chef, two-time bakery owner/operator and chief cupcake froster, has written four cookbooks, and currently resides in Oakland, CA...
2021-02-052h 38Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 17: Michelle Melito (Born 1982; Denver, CO )Michelle Melito is a second generation of 3HO. She was born in Colorado in 1982 to Darshan Singh and Kaur. She has two older second generation siblings who were Saraswati Kamal and GuruMantra. At the age of 2 her family moved to the Espanola Ashram. At age 5 her family left 3HO and her parents divorced.
She grew up in Albuquerque where she suffered parental neglect and other heavily traumatic experiences. At age 15 she turned back to the only “good thing” she thought she knew: 3HO and Yogi Bhajan. In 1999/2000 she attended Miri Piri Academy in India, and also lived with Yogi...
2021-01-281h 24Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 16: Rose Diana Khalsa (Bhagwant Kaur Khalsa 1972-1996)Rose Diana Khalsa, formerly Bhagwant Kaur Khalsa, moved into the Ashram in Baltimore, MD in January of 1972. She was married and had three sons, who are Bhagwan, Parmatma and Guru Meher. She left the community in 1996. She is now living in Great Barrington Mass.
Rose is the Director of The Polarity Center & Shamanic Studies. She has been teaching internationally for over 40 years. Rose offers training in polarity therapy, craniosacral visionary work and shamanism, and integrates nature-based and holistic approaches to healing in her private practice.
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2021-01-211h 27Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 15: Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa (Born 1988 in Vancouver, BC)Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa was born and raised in 3HO in 1988 in Vancouver British Columbia (born to her mother, father and 14 year older sister (a practicing 3HO Sikh/Kundalini Yoga oriented family).
She took KY teacher training in 2001 at her mother’s Teacher’s Training in Vancouver(GuruRaj Kaur Khalsa) TT, and then decided she wanted to go to MIri Piri Academy in India for 10th, 11th, and 12th grade, graduating in 2006.
She released her first musical album “Aquarian” in 2007, made as mantra music to accompany the Kundalini practice of morning Aquarian Sadhana.
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2021-01-182h 24Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 14: Jyoti MaEpisode 14: Jyoti Ma is a Siddha yogini and Shakta Tantra practitioner. Before she transited into her spiritual life, she worked as a professional psychotherapist, specializing in traumatic stress and addiction treatment.
This intersection of her clinical and yogic experience led to her seeing and counseling seekers who had left groups/communities led by fake gurus/charismatic leaders. She’s consulted with and helped many who left such communities, including people who left 3HO over the past 20 years.
She has an extensive background in treating complex trauma and specifically with group think dynamics. She has a we...
2021-01-142h 45Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 13: Elizabeth Sadhu (Sadhu Kaur Khalsa 1972-1988)Laura Elizabeth Sadhu Roberts took her first Kundalini yoga class when she was 15, in 1972 Eugene, Oregon.
She received her name Sadhu Kaur Khalsa at 1975 Summer Solstice, had an arranged marriage, worked and lived in both Eugene and Salem Ashrams, growing the early Amrit Bakery/Golden Temple Bakery business, among others, birthed two children, and has many stories to share from those early days in Oregon. She and her husband and children left 3HO in 1988.
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2021-01-061h 43Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 12: George Craig McMillian aka Kirantana Khalsa (Joined 3HO 1971 Hari Shabd Singh))George Craig McMillian also known as Kiriantana Khalsa, who met Yogi Bhajan in 1971, at 22 years old, and became one of his first bodyguards.
He has many stories to share including moving on from 3HO to teach Kundalini Yoga in war-torn countries including Bosnia, Palestine and Egypt.
Kirantana is also a musician, recording artist, published author, and a devout Amritdhari-Udasi Sikh
Song Credit: Pacing the Cage by Bruce Cockburn
2020-12-311h 55Uncomfortable Conversations Podcast The Untold Stories of the 3HO Kundalini Yoga CommunityEpisode 11: SiriNirongkar Singh Khalsa (Mother joined 3HO 1976 when he was 9yrs old)Siri NirongKar Singh Khalsa (now goes by Siri) was born in 1967 in the Boston area. He’s 53 years old currently. His mother converted to 3HO Sikhism in 1976, (he was 9) then moved into ashrams in Los Angeles, New Mexico, Oregon. 1981 went to India and attended boarding school. (GNFC).
He graduated from India 1985, went on to work for Akal Security, Bodyguard to Yogi Bhajan, went back to India and ran the school for a few years, came back to the states and while employed as a paramedic I was involved in caring for Yogi Bhajan until his death.
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The Longevity Lifestyle Podcast with David Rachford#26 Yoga & Breath Technology for Modern Living with GuruNischan KhalsaWith natural health and spirituality as the foundation of GuruNischan's upbringing, she helps you create the powerful, luminous, and deeply spiritual life that feels perfect for you!
She believes being spiritual doesn’t mean you have to park on a yoga mat and meditate for 8 hours, take a trip to India, or be a vegetarian, (although, she has done all of that!) It does mean learning to integrate simple spiritual practices, that have real, tangible results, into your every-day, multi-faceted, divinely-complex life.
In our chat, GuruNischan describes "breath of fire," and how it gives a powerf...
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