Shakti Parwha Kaur at first served as his personal assistant, secretary, and driver, helping Yogi Bhajan to establish classes at YMCAs in the Los Angeles area. Within a couple of months, he also had her teaching Kundalini Yoga classes. As the yogi’s teaching mission began to flourish, she became the Executive Secretary of the 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization) Foundation and editor of numerous publications. From the beginning, Yogi Bhajan designated his student, a real life single mom, as “the Mother of 3HO,” an honorific she eventually acknowledged.
Read: "The Mother: Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa"
Categories: Our Stories
Yogi Bhajan was making soup in the kitchen of the East-West Cultural Center in Los Angeles when he told me, “I have a vision, to create an organization called “3HO,
Read: "The Beginning of 3HO"
Categories: Our Stories
When I finished my breakfast shift as a waitress at the Beverly Hilton, I changed out of my multi colored striped uniform (red, blue, orange, yellow, violet) and rushed home…
Read: "Keeping Up with Yogiji"
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Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa was the first student of Yogi Bhajan and he appointed her as ” The Mother of 3HO” In this video Shakti Parwha Kaur shares the “four…
Read: "Grace of Woman"
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Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa, the “Mother of 3HO”, was Yogi Bhajan’s first student in the United States. She went on to make a huge contribution to the phenomenal world-wide growth of Kundalini Yoga. Her books have been read by many and countless beginners have benefited greatly from the teaching techniques which she helped pioneer and propagate.
Read: "Bio of Shakti Parwha Kaur"
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When 3HO was in its infancy, we sang many rousing choruses of “We are One in the Spirit, we are One in the Lord.” It captured the prevailing enthusiasm of the idealistic generation that flocked to learn from the Yogi. It was an open-hearted era of loving acceptance of everyone, presaging the the Aquarian Age Age of brotherhood yet to come.
We didn’t know how traumatic the change of Ages was going to be, but Yogi Bhajan did. He traveled extensively throughout the world, preparing people for the Aquarian Age. Even when his words had to be translated, his teachings went straight to the hearts of the thousands of people he reached. Language was no barrier for him.
Read: "One in the Spirit"
Categories: 3HO History, Music history, Our Stories
Tags: Aquarian Times, Aquarian Times - 2006-May
Very few, if any of us, consistently live in our higher chakras. Assuming we’re all yogis, i.e. trying to live in “higher consciousness,” we spend time every day meditating . Sure, in yoga class, we sit calmly in Lotus, eyes focused at the Ajna Chakra. Meditating on the inflow and outflow of the prana, inhale Sat; exhale Nam . Ah, what bliss! Aspiration, tranquility, and peace-that’s devotion. Then we walk outside, discover a dent in the fender of our brand new Jaguar, or driving home someone cuts us off in traffic. Those expletives we utter are not coming from the heart chakra!
Read: "What Chakra are You Living In?"
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Tags: Aquarian Times, Aquarian Times - 2004-summer
Written by M.S.S. Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa on July 26, 1989 and shared in the winter, 1989 Beads of Truth magazine The Yogi sits in an oasis of compassionDeep within…
Read: "God’s Man – The Yogi"
Categories: Our Stories, Poetry
Someday your chair will be empty.
The very blades of grass shall grieve,
And the mountain tops shall shriek in pain at the loss.
This planet in, all its agony and darkness, has had one hope,
One glimmer of light, that you brought in your humble way.
Read: "Someday Your Chair will be Empty"
Categories: Our Stories, Poetry
