In 1987 he transferred these workshops to videotape. Yogi Bhajan, as the Mahan Tantric, the only living master of White tantric yoga, conducted workshops in cities around the world. In 1994, 3HO became a member of the United Nations as an NGO in consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council, representing women’s issues, promoting human rights and providing education on alternative systems of medicine. There are now 300 centers in 35 countries. The non-profit 3HO Foundation (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization) was incorporated in 1969 to serve humanity through kundalini yoga, meditation and the science of humanology which improves physical well being, as well as deepening spiritual awareness. He later moved to Los Angeles and began teaching young hippies that the experience of higher consciousness they were attempting to find through drugs could be found through the practice of kundalini yoga. He arrived in Canada in 1968 to teach yoga at the University of Toronto, his sponsor the Canadian High Commissioner in New Delhi. When he was just eight years old he began his yogic training with his teacher who proclaimed him to be a master of kundalini yoga when he was 16. When he became a United States citizen in 1976, he changed his name legally to Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji. Yogi Bhajan was born Harbhajan Singh Puri, August 26, 1929, in the part of India that became Pakistan in 1948. The same year, in acknowledgement of his extraordinary impact of spreading the universal message of Sikhism, he was given the title of the Siri Singh Sahib, chief religious and administrative authority for the Western hemisphere by the governing body of Sikh temples. Through his personal efforts, Sikh Dharma was legally incorporated and officially recognized as a religion in the USA in 1971. The first to publicly teach kundalini yoga when he arrived in 1968, he announced he had come to the West “to create teachers, not to gain students.”Ī deeply devoted Sikh, his inspiration and example motivated thousands to embrace the Sikh way of life. The cause of death was complications due to heart failure.Īn outstanding pioneer in many fields with a deep and compassionate insight into the human condition, he established permanent institutions, created spectacular events, and produced a prolific body of teachings. Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji, 75, known as Yogi Bhajan to hundreds of thousands of adherents worldwide, left his physical body at 9 pm MDT on October 6 at his home in Espanola, New Mexico surrounded by family and friends.
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