Kundalini Yoga Lineage

[Guest guest]

Dharam says:

 

"So ask your teacher

who her teacher is and what that relationship is

about, and then what that

teacher's relationship is with their teacher and s

forth. It's a Chain. Any

teacher worth their salt would want their students to

ten times greater than

them self."

 

Can you share with us your lineage as well? Who was

Yogi Bhajan's teacher?

 

Sat Nam

S

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam Stacee,

My lineage? Whoa, hmmmmmm. If you want to go way back, my Great

Grand-Father established the first African American Church in Martinsville,

VA. Within my lifetime, it was in amongst the wildness of my 20th year on

this green earth that I had the opportunity to meet my first 2 Kundalini

Yoga teachers (Devta Kaur and Jai Inder Kaur of Fairbanks) and through that

connection I had an audience with the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa weeks later, and

received a Buddhist name in Whitehorse, Yukon. (at one point the Karmapa

played with my hair after they all laughed when I ran in wondering if I had

missed the "taking of the vows" and was trying to explain where I was.. (it

was I had to go to the bathroom). It seemed to me like they enjoyed that

fact that it was best to be getting rid of the proverbial S*&T rather than

be full of S#*T and take vows I couldn't keep).

Five weeks later I attended White Tantric with Yogi Bhajan in Eugene, OR

and a week later I stumbled into a community known as Meta Tantay in Carlin,

Nevada and spent time with Rolling Thunder, a Cherokee Shaman in the

Shoshone Nation. That felt real RIGHT! Very wild times, nonetheless. Much

of that year was spent simply sorting through what Kundalini Yogi was

pushing up for me to acknowledge, embrace and process, finally. That deep

work was aided by lots of Gestalt-Bioenergetics in the many months after. It

was this that really allowed me to make all of the other pieces breathing

and real. I felt the Shaman in me...and the monk. It would actually be a few

years before I personally connected wih Yogi Bhajan and was given practical

tools (Gur) to handle my life and make it all "walk and talk" and to some

extent, "transferable".

I have walked a very unusual path with lots of abandon, at times (thank

God for the 70's), and do wonder if anyone else has had anywhere near an

experience that parallels mine. Nonetheless, I look for the common ground

and try to find resonance around me. It was the Bioenergetics that made it

all very human to me and yet very transcendent and even "shamanic" at times.

So I would have to say that the intelligence and guiding spirit of Wilhelm

Reich was a light for me, also. This experience informs every bit of who I

am today. The human body truly is a beautiful instrument for experiencing

all of G.O.D.. The sunshine and the rain. It's our FIRST temple.

 

Interpersed amongst all of this were various casual/musical involvements

with other 3HO Sikhs in Fairbanks and the occasional Sadhana until finally,

in 1986, I had a personal audience with Yogi Bhajan and received my name and

all kinds of guidance.

I moved to Millis, MA two years later and Gurucharan Singh Khalsa become a

great resource to me. He is a great counselor and modern therapists could

learn a lot from him. He is also one of two people (the other is Guru Dev

Singh) that Yogi Bhajan, while here, had given certain types of license with

regards to how the teachings are "relayed" This is hard to verbalize. For

instance, Venus Kriyas (practiced between married couples) are not ever

taught in a class setting. Gurucharan and Guru Dev are cleared to do these

teachings.

 

Yogi Bhajan's lineage is not cut and dry situation either. He will give

homage to his mother, first off. Later down the road is a man named Sant

Hazara, who was his formal teacher from the regiona that now called

Pakistan. Guru Ram Das is his personal Saint, even though he left his body

in 1581. The link between Guru Ram Das and Yogi Bhajan is immense.

Absolutely beyond anything you can conceive of, but I don't know you, do I

???? Let me put it this way....If you love and revere something/someone

enough you mirror and embody that thing or person. You've heard the

expression "you are what you eat". Well, if one has a habit of reverence and

love for such a one as Guru Ram Das, you can't but feel an unbearable sense

of compassion and have a need to discharge that responsibilty through

feeding and serving all of humanity. To deliver your message to as many

eyeballs and eardrums as you physically can.

 

Thanks for asking this question as it is nourishing for me to recount all of

these blessings I've had in my life. It helps me in moving forward to

remember I'm not alone in the least.

 

Dhan Dhan Guru Ram

Sat Nam,

Dharam Singh

MA <---> OR

 

One other thing....I can't hit "send" without showing some love and respect

for the resonance brought to my soul by the music of John Coltrane and Eric

Dolphy (check out the Village Vanguard recordings of "Spiritual"), Miles

Davis and a few others in my earlier years. These men were champions and

brought back much from their "hunts" to feed others, also, but channeled

their light into music. Unfortunately, they had to self medicate due to

their sensitivity, and didn't have the tools the Yogis had.

We're all human.

 

On 3/28/06, Stacee Kramer <stacee.kramer wrote:

>

> Dharam says:

>

> "So ask your teacher

> who her teacher is and what that relationship is

> about, and then what that

> teacher's relationship is with their teacher and so

> forth. It's a Chain. Any

> teacher worth their salt would want their students to be

> ten times greater than

> them self."

>

> Can you share with us your lineage as well? Who was

> Yogi Bhajan's teacher?

>

> Sat Nam

> S

>

>

>