Thousands of lectures, yoga classes and meditations were delivered and fortunately, recorded.
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He described himself as the Postman, delivering the teachings of Kundalini Yoga, and for the next 3½ decades, that is what he did. His teachings, melding Kundalini Yoga, the Sikh tradition, and a bit of astrology resonated well with the hippie lifestyle and spiritual aspirations of the developing youth culture.Īdopting the modest title of “Yogi,” Yogi Bhajan said that he did not come to gather students, but to create teachers. There he met Judith Tyberg (renamed Shakti Parwha Kaur) who invited him to teach at the East-West Cultural Center, and on January 6, Yogi Bhajan was launched and became a regular presenter. In 1968, Harbhajan Singh migrated to Toronto, Canada, and after several months, went on to Los Angeles in December 1968. Harbhajan continued his studies of yogic disciplines at various ashrams with a number of teachers and swamis. During this period, he married Inderjit Kaur Uppal (1954) and they had three children. He entered government service in 1952 in the Revenue Department, and then as a customs inspector at Delhi airport. He completed his studies and graduated with a Masters degree in economics. In 1947, Harbhajan’s education and life were interrupted by the violent partition of India, and the family fled to New Delhi. The family was well-to-do landlords, and his paternal grandfather was his primary teacher in the Sikh tradition. His father was a medical doctor and a Sikh, his mother Hindu, and his early education was in a Catholic school run by nuns. Yogi Bhajan was born Harbhajan Singh Puri on Augin Kot Harkarn, Gujranwala district in what is now Pakistan.