Spirit - 3HO
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people get well,<br />
stay well, and live well<br />
At the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine & Humanology<br />
By Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa, Ph.D.<br />
“I believe I would<br />
not be alive today if<br />
I had not started to<br />
practice Kundalini<br />
Yoga and make the<br />
life changes you<br />
helped me<br />
to make.”<br />
On Guru Ram<br />
Das’ birthday in<br />
October 1986 it<br />
was my blessing<br />
to teach the first<br />
ever Kundalini Yoga class especially<br />
for people with HIV. 1986<br />
is the same year that AZT went into clinical trials and many of the students in the class found<br />
themselves more sick from the side effects of the medication (the kinks had not yet been<br />
worked out in the dosing) than from any opportunistic infection. Teacher training prepares<br />
us to teach healthy people, not people with life-threatening health conditions. Ong Namo<br />
Guru Dev Namo* came through and Guru Ram Das gave the students what they needed.<br />
Over the next few months under Yogi Bhajan’s guidance, classes were formed to meet the<br />
wide range of needs for people in all stages of HIV disease, and thus our service to people<br />
with serious illness began.<br />
Twenty years later, the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine & Humanology continues to<br />
pioneer the instruction of Kundalini Yoga for health recovery for a variety of health conditions.<br />
We provide an integrative program for the whole family, from those newly diagnosed,<br />
to those going through the rigors of medical treatment and the recovery year following treatment.<br />
In addition, we train and assist yoga teachers and health professionals the world over.<br />
Classes have been held at support groups gathered in private homes in the Hollywood<br />
Hills; the high-rise hospitals of New York City; in a clinic in the township of Soweto, South<br />
Africa; in Bangkok, Mexico City, Moscow, and dozens of other places worldwide. Because<br />
of this outreach, thousands of people have personally experienced the practice of Kundalini<br />
Yoga and Meditation as a powerful approach to help get well, stay well, and live well.<br />
Founded as a non-profit organization by Yogi Bhajan, the long-term mission of the Guru<br />
Ram Das Center for Medicine & Humanology is to bring the techniques of Kundalini Yoga<br />
as a treatment modality into the health care field, just as other methods—such as acupuncture<br />
and chiropractic services—have been integrated in the recent past.<br />
Some of the volunteers from the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine & Humanology gather to celebrate.<br />
We accomplish this by:<br />
• Teaching Kundalini Yoga and Meditation to those with<br />
life-threatening or chronic illness such as asthma, diabetes,<br />
HIV disease, cancer, heart disease, chronic pain,<br />
depression, and life transitions. Friends and family<br />
members are included in all our programs.<br />
• Training nurses, doctors, psychologists, and other<br />
health care professionals to use Kundalini Yoga and<br />
Meditation as part of their patients’ treatment plan.<br />
• Providing specialized training to KRI certified yoga teachers<br />
worldwide, so they may knowledgeably and safely<br />
instruct people with illness in yoga and meditation.<br />
• Conducting research on the medical effects of Kundalini<br />
Yoga and Meditation.<br />
• Building a global network of health care professionals,<br />
yoga teachers, and yoga and meditation<br />
researchers to provide competent, appropriate,<br />
research-informed instruction in Kundalini Yoga to<br />
those recovering from illness. =<br />
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