The Kundalini leadership attacked Steiner for his action. He warned them: “If we hold any leader ‘above’ this accountability, we move from being in Dharma to being in a cult.” A few months later he also wrote a lengthy letter to Bhajan himself. In it, he asked “can we openly question our spiritual teacher’s actions…without punitive measures taken against us?” He was referring to questions about Premka and Kate Felt, another woman who alleged sexual abuse by Bhajan. He sent it to the directors of the 100 Kundalini ashrams around the world. Two months later in July Steiner wrote a letter to the Kundalini Yoga community. And soon after Yogi Bhajan knew that he knew. “I’ll call her.” Steiner picked up the phone and dialed Pamela Sarah Dyson, known as Premka in the Kundalini community. “Bhajan was having sex with Premka from the beginning” she blurted out. When Steiner arrived he quickly found out. “Go to Chicago now! Speed! Don’t obey the lights!” Neither Steiner nor Bhajan knew what was wrong with his sister, who was also a long-time Kundalini devotee. “Your sister is freaking out,” Bhajan told him. Not long before this conversation, Steiner had a phone call that changed everything for him. They are crazy and they love me that much.” During an interview, Steiner told me he then went numb. If you tell people what you know I’m not responsible for what they might do to you. “I just want to tell you that there are so many people who love me in this family. “I know that you know certain things.” Yogi Bhajan was talking to Tej Steiner, the director of the Toronto Kundalini Ashram in a library-like room at the Clevland Ashram.
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UPDATE 8/14/20: An Olive Branch has concluded its 5-month independent investigation into Yogi Bhajan and found evidence of rape, group sex, and physical abuse. WARNING: This article contains graphic accounts of rape and child abuse. Former staff members say some poses were “literally made up on the spot” during yoga class. A scholar claims Bhajan blended modern teachers ideas to create the Kundalini poses, despite claiming they were ancient.Many in leadership have known of the abuses but have actively been covering them up. Those aware of abuses have been called “heretics” when bringing information to the governing members in the past.Bhajan is still venerated by 3HO, Sikh Dharma and modern Kundalini leadership and teachers.Bhajan died in 2004 of severe diabetes, obesity and heart failure after he had an illegal kidney transplant in India.A member on the global board of Akal says he is the “guru’s slave.” They worked with ICE to detain and ship migrants until group members organized a petition in 2015. The Kundalini organization runs a multi-billion dollar private military & security company called Akal Security that works with the U.S.Bhajan groomed girls at a young age to be married off to his elite and wealthy friends. He also arranged over 500 marriages and tampered with relationships, while shaming and ostracizing gay members.Bhajan coerced his followers to send their children away for years to his expensive training schools in India where they were physically beaten, emotionally abused and indoctrinated.He made millions of dollars off his Kundalini enterprise. Yogi Bhajan hoarded millions of dollars in precious jewels and gems, had the largest collection of ivory in New Mexico and owned nearly twenty luxury cars.Bhajan was involved with several criminal operations including smuggling twenty tons of marijuana and weapons from Thailand, defrauding people with fake investment scams and overcharging people for jewelry.Yogi Bhajan stated in a lecture in 1978 that “Rape is always invited, it never happens, a person who is raped is always providing subconsciously the environments and the arrangements.”.A new book by former staff member Pamela Sarah Dyson alleges that Bhajan had coerced her and other staff members into sex.She also alleges Bhajan kept her hostage with armed guards in the cult. Former long-term staff member Kate Felt claims Bhajan brutally raped her at the age of 20 while her sister Amrit Kaur Khalsa, who is the current head of Kundalini operations/3HO, helped him.
They claim he ran a destructive cult and groomed and abused children.
Former followers of Yogi Bhajan are speaking out about years of severe physical, sexual, verbal and emotional abuse.