Why Joey hates yoga (video)

What if there were an ancient eightfold path to samadhi? Then another to enlightenment?

Why are they like this!?

American yoga is a cartoon, a facsimile, a joke.

(joeybtoonz) Sept. 1, 2024: Today let's explore people who pretend to be yoga instructors. [This is Kook Town, this is BS, this is, hold on, let me grab another pizza slice and brewsky so I can keep watching and criticizing this bogus bull.]

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Why we love yoga

We love the togetherness, health, movement!

It's easy to imagine that "yoga" is a bunch of beautiful gals and lithe guys capable of doing ballet, undressing into tights and athletic shirts so they can sweat while they pose. There's that. It's the face of the brand. But the brand is much older, much deeper, much more useful than flexibility and fulsome breathing. There's a point. The whole of yoga (union) is aimed at meditation and reaching samadhi ("stillness").

Tibetan Vajrayana yoga Yab-Yum

Anything can use the word. It needn't be from India nor linked to the Vedas, because "yoga" just means whatever the American industry can make of it. And that's money. One of the more woo-woo forms of yoga was invented by Yogi Bhajan, a turban-wearing Sikh promoter, who came to the U.S. to think and grow rich.

I was trying to make money and get girls. Win!

Sure there were sex scandals and profiteering, but don't think about that. He invented the company Yogi Tea, which has great boxes and too many synthetic "natural flavorings" (a term that means the artificial synthesis of a naturally occurring flavor) to recommend. Flavorants are artificial neurotoxins used to sell product not promote health. So when it says "natural flavor," read "artificial chemical" simulation of something real.

A pose series is not yoga even if called Ashtanga

Yoga can get to seem that way when it's Yogi Bhajan's brand of Kundalini Yoga. That is a lot of what Joey is boohooing. It looks crazy. It's trying to give participants an experience, a head rush, a movement of kundalini (energy bundled at the base of the spine, which if opened too soon will make one cuckoo); shaktipat might be a better name for what Kundalini Yoga capitalists are trying to evoke so that people keep coming back. Anything goes.

If it was good enough for JC...

American teachers want to patent something like convicted criminal Choudhry Bikram of Bikram Yoga infamy. Now it's Hot Yoga, keeping the overheated rooms and changing nearly everything else. But there are plenty of diehard Bikram fans still out there because it was anti-spiritual and all about the workout and kickstarting the endorphins, which is what city folk want. Cities have doshas (body types), too. It isn't just bodies. LA and NYC are very pitta (fiery). one can imagine a lot of kapha in Minnesota and vata in Hawaii.

We're just looking on our search

All places and bodies have all three but usually suffer a predominance of one over the others, an imbalance. Kundalini Yoga is very vata (airy fairy), which will seem odd, silly, fake, and phony to New Yorkers like Joey.

Yoga is very ancient, pre-Patanjali

Most of us imagine "spiritual" to mean "too airy" because air is the unseen force that moves leaves and whole trees and can be experienced indirectly by all its impacts. Hatha Yoga joins sun and moon, yang and yin energies, though some say that's nonsense, arguing it has another meaning. With so many kinds of yoga, like all the martial arts there are now, what is Royal (Raja) Yoga, the ruler of all other types? It is this very eightfold path of yoga called Ashtanga:

• Rāja Yoga's COMPARISON WITH BUDDHISM

Isn't Yoga the same as Buddhism? They are different with a very different goal.

Imperfect Paradise: Guru Jagat Conspiracy

Guru Jagat had the nerve to listen to David Icke

ABOUT THE SHOW: Imperfect Paradise is a longform narrative podcast showcasing California stories with universal significance -- like American Katie Griggs as Kundalini Master Guru Jagat.

[The nominal Left turns against the Left for daring to question the COVID narrative and other "conspiracies" in the name of spirituality. Therefore, someone made a podcast called "ConSpirituality," and Imperfect Paradise is capitalizing on it.]

Personality cult of Guru Jagat's RA MA Institute for Applied Yogic Science and Technology

Katie Griggs: The Second Coming of Guru Jagat (aka Katie Griggs) | Vanity Fair

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Each story takes on something essential about California -- its progressiveness, its reputation as a home for dreamers and schemers, its heartbreaking inequality, its varied and diverse communities, its unique combination of dense cities and wild places -- and each season breaks it down into multiple 20–40-minute episodes that will be released sequentially.

• Season 1 sheds light on divisive housing issues in Orange County.
• Season 2 investigates the death of Chicano activist Oscar Gomez.
• Season 3 unravels the controversy surrounding LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva.

Season 4, Yoga's "Queen of Conspiracy Theories"

Invincible Living (Guru Jagat/Target)

This is a new season that tells the story of how a former [now dead at a suspiciously early age] yoga and wellness star (Katie Griggs aka Guru Jagat) fell down the far-right "rabbit hole" during the pandemic [by daring to question NPR, the Democrats, Faustian Fauci, and the mainstream media]. The first episode became available to stream starting January 3, 2023, on the laist.com website. [Guru Jagat was a beautiful Kundalini Yoga teacher mocked and ripped to shreds by the Imperfect Paradise podcast for holding and promoting New Age views.]

• EPISODE 3 is on Kundalini Yoga’s #MeToo Moment

Yogi Bhajan of Yogi Tea fame

In early 2020, just as fears about coronavirus are worsening, women begin accusing the founder of Kundalini Yoga, Yogi Bhajan, of sexual assault. Guru Jagat’s surprising response sets the stage for her radicalization during the COVID p[l]andemic.

[Kundalini] Yoga's Queen Guru Jagat

• EPISODE 2: Kundalini Royalty

Guru Jagat memorial, RA MA (laist)

Katie Griggs, a young woman from rural Maryland, discovers Kundalini Yoga in her early 20s and goes all in. She transforms herself into "Guru Jagat," a beloved and controversial yoga and wellness influencer in Los Angeles.

In the second episode, her friends, family, and coworkers grapple with how she changed in the final years of her life. And the connections between yoga and conspiracies like QAnon are explored. LISTEN NOW

Support for this podcast is made possible by Gordon and Dona Crawford, who believe that quality journalism makes Los Angeles a better place to live. This podcast was made possible with support from the Committee for Greater LA in partnership with the Weingart Foundation.

[The mainstream media loves it, too, and there will be rewards all around in the future when those affiliated apply elsewhere.]

Sex-guru Yogi Bhajan can't get no satisfaction

Hari Jiwan (studentsofyogibhajan.com); Ananda (DBM), CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Yogi Bhajan: I Can't Get No....Satisfaction

Hari Jiwan (Students of Yogi Bhajan)

Yogi Bhajan loves kids, yes he does (SOYB)

This was written years ago by Hari Jiwan Singh in Espanola, New Mexico.

I remember it like it was yesterday. Actually, it was forty years ago. The Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan, and I were sitting in a small restaurant, Jason’s, in Westwood in late spring of 1979 enjoying a falafel.

Gurujas cozies up with Hari Jiwan (Facebook)

Jason’s was a small but famous stop in LA because their Middle Eastern food was rockin’! This was back in the days when the two of us ventured out alone each afternoon. We were just leaving a movie from around the corner and the falafel hit the spot.

“Sir, if you don’t mind me asking, What changed your life? You’ve told me many times about your earlier life, and you have hinted that it was not always a pretty picture. What happened?” More

Gurujas, vocalist for White Sun, Kundalini Yogini, Yogi Bhajan follower | Facebook

(KPFK) Snake oil saleswoman Christine Blosdale invites White Sun to the studio for an interview

• PHOTOS: If Kundalini Yoga is good enough for Grammy Award-winning [and KPFK-visiting] Guru Jas of White Sun, it's good enough for us
• KPFK presents: White Sun Live in concert (90.7 FM)
• White Sun (music based on American Kundalini Yoga)

White Sun wins a Grammy and stands proudly by Hari Jiwan (studentsofyogibhajan.com)

Grammy Award-winning Gurujas gets to meet the Dalai Lama with Hari Jiwan

Live in concert in LA: White Sun (Feb. 16)

Gurujas, White Sun, KPFK.org; Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Maya dreams of a white elephant.

White Sun is an American musical group formed in Los Angeles, California. The line-up consists of Gurujas Khalsa (singer, principal songwriter), Adam Berry (producer, instrumentalist), and Harijiwan Khalsa (founder, percussionist).

White Sun won the 59th Annual Grammy Award for Best New Age Album for their second album, White Sun II. Their music has gone to #1 on Billboard, #1 on Amazon, and #1 on iTunes and has been streamed 20 million times across six continents.

Gurujas of White Sun interview by Christine Blosdale, KPFK 90.7 FM

In 2018, the band released White Sun Gong, a full-length album of solo gong playing by Harijiwan, which reached #2 on the Billboard New Age Chart. Called “an extraordinary listening experience” by Phase Global Radio, White Sun Gong is not considered music but rather a tool to create a healing vibratory field. 

White Sun III, White Sun’s third release, is a double album containing 23 songs and over 90 minutes of music. White Sun III was released on September 28th, 2018 and was featured on KPFK. More

• AUDIO: check out White Sun interview on KPFK
• Marisa Peer Masterclass (mindvalley.com)
• Writers Resist (beyondbaroque.org)
  

Mantras in Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga (video)

Gurujas (White Sun), Host Christine Blosdale (KPFK.org); Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly 

Gurujas of White Sun on Mantra Meditation and Healing

(Out of the Box Radio) Discover what Sikhs in Kundalini Yoga consider the most powerful healing vibrations on the planet. Indian guru in America Yogi Bhajan passed down these mantras following a tradition of thousands of years. They are presented here by giggling, Grammy Award-winning Gurujas Khalsa and her group White Sun.

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