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Bhakti Akal Kaur brought Kundalini Yoga to Vietnam after her teacher training in the U.S. She shares weekly free classes with her university students and has opened the Tara House Project, making Kundalini Yoga free and accessible for all in Ho Chi Minh City. Her students in Vietnam gush over her, saying she leads with…
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Sunderta Kaur (Marina Maia) is developing a donation-built community center in an underserved area of Brazil for impoverished children and adults to learn the tools of Kundalini Yoga. She is the founder of Yoga e Negritude, which seeks to raise the profile of Black yoga students and teachers in Brazil.…
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Can you briefly describe the Seva Sadhana program for those who haven’t heard of it before?
Seva Sadhana is a yogic lifestyle immersion program that allows a person to live in community and practice a healthy, happy and holy lifestyle. Program participants do seva for four hours each day, five…
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Raj Khalsa Gurdwara and the Guru Angad Institute of Sikh Studies teamed up to participate in 28th annual Dr. Martin Luther King march and celebration held in Leesburg, VA on January 20. The sangat was blessed to represent Sikhs in this community event honoring one of the greatest spiritual leaders and champions of civil rights in U.S.…
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One day I was talking to a friend about the 400 children in need of weekend food at the school we were working with. We were serving 30 children weekly. We did the math and realized that each child in need was only receiving food every 15 weeks. She said, “Tell the Universe you have…
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October 22, 2019 Simran Singh Khalsa participated in an intense meetings at the U.S. Department of State in Washington DC, representing Sikh Dharma. The meeting was arranged to hear testimony about the plight of minority groups in Syria including the Kurds, Yezidis, and Christians (among others). This round-table presentation was to inform community…
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Langar Chile is a non-governmental organization founded in 2003 by Kundalini Yoga instructors Sinmrit Singh and Guru Darshan Singh, and they have been working since 2004 without interruption. This inspiring team serves hot vegetarian food to those who live in a street situation, and to anyone else who needs it, on Thursday nights in different…
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The Seva Sadhana Program at Hacienda de Guru Ram Das Ashram in Española, New Mexico offers an immersion experience into the healthy, happy, holy lifestyle. Participants live together in spiritual community, rise in the early morning to practice Kundalini Yoga and serve on the land where Yogi Bhajan lived for decades.
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Posted by Guru Simran Kaur Khalsa& filed under Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People, Your Stories
Food for Kids is a volunteer program that serves hungry children in and around the Española, New Mexico area. It was founded in 2009. The program regularly provides bags of food to local children between ages 6-12 who do not always get enough food to eat.…
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The SDI Staff attended local events to support the Global Climate Strike message.
Kirtan Singh participated in Los Angeles, by serving langar. The Khalsa Care Foundation, a Gurdwara in No. Los Angeles County prepared a vegan langar of rice and rajma dahl for 1,500. About ten persons were involved in making the langar. We…
Posted by Beads of Truth& filed under 03-Guru Amar Das, Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People, Your Stories
The 3rd Sikh guru, Guru Amar Das ji, proclaimed that no one would be allowed into his presence until that person had eaten in the Guru’s Kitchen, or Guru ka Langar. Of course, it was a wonderful service to make sure that everyone had this basic need for food taken care of before…
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Last fall, Sikh Dharma hosted a fund-raiser for a regional hospital in Venezuela. The lack of food and medicine in that country is overwhelming and raising money is just one step - finding a way to spend that money on the people who need it is not as easy as it may seem. …
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January 19 marked the fourth anniversary of Raj Khalsa Gurdwara’s monthly langar for the homeless program, an important milestone for the Raj Khalsa Gurdwara sangat in Virginia, USA.…
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Every story at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention Center is a tale of tragedy, and it is no less for the Indian Sikh and South Asian refugees waiting for adjudication of their cases. The path to detention usually starts in India with a smuggler. The young men pay tens of thousands…
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