In the turbulent, drug culture of the 60s, Yogi Bhajan first reached out to the youth. He recognized their experimentation with drugs and “altered states of consciousness” expressed a deeper desire to experience a holistic, liberating sense of awareness and a longing for family, for connection with themselves and one another.

Soon realizing that pharmaceuticals provided, at best, a cheap imitation to the peaceful, inner euphoria they could get naturally from Kundalini Yoga, and at worst, had debilitating physical and mental side effects, young people began flocking to his classes, arriving by the busloads. He created a family, known as 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization) and soon 3HO teaching centers began springing up across the United States and throughout the world. He sparked a movement whose many tendrils have wound their way into our culture. Yogi Bhajan blazed a trail, which today, after more than 30 years of determined effort on the part of 3HO and the Kundalini Research Institute, yoga and meditation have gained widespread acceptance in the West.

This popular attention speaks not only to the proven benefits of yoga and meditation, but to the increasing public interest in spirituality and a healthy lifestyle. Born Harbhajan Singh in what is now Pakistan to a family of healers and community leaders, Yogi Bhajan studied comparative religion and Vedic philosophy in his undergraduate years, going onto receive his Masters in Economics with honors from Punjab University. Years later, he earned his Ph.D. in communications psychology from the University of Humanistic Studies in San Francisco. He emerged as a religious, community and business leader with a distinguished reputation as a man of peace, world-vision, wisdom, and compassion.

He has authored and published more than 30 books on topics ranging from spirituality and consciousness to communication and psychology. He has founded several foods companies that manufacture and distribute natural products based on these teachings. He has fostered economic development in every community in which he participates, annually conducts business seminars, and has authored several books that provide guidance to both the aspiring entrepreneur and seasoned business executive alike. As the Siri Singh Sahib, or the Sikh leader in the Western Hemisphere, he has met with Pope John Paul II to discuss inter-religious dialogue and worked side-by-side with the Dalai Lama and the Archbishop of Canterbury to foster world peace.

 

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 Karam Kriya is taught by Shiv Charan Singh, inspired by the Kundalini Yoga teachings and based on the sacred wisdom of Numbers. It is an applied numerology, that identifies the patterns from 1 to 9 taking into account situations, behaviours, objects… everything that is included in these patterns. Since our own experience is subjected to the stories we hold from the past, the present ones and the ones we create for the future, we can break down these stories and be guided in their renewal through numbers. In this way, we can change our self-experience and our relationship with the world. It is thus possible to improve the opportunities of fulfilling our true destiny, as we pass through time and space.

Based on the teachings of Yogi Bhajan and the Sikh Gurus, Shiv Charan Singh developed this method of Spiritual Counselling guided by the analysis and interpretation of numbers, time and the person’s life, and the interdependent relationship between all.It serves to awaken right understanding and turn the mind towards the Spirit. This way we are better equipped to fulfill the best potential of our journey here on Earth.

Karam Kriya includes the study of numbers and understanding their influence on the life of the individual. Making sense of life through numbers and to live in awareness of the numbers behind our tendencies and events that we experience.The world within us and the world around us is full of many vibrations, and each vibration effects the quality of our energy, or life-force. The vibrations of number are inherent in, and therefore closely linked to, all our actions and choices. And so being able to intuitively and intelligently read the numbers brings benefit to our physical, emotional and mental health, as well as our success, our general well-being and flow of prosperity. Great discoveries and healing processes, along with increase of consciousness, takes place, and is initiated, at the border between the known and the unknown. It is here that we are most challenged but also most inspired to recognize and embrace our path and purpose. Time and space become demystified and transparent. Life is note merely accident, good or bad luck, fate or random coincidences. We have some power to influence and choose, be a product and/or the producer of what happens to us, or is destined.

Karam Kriya is a unique approach to negotiating change; working with the global archetypes of numbers to provide a personal, professional and spiritual health check.

Karam = Structures that take us through time but with no result other than repetition.

Kriya = Completion of these structures and the establishment of Dharmic structures. Dharmic structures are vehicles of awareness that use time to go beyond time.

An organic and ever young approach to finding creative ways to utilise the passing time in order to create opportunities and to expand our possibilities of unlocking our full potential and giving birth to the individualised soul while here in the precious jewel of human life and in the mediums of time and space given for this purpose.

It is the ongoing practice of re-negotiating the ways we shape our physical and psychic space towards the above-mentioned purpose. This negotiation always takes place in relation to other human beings.

Working with the individual or the group, Karam Kriya is a negotiation of change that facilitates the journey of the soul in delivering itself through the mediums of time and space. Transmitting a call to consciousness and inviting the awareness of opportunity, choice and possibility. Maximising the given law of cause and effect to exhaust karma and give life to dharma. Realising the sound that created us and becoming that in all we do.

Karam Kriya is inspired by the teachings of Yogi Bhajan and developed by Shiv Charan Singh. It is a completing activity that uses Applied Numerology to provide interactive diagnostic tools for transformation. For example your date of birth provides a window into your life patterns, which is also your karma.

Karam Kriya is a scientific approach to understanding the influence of the law of karma in your life and through this learning rendering your history transparent. Once you have this transparency of your past you can introduce changes in your actions and belief structure that will help you to have a story that will bring you to your destiny. It is the science of getting in touch with the basic formula, which initiated your existence. And then using the time and energy before it uses you to fuel changes in the shape of your life in order to create opportunities and to seize them.

As a spiritual teacher and trained counsellor, Shiv Charan offers profoundly transformative individual consultations.

In 2002 he has started a challenging 3-year training in Karam Kriya consultancy in England, France, Germany, Italy and Russia and is now being taught world-wide. This training offers students the opportunity to learn about communication and relationship. First by examining the nature of the mind in order to render it transparent. Then by an in-depth exploration of the five universal voices that speak in everyone. It is a challenging course that calls on the students motivation and willingness to self-initiate into an accelerated learning process.