YSP 4 Philip Deslippe | Making Sense of Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga

In this episode, we speak with Philip Deslippe (UC Santa Barbara) about his research on the modern history and construction of Kundalini Yoga, the controversies surrounding the late guru Yogi Bhajan, as well as the role and positionality of the scholar and historian of yoga.
Speaker Bio
Philip Deslippe is a historian of American religion with a background in American Studies and literature. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he is writing a dissertation on the early history of yoga in the United States from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Philip has published articles on the history of modern yoga in academic journals such as the Journal of Yoga Studies, Amerasia, and Sikh Formations, and in popular venues including Yoga Journal, Air and Space Smithsonian, and the Indian news site Scroll.
Links
YS 102 | Modern Yoga in the West: www.yogicstudies.com/ys-102
Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage (Dyson 2020): amzn.to/36DwckN%20
"From Maharaj to Mahan Tantric: The Construction of Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga" (Deslippe 2012): www.researchgate.net/publicat...
www.philipdeslippe.com
ucsb.academia.edu/PhilipDeslippe
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[@chelseadonae8130]

I really appreciate these videos. I’m a former Kundalini student and I’ve felt so lost in we’re my beliefs lie. I’m slowly untangling the knot 💗

[@nemeta3846]

chelsea donae RUN AWAY!!

[@Sophia-AS]

Is there a „family tree“ for all the yoga style lineages that is reliable?(the invented lineages included) I would be so happy if you count point me to it!

[@bvim75]

me too

[@lunachristine7594]

Recommend increasing your listening speed.

[@TwasNeverThus2]

Phillipe, you've done extraordinary work on dismantling this horrific cult. So sorry for the way Suzanne treated you and kudos for your research

[@missminx6984]

The depth comes from the doing

[@michael_stanley]

can you do an episode on bhakti yoga and devotion please

[@yogicstudies]

Hey Michael, check out our episodes #23 w/ Patton Burchett and #25 w/ Edwin Bryant. Both of these discuss bhakti + yoga in great detail!

[@michael_stanley]

@@yogicstudies oh great thank you I will check them out

[@AnandMagic9]

Thank you for your continued work exposing this con man.

[@guillermodozal7166]

Gentlemen, on min 7 you’re questioning the use of the word kundalini, as bhajan used it, great. I’ve figured out that the only source of KY knowledge is on all those geometry symbols on the chakras, and nowhere else. With geometry, Mr. Kundalini is telling us that the message is all reasoned logic. All that geometry leads to a body-motion rhythm … .

[@guymark8703]

Sri Singh Slop was only making Cents from his scam

[@paulandrews8113]

I can no longer do the yoga this abusive man made up. Honestly, it’s exhausting and you feel like a clown when doing it.

[@cneetu80]

Bhagat Kabeer says:- my parents cleaned my filth with their hands when I was a baby… but person who slanders me cleans the filth with his mouth. Instead of focusing on improving our life, people create negative karma for them self by putting others down ( wasting precious life time ) and ultimately they also face the same when time comes to reap the fruits of those sown seeds (then it is realized and regretted). Read the history of unguli maar and buddha , bhagat sadna,hazrat nazamudim and Amir khusro, how people throw garbage for their own motives .

[@AnandMagic9]

The person who created negative karma for himself was Harbhajan Singh, when he raped Pamela Dyson and countless other women. The women who have come forward to share their stories should be commended for their courage and resilience. It is you who is “throwing garbage”.

[@guillermodozal7166]

cene, you’re committing the crime you’re listing.