About Pamela
Within months of his arrival in the United States, Pamela attended her first semi-private yoga class with Yogi Bhajan. After learning she worked as an Executive Secretary and was recently divorced, he quickly swept her into service as his driver, photographer, personal attendant and secretary. Yogi Bhajan was one of the many Eastern-born teachers who appeared in the U.S. in the midst of the transformational ‘60s.
Over the course of the next 16 years, re-naming her Premka, Yogi Bhajan called upon her innate abilities, encouraging her to document the growth of their proliferating lifestyle community and the evolution of individuals from hippies, flower children and new agers to yogis and finally to Sikhs. She became the Administrative Director for the International Headquarters of 3HO Foundation and Sikh Dharma International and the first Secretary General for the international ministerial council of the Sikhs (the Khalsa Council).
Premka rendered the major prayers of the Sikhs into American English, in a book entitled Peace Lagoon, first published in 1971. She also served as Editor of the community’s 32-page quarterly magazine, Beads of Truth. In 1979, she helped to conceptualize, compile and edit a volume of more than 400 pages, presenting a pictorial history of Yogi Bhajan’s achievements in the U.S. The volume was a gift in honor of his 50th birthday and was entitled The Man Called the Siri Singh Sahib.
In 1984, she moved to Hawaii, married Siri Brahma (Jack Dyson) and within two years, their son Casey Dyson, was born. Over the course of the ten years of their marriage, they designed and built a total of five houses and flipped a few fixer-uppers as well.