You are invited to check out (via links embedded in the underlined titles) some of the following interviews and stories that have been written or recorded in response to the publication of ‘Premka’ and all of the revelations of abuse and criminality that ensued:
Yoga Journal Article:
A New Report Details Decades of Abuse at the Hands of Yogi Bhajan
The founder of Kundalini Yoga in the West is implicated in dozens of sexual assault and harassment claims according to an independent investigation conducted by An Olive Branch.
By Jennifer Davis Flynn - August 15, 2020
L.A. Magazine Article:
Yogi Bhajan Turned an L.A. Yoga Studio into a Juggernaut, and Left Two Generations of Followers Reeling from Alleged Abuse
A revered yoga figure’s legacy is being reevaluated as former followers come forward with allegations that they endured relentless sexual, emotional, and physical abuse
By Stacie Stukin - July 15, 2020
Asia Samachar Article- March 06, 2021
Lessons from fall of rockstar evangelists Ravi Zacharias and Yogi Bhajan – Part 1
Asia Samachar Article-Part 2- March 22, 2021
Lessons from fall of rockstar evangelists Ravi Zacharias and Yogi Bhajan
Santa Fe New Mexican
Legacy of Yogi Bhajan swirls in controversy years after his death by Phaedra Haywood
“In the past year, however, fissures of dissent among the yogi’s followers that began to appear decades ago have been cracked open by the publication of a memoir authored by a woman who was one of his closest aides and the release in August of a report detailing dozens of onetime devotees’ allegations of sexual abuse.”
Religious News Service Article:
Yogi Bhajan, yoga guru and founder of 3HO, ‘more likely than not’ sexually abused followers, says report
A new report from An Olive Branch, a Pittsburgh-based consultancy guided by Buddhist principles that specializes in helping spiritual communities navigate ethical misconduct, concluded that “more likely than not” Bhajan used his power as a spiritual leader to perpetrate a range of abuses against women and female minors that included rape, sexual battery, sexual abuse and sexual harassment.
By Philip Deslippe & Stacie Stukin - August 18, 2020
Theresa Lyn Widmann
Why I Stopped Teaching Kundalini Yoga as Taught by Yogi Bhajan
“In February, Pamela Dyson’s book, Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage: My Life with Yogi Bhajan revealed some closely held secrets of her time as Secretary General to Yogi Bhajan. Her truth gave permission to many who’ve been silenced over the years and unleashed a massive unveiling of stories from hundreds revealing various types of abuse and other illegal activities that had taken place in the KYatbYB community since its inception, culminating in an investigation and report by The Olive Branch.”
Hip Sobriety Blog
By Holly Whittaker
PREMKA: ON KUNDALINI YOGA, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND SPIRITUAL BYPASSING
“I read Premka, the story of Pamela Dyson and the sexual and psychological violence and abuse she suffered at both the hands of Yogi Bhajan (the founder of Kundalini Yoga) and 3HO, (the organization founded by Yogi Bhajan that oversees IKYTA, the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association) in early March.
Let me not mince words: I believe Pamela as I believe all those on the short end of the power stick who at the cost of so much dare to tell the truth; who suffer abuse first at the hands of their abuser, and then at the hands of enablers, the criminal justice system, and society at large. I believe her story and her truth: I believe that Yogi Bhajan was a sexual predator; I believe that the organization he founded and people within that organization enabled that and/or were complicit in that predation.”
Cult expert, Steven Alan Hassan interviews Pamela Saharah Dyson about her book, Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage and her life in the 3HO organization for 1969-1984.
Steven Hassan is an American mental health counselor who has written on the subject of mind control and how to help people who have been harmed by the experience. He has been helping people exit destructive cults since 1976.
