August 2020 – Trainer Support

August 24, 2020 – Trainer Update

Watch Amrit’s weekly video – Update on resources to support you and students around the report from An Olive Branch.

Click on the “CC” at the bottom of the video to see subtitles in various languages.

Zoom calls just for trainers regarding the report from An Olive Branch – Many of you have participated in the recent calls KRI held jointly with 3HO to provide information about the report. We are now scheduling additional calls just for trainers, in several time zones and with translation provided. Check out the schedule here and make sure to register for the call(s) you’d like to attend.

Staying up to Date with Proposals for TTEC –
- Discuss a proposal for certain qualified Associate trainers to teach in 21 Stages courses.
- Online Trainings – should we allow (either temporarily or permanently) 100% of a Level One Program to be done online?
- Possible changes to the Level One certification requirements (Watching Yogi Bhajan videos, a day of White Tantric Yoga, reading the Master’s Touch book, etc.)

Lead and Professional Trainer Interviews – We will continue to hold these online for the immediate future, and hence are open to receiving applications on a “rolling” basis, rather than needing to wait until the European Yoga Festival or Summer Solstice. When you and your mentor determine you are ready, you can apply through the trainer portal.

Global Healing Meditation continuing – The Global Ra-Ma-Da-Sa meditation is continuing. You, and anyone in your community (so please share this link!), can join a zoom call to meditate together daily at 6:30am Mountain Daylight Time (Denver, CO) here:

https://zoom.us/j/551818097?pwd=VXY1eWZaU1NqV2NHblNNUXZ0OUZOUT09

Request for Prayers – You are invited to join us in our prayers for Sada Simran Singh, a trainer from the US who is currently hospitalized with a serious case of Covid-19. Please keep him and his family in your prayers and meditations.

Upcoming Webinars for you and your students
- Self Responsibility of a Teacher/Trainer with Dr. Haridass – Join us live on Monday August 24th 12-2PM EDT (New York time), or pre-recorded one week after. Together in this webinar, we will explore the question of how we define our role as a Trainer within the Academy and the training teams and teaching community that we are a part of. Are we simply instructing yoga, teaching broader yogic philosophy, building a yogic community or spiritual coaches? How do we allow each person to find their own place and align with their unique destiny? Let’s discover our guiding light, our touchstone to emerge in our truth that will carry us through the chaos around us.
- A Yogic Approach for Grief Recovery with Dr. Shanti Shanti Kaur – Join us on Zoom: Thursday, August 27th, 12-14:00 EDT (New York). Login or register on Sutra, replay available one week later. This webinar explores the real lived experience of the many facets of grief. You will gain simple techniques to transform and integrate the experience of grief and allow new awareness to develop in your spiritual maturity.

From Crisis to Community with Lorenz and Natasha Sell – Thursday, Sept. 10th, 12-2 EDT (New York). If you cannot make the live webinar, please watch the recording one week later. Whatever the global situation might be presenting you with, this is an invitation to consider how we can come together as a community to create a connection. Our time together will explore this territory in a safe, supportive, and even playful environment as we bring the nuances of our personal experience into presence in our collective container. This virtual gathering will offer a relational space to discover our common humanity through the practice of deep listening and embodied presence. This is an experiential and experimental event, where we lovingly step into new ways of being together and hold space for a deeper and more personal understanding of community to emerge. We’ll engage in a social presencing process and have an opportunity to share with each other in a meaningful way.

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August 17, 2020 – Trainer Update

Watch Amrit’s weekly video – Resources for processing the report from An Olive Branch.

Click on the “CC” at the bottom of the video to see subtitles in various languages.

Support in processing the report from An Olive Branch –
- KRI’s letter accompanying the report from An Olive Branch went out only in English. You can find translated versions here. The letter from the Siri Singh Sahib Corporation and the entire report will be available in additional languages by the end of August here.
- KRI and 3HO are co-hosting a series of Information and Processing calls starting Monday 17 August. These are open for students, teachers, and trainers and are offered in several time slots, and each will have translations available. Please check out the schedule, and register if you’d like to attend one of these calls. If the currently scheduled times fill up, more will be scheduled, so please check the above-linked webpage!
- The report will be translated into 10 additional languages by 25 August. We will set up additional zoom calls at that time as well.
- After these information and processing calls, beginning the week of 24 August, KRI will set up calls just for trainers – but please ALSO attend one of these first set of joint calls so that everyone has the basic information as a common starting point. Please find the schedule of these calls here.
- A Yogic Approach for Grief Recovery with Dr. Shanti Shanti Kaur – Thursday, August 27th, 12-14:00 EDT (New York) on zoom live, or watch the recording which will be posted one week later. This webinar is open to all, so please share this link with others who could benefit from it.
- Here is a short document to help you with Grief Recovery as the Integration of Change.

Key Conversations – If you’d like to participate in the conversations and decisions shaping our collective future, please “JOIN” the specific Sutra circles that are of interest to you. Remember that you can set the email preferences for each circle to select how often you want to be notified of new posts. We will try to highlight here each week’s key conversations you may be interested in.
- Online Trainings – should we allow (either temporarily or permanently) 100% of a Level One Program to be done online? Right now, as an interim policy, we are requiring a minimum of 40 hours in person. Is that ok, or should that also change? We must have a decision about this at the Sept TTEC meetings.

Major Research Publication in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association – “Efficacy of Yoga vs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy vs Stress Education for the Treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder” – scientifically showing that Kundalini Yoga can reduce anxiety.

Events around August 26^th – This year, we encourage each local community to make their own decision if or how they want to practice together on this day. Some alternative suggestions, if a change is desired, could be to gather for a Guru Ram Das meditation, fundraise for women’s causes, or participate in the Global Ra Ma Da Sa Healing meditation together.

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August 11, 2020 – Trainer Update

Watch Amrit’s weekly video here – KRI will be with you as you support your communities through the impact of the report from An Olive Branch.

Click on the “CC” at the bottom of the video to see subtitles in various languages.

Trainer Summit Sutra Circles have been moved and consolidated – New Sutra circles have been created in the General Discussion area of Sutra to further the conversations that were begun at the Summit. All trainers in the Academy, whether you were at the Summit or not, can now participate. It is up to all of us now to continue the dialogues, and to move from ideas to concrete proposals that the whole community can review and comment on.

Certification Committee is looking for a new member – a description of what this committee does (currently – knowing that it may change), the eligibility requirements, and the selection procedure are outlined in this document. If you meet the qualifications and are interested, please email Amrit Singh.

Processing the Report from An Olive Branch Together – The report will probably be released the week of 10 Aug, and KRI will collaborate with 3HO to provide a variety of zoom calls to help everyone in our community process its contents.

The rumors about a possible Netflix documentary about Yogi Bhajan are FALSE. There is no such documentary being worked on by Netflix.

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August 03, 2020 – Trainer Update

Watch Amrit’s weekly video – Initial thoughts about TTEC in September, and preparing for the release of the report from An Olive Branch.

Click on the “CC” at the bottom of the video to see subtitles in various languages.

Global TTEC meetings September 20, 21, 22 – If you are interested in participating in a Steering Committee to plan these important decision making meetings, please email Amrit Singh.

Trainer Summit Sutra Circles have been moved and consolidated – New Sutra circles have been created in the General Discussion area of Sutra to further the conversations that were begun at the Summit. All trainers in the Academy, whether you were at the Summit or not, can now participate. It is up to all of us now to continue the dialogues, and to move from ideas to concrete proposals that the whole community can review and comment on.

Professional Development Committee Coordinating Position – KRI is looking for someone, ideally outside the US, for 10 hours per week to coordinate the work of the Professional Development Committee. View a job description here. If you have questions, if you are qualified, and are interested in applying, please email Hari Charn Kaur.

Processing the Report from An Olive Branch Together – As mentioned in Amrit Singh weekly video message, KRI is organizing zoom calls beginning August 10^th by language and time zone. If you are interested in supporting this outreach by serving as a co-facilitator or if you the availability to serve for technical support, please email Hari Charn Kaur.

Sexual Harassment – What Every Kundalini Yoga Teacher & Trainer Needs to Know – Please join this live webinar next Tuesday, 4 Aug, or watch the recording that will be posted on 11 Aug.

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