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Dharam Singh

Dharam Singh

Instructor

Yoga at the Ashram

Yoga at the Ashram

Dharam Singh brings a unique and earthy perspective to the Kundalini Yoga community that is inspired by broad exposure to Native American Shamanism, Tibetan Buddhism and Reichian Body-centered Therapy. His passion for the transformative power of sound and music has found a place in the use of the Gong as a tool for deep healing. Dharam is a long time student of Yogi Bhajan and a resident of Guru Ram Das Ashram.Dharam came up freer than many, on Freeman St - a world where there was no escaping rhythm - where the drumming and chants of Africa via Caribbean and Latin immigrants echoed through the urban canyons of the South Bronx - the birthplace of both Hip Hop and Salsa (Cuban music with a NY attitude).At the age of 20 in Fairbanks, Alaska he first experienced the aligning (sometimes confrontative) and healing power of Kundalini Yoga. Later that year he would also meet, study and live with Rolling Thunder (old school Shoshone Shaman) in the Nevada desert, and also have an audience with the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa. During that meeting he was given the name Karma Yeshe Chodhar ("scholar of the stars" - Truth, Wisdom Spreading). A curiosity about the possibilities of a 'spiritual' life was borne. Through deep practice, Bioenergetic-Gestalt emotional release, and other fantastic mind-washings, Dharam would witness extended glimpses of perfect being that would inform everything from that point forward.His passion for healing, community and Dharma has found a place in the healing art and sacred science of the Gong as a tool for vibrational transformation. Since the 80's he has taught the technology of Kundalini and Gong Yoga here in the US and in South America. Now, having walked the path of Sikh Dharma with Yogi Bhajan, for 40 years he has come to more fully understand that sound and energy is the essence of the order of everything - and that if he can help a person to find peace and wellness through simply laying down and relaxing into that essence, then who is he to deny them, what he himself considers a refuge.