Yogi Bhajan was good at establishing political connections since the 70s he had acquaintances in the congress, and befriended with a few successive governors of New Mexico state, where he finally settled. His first followers were mostly hippies, who readily accepted the new teaching, which had something in common with the ideas of the counterculture. At this time he established his 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization). In 1968 he emigrated to Canada, and the following year started teaching Kundalini Yoga in the United States. In the 60s Yogi Bhajan supposedly became a yoga instructor in an ashram of a well-known yoga teacher Dhirendra Brahmachari. At some point of his life he started practicing yoga. He entered the civil service, and eventually became a customs officer in the airport of Delhi. After the partition of India his family settled in Delhi, where Yogi Bhajan attended college and received a degree in economics. Yogi Bhajan was born in a sikh family in what is now Pakistan. However, his version of Kundalini Yoga is a syncretic teaching, which is considerably different from the original indian Kundalini Yoga, andeventually it became an independent spiritual movement. He started a successful movement in the United States, that later spread to many other countries, as well as a number of businesses which are still thriving. Yogi Bhajan was a spiritual teacher of a Sikh origin, who brought Kundalini Yoga to the west.
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