About Us: Our Story...

It was Guru Ram Das' birthday in October 1986 and it was my blessing to teach the first Kundalini Yoga class especially for people with HIV. 1986 is the same year that AZT went into clinical trials and many of the students in the class found themselves more sick from the side effects of the medication (the kinks had not yet been worked out in the dosing) than from any opportunistic infection. Teacher training prepares us to teach healthy people, not people with life-threatening health conditions. Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo came through and Guru Ram Das gave the students what they needed.

Over the next few months under Yogi Bhajan's guidance, classes were formed to meet the wide range of needs for people in all stages of HIV disease, and thus our service to people with illness began.

Twenty years later, the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine & Humanology continues to pioneer the instruction of Kundalini Yoga for health recovery for a variety of health conditions. We provide an integrative program for the whole family, from newly diagnosed, through the rigors of medical treatment and the recovery year following treatment. In addition, we train and assist yoga teachers and health professionals the world over.

Classes may be held at support groups gathered in private homes in the Hollywood Hills or the high-rise hospitals of New York City, or in a clinic in the township of Soweto, South Africa, or in Bangkok, Mexico City, Moscow and dozens of other places world wide. Because of this outreach, thousands of people have personally experienced the practice of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation as a powerful approach to help get well, stay well, and live well.

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