This talk will conclude with larger questions about Yogi Bhajan, his Kundalini Yoga, the organizations he created, and the nature of tradition-making and historical revision within modern yoga lineages. He will describe the archival and interview-based research that formed the basis of the article, unpublished findings and subsequent discoveries made over the last seven years that have added to its argument, and the effect that the article has had on understandings of Yogi Bhajan’s Kundalini Yoga. In this talk, Philip Deslippe will build upon his article “From Maharaj to Mahan Tantric” published in the academic journal Sikh Formations in 2012, that gave a detailed and evidence-based account of the origins of Yogi Bhajan’s Kundalini Yoga for the first time and has been downloaded over 23,000 times. It claims an ancient origin and a unique tie to the Sikh tradition, and contains forms and exercises that are seemingly unique among other popular forms of contemporary yogic practice. Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan is an outlier within the world of modern yoga. He is introduced by Dr Karen O'Brien-Kop, SOAS. The Reconstruction of Yogi Bhajan’s Kundalini Yoga was a talk given by Philipp Deslippe, University of California, Santa Barbara, at the Centre of Yoga Studies, SOAS University of London on 27th January 2020. *Please note that this lecture contains discussion of sexual abuse*

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