She details her sexual relationship with Bhajan, how he forced her to get an abortion of their child, how Bhajan was having sex with other secretaries and Bhajan’s various abuses. In January 2020, Pamela Sarah Dyson published her tell-all memoir Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage: My Life with Yogi Bhajan about her nearly 15 years serving as Yogi Bhajan’s secretary and assistant. “I got all kinds of letters from heads of ashrams saying I was a cockroach, that I had fallen from grace and that I was slandering Bhajan.” The Kundalini leadership attacked Steiner for his action. He warned them: “If we hold any leader ‘above’ this accountability, we move from being in Dharma to being in a cult.” A few months later he also wrote a lengthy letter to Bhajan himself. In it, he asked “can we openly question our spiritual teacher’s actions…without punitive measures taken against us?” He was referring to questions about Premka and Kate Felt, another woman who alleged sexual abuse by Bhajan. He sent it to the directors of the 100 Kundalini ashrams around the world. Two months later in July Steiner wrote a letter to the Kundalini Yoga community. And soon after Yogi Bhajan knew that he knew. “I’ll call her.” Steiner picked up the phone and dialed Pamela Sarah Dyson, known as Premka in the Kundalini community. “Bhajan was having sex with Premka from the beginning” she blurted out. When Steiner arrived he quickly found out. “Go to Chicago now! Speed! Don’t obey the lights!” Neither Steiner nor Bhajan knew what was wrong with his sister, who was also a long-time Kundalini devotee. “Your sister is freaking out,” Bhajan told him. Not long before this conversation, Steiner had a phone call that changed everything for him. They are crazy and they love me that much.” During an interview, Steiner told me he then went numb. If you tell people what you know I’m not responsible for what they might do to you. “I just want to tell you that there are so many people who love me in this family. “I know that you know certain things.” Yogi Bhajan was talking to Tej Steiner, the director of the Toronto Kundalini Ashram in a library-like room at the Clevland Ashram. UPDATE 8/14/20: An Olive Branch has concluded its 5-month independent investigation into Yogi Bhajan and found evidence of rape, group sex, and physical abuse. WARNING: This article contains graphic accounts of rape and child abuse. Former staff members say some poses were “literally made up on the spot” during yoga class.
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