OUR STORY
How it All Began – the Early Years Part One: The Groundwork for Therapeutic Kundalini Yoga
I took my Kundalini Yoga teacher training in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1971. The first class I taught after graduating was in the Social Learning Unit of the Arizona State mental hospital. The folks in this unit were preparing to be discharged and the medical director wanted them to have a way to return to calm when their emotions were activated. Today we call this self-regulation.
The Early Years Part Two: The Psychology of Health Recovery
During the 1980s and 1990s HIV/AIDS was the most vilified illness of the 20th century. In Los Angeles we had difficulty even finding a location to hold the Immune Fitness® classes because the students were ill and they looked it. They had patches of red on their skin from Kaposi’s sarcoma. They had wasting syndrome.
As the months went by, the epidemic of HIV got bigger and stronger. It hit hard. Those with an AIDS diagnosis had a prognosis of eighteen months to two years.
The Early Years Part Three: Pioneering Research on Self-efficacy Beliefs in Health Recovery & Pauri Kriya
In The Early Years Part Two, I shared how early HIV researchers demonstrated that treatment was not the determining factor for those who stayed well with HIV or AIDS. It was the psychology – a way of thinking – that those living healthier and longer with HIV or AIDS had in common. This major discovery changed my entire approach to teaching Kundalini Yoga therapeutically: When we incorporate the psychology of health recovery, outcomes improve.
The Early Years Part Four: Time to Talk About Death
In the early years of the Immune Fitness ® classes, some of the most recognized names in AIDS medicine in Los Angeles County sent their patients to us. Joel Weisman in the Valley, Michael Roth in Santa Monica, Michael Gottlieb in Los Angeles.
Michael Gottlieb and Joel Weisman were the first to identify the disease that would come to be known as AIDS, giving it the name Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
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