Editing Yogi Bhajan (section)

== Allegations of sexual abuse ==

{{see also|Sexual abuse by yoga gurus}}

In 2019, Yogi Bhajan's former secretary Pamela Saharah Dyson published the book ''Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage: My Life with Yogi Bhajan'', reporting that she and other women had abusive<ref name="Lowe 2022"/> sexual relationships with Harbhajan Singh.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dyson |first=Pamela |title=Premka: White Bird in a golden cage: my life with Yogi Bhajan |publisher=Eyes Wide Publishing |publication-place=Maui, Hawaii |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-578-62188-3 |oclc=1142816131 }}</ref><ref name="Lowe 2022">{{cite journal |last=Lowe |first=Scott |title=Review of Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage. My Life with Yogi Bhajan, by Pamela Saharah Dyson, and: The Inner Circle—Book One: My Seventeen Years in the Cult of the American Sikhs by Peter Macdonald Blachly |journal=[[Nova Religio]] |volume=26 |issue=2 |year=2022 |pages=102-105 |via=[[Project Muse]] |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/869564}}</ref>

In March 2020, the Siri Singh Sahib Corporation commissioned An Olive Branch (AOB) to look into allegations of sexual abuse and rape of female followers and assistants. The AOB report, published in August, found that it was "more likely than not" that Yogi Bhajan raped three women, injured eight women during sex, engaged in nonconsensual touching of nine people, showed pornography to minors, used sexually offensive language, directed women to shave their pubic hair, and directed women to have sex with other women, that his followers' claims that he was celibate were inaccurate, and that he "employed a variety of methods to control his students including compartmentalization, quid pro quo, promises, threats, slander, phone calls, guarding, and/or telling women they were his wife."<ref name="An Olive Branch 2020">{{Cite web |title=2020-08-10 An Olive Branch Report to 3HO re YB Abuses.pdf |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h6W_UyinOeIThWJ3s0FS7o8egLKLWUYU/view?usp=embed_facebook |access-date=2021-02-28 |website=Google Docs}}</ref> 

The report acknowledged "the convictions of Yogi Bhajan's Supporters as accurate representations of their beliefs" rather than deliberate falsehoods.<ref name="An Olive Branch 2020"/> Soon after, other media published stories based on the report that considered the allegations to be true.<ref>* {{cite journal |first=Stacie |last=Stukin |title=Yogi Bhajan Turned an L.A. Yoga Studio into a Juggernaut, and Left Two Generations of Followers Reeling from Alleged Abuse |journal=Los Angeles Magazine |date=July 15, 2020 |url=https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/yogi-bhajan/}}<br/>* {{cite news |title=Yogi Bhajan 'more likely than not' raped his followers |journal=Asia Samachar |date=August 15, 2020 |url=https://asiasamachar.com/2020/08/15/33085/}}<br/>* {{cite news |title=Yogi Bhajan's fall from grace. The 'sexual abuse' is just the just beginning |journal=Asia Samachar |date=August 20, 2020 |url=https://asiasamachar.com/2020/08/20/yogi-bhajans-fall-from-grace-the-sexual-abuse-is-just-the-just-beginning/}}<br/>* {{cite news |title=Legacy of Yogi Bhajan swirls in controversy years after his death |journal=Santa Fe New Mexican |date=November 14, 2020 |url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/legacy-of-yogi-bhajan-swirls-in-controversy-years-after-his-death/article_c2abc18a-fe91-11ea-80d7-735e51ee0008.html}}<br/>* {{cite journal |title=A New Report Details Decades of Abuse at the Hands of Yogi Bhajan |journal=Yoga Journal |date=August 15, 2020 |url=https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/abuse-in-kundalini-yoga/}}<br/>* {{cite news |title=Yogi Bhajan, yoga guru and founder of 3HO, 'more likely than not' sexually abused followers, says report |journal=Religion News Service |date=August 18, 2020 |url=https://religionnews.com/2020/08/18/yogi-bhajan-yoga-guru-and-founder-of-3ho-more-likely-than-not-sexually-abused-followers-says-report/}}</ref>