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  Espanola Ashram Monthly eNewsletter 
(a HGRD publication available the first week of every month)
In this month's newsletter...
March Events
International Women's Day
New Ashram Member
3HO's Open House
Ashram Children's Program
Consul General's Visit
Food for Health
Golden Temple Documentary
Computer Corner
Yogi Bhajan Story
Sangat Birthdays
Missal Duties
Local Classes & Courses

Mukta with student 

 SuperHealthTraining 

March 16-24, 2012

Espanola, NM

 

Specialty Professional Training

An 8-day course, taught for the first time ever, right here in Espanola!!  Learn the technology of SuperHealth, designed by Yogi Bhajan to help people break addictions to alcohol and drugs.

 For more details click here

 

  Tera Kaur

KUNDALINI YOGA CLASS

Tera Kaur is teaching a Kundalini Yoga Class every Tuesday evening, from 

6 pm - 7 pm, in the HGRD Yoga Room, in the upstairs Langar Hall.  A donation of $5 - $10 is requested.  If you don't feel you can afford that, come anyway and give what you can, as there needs to be an energy exchange.  Experience deep relaxation of body and mind.  Seven people attended the first class on Feb 28, and it was a great class!

"I love doing Yoga after work."  ~ KK

Questions?  Contact the instructor: (505)901-2883

Restaurant Review:

Pizzeria da Lino

This month's restaurant review is by Guru Prakash Kaur.  Her favorite pizza places is Pizzeria da Lino in Santa Fe. It's owned by the same guy that runs Osteria de Assisi, that really great Italian Restaurant in Santa Fe, and he decided to open a place that just does pizza. Her favorite is the "Winter Pizza", with butternut squash. 

 

Pizzeria da Lino is on Guadalupe Street just a street up from San Francisco Street. It's a small and cozy place, with great service.  All the pizzas can be made gluten free.  Check out their menu at  http://www.pizzeriadalino.com/

The Ashram Gift Shop's  

Product of the Month

essential oils

ESSENTIAL OILS

by Sat Atma Kaur 

Manager, Ashram Gift Shop

 

The benefits of using therapeutic grade essential oils to one's mind, body and soul are multitudinous. Each oil has it's own remarkable properties and characteristics that immediately serve to balance, tonify and regenerate tissues, organs, brain, blood, all the systems of the body, and overall well-being. Read More

   

To find out more about Essential Oils, speak to Sat Atma Kaur in the Ashram Gift Shop.   

 Espanola Community Market 

 Support the Espanola Community Market by making a purchase today. They carry a wide selection of healthy, natural bulk food products. Place your order online, and then pick your products up right here in Espanola. Visit their website at:

 

http://www.espanolacommunitymarket.com/

& click the "Shop Now!" button. 

 

[email protected]

(505)747-3006 

Warrior Goddess 
Kulwant Kaur's graduation
Kulwant Kaur, with Sat Sundri, Japa and Kirpal Kaur after her recent graduation from an IMPACT Personal Safety Training course in Santa Fe. "I thought it was time to awaken my warrior goddess, to embrace this side of myself, in order to be whole. I've been nuturing the warrior spirit deep within me, bringing her out into the open."  Wahe Guru!  Congratulations Kulwant Kaur!

Shakti Parwha's

Movie Reviews

Check out Shakti's blogspot of movie reviews. She watches many the most recent movies and you may be pleasantly surprised by her comments and insights!

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Consider becoming a monthly contributor - give any amount you feel comfortable with, on a regular basis. 

 

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Ashram Contact Info 

The Espanola Ashram is also known as: Hacienda de Guru Ram Das Ashram
1A Ram Das Guru Place
Espanola, NM 87532
505-753-6341

 

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This monthly ashram newsletter is sent out via email, the first Friday of each month.  It is compiled by the editor, Kirpal Kaur.  To submit articles, restaurant reviews and photos for possible publication, click here:  Ashram Newsletter Editor

You in Community                                 March 2012

March Events 

  • March 4,11,18,25 - Sat Nam Rasayan Free Clinic, Sundays, 1:30 pm in the Gurdwara. Contact Jivan Joti Kaur for appts.
  • March 6-Akal Takhat Remembrance Gurdwara, Wish & Dish Langar, 6pm
  • March 6, 13, 20, 27 - Kundalini Yoga Class, taught by Tera Kaur, Tuesdays, 6 pm, in the upstairs Langar Hall
  • March 14, 21, 28 - Ashram Children's Program, Wed @ 4:15 pm (no program on March 7th)
  • March 8 - International Women's Day Program, Langar Hall, 2 pm-3 pm
  • March 9 - Hola Mohalla
  • March 16-24; Eight Day SuperHealth Training Course, taught by Mukta Kaur   

Celebrate United Nations' International Women's Day on March 8 with our global family!

Join us in a global meditation, music and chanting on Thursday, March 8, from 2-3 pm in the Langar Hall. Stay after Langar and join in!

 Espanola Women's Camp

Guruka Kaur and Upma Kaur of IKYTA will lead the Grace of God meditation. Dev Suroop Kaur, Sat Purkh Kaur, and Ek Ong Kaar Kaur will lead us in music and chanting. The program will be broadcast live from the Langar Hall at Hacienda de Guru Ram Das in Espanola, New Mexico on Thursday, March 8, 2:00-3:00pm MST.

 

"One thing shall never betray a woman: her own light and her own radiance as a woman. If the light within you can guide you, you will definitely excel." Yogi Bhajan, 7/3/77

 

Welcome, New Ashram Members: 
 
Harbhajan Kaur and her son, Kanwarbir Singh Khalsaji!

 

Kanwarbir SinghHarbhajan Kaur

Harbhajan Kaur and her son recently moved here from North Carolina. She is working part-time with Mukta Kaur, to help spread Yogi Bhajan's SuperHealth technology. She attended a Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training course with Pritpal Singh and Kaur in North Carolina and decided she wanted to raise her son within a large ashram community, because of his love for the Guru and sangat.  They are really loving the ashram community, feel supported, and are grateful to be able to attend group sadhana. Harbhajan Kaur says, "People are so kind and accepting.  It's really a family." Kanwarbir Singh turned four years old this past Tuesday, February 28.  He loves to be addressed as Kanwarbir Singh Khalsaji, and wants to learn how to play the tablas.

3HO Offices Open House

In the upstairs Langar Hall

 SatAtma, EOKK & GuruTera K3HO Open House, Hallway

On Thursday, Feb. 16, the 3HO staff invited the ashram sangat to come upstairs after Langar and see their new office space.  All the local staff have now moved into the second story and have done a beautiful job of decorating and making this the new headquarters for 3HO.  Many sangat members showed up to eat cookies, meet new staff members, explore and enjoy the new space, and be cozy.

 

To learn more about what's going on at 3HO visit their website here > 

children doing gatka
Watch this video of Ravinder Singh's Gatka class during the Ashram Children's Program
Holding a Vision for the Ashram Children's Program
By Guru Simran Kaur, Sr

Guru Simran Kaur, Senior, has been selflessly serving the vision of the Siri Singh Sahib for years.  One of the many ways she does this is by acting as the coordinator and organizer of the weekly Ashram Children's Program.  Her vision for the Ashram Children's Program is this: to have the Guru become a Living Presence in the children's lives. For them to 'feel' they are Sikhs.(not just "know" they are Sikhs).  For them to have their own sense of identity as a Sikh.  She wants them to get to really KNOW the Gurus, by offering activities that make each of the Gurus come alive for them - every day. She wants them to be proud to be a Sikh. All the activities that she plans are very specifically to connect them with each of the Gurus - with the lessons the Gurus embodied. If you have any ideas to share, of how to make the Gurus a Living Reality for the children, please email Guru Simran Kaur, Sr at [email protected]

The Consul General's Visit

by Sat Sundri Kaur

 

on Valentine's Day, February 14th, Hacienda de Guru Ram Das had very special guests: Ambassador N. Parthasarathi, the new Consul General of India, and Deputy Consul General Kumar Tuhin, both from the Indian Consulate in San Francisco. First they traveled to Santa Fe to visit the offices of the state Capitol, and then to Hacienda de Guru Ram Das in Espanola, to visit the Gurdwara and be welcomed by the Sangat at a special Valentine's Day "I Love Guru Ram Das" Langar.

 

The Consul General recently sent a thank you email: "Satnam, Thank you so much for the set of DVDs on Kundalini Yoga from KRI. I will seriously watch them and hope to benefit from them. I really enjoyed my visit and more importantly meeting with all of you. Warm regards, Parthasarathi.Read full article here >

Daya S greeting the Consul General
Sada Anand S greeting Consul General
 
 Sada Anand S greeting Consul General

 

Food (& Drink) for Health

 

Ginger Lemon Soda
From "Home Cooking with Jean-Georges"

by Jean-Georges Vongerichten


Ginger Syrup
1 cup peeled & chopped fresh ginger
1 cup raw sugar or honey
1 cup fresh lemon juice

Combine the ginger, sugar or honey and lemon juice in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve the raw sugar or honey. Remove from the heat and let cool to room temperature. Strain through a sieve into a container, pressing on the ginger; discard the ginger. The syrup can be covered and refrigerated for up to 3 days.

 

Makes one drink:

1/4 cup Ginger Syrup
3/4 cup club soda
Pour 1/4 cup of syrup into a glass, and fill with club soda.

Stir well and add ice and garnish with a lemon or lime if desired.

Check out this wonderful BBC documentary on the Golden Temple!  (48 minutes long)

Revealed - The Golden Temple ( Full Length with English Narrations )
Revealed - The Golden Temple

Computer Corner 

Let's get Started!

By Guruka Singh 

 

Since the debut of Windows 95, the Start menu has offered an easily navigated and extendable haven for all the programs we don't use every day. Windows 7 has the best Start Menu ever. If you start using it properly, it will make everything easier, and you won't need to have so many icons all over your desktop. Okay, let's clean up all these messy icons and get started.

 

Let's start with the basics: pinning applications, folders, and files.

 

In future columns, I'll give you just about everything you need to know about the Start menu - how to use it, change it, gussy it up, and dress it down. The Start menu is something we use dozens of times a day. Take a few minutes and make it look the way you want it to!

 

Read entire article > 

Yogi Bhajan, Spirituality or Bust
by Hari Jiwan Singh
 

  

In the early years (the late 70's and early 80's) when just he and I would venture out every afternoon, I would be the Siri Singh Sahib's driver, security, reconnaissance, communicator, entertainment coordinator, or whatever else was needed on the spot. This was always challenging because I wasn't raised with the proper tutoring. It was "on the job" training and I was most grateful for the tolerance and patience he showed as I messed up more times than I care to count. He didn't tell me what or how to do something or criticize me when I didn't "get it!" He just "kept up" for over 30 years giving until I got it, or not. 
Read entire article > 

Sangat Birthday's for March
Now featured on the ashram website > 

Monthly Missal Duties

March 2012
(Listed by Missal numbers ) 

 

Date

Set Up

Langar

Clean Up

Akand Path

2/26 - 3/3 

3

4

1

       2

3/4 - 3/10 

4

1  

2 

3 

3/11-3/17 

1 

 2

3

4  

3/18-3/24 

2  

3  

4 

1  

3/25-3/31

3 

4  

1  

2 

 
"Oh my dear sons and daughters, somewhere in your destiny God guided you here. One day the day shall come when the very dust of this place shall bring peace and prosperity and shall cure humanity. This is a virtuous land. Here dwells the spirit of Guru Ram Das, the healing guardian of this planet." 
Exerpt from a Lecture to the Espanola Sangat by
Yogi Bhajan, in 1975