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Library of Teachings 2009
Donor Report
In 2009, The Yogi Bhajan
Library of Teachings entered its second full
year of fundraising and the work of the
archive began in earnest. Because of your
donations in 2009, we have been able to
double the amount of video assets entering
the archival process in 2010 from 50 to 100,
each and every month. Beginning about a year
ago, we began archiving, on average, 100
audio and 50 video assets per month; that is
just over 900 audio assets and 450 video
assets in 2009. With more than 6000 total
assets, we still have a long way to go
toward a completed archive of the Teachings
of Yogi Bhajan. But we’ve made great
progress thanks to you!
We don’t use many traditional
fund raising techniques; that is, we don’t
inundate you with paper. Instead, we have
focused our efforts via e-mail campaigns, a
few phone calls, and online gifts. Because
of our nontraditional fund raising efforts,
we’ve been able to steward your gifts
directly to where they are needed—the
archive. Total expenses, and overhead
related to the archives, amount to less than
15% of the overall archive budget. So you
can be assured that your donation, no matter
how big or small, goes directly to the
archival work.
Transparency is a virtue and
a value of the Aquarian Age, so in an effort
to let you know our progress and to have the
work of the archive set the standard, we’ve
included a summary of our 2009 budget and
expenses related to The Yogi Bhajan Library
of Teachings.
Thank you for your generosity
in 2009—it made all the difference! We
continue to need your support. Become a
subscribing donor today—or let a friend know
why you donate to The Yogi Bhajan Library of
Teachings—keeping the legacy alive!
Income
Donations: Corporate
($326,551) and Individuals
($108,000)
$434,551.00
Expenses
Digitization and
Preservations of Original Audio
and Video Tapes
$178,301.00
Digitization of Tapes
(Committed funds to be used in
2010)
$74,034.00
Transcription and
Verification of lectures (in
India)
$88,233.00
Librarian Salary
$34,581.00
Rent for Climate Controlled
Storage for Archives
$23,303.00
Photograph and Slide
Digitization and Preservation
$19,923.00
Overhead expenses (Telephone,
postage and IT)
$9,040.00
Archival Preservation of Yogi
Bhajan Letters to Students
$5,673.00
Fundraising Expenses
$1,463.00
Total Expenses
$434,551.00
Looking Toward 2012 and
Beyond:
The KRI Capital Campaign
At the Kundalini
Research Institute, we are working to lay the
cornerstone of the living legacy that is
Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan®.
Our capital campaign has multiple
components—research grants, Reach Out-Teach Out
programs, and product development—but the
cornerstone on which they are all built is
The Yogi Bhajan Library of Teachings.
Other Programs of
Interest
Research Grants:
Research has just begun at the University of
Utah on the effects of meditation and
Breathwalk® on
resilient pain and PTSD in
veterans. There is an ongoing research
program on the effects of Kirtan Kriya
on
brain patterns and memory through the
University of Pennsylvania. Sat Bir Singh
Khalsa continues his 5-year study on
meditation, Kundalini Yoga and sleep rhythms
at Harvard Medical School; he also is
centrally involved in meditation research
conferences and collaborations globally.
To carry our commitment to
usable research and documentation to all
interested teachers, we have packages
available for the average Teacher to
implement simple field studies in their
daily Kundalini Yoga classes.
This area is vast and the
potential applications are infinite. KRI is
working to partner with large research
facilities, universities and community
colleges, and private foundations in order
to build momentum and interest in Kundalini
Yoga as a viable form of intervention,
prevention and sustainable approaches to
health and wellness.
KRI Research Page
Reach Out
–Teach Out Program:
KRI has programs expanding into areas as
diverse as rural Florida to mainland China
to West Africa. Providing grants for KRI
programs in underserved communities or
scholarships for students to study directly
with KRI is a part of our Reach Out–Teach
Out program, which will continue to grow as
we seek new opportunities to serve the
global community. Translations are also a
big part of our Reach Out-Teach Out program.
Translating many existing books of Yogi
Bhajan’s teachings, including Teacher
Training Manuals, into Spanish, French,
German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and
Chinese, and more.
We Are KRI
Product Development:
The Yogi Bhajan Library of
Teachings is integral to KRIs product
development, because without these
teachings—the original assets—we wouldn’t
have this incredibly rich resource to draw
from and create user-friendly products and
services. KRI is currently developing a
project for the women’s teachings: I Am a
Woman: Reader, Yoga
Manual and DVD Series.
Each year we focus on a new area to update
or introduce for the very first time. Future
projects
include: The Master’s
Touch DVD Series, 21 Stages of Meditation
by Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Ph.D. and Yogi
Bhajan, Ph.D., an online digital library of
single kriyas and meditations, mp3
downloads, on-line video courses, and more.
KRI's The Source
The Yogi Bhajan Library of Teachings
As teachers and
practitioners of Kundalini Yoga as taught by
Yogi Bhajan®, you are a part of the
living legacy that is The Yogi Bhajan Library of
Teachings. With your help, we have made great
progress. The goal and scope of The Library of
Teachings is to archive, preserve and create
online access to the entire recorded
library—more than 8,000 audio and video assets.
The Yogi Bhajan Library of Teachings is being
built in three stages: transcript repository,
archive of original assets, and online, digital
resource.
Stage One: The
Transcript Repository
Transcription Project:
In our Bangalore, India office, KRI
continues to transcribe lectures. Over 6,000
lectures are transcribed in either first or
second form to date. More than 2,000 are yet
to be transcribed. This project will be
completed in 2009.
Searchable
Transcription Database:
Teams of volunteers continue the process of
identifying and tagging concepts from the
teachings within the text of his lectures,
to create a meaningful, searchable database.
Library
Management System and the Digital Asset
Management System (DAM):
KRI implemented a Library Management System
in 2008 and has a full-time Librarian on
staff. This is a first step toward a more
comprehensive DAM that will integrate the
audio, video, and transcription data assets
into a single, accessible, and user-friendly
online data management system.
Stage Two: The
Archive
Our
archival partners—Scene Savers (video) and
Mahern Audio Engineering (audio)—began the
Archival Project in January of 2009. After a
thorough Pilot Project in 2008, work
began in earnest and so far, more than 200 audio
and 100 video tapes have been archived. The plan
for 2009 is to archive 100 audio and 50 video
tapes each month. The audio tapes date back to
1969 and are fragile—so they are the archive’s
first priority. We’re also archiving the oldest
video tapes—from the early 80s—to ensure we
don’t lose any of these precious teachings.
In order
to meet our goal, our current projections
indicate that we need $700,000 for Stage Two of
The Yogi Bhajan Library of Teachings. We’ve
raised more than $70,000 from individuals like
you already—and with grants from corporations,
we’ve already funded a quarter of our goal.
KRI is
committed to funding this archival project and
we need your help. We are making a long-term
commitment to this project and we invite you to
do the same. With our online donation program,
you can become a friend of The Yogi Bhajan
Library of Teachings today!
Other Components of the Archive
Photo Archiving Project:
A recent individual grant enables us to start
the project of archiving the thousands of
historic photos of Yogi Bhajan and the people he
touched. For more information see
Photo Archive page.
Correspondence Archive:
Yogi Bhajan counseled and taught many of his
students through his letters. We are continuing
to organize, file, research and compile the
teachings found in these letters.
Stage Three: Online Resource
Ultimately, The Yogi Bhajan Library of Teachings
will be a rich online resource for teachers,
students and practitioners of Kundalini Yoga as
taught by Yogi Bhajan®, including a searchable
lecture repository, real-time searches of audio
and video clips, and a complete kriya and
meditation database.
Each of these components is in
progress now. Stage Two—the Archive—is our
priority through 2012. But as the Library
Management System evolves into the Digital Asset
Management System, to include the lectures,
video and audio assets, and Photo Archive, we
continue to build toward our final vision of The
Yogi Bhajan Library of Teachings. At this stage
of development, we are unable to attach a final
dollar amount to this final vision; but when the
progress of the archive reaches a stage that we
can begin to attach real numbers to this final
stage, we will continue to update the global
community of teachers, students and
practitioners.
Do you
want to help someone become a teacher? KRIs Library
of Teachings Capital Campaign is accepting donations
toward a Reach Out–Teach Out scholarship for this
summer’s Foundations Level One Immersion program.
We want to
raise $3,950 toward an international student
scholarship—and you can help! Please donate today and
help manifest another Teacher to serve in the global
community.
West Africa. Providing grants for KRI
programs in underserved communities or
scholarships for students to study directly
with KRI is a part of our Reach Out–Teach
Out program, which will continue to grow as
we seek new opportunities to serve the
global community. Translations are also a
big part of our Reach Out-Teach Out program.
Translating many existing books of Yogi
Bhajan’s teachings, including Teacher
Training Manuals, into Spanish, French,
German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and
Chinese, and more.
