Yogi Bhajan Teaches at Jules Buccieri’s Antique Shop

As word of a master from India teaching Kundalini Yoga spread, busloads of young people started arriving from all over the West Coast to attend his classes. This was too much for the woman in charge of the East West Cultural Center, where his classes were taking place, and she asked him to leave.

One of Yogi Bhajan’s students owned an Antique Shop on the corner of Melrose and Robertson and generously offered his showroom for the classes.

Yogi Bhajan taught Kundalini Yoga classes twice a day, seven days a week, at Jules Buccieri’s Antique Shop, which later became Morton’s. Students would come early to move the furniture out of the room to make space for the class and stay late to move it all back again. Jules Buccieri opened his heart and his furniture shop for Kundalini Yoga classes.

Every evening, his enthusiastic students would move all the antique furniture before class and then put it back afterwards! Soon they decided to convert the garage into a permanent classroom, and this then became the first “Guru Ram Das Ashram”. The ashram classes were packed full every night.