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Here's my best shot at answering your questions:

1. 3HO doesn't teach anything. It's a non-profit organization that organizes events and supports a large community of teachers, counselors and students who share lifestyle technologies. Check out their web site. There is teacher training available for Kundalini Yoga, which anyone, Sikh or not, can learn practice and teach. Find out more at KRI.

2. No. Some are Sikhs and some are not. People are at many different stages of their own personal spiritual journeys. A Sikh is a Sikh. That matter lies only between the Guru and His Sikh. There some differences in maryada, just as there are between Nihangs and what you are calling "mainstream Sikhs" although I'm not sure what that group comprises exactly.

3. Any person, regardless of religion, can use any spiritual name they wish no matter where they learned it from. There is no requirement for anyone who uses a spiritual name. That's their blessing and/or karma.

4. No. Neither one. I don't know any, but generally speaking, why would it matter how one prays? All true prayers from the heart are equal. Religion does not matter. Buddhist prayers, Jewish prayers, Sikh prayers, Ba'hai prayers, etc., are all the same. It is the heart of the one praying that matters.

5. Well, you'd have to ask them. People accuse others of many things. Mostly this sort of ninda comes from ego and personal agendas.

Here's my best shot at answering your questions:

1. 3HO doesn't teach anything. It's a non-profit organization that organizes events and supports a large community of teachers, counselors and students who share lifestyle technologies. Check out their web site. There is teacher training available for Kundalini Yoga, which anyone, Sikh or not, can learn practice and teach. Find out more at KRI.

2. No. Some are Sikhs and some are not. People are at many different stages of their own personal spiritual journeys. A Sikh is a Sikh. That matter lies only between the Guru and His Sikh. There some differences in maryada, just as there are between Nihangs and what you are calling "mainstream Sikhs" although I'm not sure what that group comprises exactly.

3. Any person, regardless of religion, can use any spiritual name they wish no matter where they learned it from. There is no requirement for anyone who uses a spiritual name. That's their blessing and/or karma.

4. No. Neither one. I don't know any, any Hindu prayers, but generally speaking, why would it matter how one prays? All true prayers from the heart are equal. Religion does not matter. Buddhist prayers, Jewish prayers, Sikh prayers, Ba'hai prayers, etc., are all the same. It is the heart of the one praying that matters.

5. Well, you'd have to ask them. People accuse others of many things. Mostly this sort of ninda comes from ego and personal agendas.