But his real interest in Eastern practices came when he moved to Albuquerque, N.M., in 1979. He worked as the staff anesthesiologist at the Lovelace Medical Center and studied yoga with the only kundalini master in the United States, Yogi Bhajan. Bhajan was instrumental in Khalsa's conversion to Sikhism. It was through this religion that Khalsa changed his name and adopted the traditional turban and white clothing. In it he writes about combining kundalini yoga and meditation into what he calls medical meditation.
Medical meditation is the perfect adjunct to medical care.
Medical meditation incorporates breathing, posture, movement and sound during the recommended daily morning practice. Different movements and sounds are used to activate eight energy centers in the body called chakras. Allergies, for example, are associated with the fourth chakra. This chakra is said to be involved with the functioning of the cardiac plexus and the thymus. One of the medical meditations Khalsa recommends for allergies is supposed to boost the immune system.