Kundalini Research Institute: Level 1 Course

The Teacher Training Team

As more people search to find spiritual meaning in their lives, the role of the Kundalini Yoga teacher takes on increasing importance. This team of Senior Teacher Trainers will guide you in how to build your grace and character. They will lead you through this program with inspirational and challenging lectures, and kriyas and meditations that will confront your self-imposed limits. You will discover how to live and teach from your highest and purest consciousness. The Core Training Team is composed of Gurucharan Singh, Nirvair Singh, Tarn Taran Singh and Hari Charn Kaur.

Nirvair Singh Khalsa began studying with Yogi Bhajan in1970. He is a retired university instructor. He taught classes in Kundalini Yoga at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, for 30 years. Since his retirement from the University, he has become the CEO of the Kundalini Research Institute. He has authored 19 DVD's and 4 books on Kundalini Yoga. Co-director of the Kundalini Yoga Center of Alaska, he lives with his family in Anchorage and Española. http://www.kundaliniyogacenter.com

Tarn Taran Singh Khalsa became a student of Yogi Bhajan’s in 1972. Teaching, training teachers and practicing Kundalini Yoga for more than 30 years in the USA, Europe and Latin America, he founded 3HO Germany, the European Yogi Tea Company and the first European Teacher Training program. Currently living in New Mexico, Tarn Taran Singh serves KRI as International Coordinator of Trainers and Aquarian Teacher Program Director. He is also a talented musician and gifted, humorous and engaging speaker. He has authored a series of Mantra CDs which include Mantras of Prayer and Ik Ardas.

Hari Charn Kaur Khalsa has been a student of Yogi Bhajan since 1975. She is a Lead Trainer and works to develop trainers and teachers around the globe with a passion for helping young people develop their skills as trainers and teachers. She is the Program Director of the Immersion course and will be present throughout the course to support the students as the course unfolds. She lives in Espanola New Mexico and serves as the Director of Reach Out Teach Out around the globe. She is a licensed Addictions counselor and has worked with SuperHealth since 1978.

Gurudatta Singh Khalsa has been teaching Kundalini Yoga since 1973 and been doing Teacher Training since 2001, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. He now resides in New Mexico and works full time for KRI.

Sat Purkh Kaur Khalsa has been singing for as long as she can remember. Her journey with the sound current began many years ago and doesn’t seem to have an end—instead it has become an infinite quest for the anahat, or unstruck sound. A student of sound for more than 15 years, she integrates the Naad into her music, teaching, and healing practices. She has studied with some of the great Sound practitioners in the West: David Hykes, Shanti Shivani, and Pandit Mukesh Desai and is also influenced by the the Shabd Guru—the sound current in the Sikh tradition. Her music focuses on using sound to move the body, the mind and the breath toward powerful transformative experiences that uplift the individual and serve the soul. A writer, editor, poet, singer and songwriter—and a pretty good cook, too—Sat Purkh is a KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga Level One Teacher and an Associate Trainer in the KRI Aquarian Trainer Academy. Sat Purkh joined the KRI staff in 2006 and was instrumental in the development of the Level Two Teacher Training curriculums. Currently she serves as Editor and Creative Director for KRI. She has three albums of sacred music, Nectar of the Name, Beautiful Day, and the forthcoming, Queen Be: The Goddess Within; and recently authored Everyday Grace: The Art of Being a Woman, an introduction to the Women’s Teachings of Yogi Bhajan. She lives with her two cats, Fatty and Slim, and her dog, Vinnie.

Siri Neel Kaur Khalsa founded the Kundalini Yoga and Healing Center in Harrisburg Pennsylvania in 1974 which she ran until she moved to New Mexico in 2007. She is a Level 1 Lead Trainer and is a member of the Immersion Program Team. At KRI she also works with authors and product producers with Permission to Use The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan and Review of the product for the KRI Seal of Approval. When not working her joy is being a grandmother.

Trainers

Guruchander Singh Khalsa met Yogi Bhajan in 1973 and started his life long practice and teaching of Kundalini Yoga. Along with his wife Kirn they began their journey of sharing Enlightenment for real world people through the practice of Kundalini Yoga,meditation and Humanology. He has written 2 books on Numerology as a model for Enlightenment. He is a senior Teacher Trainer In the Aquarian Academy created by Yogi Bhajan. Guruchander serves as co-director for Yoga Santa Fe and travels extensively throughout the world sharing these beautiful teachings and may be reached at www.yogasantafe.com

Nirmal Kaur came to Kundalini Yoga during high school and has been practicing and teaching ever since. Nirmal is a KRI certified Kundalini Yoga instructor and an Associate Trainer in the Aquarian Trainer Academy. Additionally she has a BFA in Dance (SUNY-Brockport 2002) and is a nationally certified Massage Therapist. Nirmal specializes in combining her knowledge of Western anatomy and Posture with Yogic experiences to help people find depth and understanding in their practice of Kundalini Yoga.

Sangeet Kaur’s first experiences with Soundcurrent came through singing opera and Jewish liturgical music. For many years she was a member of Canada’s premier chamber choir, the Festival Singers of Canada. As a long-time student of Yogi Bhajan, Sangeet Kaur sings, teaches, composes and records sacred music drawn from the poetry and technology of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib (the sacred Sikh scriptures – also a source of many mantras and shabds used in Kundalini Yoga).

Professionally, Sangeet Kaur serves as a speech-language pathologist in the schools of New Mexico, where she has lived since 1987. She is still teaching, sharing, and recording voice and kirtan throughout the United States and Canada – as a KRI acknowledged Sound and Mantra trainer.

Dev Suroop Kaur delights in sharing the pure practicality of nurturing a successful and deeply authentic life. An accomplished musician, recording artist, and Professional Level Trainer in the KRI Aquarian Trainer Academy, Dev Suroop Kaur strives to break it down, keep it real, and guide students to their own empowered authenticity. From the
deeply contemplative compositions in her recording, Narayan, to the hip, edgy beats of her chant-rap album Kundalini Beat, Dev Suroop Kaur offers an extraordinary range of styles to invoke the experience of the Divine Spirit. Blessed to study directly with Yogi Bhajan for most of her adult life, she gratefully shares what she has learned – and continues to learn – about how to love, work, and live better in the world. She deeply enjoys training students and teachers of Kundalini Yoga in the science of Naad Yoga, conscious communication, and how to access the beauty and power of their personal voice. She currently lives with her husband in Espanola, New Mexico and, in addition to her teaching and music activities, works to maintain a peaceful mind as a business executive. Look for her CDs, teaching schedule and what she's up to at www.devsuroopkaur.com and www.facebook.com/devsuroopkaur.

Amrit Singh took his first Kundalini Yoga class for gym credit in college in 1989 and become a teacher shortly thereafter. After graduating with a PhD in engineering from MIT he made the only logical career move and went to work for Yogi Bhajan's family of companies. He was blessed to work directly with Yogi Bhajan for 5 years, including a lot of work with the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI). At Yogi Bhajan's urging, he wrote the book "Conscious Business" based on Yogi Bhajan's business teachings, which is available as a downloadable PDF from the KRI website. Amrit Singh has been a board member of KRI for the past 4 years and also serves on the boards of the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine and Humanology and Yoga for Youth. He currently teaches Kundalini Yoga and trains teachers in Los Angeles.