This section starts with Kundalini Yoga Master Teacher Adi Singh Khalsa and ends with EkOngKar Singh Khalsa.

NOTE:
The links worked in June 2011. ~ Sat Avtar Kaur, 2011

Adi Singh Khalsa
AZ

Amar Singh Khalsa
OR

Amar Singh Khalsa started Kundalini Yoga in 1970 in Eugene, Oregon and found himself in Maha Deva ashram in Tucson, AZ, where he first met Yogi Bhajan.

He started teaching Kundalini Yoga in 1971. He has a degree in music from the University of Oregon and toured and recorded with the Khalsa String Band and Singh Kaur and has worked as a dance accompanist and free-lance musician as well as an electrician and computer geek.

He also participates, along with Sahib-Amar Kaur, his wife, in interfaith kirtans, and provides music for chanting and meditation where and whenever.

Amrita Kaur
ME

Amrita has been teaching in NY City for 20 years privately, in centers and in health clubs. 3HO and 500 HR Yoga Alliance certified, she has taught at 3HO's winter and summer solstices, Millis Fall Festival and at venues such as Nu-Age and Pura Vida (Costa Rica) spas as well as workshops at yoga centers in the US and Canada.

Since 1997, she has owned and operated Sewall House Yoga Retreat in northern Maine, which she operates summers with her husband, musician Kent Bonham.

Using Kent's original music, Amrita has also co-produced two Kundalini Yoga DVDs. Since 1999 she has pursued further yoga studies intensively with Eddie Stern and Dharma Mittra, as well as other senior teachers. Magna Cum Laude with a Masters in Nutrition.

Sewall House Yoga Retreat

Amarjit Kaur Khalsa
MA

Amarjit Kaur Khalsa began practicing Kundalini Yoga in 1976, at the age of 22. She spent many years living in a 3HO ashram, a spiritual community dedicated to the practice of morning sadhana – rising before the dawn to practice yoga and meditation. She also worked as the main cook of the Golden Temple Conscious Cookery in Harvard Square, Cambridge.

Amarjit has had the privilege of studying with many extraordinary teachers including Yogi Bhajan, the Master of Kundalini Yoga. She has taught Kundalini Yoga since 1980 in a variety of settings, including health clubs, yoga centers and universities. She received her certificate from the Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association in 2000.

Amarjit is a teacher who brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and versatility to to each class she teaches. She is dedicated to sharing the powerful techniques of Kundalini Yoga to those individuals who are ready to receive them.

Kundalini Yoga Boston

Aradhana Singh
NM

Aradhana Singh and Sarb Nam Kaur Khalsa form a creative husband and wife team. They embarked on their lifelong love of practicing and teaching  Kundalini yoga in the early 1980's with Yogi Bhajan. 

In Espanola, New Mexico, they run a family business and serve in the Sikh community. Their son, Fateh Singh, studied yoga and Sikhism in India and now attends college. The family loves hiking, vegetarian cooking, RC airplanes, and writing spiritual poetry.

Life's journey continues to bless them after many years of marriage ("the carriage unto infinity") and they are excited to serve as the Content Editors for Yogamint!

Aradhana Singh

Atma Kaur Khalsa
CA

Atma K. Khalsa, has been trained by the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI) and is a member of the International Kundalini Yoga Teacher's Association (IKYTA). She is an experienced registered yoga teacher (E.R.Y.T) with Yoga Alliance and and is a Professional Teacher Trainer in KRI Teacher Training Courses.

Atma K. Khalsa has attended Women's Training Seminars for 20 years that teach women to live to their highest level of integrity, kindle their sacred self and live for each other.

She has 25 years experience in Kundalini Yoga, meditation and vegetarian nutrition, and has served both Temecula and Murrieta through the Community Service Departments since 1992 teaching yoga.

She writes yoga articles and helpful mommy and baby tips for magazines and local publications. She compiled the "Mommy & Baby Planner" approved by Southwest Healthcare, Temecula and Murrieta Community Service Departments and both Chambers of Commerce for distribution to new parents as a valuable resource.

Awtar Kaur Khalsa
CA

Awtar Kaur Khalsa has been living, studying, and teaching in Kundalini Yoga ashrams since 1972. She sat at the feet of Yogi Bhajan with a notebook, timer, and camera, prompting him to remark, "She has perfect notes."

She is a senior teacher trainer and has taught throughout the United States and overseas. Awtar uses generous doses of humor to inspire her students to expand, both in group and private classes.

Awtar has been married 30 years and her teenaged daughter is also a Kundalini Yoga teacher. She is the director of The Kundalini Yoga Center in San Francisco.

Kundalini Yoga Center

Bibi Bhani Kaur Khalsa
AZ

Bibi Bhani has been practicing and Teaching Kundalini Yoga since 1970. She is KRI certified Level One teacher and also holds certifications in Conscious Pregnancy Yoga, and Radiant Child Yoga.

She loves the depth and dimension that Kundalini Yoga offers and has made it her lifetime commitment to explore, master, and share this sacred science.
She particularly enjoys working with pregnant women, new mothers, and children. Practicing KY during these crucial times helps instill a happy, healthy, holy lifestyle for future generations.

Bibi Bhani is also a singer and musician who has recorded several CD's titled Amrit Bani and Union are available at Yoga Phoenix.

Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Khalsa
NM

All information on Bibiji Inderjit Kaur (Yogi Bhajan's Wife of 54 years) has been moved to her page:

Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Khalsa

To Sikhs around the globe, she is a revered "mother" and honored as an ambassador good will and a harbinger of interfaith dialogue among religious leaders. Find out more on her page referenced above.

Christ-Singh Khalsa
TX

Christ-Singh Khalsa studied with Yogi Bhajan since 1971.

He is KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Yogic Therapist, PTSD Therapist, Lifecoach, Ayurvedic Nutritionist, Tibetan Energy Therapist ,and Professional OSHA trainer.

TEACHER SPECIALTIES

Kundalini Yoga for Kids, Prisons, Business, Mental Health, Sat Nam Rasayan®, Mantras / Naad Yoga, Sikh Dharma Teachings.

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Dr. Darshan S. Khalsa
VA

Dr. Khalsa has 35 years teaching experience as a Certified Yoga Instructor from the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI). He has maintained a daily practice of Kundalini Yoga for over 38 years.

Dr. Darshan S. Khalsa is Board Certified in Acupuncture, Chinese Herbology and Oriental Medicine by the National Commission for Certification of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).

In addition, Dr. Khalsa is a certified BioSE Practitioner focuses on treating allergy-related conditions, immune dysfunction, digestive and endocrine disorders.

He is an affiliated member with: American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AAAOM), Acupuncture Society of Virginia (ASVA), and Maryland Acupuncture Society (MAS). He continues to study intensively and conduct clinical research in the areas of immunology, nutrition, and allergy treatment.

Khalsa Integrative Medicine

David Shannahoff-Khalsa
CA

David Shannahoff-Khalsa has been practicing and teaching Kundalini Yoga (as taught by Yogi Bhajan) since 1974. He currently teaches a Kundalini Yoga class in the Recreation Department at UCSD. In addition, he has been studying/practicing the distant healing modality called Sat Nam Rasayan as now taught by Guru Dev Singh, and originally taught by Yogi Bhajan.

The Research Group for Mind-Body Dynamics is pioneering novel clinical approaches for treating psychiatric, sleep, cardiovascular, and digestive disorders; devising new methods for doing high resolution spatial-temporal analysis of whole-brain imaging of the effects of yogic meditation techniques using state-of-the-art instrumentation and discovering new insights to mind-body rhythms and physiological states during sleep and waking.

David is also pioneering novel breakthroughs for obsessive compulsive disorder, the 4th most common psychiatric disorder, with colleagues in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD; employing Kundalini Yoga meditation for attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia and for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. His primary research interests are testing the efficacy of disorder-specific Kundalini Yoga meditation techniques for treating OCD, ADHD, PTSD, addictive disorders, stimulating the immune system, and for cardiac health and rehabilitation.

Shannahoff-Khalsa's popular writing has appeared in American Health and Psychology Today. His scientific articles are many. He has also contributed chapters to prestigious medical texts, two include Marcel Dekker, Inc. books - OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDERS: Diagnosis, Etiology, and Treatment, and STRESS: NEUROBIOLOGY AND NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY.

The purpose of the Khalsa Foundation for Medical Science (non-profit) is to support research into yogic medicine and to help establish the credibility of this ancient and powerful science. Much of the related scientific work accomplished by the members of The Research Group for Mind-Body Dynamics has been funded through the Khalsa Foundation, whether the work was initially supported by the National Institutes of Health, or private foundations, or private donors.

He has also been an advisor to the Pentagon, the National Research Council Committee on Techniques to Enhance Human Performance, the California Task Force to Promote Self Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility, and an editorial advisor for several scientific journals.

David routinely consults (in person or on the phone) with OCD patients, patients with OC Spectrum disorders, Psycho-oncology, and other psychiatric disorders using Kundalini Yoga Meditation techniques. In addition, he occasionally leads groups or gives lectures using these techniques for the treatment of psychiatric conditions.

BOOKS: Kundalini Yoga Meditation, Techniques specific for psychiatric disorders, couples therapy & personal growth;

Kundalini Yoga Meditation for Complex Psychiatric Disorders: Techniques Specific for Treating the Psychoses, Personality, and Pervasive Developmental Disorders;

Psychophysiological States, Volume 80: The Ultradian Dynamics of Mind-Body Interactions (International Review of Neurobiology

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The Internet Yogi

Consultation with David Shannahoff-Khalsa

The Khalsa Foundation for Medical Science

Daya Kaur
aka Marge Alperin
MI

Over the past 40 years Daya Kaur aka Marge Alperin, has developed into a devoted and serious yogini. Marge attended her first Kundalini Yoga class during the early 70s at an ashram in the Detroit, Michigan area. The class was taught by Guru Marka.

In June, 1971, Marge set off alone for New Mexico to attend a White Tantric Yoga® course, "whatever that was. I learned to trust myself," she says, "and I learned to be strong. She would attend 17 more Summer Solstice Sadhanas.

Today," she continues, "in 2009, we are now seeing millions of people coming to yoga. Some are desperate. In the 70s, they wanted to get off drugs. Today, people are looking for ways to find inner silence, peace, security, and sanity, to get away from the craziness out there. Many people of all ages, who have led good lives, now are frightened by job insecurity, a shaky economy, a shocking decline in morals, a general tawdriness.

Marge has kept up, to this day, with a personal sadhana that gets stronger over time. "I am in good health for someone my age," she says, and that's an understatement. It can be intimidating to sit next to this 89-year-old yogini at a yoga class; she has more stamina and strength than some people half her age.

Every morning I try to do fifteen or twenty minutes on the floor. If I don't do it, I'm sorry for the rest of the day. I meditate twice a day because I need it. Since March, I have been doing the 1,000 Day meditation.

She recalls telling Yogi Bhajan, that she wasn't yet ready for a spiritual name or any great commitment, and he told her to speak to him again when she was ready. "Several years later," she says, "I just knew that I was ready. I wasn't going to put on a turban, or even a bracelet, but the second time when I approached him, I said, 'I know I am now ready and I would like you to please give me a spiritual name.'

He just smiled at me and he gave me the most beautiful name of all, I think. My name is Daya Kaur. He said that it means the compassionate one. And then he said, with another big smile, 'The Daya Kaur is the one who brings the chicken soup to the village.' I just loved that and I said to him, 'Thank you very much for that special name, but I really don't think I deserve it. I don't think I'm nearly as compassionate as I should be.' And he said to me, 'You're not, but maybe you can grow to be.'

She began to take a new approach to teaching, first to teach underprivileged urban young people, and then seriously ill cancer patients. In the early 1990s she started to teach a small group of elementary school children from a low-income area of Pontiac, Michigan.

Marge points to another huge group of people who desperately need the benefits of Kundalini Yoga: senior citizens. "There is a real need," she says, with her youthful passion, "for a program for senior citizens.

Marge is especially concerned about senior men, who in her view have a great need for Kundalini Yoga, but few ways to become connected with it. "Older men are dying of overwork and exhaustion.

The above was excerpted from: March 3HO Newsletter

To see her and listen to her talk see these videos: see video of her interview
A Woman of Wisdom: Marge Alpern - Part 1 & 2 - by 3HO Foundation

Daya Kaur
CA

Holly Devine (Daya Kaur) has been practicing yoga for over 30 years, and received her Kundalini Teacher Training at Golden Bridge in Los Angeles.

Holly teaches Kid's Yoga. Kids thrive in this supportive and creative environment. They use their imaginations, practice their ability to concentrate, strengthen and stretch their bodies, and increase the awareness of their spirits.

Dev Suroop Kaur
NM

Dev Suroop Kaur discovered the practice of Kundalini Yoga in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1983, began teaching pretty much right away, and met Yogi Bhajan soon thereafter. Her current focus is Teacher Training (both Level 1 and 2), women's teachings, teaching courses.

As a musician, recording artist, and teacher of Kundalini and Naad Yoga, Dev Suroop Kaur uses the art of sound to create an experience of deep transformation and healing.

She has released five CDs of spiritual music , including the popular double album 'Kundalini Beat'.. She is currently an executive at Akal Security and balances her career with a rich life as a teacher, teacher trainer, musician, and minister of Sikh Dharma.

Deva Kaur Khalsa
FL

Deva Kaur Khalsa met Yogi Bhajan in 1972, and found Kundalini Yoga gave her such a complete sense of inner stillness that she knew it was the way of the future. She then started her life long journey of studying with Yogi Bhajan and teaching this ancient, sacred science.

Deva married her husband, Deva Singh and started teaching Kundalini Yoga in 1973, and began training KRI certified Kundalini Yoga teachers in 1996.

One of her passions is Yogi Bhajan's transformational teachings for women, and she participates as a member of the KRI Teacher Training Executive Council, as well as the KRI Board of Directors.

She is co-owner and founder of Yoga Source in Coral Springs, Florida.

Devi Dyal Singh
FL

Devi Dyal Singh is a Certified Kundalini Yoga teacher who first studied under Yogi Bhajan in 1970. Certified Teacher Trainer through IKYTA & experienced (E-RYT 500) Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.

He mainly teaches at The Kundalini Yoga Center in Altamonte Springs Florida. and Oceanview Yoga and Body Works in New Smyrna Beach Florida. He has also taught Teacher Training programs at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck NY & Ghost Ranch in New Mexico.

In addition, he has trained many corporate clients yoga based recovery and stress management techniques at LGE Human Performance Institute in Lake Nona Florida. He has also instructed Yoga & Meditation to clients at the Canyon Ranch at Gaylord Palms in Kissimmee, FL.

Some of the corporate clients that he had instructed on these stress-management techniques include Van-Kampen Group, Citgroup International, Merrill-Lynch,Saloman Smith Barney, Pftizer, American Paper & AT&T.

Devi Dyal Singh 3HO Teachers

Dharam Singh
MA

Dharam Singh brings a unique and earthy perspective to the Kundalini Yoga community that is inspired by broad exposure to Native American Shamanism, Tibetan Buddhism and Reichian Body-centered Therapy.

Dharam Singh hails from NYC, where, as a child in the 60′s one could hear, on any given summer night, the rich rhythms and chants of Africa brought by immigrants from Cuba and the Caribbean blending with the sounds of Motown, R&B, and Jazz.

He witnessed the role music and dance could serve, not only as a form of expression, but as a pressure relief valve for tensions. He spent 10 years doing radio with NPR in Fairbanks, AK, further expanding his knowledge and experience of an extremely wide range of music from many different cultures.

Now, his passion for the transformative power of sound and music has found a place in the use of the Gong as a tool for deep healing. He has "gleaned" a great deal from, and studied with Richard Hite, Iasos, Yogi Bhajan, Ed Mann and Michael Bettine.

Having walked the path of Sikh Dharma, with Yogi Bhajan, for more than 30 years he has come to more fully understand that sound and energy is the essence of the order of everything and that people can find peace and wellness simply through laying down, relaxing and listening.

Kundalini Yoga Boston

Dharam Singh at Gong Songs

Dharma Singh Khalsa
AZ

Dr. Khalsa, M.D. adopted the Sikh faith in 1981, and wears a distinguished full beard and white turban. Dr. Khalsa lives in Tucson, Arizona, and lectures and consults worldwide.

Since 1993, Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D has been the President and Medical Director of the Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation in Tucson, Arizona, the original voice in the integrative or holistic medical approach to the prevention and treatment of memory loss.

Dr. Khalsa graduated from Creighton University School of Medicine in 1975, and received his postgraduate training in anesthesiology at the University of California, San Francisco where he was chief resident. As chief resident, he conducted highly acclaimed research on anesthesia for cardiac surgery and obstetrical anesthesiology. He is also a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Acupuncture for Physicians Program, and has studied mind/body medicine at Harvard Medical School 's Mind/Body Medical Institute. Dr. Khalsa is board certified in anesthesiology and pain management.

In 1987, Dr. Khalsa established the first holistic pain program in the Southwestern United States at Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 1990, he was recruited to become the founding director of the Acupuncture, Stress Medicine, and Chronic Pain Program at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine's teaching hospital in Phoenix. In this position, he became the first director of acupuncture in an American medical school.

After founding the ARPF in 1993, he became the first physician to advocate a lifestyle approach to the prevention and treatment of memory loss, including Alzheimer's. He is among the world's leading authorities on integrative medicine, and has written extensively on a wide range of health and healing issues.

Dr. Khalsa has been invited to share his work at workshops and seminars, as well as medical meetings, in the USA, South America, Europe, Monte Carlo, and India.

In May 2003, Dr. Khalsa was invited to testify before the Congress of The United States of America about his pioneering work in the area of lifestyle influence on Alzheimer's disease, and called on Congress to fund a national education and outreach campaign designed to inform the public of the benefits of an integrative medical approach to Alzheimer's.

At that time he also met with The Surgeon General, Vice Admiral Richard Carmona, M.D., M.P.H. At this meeting, Dr. Carmona stated: "Your work in the field of memory loss should now be considered mainstream."

He spearheaded the groundbreaking research project carried out by the Foundation in 2004. In 2006, he became an Associate Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Spirituality and the Mind and, in collaboration with Andrew Newberg, M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, began a study of meditation in patients with early cognitive decline.

• Meditations for Healing: A Dialogue Between Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D. and Deepak Chopra,
• Meditation As Medicine: Activate the Power of Your Natural Healing Force,
• Brain Longevity: The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory
• The Better Memory Kit
• The End of Karma
• The New Golden Rules
• The Kundalini Yoga Experience: Bringing Body, Mind, and Spirit Together
• The Pain Cure: The Proven Medical Program That Helps End Your Chronic Pain
• The Mind Miracle
• Pain Cure

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Dr Khalsa at Alzheimers Prevention

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EkOngKar Singh Khalsa
MA

EkOngKar Singh Khalsa has taught and practiced Kundalini Yoga for the past thirty-five years and has been teaching in Harvard Square and in the New England region since 1988.

Beginning in 1973, EkOngKar Singh was blessed with the privilege to study directly with Yogi Bhajan and spent nearly twelve years under his guidance at Guru Ram Ashram in Anchorage, Alaska.

From 1996 until 2007, EkOngKar Singh served as Director of Guru Ram Das Ashram in Millis Massachusetts, a successful, intentional spiritual community founded in 1981, and as President of Sikh Dharma of Massachusetts, a position he continues to hold.

Dedicated to the art and science of Naad Yoga and to the Shabd Guru, EkOngKar Singh incorporates the rich tradition of chanting, kirtan and sound current in all his classes and workshops.

His professional life includes nearly twenty five years experience in real estate development and environmental affairs and he presently serves full time as Executive Director of the Mystic River Watershed Association.

EkOngKar Singh Khalsa

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