Lead Trainer Deva Kaur began her studies with Yogi Bhajan in 1972, and is a Lead Trainer in KRI’s Aquarian Teacher Training Program, and is a member of the KRI’s Teacher Training Executive Council. Deva Kaur has taught around the world, has served the Kundalini Yoga community in South Florida with her husband since 1976, and they are co-founders of Yoga Source in Coral Springs & Davie, FL with their partner, Karen Darrow.
Kirn Kaur moved to America from the Netherlands in 1975, met Yogi Bhajan and discovered Kundalini Yoga. For many years she assisted Yogi Bhajan in the running of camps for children and women, the Espanola ashram and a boarding school in India. Her current work focuses on the integration of yogic life skills as well as alternative healing approaches. Kirn serves as the director for Yoga Santa Fe and travels to share these teachings.
Mahan Rishi Singh co-founded the Khalsa Healing Arts and Yoga Center in Yardley, PA. USA in 1989. He began studying yoga and meditation in 1973-4 and entered the Guru Ram Das Ashram in 1975 as a student and teacher of Kundalini yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Having taught nationally and internationally, along with traveling numerous times to India, he seeks to bring the ancient wisdom and authentic devotional practices of yoga and meditation into everyday life.
Awtar Kaur 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. Awtar uses generous doses of humor to inspire her students to expand, both in group and private classes. She is the director of The Kundalini Yoga Center in San Francisco.
Japa K. Khalsa, DOM, is a Kundalini Yoga teacher and Associate Trainer in the KRI Aquarian Trainer Academy. She began her training in Yoga and Oriental Medicine 20 years ago in Chicago. She is a gifted integrative Doctor and her private practice addresses the needs of all ages and types of ailments including pain issues, auto-immunity, skin issues, emotional stress, anxiety, digestive issues, fatigue, headaches, and women’s health.
Guest Speakers
World aclaimed singer Nirinjan Kaur and her husband; mantra specialist Siri Amrit Singh, have been teaching Kundalini Yoga since a very young age after attending a boarding school in India called Miri Piri Academy where they have both studied "Raag" (Classical Indian Music) under master teacher Ustaad Narinder Singh Sandhu. They live in Vancouver, BC with their son Gobind Singh.