The Trainers
 

Gurucharan Singh Khalsa
 

GURUCHARAN SINGH KHALSA, Ph.D., LPCC, is an expert in Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, and has been his interpreter and compiler of his teachings since 1969. Dr. Khalsa combines Western scientific training with Eastern traditions to develop practical approaches to personal growth and fulfillment. His first degrees and graduate studies were from Harvey Mudd College and Claremont Graduate School. His major emphasis was in mathematics, with a broad training in physics, chemistry, engineering and a minor in psychology. Later Dr. Khalsa earned both an M.Ed. at Boston University and a Ph.D. in psychology with an emphasis on research in meditation and clinical counseling. He has a keen understanding of Humanology, the psychology of personal excellence developed by Yogi Bhajan, and has used it in clinical practice for three decades as well as developed trainings in Humanology for therapists and healers.


As president of Khalsa Consultants, Inc., he consulted with many businesses and developed seminars and executive coaching to optimize leadership, stress resilience, creativity and conscious communication in teams. He co-authored Breathwalk and The Mind with Yogi Bhajan and co-edited The Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook. In addition, he has contributed original research on the effects and use of Kundalini Yoga and meditation

 

Dr. Khalsa is currently the Director of Training for the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI) which he co-founded in 1972. He leads the development of international training programs for teachers in Kundalini Yoga and the research and applications of meditative and yoga techniques to help people deal with happiness, stress, diabesity (diabetes and obesity), positive lifestyles and emotional vitality. He is an expert in Kundalini Yoga, Humanology, and awakening human potential and intuition. He instructed in yoga and wellness psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for more than 15 years and established wellness programs in universities and clinics internationally.


He is committed to sharing the essence of the teachings of Yogi Bhajan to create fulfillment for each individual in spirit, vitality, life purpose and robust communities of consciousness and values.

 

Nirvair Singh Khalsa
 

Nirvair Singh has studied with Yogi Bhajan since 1970. 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 has become the Managing Director of  the Kundalini Research Institute.  He has authored nineteen DVD's/Videos and four books on Kundalini Yoga. He lives with his family in Anchorage and Espanola  and is the Co-director of the Kundalini Yoga Center of Alaska.

 

Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa

 

Gurmukh is the co-founder and director of Golden Bridge Nite Moon, Los Angeles' premier center for the study and practice of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. Since being baptized 35 years ago with the Sikh spiritual name meaning "One who helps people across the world ocean," Gurmukh has dedicated her life to fulfilling her namesake. For nearly three decades, students in Los Angeles and from around the world have sought out her classes in Kundalini Yoga, meditation, and pre-and post-natal care. She has been married for 22 years to Gurushabd and has a 22-year-old daughter who also lives in Los Angeles.
 

 

Gurumeher Singh Khalsa

 

GuruMeher Singh Khalsa began studying under Yogi Bhajan in 1981, and has been teaching Kundalini Yoga ever since. He is the Director of Teacher Training at Yoga West, Yogi Bhajan’s original studio in Los Angeles, travels internationally to train teachers in Level One and Two programs, and works with the Aquarian Academy to train the next generation of teacher trainers. As a professional Life Coach, he helps people identify and transform personal blocks to their happiness and fulfillment, and as a public speaker introduces non-yogic audiences to body-mind-spirit training.

 

 

Krishna Kaur Khalsa

 

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Krishna Kaur has been teaching the art of Kundalini Yoga and Self Awareness to the Greater Los Angeles community since 1970. She is a natural teacher who has shared the art and science of yoga with therapists, entertainers, executives, students, at-risk youth, teachers, seniors, pregnant mothers, inmates and drug rehabilitation clients. She is the founder of Your Own Greatness Affirmed (Y.O.G.A. Inc), Inc., which is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to establishing Yoga-based programs in underserved communities around the world. YOGA For Youth is a Y.O.G.A., Inc program that, while serving all youth, is focused primarily on "at risk" and incarcerated youth. Through the YOGA For Youth program, consisting of Yoga exercises, breathing, meditation, and singing, the young people are given practical tools to enrich their lives in the present and future. She is also the founder of the International Association of Black Yoga Teachers, which offers classes throughout the community, takes the YOGA For Youth program into the detention camps, and sponsors a Festival of Yoga and Music in Cuba.

 

 

Gurutej Kaur Khalsa

 

For more than 36 years, Gurutej has been teaching people how to connect to their higher consciousness through yoga, chanting, meditation and healing. As one of Yogi Bhajan’s original students, Gurutej emerged as a founding practitioner of Kundalini Yoga. In 1970, Gurutej co-founded 3HO Canada and over the next 20 years helped to establish 3HO throughout Canada. Since then, she’s become an author, artist, healer, teacher and mother; she’s known for her Chakra series of DVDs and more recently, as co-founder of Golden Bridge in Los Angeles. Everyday she lives the meaning of her Sikh name, which translates as “the one who brings you from darkness into light at the speed of light.”