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Taking Kundalini Yoga
to underserved communities
Supporting teachers with financial
and physical resources
Translating educational materials
to different languages
The Kundalini Beyond Borders Program is dedicated to spreading the transformative power of Kundalini Yoga to communities across the globe. We support causes, communities and people that make a meaningful impact, particularly in underserved areas.
The program was launched in 2022 to bring Kundalini Yoga to resilient and underrepresented populations. Any KRI-certified teacher worldwide can apply to receive a grant to support work to expand the reach of Kundalini Yoga.
Jai Namdeep (Indonesia)
“Dealing Stress and Strengthen the Willpower through Kundalini Yoga and Meditation for Balinese”
About the project
Jai Namdeep – Indonesia
“Dealing Stress and Strengthen the Willpower through Kundalini Yoga and Meditation for Balinese”
The project involves offering Kundalini Yoga and Meditation classes to the Balinese community, including adults, youth, and middle-aged individuals. It starts with an introduction to Kundalini, explaining what Kundalini Yoga entails and how to practice it. Initially, I will share beginner practices such as Basic Spinal Energy, Awakening the 10th Body, Surya Kriya, and others. The practice will progress weakly based on the theme of the project. These themes include dealing with stress, strengthening the navel point, and specific classes for each chakra, all followed by meditation.
Alex Gitonga Richard (Kenya)
“Gitaru Stunya Community Center”
“Gitaru Stunya Community Center”
About the project
Alex Gitonga Richard – Kenya
“Gitaru Stunya Community Center”
The community around the area is not aware of Kundalini Yoga so this is an initiative to introduce Kundalini Yoga to the community. The goals are to see more people doing Kundalini Yoga and getting the benefits of the technology, such as stress management and physical fitness. There is ongoing martial arts training for kids, so bringing adults to the center of Kundalini Yoga is more appealing.
Satguru Kaur (Poland)
“Sacred Breath of Warrior”
About the project
Satguru Kaur – Poland
“Sacred Breath of Warrior”
With the support of the Guru and the Golden Chain, I would like to help awaken consciousness in others by bringing more yogic technology into school classrooms. The project will serve schoolteachers to start with by running some free Kundalini Yoga workshops and, subsequently, regular classes at a reduced rate at school. School is a fast-paced environment with many souls to serve. It is a challenging ground for consciousness amid myriad school duties. Strong breath awareness and a nervous system as strong as steel are required. School teachers play a crucial role in empowering young souls and helping them realize their potential; however, their working conditions in Poland raise concerns. The teachers’ salaries fall between PLN3329 and PLN3425 ($825 and $848, respectively), meaning that instructors at the beginning of their careers earn less than the minimum country wage. Teachers need to hold their space like sacred warriors: disciplined yet relaxed, compassionate yet fair, gentle yet strong. Keeping the breath conscious with a presence of a warrior will bring a gentle breeze of sacred discipline into classrooms.
Jiwanpreet Singh Khalsa (Brazil)
“Vibrating Our Roots: Gong in the Quilombo”
About the project
Jiwanpreet Singh Khalsa – Brazil
“Vibrating Our Roots: Gong in the Quilombo”
In times of valuing our identity, we recognize African culture as the basis for building our social, cultural, political and economic identity in all colonized countries. However, we know that we need to give access to minorities and black communities, especially in Brazil due to its history of racism, segregation and inequality to goods and human rights such as education, health and art. This is necessary as a policy to repair social injustices and also to value the dialogue and potential that these black quilombola communities have as a contribution and voice for all of us, ancestral knowledge.
The project “Vibrando nos roots – Gongo no Quilombo” favors the exchange of two interrelated knowledge – Indian and Afro-Brazilian knowledge. Regarding this, we seek something universal that makes sense in this dialogue that shares the unique experience of bodies, minds and lives and diverse world perspectives.
Kundalini Yoga and Gong Meditation meetings in the Quilombo (black community) of Vila Nova have been since August 2022 in the mountain district of São Gonçalo do Rio das Pedras. The project began with a resident and community leader who witnessed the strength of the gong at a meditation event and invited us to do it in her community. Since then, we have supported the meetings with experiences of Gong Meditations and ending with a conversation circle.
The project still takes place without the proper physical structure, as there are only chairs available in the space. The sound is also completely improvised and there is no sound system for conducting live meditations and kirtan in the space.
The idea is to expand the project by equipping the space with a basic sound structure, expanding the experience and practices of yoga, meditations and kirtan, and offering expanded events, inviting residents who lack financial resources from other regions of the district.
Devi Jaspreet (Estonia)
“Mental and Physical Health Promotion for War Refugees from Ukraine”
About the project
Devi Jaspreet – Estonia
“Mental and Physical Health Promotion for War Refugees from Ukraine”
Russia’s war in Ukraine started on February 24, 2021 (the birthday of the Republic of Estonia) and a lot of war refugees from Ukraine came to Estonia. Some refugees have attended my classes but still don’t have enough money to come every time. My goal would be to do Kundalini Yoga for Ukrainian war refugees.
Uma Bhagti Kaur (Chile)
“Yoga in Harmony: Restoring Balance in Disadvantaged Environments”
About the project
Uma Bhagti Kaur – Chile
“Yoga in Harmony: Restoring Balance in Disadvantaged Environments”
The project focuses on offering a Kundalini Yoga program designed specifically for women who face situations of social risk and live in environments affected by violence. Its main objective is to restore balance to the nervous system through various Kundalini Yoga techniques such as kriyas, meditations and relaxation with the use of Gong, along with practices with pranayamas. These techniques are intended to help participants manage and stabilize the ongoing stress associated with a violent environment, allowing them to recognize and value their potential to contribute positively to the community.
The project aims to offer weekly classes (2) of Kundalini Yoga, meditation and Gong instrument vibration, lasting 90 minutes each. Classes are designed specifically for women between 18 and 70 years old from the town “Villa O’Higgins, sector 2” in La Florida. Approximately 2,700 inhabitants live in this sector, of which 57% are women.
The program focuses on supporting women who face limited economic conditions, preventing them from accessing yoga classes at regular market prices. Furthermore, these women live in an environment marked by the daily presence of violence and drugs on the streets, as well as the normalization of verbal violence in daily interactions.
Priya Lakshmi Kaur (Slovakia)
“Fall in love with life”
About the project
Priya Lakshmi Kaur – Slovakia
“Fall in love with life”
The project is aimed at providing a lesson for patients with oncological disease. This would be 2 lessons weekly, each about 1-1 1/2 hours. One lesson will be in the morning and the other in the afternoon. The lessons are intended for people with cancer during treatment as well as after overcoming it. The lesson is based on gentle exercises according to the book by Evelyn Horsch-Ihle, which is based on long-term practice. Visualization, affirmations, meditations, mantras and sound healing are also applied in the lessons. The project is focused on finding balance and confidence in the self-healing abilities of the human body. Groups will consist of 10-15 people. Classes will be held in my studio, which also serves as a yoga and community center. Information about the lessons can be found in the local newspaper, flyers at the doctor’s office, the local library and the Facebook page.
Amma (United Kingdom)
“Kalya Uzumanana – A Kundalini Yoga Journey”
About the project
Amma – United Kingdom
“Kalya Uzumanana – A Kundalini Yoga Journey”
Kalya Uzumanana translates to “He who keeps on trying, gets the reward”. The project will focus on approximately 20-30 African women who are experiencing Gender-based violence and poverty. The goal is to deliver a twelve-week Kundalini Yoga program focused on predominately outdoor culturally competent/sensitive green therapeutic practices with a Trauma and mental health remedies approach. The target group will be Zambian women who live close to Lusaka Zambia. The project will be delivered by Amma, an experienced Kundalini Yoga teacher from the UK, and volunteers from the village the women originate from. It will be important to include some or all of the following:
- Encourage women and families to participate in the project design.
- Incorporate culture-specific values into the program.
- Recruit volunteers from their community.
- Provide an environment and opportunity for the women to include cultural techniques and practices.
- Provide interpreter services by including volunteers from the communities.
In addition, we will consult the women and include them at all stages of the program planning, ensuring cultural sensitivities and religious competencies will be sufficiently addressed, considered, and implemented.
Specifically, the sessions and overall program will include Kundalini Yoga kriyas, breathwork and meditation. In addition, all classes will include healthy foods and Breathwalk sessions to further improve results.
Due to our work with vulnerable people, we have both adult and children safeguarding documentation. Additionally, we have a health and safety and risk assessment document and all staff working with us will have DBS checks.
By standing in solidarity with historically underrepresented and under-resourced communities, we foster leadership development and create a lasting ripple effect, spreading the benefits of Kundalini Yoga globally.
Here are some ways your donation could help:
Your donation can make a significant impact by:
- Funding translation of materials
- Covering rent for teaching spaces in low-income areas
- Providing food for community gatherings
- Offering scholarships for teacher training in underserved communities
- Supporting travel costs for teaching programs
- Purchasing yoga manuals and educational materials
Deg Padmani Kaur (Mexico)
“Kundalini yoga as complementary therapy in patients with attempted suicide in Querétaro, Mexico”
Gurusansar Singh (Chile)
“Kundalini Yoga for the Cuban People”
“Kundalini Yoga for the Cuban People”
Jagat Joti Kaur (South Africa)
“Every 1 is precious”
About the project
Deg Padmani Kaur (Mexico)
“Kundalini yoga as complementary therapy in patients with attempted suicide in Querétaro, Mexico”
This project proposes to integrate the practice of kundalini yoga as a complementary therapy in low-income people who have had at least one previous suicide attempt during the year 2022. We would work in conjunction with mental health professionals who also provide psychological and psychiatric therapy to these patients at the Mental Health Center (CESAM) in Querétaro.
About the project
Gurusansar Singh (Chile)
“Kundalini Yoga for the Cuban People”
The intention is for me and my wife Gurudevta to travel to Cuba and make an intensive 3 week program of classes, workshops and a Level 2 Training. The idea is to serve the community through the teachings of KY all through the 3 weeks. We know many of them through the online trainings, and I am in touch with Narayan Nam Kaur, the KY teacher that has helped me organize all the activities and trainings there. Since the Cuban Sangat has been much engaged the last 2 years with the trainings and the online workshops me and my wife have taught, having received a great feedback from them, it is likely that they will show and invite other people for the activities.
About the project
Jagat Joti Kaur (South Africa)
“Every 1 is precious”
Offer 1-1 work, small group and day retreats to those in crisis – and the staff, families and volunteers that support them – together we are stronger. In hospice care, in mental health services, in homeless shelters and on the streets.
Jivan Mukta Singh (Spain)
“Supporting Ukraine in the Times of War”
“Supporting Ukraine in the Times of War”
Kirpal Sandeep (Brazil)
“Radiant Women – Kundalini Yoga for Women”
Pavandeep Kaur (USA)
“Decolonized Yoga and Meditation”
“Decolonized Yoga and Meditation”
About the project
Jivan Mukta Singh (Spain)
“Supporting Ukraine in the Times of War”
This project is addressed to medical staff and military staff of Ukraine, who are in the front line of the atrocities that happen in war. The goals and objectives are: 1. The use of empowering “energy” Kundalini Yoga, meditation techniques and breathing exercises to rebuild and strengthen the nervous system, sharpen the mind, develop intuition and increase courage and survival skills. 2. Support the warriors, bringing the power of yoga, the power of meditation, and the power of a breathing exercise. 3. Address the lack of motivation to and teach how to access the strength inside. 4. How to release fears and how to tap into the spirit of the defender. To take them through a psycho-energetic, powerful process to become fully courageous, fearless and self-empowered warriors that defend their families, nation and themselves.5. Plus special healing practices rooted in the yogic culture. Potential outcomes are: a stronger nervous system; clear and sharp mind; ability to deal with traumatic experiences; finding dignity and inner strength, fearlessness; warrior inner management of hatred, that supports the capacity to make fast decisions and act. The positive impact would be measured by thousands of papers, accounts and testimonials showing the benefits of the tools of yogic culture in modern times and stressful contexts.
About the project
Kirpal Sandeep (Brazil)
“Radiant Women – Kundalini Yoga for Women”
Radiant Women is an initiative of two women, who want to take the Kundalini Yoga courses for women on the periphery, in social vulnerability, in the eastern zone of Manaus, in the Zumbi dos Palmares 3 neighbourhood, through the Maria Rebeca Renascer Institute that has developed a work of welcoming, accompaniment and qualification with these women. The classrooms should take place from May, every Saturday they are 8 hours in the morning, for 4.25 months, 17 Saturdays. The class will be offered to 30 women, who will be received in the space of the Institute, offering rugs for practice. To have proximity between the teacher and the students, how to strengthen the bonds between the colleagues, building moments of fraternization, lightness, entertainment and anger, an excellent regional coffee will be offered at the end of all the practices for all the participants. All the practices will be photographed and registered, as well as disseminated in the social network to gain visibility, so that other people are interested in helping and strengthening this institute with this new cause.
About the project
Pavandeep Kaur (USA)
“Decolonized Yoga and Meditation”
Decolonized Yoga and Meditation seeks to return Yoga as a Medicine for the People by sharing the teachings of Kundalini Yoga in Prisoner of War Camps that still exist here on American soil; Indian Reservations, specifically POW #344 and surrounding communities. The teachings are shared in a way that is approachable, easily, absorbed and culturally appropriate for the territory in which the classes are being offered with the goal of teaching basic self-regulation skills to address the ongoing issues with intergenerational trauma and sexualized violence in a way that encourages that breaking of those cycles.
Saran Vedya Kaur (Chile)
“PREM A Tranquil Heart”
Simran Singh (USA)
“Creating Teachers in Ukraine with the Heart of Guru Ram Das”
Tabita Rezaire (Guyane)
“Carbet Planétarium”
About the project
Saran Vedya Kaur (Chile)
“PREM A Tranquil Heart”
PREM, A Tranquil Heart, is a project that seeks to raise the quality of life through the practice of kundalini yoga in inmates between 18 and 55 years of age who are serving different types of sentences in a prison in the Araucanía region. In order to dignify each participant, an item was incorporated into the budget that includes the acquisition of sweatpants, t-shirt, yoga mat and blanket to avoid the cold in relaxation.During the execution of the project, the psychologist in charge of the penitentiary institution in Temuco will provide the instruments to monitor the impact of the practice on each participant. It is important to emphasize that in order to measure the impact of the project, two surveys will be applied, one at the beginning and the other at the end of the project.
About the project
Simran Singh (USA)
“Creating Teachers in Ukraine with the Heart of Guru Ram Das”
Level 1 Teacher Training in Ukraine for those affected by the war. This 200-hour program will be led in person by Simran Singh and online by Infinite Goddess School led by Dr. Haridass. Stabilizing the hearts and minds of the war-torn people of Ukraine, this training will create teachers and leaders of first responders, combat medics, healers, counselors, aid workers to serve their community.
About the project
Tabita Rezaire (Guyane)
“Carbet Planétarium”
The Carbet Planetarium is an itinerant project over 10 stages through the magnificent territory of French Guiana. It is intended to be a place of sharing, transmission and collaboration, conceived as an opening to the Amazonian world through the wisdom of the earth, the body and the sky. On the program: intergenerational and intercultural sharing, introduction to kundalini yoga, storytelling, cultural performances and dance and vegetable dyeing workshops. During these monthly days in different municipalities of French Guiana, initiations to Kundalini yoga will be offered in order to allow isolated communities in French Guiana to discover and have access to the technology of KY and to experience its benefits.
Sach Dhyan Kaur (Turkey)
“Building a Kundalini Yoga Center”
About the project
Sach Dhyan Kaur (Turkey)
“Building a Kundalini Yoga Center”
During the pandemic, I decided to serve more from online hubs so I established a Kundalini Yoga and Meditation school named School of Authenticity (Özgünlük Okulu).
You can see the web site and Instagram page below:
https://www.instagram.com/ozgunlukokulu/
And it serves many Kundalini Yoga teachers and students with mostly online and physical classes right now as well as with the 11 days and 40 days programmes (free and paid) we support our students and many newcomers to make Kundalini Yoga as a part of their daily practices. So, right now we are 10 teachers at our online school sharing the teachings freely through Instagram and with our paid programmes. And we are supporting the online school by building an ashram in the south of Turkey right now so we can welcome people when they need. With this support, we would like to construct the yoga room in this ashram so this community feeling will come back after the hard times we went through during pandemic time and also after the earthquakes.