Meet last year’s grant Winners!

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”
 


Jagat Joti Kaur (South Africa)

“Every 1 is precious”

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.

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.

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”

Kirpal Sandeep (Brazil)
“Radiant Women – Kundalini Yoga for Women”

Pavandeep Kaur (USA)
“Decolonized Yoga and Meditation”

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.

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.

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”

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.

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.

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”

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://ozgunlukokulu.com/

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.

“At one time there was a thriving community of Kundalini Yogis in Mozambique – but mostly they were expats. I was often the only black face in a room of white yogis. There is a longing to practice yoga in Mozambique by the people of Mozambique.”

Through this grant Bernasho had the opportunity to:

👉🏿 spread Kundalini Yoga and make it as widespread as all other kinds of yoga in Mozambique.
👉🏿 bring Kundalini yoga to Zambia so that people can benefit from the technology itself.
👉🏿 help yoga students access healing through this practice.

Two years ago, Siri Hardevi surrendered to her soul calling and started doing SEVA giving Kundalini Yoga in a Shelter for Women Survivor of Domestic Violence in Mexico City.

She is a certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher and has been teaching yoga in shelters for two years. The Kundalini Beyond Borders grant supports the expansion of these classes to more shelters in Mexico City. The women in the shelter are high-risk women who needed to leave their homes and protect themselves and their children from abuse. Siri Hardevi and her trained team have served many more women who are working to uplift their lives and the lives of their children.

Within the billions of people on the planet, so many are under-represented within most yoga communities.

How do we find ways to stand in solidarity with communities that may not traditionally have access to yoga?

Yoga leaders and teachers are expanding the reach and impact that Kundalini Yoga and Meditation can have in people’s lives, supporting the empowerment of underserved populations, with the help of the Kundalini Beyond Borders program.

Your donation goes directly to a yoga teacher or trainer who is in a collaborative relationship with an under-resourced community. Through a grant selection process, a financial award will be given to bring Kundalini Yoga & Meditation materials, teaching and support to communities. Are you bringing Kundalini to an under-resourced community? Stay tuned for more info to apply for a grant, and for now, please share in the ripple effect of giving!

⇒ Pay for translation of materials 

⇒ Pay rent in lower income areas for a teaching space for these communities

⇒ Pay for food for Kundalini gathering, meditation get togethers in under-resourced areas

⇒ Give scholarships to members of historically under resourced communities, providing teacher training to them so that they can return to their communities and keep sharing

⇒ Translation of teaching materials to global underserved areas

⇒ Rent and travel costs for teaching as seva programs

⇒ Yoga manuals and educational materials, translated and written for local communities

Standing in solidarity with communities that have been historically under-represented & under-resourced, we support leadership development in these beloved communities, creating a long term ripple effect that leads to Kundalini everywhere.

We stand heart to heart, eye to eye, shoulder to shoulder, third eye to third eye in solidarity with under-resourced communities. With all the changes of the Aquarian Age, we are continually inspired by global leaderships that serve through outreach and community relationships. The ripple effect of the work of many practitioners leads to Kundalini Yoga and Meditation reaching every corner of the globe, bringing joy through the shared experience of group consciousness & collaboration.