Sat Siri (Rachel Dougherty)

LEAD TRAINER

Sat Siri is a trailblazing, next generation Kundalini Yoga teacher and trainer. She travels the world teaching Kundalini Yoga (in places like Bali, Maui, Mexico and India) and opened the first Kundalini Yoga studio in Sydney, Australia. A former ballet dancer with the Australian Ballet, Sat Siri has been practicing Yoga and Meditation for over twenty years and teaching Kundalini Yoga for fifteen.

Sat Siri is a teacher of teachers. She has a unique ability to anchor the more esoteric qualities of this technology, bringing the tools into practical, everyday life. She believes it is everyone’s birthright to experience the peace, grace and blessings that awaken with daily Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her exuberant daughter Prem, who is her greatest teacher.

Dr. Japa Kaur Khalsa

Trainer

Dr. Japa Khalsa is a 25-year practitioner of Energy Medicine with a dual degree as a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT). Dr. Khalsa travels and teaches internationally as a Professional Teacher Trainer and Yoga Therapist. As co-author of Enlightened Bodies, she is passionate about sharing the power of the human body’s potential to self-heal. Her heart lies in serving public health and in bringing joy, enthusiasm and humor to teaching. She lives in Santa Fe, NM with her husband Harpal and their son, their two dogs, a ball python and a tortoise Samantha. 

Dev Suroop Kaur

Trainer

Dev Suroop Kaur delights in sharing the pure practicality of nurturing a successful and deeply authentic life. An accomplished musician, recording artist, and Lead Trainer in the KRI Aquarian Trainer Academy, Dev Suroop Kaur strives to break it down, keep it real, and guide students to their own empowered authenticity. From the deeply contemplative compositions in her recordings Sahej and Narayan, to the hip, edgy beats of her chant-rap album Kundalini Beat, Dev Suroop Kaur offers an extraordinary range of styles to invoke the experience of the Divine Spirit. She is blessed to have studied in the classical raag kirtan lineage of Bhai Avtar Singh Ragi and Bhai Kultar Singh Ragi. She deeply enjoys training students and teachers of Yoga in the science of Naad Yoga, conscious communication, and how to access the beauty and power of their personal voice as well as other Kundalini Yoga topic areas. In addition to her Kundalini Yoga studies, she is a certified Vinyasa teacher through Yoga Farm Ithaca and is currently completing a 200-hour hatha yoga teacher training with Yogasource in Santa Fe. She currently lives with her husband in Espanola, New Mexico. Dev Suroop Kaur is certified as a Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT500) through Yoga Alliance, and holds an MBA from the Claremont Graduate University.

Inderjot Kaur

Trainer and Program Coordinator

Born in México City and partially raised in the US and Europe, she began her yoga practice at age 15. Currently an Associate Trainer in the Academy, she loves both teaching and coordinating programs that offer and experience of well-being, both physically and spiritually. In 2017 she opened Casa Prem, a yoga school in Guadalajara, where the main focus is to work through collaborations of teachers locally and internationally.

On another note, her passion for arts and education has been present in the work developed for over 20 years with museums and cultural institutions, designing educational programs and didactic exhibitions.

Siri Kaur

Trainer

Siri Kaur is a KRI Professional Teacher Trainer and a Certified Ayurvedic Consultant. 

Teaching for over 18 years, she has immersed herself into the study of Kundalini Yoga and Ayurveda around the world, including in Anandpur Sahib, India and loves helping people bring these teachings into their daily life.

Jagat Joti Kaur

Trainer

I am a Kundalini Yoga Teacher and Trainer and a Sacred Numerology Counsellor with the Karam Kriya school. I love to exploring the art of yoga and the yoga of art for a creative, juicy life worth living. I am based in Cape Town in South Africa.  

I completed my Level 1 Aquarian Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training  in 2005 and hold a 550 hour Ayurveda Lifestyle and Nutrition Practitioner qualification with the European Institute of Vedic Studies. 

I set up a yoga and healing arts programme across various acute NHS mental hospitals in London in 2008 and have worked with galleries such as Tate Modern, Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery.

Guru Surya Kaur

Trainer

I discovered Kundalini Yoga in Minneapolis, MN when I stumbled upon a class in 2002. It helped me to release and move on from a relationship that had recently ended. A few weeks later I met my husband. I don’t think it was a coincidence! I love the way I feel when I practice Kundalini Yoga – lighter, happier, more graceful and grateful.

My name means “The pure princess of the sun who brings one from darkness to light”. I live in Portland, OR USA and completed Level 1 Teacher Training there in 2009. Ten years later I completed all 5 Level 2 modules and joined the Teacher Trainer Academy. I spend every chance I get outdoors and am also a certified Breathwalk instructor.

Sat Amrit Kaur

Trainer

I have been practicing Kundalini Yoga since 2011 and have held regular classes since 2014 when I finished the Level 1 Teacher Training. In 2015 I started organizing Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainings in Croatia. I was born in Germany in 1970 and moved back to my roots, to Zagreb, Croatia, in 1989 to study languages at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.  After 10 years of working as a translator with the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, I started teaching German and English at Zaprešić Highschool in 2003. In autumn 2019, I quit my job as a high school teacher and decided to completely commit to teaching regular Kundalini classes. In 2022 I became Associate at the Aquarian Teacher Academy. 

I am also a certified sound massage practitioner (Peter Hess Institute) and teach Kundalini yoga therapeutically according to the curriculum of the Guru Ram Das Center for medicine & humanology (Foundations of Kundalini Yoga Therapy, Mental Health in the Aquarian Age). I have studied Vedic Astrology and Vastu since 2010 and offer Vedic counseling.

Guruwant Kaur (Daphna)

Trainer

It is with energetic passion, love and joy that Guruwant Kaur (Daphna Dor) has been sharing the healing technology of Kundalini Yoga for the last 20+ years through classes, immersions and retreats both in her hometown of New York, her current home in Bali where she lives with her family, and internationally.  She was the coordinator and producer of the first KRI approved Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training in Bali in 2014, and has since continued to organize and teach on several kundalini teacher trainings, with deep awe and reverence for this liberating, transformational path of higher consciousness. 

Guruwant co-created and facilitated the first annual Kundalini Yoga Women’s Leadership Training in Bali in 2019, which has become an annual event. Guruwant has a dynamic background as a mom, wife, teacher, trainer, Chakra Dance facilitator and Phoenix Rising Yoga therapist. She believes we all have the wisdom, the light and the love within to manifest our highest calling!

Ravi Nam Kaur – Stefania Testa

Trainer

I’m Stefania Testa, Ravi Nam Kaur, I finished KYTT level 1 in 2009, level 2 in 2013, 21 stages of meditation in 2015. I have been regularly teaching KY since 2009 both in person and, during and after the pandemic, online. I’m an Intern. 

I also teach people with different kind of addiction issues. I’m a Hatha Yoga Teacher level 1, I frequently go to India to deepen my knowledge of the culture of this country and my personal practice. I’m currently studying Indology at Milan University.  

Nirvair Singh

Trainer

Nirvair Singh Khalsa began studying with Yogi Bhajan in 1971. He is a retired University Instructor at the University of Alaska Anchorage where he taught classes in Kundalini Yoga for 31 years. He is a lead trainer, and has authored nineteen DVD’s/Videos and four books on Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan®.

He has also taught classes, workshops and trainings throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. He is on the KRI Board of Directors and is a Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 certified teacher trainer. He lives with his wife of 50 years, Nirvair Kaur, in Santa Rosa, CA, USA.

Amrit Singh

Trainer

Amrit Singh Khalsa is a lead trainer and the CEO of the Kundalini Research Institute.  He earned his PhD in Aeronautical Engineering from MIT and then worked within the 3HO legacy businesses and non-profit organizations for 11 years. 

He has been a successful executive in the natural food industry, and brings clarity, practicality, and heart to his teaching and his work.

Sujjan Saroop (Stephen Haering)

Trainer

After dabbling in and out of Yoga classes for more than a decade, Sujjan Saroop decided, in 1999, to suspend judgment for a 30-day intensive exploration – and he has maintained a regular practice since. Having lived and traveled in a variety of places, he practiced a multitude of Yoga styles for the next 10 years. He was drawn to Kundalini Yoga, in 2010, by compassionate and wise teachers, by the Naad (or “cosmic sound vibration”), and by the Kundalini Yoga community – he adopted it because he found it to be most efficient and effective. 

Consistent personal and group Kundalini Yoga practice brought many transformations to Sujjan’s life – including living more directly, more confidently, more calmly, and more meaningfully. He completed the Kundalini Yoga Level One Teacher Training at Radiance Yoga Studio (Alexandria, VA) in 2012 and completed the five Kundalini Yoga Level Two Transformation courses 2013-2017. Sujjan is now a Professional Trainer in the Kundalini Research Institute’s Aquarian Academy (a multi-year training and development program for Kundalini Yoga trainers). 

Sujjan Saroop is humbled and honored to be a member of KRI’s Hybrid Level One Training Team – and he is excited to be a part of this “community within a community” in which we will co-evolve spaces for learning, connecting, and growing.

Faith Hunter

Trainer

Faith Hunter is global yoga and meditation instructor, wellness philanthropist, movement motivator, healing guide, and a music head. She is the architect of Spiritually Fly™, a life philosophy that awakens the brilliance within the soul, and uses the ancient technologies of breath, movement, sound (chanting & music), and stillness, in a fresh and modern way to encourage students to live the life they desire. With a BS and MBA, Faith has also studied the depths of yoga, meditation, and energy healing.

From the cover to pages of multiple magazines like Yoga Journal and Essence, global TV shows, and various other forms of media, Faith is a spiritual teacher that brilliantly blends Classic yogic principles and real-world occurrences into an integrated experience that is grounded, radical and unforgettably Spiritually Fly™. As a creative spirit, Faith is also a writer who has merged her love of poetry, meditation, and the healing arts into numerous projects. Her 2nd book, Spiritually Fly: Wisdom, Meditations, and Yoga to Elevate Your Soul will be released in 2021. Faith is also the owner Embrace Yoga DC, located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC, and the Founder/CEO of Embrace OM, a wellness brand focused on sharing the many voices of the world community.

Gurumukh Mark Harris

Trainer

Gurumukh Mark Harris first trained as a Kundalini Yoga teacher in the 70’s, and has been applying yogic philosophy, African-American Psychology, and other principles to his music performance, and addiction therapy practice, for nearly 40 years.

In his musical, written, and activist work, he likes to reclaim a bit more of the original spirit of these technologies in their places of origin, where they could be accessed by poor and oppressed people in order to gain empowerment and enlightenment.

He has over 40 years of experience in Cross-Cultural Addictions and Mental Health Counseling, Ethnic Studies Education, and training in evidence based, and culturally defined therapies. He specializes in “hard to reach”, and marginalized populations. Many times these populations have devised innovative and exportable solutions, that are exportable to other more mainstreamed populations.

Tommy Rosen

Trainer

Tommy Rosen is an internationally renowned yoga teacher and addiction recovery expert who has spent the last 3 decades immersed in recovery and wellness. He holds advanced certifications in both Kundalini and Hatha Yoga and has 29 years of continuous recovery from addiction. Tommy is the founder of Recovery 2.0, where he has built the Recovery 2.0 Global Community, the Recovery 2.0 Online Conference series, the Recovery 2.0 Group Coaching Program and the Recovery 2.0 Coach Training. Tommy also leads retreats and workshops internationally and presents regularly at conferences spreading the message of “Don’t just survive, Thrive. Tommy’s first book, Recovery 2.0: Move Beyond Addiction and Upgrade Your Life, (Hay House) was published to International acclaim and continues to transform the lives of readers across the globe today.

Jivan Joti Kaur

Trainer

Jivan Joti Kaur Khalsa earned a Masters of Arts from New Mexico Highlands University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy/Psychology from Sierra University, Costa Mesa, CA. She is a New Mexico Licensed Counselor (LPCC), a Lead Trainer for KRI Level I and II Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training, and a Sat Nam Rasayan Practitioner and Healer (Level 3).

Pavan Dev Kaur

Trainer

Pavan Dev Kaur (Jeannette Darcy), M. Div., IKYTA certified, RYT-200, is a Kundalini Yoga teacher and an independent scholar who lectures on comparative religion, Indian philosophy, and the history of yoga. Her classes are entertaining and enlightening, backed by years of personal and academic study, and paired with hands-on activities and meditations to help process the teachings.

In addition to working at NASA as an engineer for 30 years, she has over 25 years of experience in many types of yoga and meditation. She studied Sanskrit and Indian philosophy at Rice University, the American Institute of Indian Studies in Pune, India, and at the University of Chicago Divinity School where she earned her Master’s degree. She continues to study with spiritual masters and to live a life of service and gratitude.