There are multiple ways that Kundalini Yoga teachers and practitioners can contribute to documentation and research on the benefits of Kundalini Yoga practices. These include:

1. Kundalini Yoga teachers could identify and connect with existing researchers in local academic or medical institutions who conduct research the fields of medicine, physiology, psychology and related fields to interest them in engaging in research on Kundalini Yoga.  In this research model the researcher would be responsible for the research and the yoga teacher could provide the yoga expertise and deliver the yoga practices to the study participants. This could be for the study of basic research, which is to examine the effects of Kundalini Yoga practices in normal healthy populations to document the effects and possible mechanisms by which they are acting.  It could also be the study of Kundalini Yoga in special populations such as schools, workplaces, prisons, etc. to document the benefits of Kundalini Yoga specific to these populations.  Finally, it could be for the study of the efficacy of Kundalini Yoga for the treatment or symptom improvement of medical or psychological conditions.  The KRI Director of Yoga Research and/or researchers on the KRI Research Advisory Board http://kundaliniresearchinstitute.org/kri-research-advisory-committee/ could provide research consultation and possibly serve as coinvestigators.  It is possible that KRI can provide some degree of financial support for this research upon request to help with critical supplies or costs.  Potential researchers including faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students, and research assistants could be identified by yoga teachers from their yoga student population attending their yoga classes and programs.
2. Yoga teachers who already have sufficient training and expertise in research and are also based at an institution that supports research on human subjects can elect to conduct their own research studies of choice on Kundalini Yoga practices.  It is possible that KRI can provide some degree of financial support for this research upon request to help with critical supplies or costs.  Furthermore, the KRI Director of Yoga Research and/or researchers on the KRI Research Advisory Board http://kundaliniresearchinstitute.org/kri-research-advisory-committee/ could provide research consultation and possibly serve as coinvestigators.
3. Yoga teachers could do simple data acquisition from students either in regular yoga class sessions or in yoga classes for special populations.  These data could be useful as preliminary data to provide support for facilitating new research projects.  They could also be useful for yoga teachers to provide validation and efficacy of Kundalini Yoga practices to support their proposals to institutions to allow or hire them to deliver Kundalini Yoga to their employees, clients or patients.  Furthermore, analysis of this information will also provide constructive feedback to determine the strengths and weaknesses of our programs, thereby helping us refine and improve our programs and their benefits.  The KRI Director of Yoga Research and/or researchers on the KRI Research Advisory Board http://kundaliniresearchinstitute.org/kri-research-advisory-committee/ could provide research consultation on the possible questionnaires or other measures of change and improvement that teachers could apply, on the best methodological procedures to use in implementing these measures, as well as some data analysis on the collected data.
4. The only significant challenge in moving research on Kundalini Yoga forward is financial support.  There are possibly many affluent students attending our yoga classes who have significantly benefitted from Kundalini Yoga and who may be interested in financially supporting research on Kundalini Yoga as a way of giving back.  Yoga teachers are in a position to solicit such interest from their yoga student population and classes.  Financial donors for research on Kundalini Yoga can received tax deductions for donations to KRI for research as KRI is a registered charitable organization in the U.S.  The KRI website has a donation page set up for this process, see: http://kundaliniresearchinstitute.org/donations/.