The Teachers
Our teaching staff is certified by the Kundalini Research Institute in Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. They have studied extensively and demonstrate integrity and an insatiable desire to learn and live the teachings. You will often find them in class at Kundalini Yoga East and at training and events around the globe where they continue to work on bettering their practice and themselves.
Profession: Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor
Languages spoken: English
Hobbies: Hiking (basically anything activity you can do in nature), exercises/movement, traveling, learning, connecting with friends and family.
What I love about Kundalini Yoga: It is a truly magical and life-changing technology! I love Kundalini because it's accessible to anyone and gives you the tools to directly access God/God within you!
Yogi Bhajan quote you live by: Life is a flow of love, only your participation is requested."
Favorite Kudnalini Yoga Food: Yogi Tea!!!
Kundalini Epiphany Moment: I've had a few over the years, but there's one that stands out. While doing Kirtan Kriya on a yoga retreat in Costa Rica in 2015 I had an experience of pure consciousness. The experience is hard to even put into words. How do you describe the indescribable? Everything made sense and I felt the oneness of everything. I cried tears of joy.
Profession: Kundalini Yoga Teacher and Teacher Trainer, Sat Nam Rasayan Instructor and Healer, Managing Director and Lead Trainer at Kundalini Yoga East
Languages spoken: English
Hobbies: Laughing
What I love about Kundalini Yoga: Its consciousness, its power, its projection, its totality.
Yogi Bhajan quote you live by: "Our whole essence is a discipline and our highest point in discipline is to be in love with others and carry them with both our head and heart."
Favorite Kudnalini Yoga Food: Mung beans and rice with Solstice hot sauce.
Kundalini Epiphany Moment: Recognizing my spiritual teacher.
Why I wanted to teach Kundalini Yoga: I didn't. It wanted me to and made it happen. I only listened and obeyed.
Student praise: "Angad Kaur has a beautiful speaking/singing voice and she is a serious practitioner and teacher. When she teaches she taps a deep well of experiential knowledge and helps me learn at a profound level. When she is at the front desk her boundless humor and helpfulness are beyond compare."
Profession: Elementary School Teacher and Kundalini Yoga Teacher
Language: English, and a bit of French, Latin, Italian and I love all dialects
Hobbies: Performance Artist (one person shows of original characters, monologues/movement/music). I love Dance, Theatre, Film, Comedy, Singing, Swimming, New York friends, Spiritual studies, Art
What I love about Kundalini Yoga: I love the Truth of it. It transforms me and yet brings me simply to who I am and who I always was.
Yogi Bhajan quotation you live by: "Chant your spiritual name for the rest of your life and you'll be okay!" "God and me, me and God are One."
Kundalini Epiphany Moment: My first class was an epiphany! I did a White Tantric Yoga Meditation course with Yogi Bhajan, in person, and I asked him for my spiritual name, definitely a life changing moment.
Why I wanted to teach Kundalini Yoga: I wanted to share something that would really help people and serve the greater good of this world. Kundalini Yoga is a vast and deep science. When I heard Yogi Bhajan wanted to train others to be teachers every hair on my body stood up and saluted! I feel that call to be a teacher as a call of duty. I still feel the ecstacy of that call every time I teach a class.
Student praise: "Hari Nam Kaur has a great sense of humor, bright blue eyes, and a quick smile. She teaches her class with excellence, grace, professionalism, caliber, expertise, and I have fun."
Profession: Retired Economist
Languages spoken: English, rudimentary French
Hobbies: Study of Indic Philosophy, Gurmukhi, botanical watercolor painting, knitting and sewing, hiking
What I love about Kundalini Yoga: Kundalini yoga kriyas, meditations and breath work alleviate many conditions — physical, mental and spiritual.
Yogi Bhajan quote you live by: “Patience pays. Let the hand of God work for you."
Favorite Kundalini Yoga Food: Potent Potatoes
Kundalini Epiphany Moment: Letting go of stress and fear during my first Kundalini Yoga class in 1999. Meeting and studying Sat Nam Rasayan with Guru Dev Singh shortly after my first class; and experiencing shuniya and maintaining a projective meditative mind.
Student praise: "My experience in Nam Hari’s class has always been uplifting. She posseses a deep understanding of Kundalini yoga and meditation, as well as anatomy, alignment and creative use of props. Her love and grace, care and gentleness, come shinning through in every aspect of her teaching. Nam Hari is always learning and studying, and her training in pranayama, yoga for back care and osteoporosis meets my needs. I always look forward to being in her class and feeling restored."
Spiritual Name: Tej Randeep Singh
Profession: Yoga Teacher, Comedian, Day Trader
Languages: English and I speak fluent body language
Hobbies: Yoga, Weight lifting, Cycling, Comedy, Foodie
What I love about Kundalini Yoga: "It expands your consciousness, awakens your soul and makes you strong as steel."
Yogi Bhajan quote you live by: "Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times"
Favorite Kundalini Yoga Food: Mango and anything with lots of Garlic.
Kundalini Epiphany Moment: "I was going through a challenging time in my life being a full time caretaker for my father and then later dealing with his passing and I just knew if I kept coming to Kundalini Yoga class I would make it through and be alright. As they told me "Keep up and you will be kept up" and they were right! Kundalini Yoga has helped me so much I can't imagine my life without it, it gives me the strength and confidence to deal with anything life throws my way! WAHE GURU! "
Profession: Master Hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner
Languages: English
Hobbies: Hiking, Dancing and Reading
What I love about Kundalini Yoga: I love Kundalini Yoga because it helps to clear away the emotional, mental, physical, or karmic blocks that may be standing between you and your destiny. It is a powerful tool for helping to strengthen your nervous system and find greater alignment within yourself and the world around you.
Yogi Bhajan quote you live by: "Your mind is your servant, your body is your vehicle, and your soul is your residence"
Favorite Kundalini Yoga Food: Kitchari
Kundalini Epiphany Moment: I am a co-create in the life that I experience. Anything we wish to change in our external world begins with strengthening, balancing, and healing our inner world.
Why I wanted to teach Kundalini Yoga: Kundalini Yoga and Meditation is a potent technology that gives people the power to change their lives and connect with the most divine and expansive parts of themselves. It has completely transformed my life, bringing tremendous abundance, love, and opportunities. I feel that it is my honor and responsibility to teach people these powerful tools so that they, too, can create a life of more joy, alignment, and abundance.
Spiritual Name: Raj Karam
Profession: Instructional Designer, Kundalini Yoga Teacher and Doctoral student
Languages: English
Hobbies: Mala design, Music production, Kirtan
What I love about Kundalini Yoga: "Developing a deep awareness of the inner workings of my mind and challenging myself to break through my self-imposed limitations."
Yogi Bhajan quote you live by: “Creation is ready to serve you, if you just be you."
Favorite Kundalini Yoga Food: Kitchari
Kundalini Epiphany Moment: In my second week of practicing Kundalini Yoga, I did my first 31-minute meditation, and it was very challenging. I managed to hold my arms up in the air for most of the meditation and I was immediately hooked!.
Why I wanted to teach Kundalini Yoga: I never intended to become a Kundalini Yoga teacher, even in teacher training. But about halfway through the training, I realized that it would be selfish of me not to share the power of this technology.
Language: English
What I love about Kundalini Yoga: Its' immediacy and practicality.
Yogi Bhajan quotation you live by: "May this planet be awakened to it's dignity by your higher consciousness and grace."
Favorite Kundalini Yoga Food: Yogi Tea
Kundalini Epiphany Moment: After my very first class, which was a surprise in itself, every cell of my being knew this practice could alter my blood chemistry, and I dove in whole heartedly.
Student praise: "Lori is elegant, peaceful and she has studied the science of all yogas very intently. She hones all of this knowledge into a great class with impact and finely tuned details."
Languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish
Hobbies: Photography, reading, cycling, traveling, music
What I love about Kundalini Yoga: The way it uplifts people.
Yogi Bhajan quote you live by: "Be the lighthouse."
Favorite Kundalini Food: Yogi Tea and solstice soup
Kundalini Epiphany Moment: My very first class, first Summer Solstice and the practice of Sat Nam Rasayan.
Why I want to teach Kundalini Yoga: To uplift people and spread the light of this wonderful technology.
Student praise: "Agochar is a treasure. Her angelic nature and inquisitive mind add depth to her classes. It is obvious that she really practices and studies by the sincere way she shares these teachings and the respect she has for Yogi Bhajan and Kundalini Yoga East. These things alone are inspiring. I also really love that I see her in class often and I can sit next to her as students studying together; and know we walk together in a community of souls on a great spiritual path and adventure.
Profession: Teacher
Languages: English and some residual High School French
Hobbies: Gardening, camping, hiking
What I love about Kundalini Yoga: It's like going to the gym, therapy and church all in the same hour and a half. What could be more comprehensively efficient than that.
Yogi Bhajan quote you live by: “If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it.”
Favorite Kundalini Yoga Food: Wheatberry Pudding
Kundalini Epiphany Moment: I got in it to unlock the great cosmic mysteries and time and again was handed the deadly practical instead. In time I saw that the deadly practical contains most everything.
Profession: Creative Art Therapist
Languages: English and Spanish
What I love about Kundalini Yoga: I love Kundalini Yoga because it is a very complete yoga. The physical exercises and breathing techniques bring the body and the mind to a state where deep meditation can be achieved, allowing healing to happen and spiritual growth as well.
Yogi Bhajan quote I live by: “If you can’t see God in all, you can’t see God at all.”
Favorite Kundalini Yoga Food: Yogi Tea
Kundalini epiphany Moment: It was at the Spring of 1998 White Tantric Yoga Workshop. It was my first encounter with Kundalini Yoga and any yoga. I had never done any yoga at all. It was like falling love with Kundalini Yoga at first. Since then, my life completely changed.
Why I wanted to teach Kundalini Yoga: I wanted to teach Kundalini Yoga because I know it works! I experienced all the changes in my life as a result of my practice. Also, I believe Yogi Bhajan said that the purpose of life is to elevate all beings; and by teaching Kundalini Yoga, I can help do it.
Student praise: "Susana is a radiant and smiling teacher and an exemplary student at Kundalini Yoga East. She is friendly, outgoing and greets everyone with genuine openness. Because we see her regularly in classes and serving, and cleaning at Kundalini Yoga East, she is very approachable and her classes are deeply informed by her consistent practice. She is enthusiastic, positive and supportive to all new people. Her devotion is real and her love of this practice comes through in her teaching."
Teacher Training
The training programs provide you with many opportunities and experiences to delve deep into the methodology of Kundalini Yoga.