Awtar Kaur Khalsa

Spiritual Warrior

Awtar Kaur Khalsa has been living, studying, and teaching in Kundalini Yoga ashrams since 1972. Her sense of humor and transparency help her students get real about their own practice and teaching.

She is a senior teacher trainer and has taught throughout the United States and overseas. Awtar uses generous doses of humor to inspire her students to expand, both in group and private classes.

Awtar has been married over 30 years, with one daughter who is also a Kundalini Yoga teacher and professional photographer. She is the director of The Kundalini Yoga Center in San Francisco.

DukhNiwaran Kaur Khalsa

Amrit

DukhNiwaran Kaur is a Minister of Sikh Dharma and a Professional Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainer who has been practicing Kundalini Yoga and delving into its spiritual depths since 1997. Her passion has been to be a part of the Amrit Sanchar at Solstices where she has had the opportunity to witness the powerful process that transforms us into Amritdhari Sikhs of the Guru.

In addition to training teachers, much of her work in the Dharma has been around LGBTQ+ inclusivity. She works with KRI in expanding the language in the Humanology teachings around gender identity and sexual orientation. She is a leading member of the LGBTQ+ Task Force of Khalsa Council advocating for full inclusion of LGBTQ+ people in Sikh Dharma. As a graduate student in Pastoral Counseling, she enjoys exploring the history and “theology” of Sikh Dharma, inspired by the strength of the Gurus’ embodied and unwavering vision of a just and conscious world.

DukhNiwaran shares her joy of this path with warmth, witnessing and nurturing the gifts each student brings. She lives in Chicago with her wife of 29 years and 2 cats.

Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa

Nitnem Banis

Ek Ong Kaar Kaur is an ordained minister of Sikh Dharma and a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor. For nearly 20 years, she has been an ardent student of Eastern spirituality.

As a writer, Ek Ong Kaar Kaur has presented various papers at Sikh conferences. She has also written many essays and stories that can be found at sikhnet.com. She is a globally respected researcher of Sikh theology and history, and is most well known for her lyrical translations of Gurbani into English. Her translation of Japji Sahib: The Song of the Soul was released in book form in March, 2005. Since then she has also published her translations of Anand Sahib and Sukhmani Sahib.

Ek Ong Kaar Kaur currently lives in Plano, Texas with her husband, Dr. Patrick Michaud.

Guru Dharam Singh Khalsa

Kundalini Yoga and Sikh Dharma

Guru Dharam Singh started KundaliniMedicine in 2007, an international Healing and Yoga practice, and he has been teaching for over 25 years. As a Keynote speaker on matters of health, vitality, and emotional intelligence for the Association of Chief Executives in the UK, from 2002 to 2005, Guru Dharam served as an educator to the business and corporate community.

He has taught Kundalini yoga since 1980 and been practicing Oriental medicine since 1988 when he founded the Lotus Healing Centre, London, and served as the Vice Principal of the London Academy of Oriental Medicine.

Guru Dharam founded the International School of Kundalini Yoga in the UK in 1996, (with Darryl O’Keeffe, his co-author of The Kundalini Yoga Experience) teaching people to become yoga teachers. He has lead training courses in Sweden, UK, Germany, Ireland, Israel, New York, and Malaysia.

Guru Dharam is also the course Director of the International Kundalini Therapy Training held in Sweden, and an associate Director of the Institute of Medical Yoga, Stockholm. He trains yoga teachers and healthcare professionals to apply the principles of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation in a therapeutic context for challenging modern conditions. For example, he has developed programs for anti-stress, burn-out, and attention deficit disorder.

In addition to his practices in Kundalini Yoga and Yoga Therapy, Guru Dharam is also a qualified practitioner of traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Herbal Medicine, Internal Feng Shui, Numerology, Dream Teaching, and Red Thread Empowerment.

Gurujodha Singh Khalsa

Spiritual Warrior

SS Gurujodha S. Khalsa is a Sikh Minister and the current President of the Siri Singh Sahib Corporation Board. He is an attorney who has been licensed in CA since 1979, and is one of four Chief Deputies in the Office of County Counsel, Bakersfield, Kern County, CA.

He is the originator of a self defense system entitled The Spiritual Warrior Training System, and is a 7th degree black belt and a senior Instructor of Kenpo Karate. He is a founding member of the Amritsar-Bakersfield Sister City Committee. He has given martial arts and self-defense seminar presentations in the United States and internationally.

He also served for many years as Granthi in the Sikh Dharma Sangat in Los Angeles. Gurujodha currently lives in Bakersfield, CA his wife, Siri Ved Kaur.

Guruka Singh Khalsa

The Gift of Amrit; Seva: selfless service

Mukhia Singh Sahib Guruka Singh Khalsa is the original founder of SikhNet. He is co-founder of the computer consulting firm Sun & Son, served as Senior Producer at a major entertainment software company, and now serves as President and CEO of SikhNet.

He also teaches Kundalini Yoga all around the world. His YouTube videos and writings are an ongoing source of inspiration to the global “cybersangat.” Guruka Singh’s love of poetry has led him to publish his own English poetry in the volume The Game of Love (2004.)

Guruka Singh’s most recent book is Heroes, Saints, and Yogis — Tales of Self-Discovery and the Path of Sikh Dharma (2011). He lives under the blue skies of New Mexico with his beloved Khalsa family.

HarDarshan Kaur Khalsa

Death, Dying, and Funerals

HarDarshan Kaur has been a minister of Sikh Dharma since 1993. In addition to working with individuals and families dealing with illness and death, she has also had the opportunity to facilitate the funeral and cremation of a sangat member. During that experience, she became aware of how unprepared we can all be for death, and issues specific to Sikh death practices. When we are prepared, grace can prevail.

HarDarshan is also a licensed professional counselor and a Kundalini yoga teacher and teacher trainer.

Hari Dharam Kaur Khalsa

The Formation of Sikh Character through Sikh History; The Foundations of Sikhism – Guidelines for Conscious Living

Hari Dharam Kaur is the Chief Granthi of Siri Singhasan e Khalsa Gurdwara in Española, New Mexico. For years, she has taught classes in Sikh Dharma, Gurmukhi, and Shabad Guru.

Hari Dharam Kaur is dedicated to sharing knowledge so all can experience the blessing of reading from the Siri Guru Granth Sahib, serving in Gurdwara, and learning Sikh history through her delightful storytelling. She is renowned for reading from the Siri Guru Granth Sahib in a way that penetrates into the heart and soul.

Jujhar Singh Khalsa

History of Sikh Dharma

Jujhar Singh is a UK-born Sikh of Punjabi heritage. He has had the blessing of travelling the world sharing Sikh heritage, technology, and experience with children and young adults at camps, workshops, and retreats for over 18 years.

He has been enriched by many Sikh traditions, including Damdami Taksaal, Nihang Panth, Nanaksari, GNNSJ, Namdhari and Western Sikh Dharma. He brings a diverse and passionate perspective to the Guru.

He was taught Gurmukhi and Gurbani by Giyani Bharpoor Singh of Sato Gali Taksaal .

Jujhar Singh is continuing to learn traditional Keertan from Harjinder Singh Lallie (student of Surjit Singh Namdhari), and Kundalini Yoga from SS Chioneso Kulwant Kaur Khalsa. He has been practicing Kundalini Yoga for nearly 13 years and is a Level 1 teacher.

Jujhar loves teaching and is currently an instructor for the Guru Raam Daas Trust (KY) and the Gurmat Sangeet Academy (Taus and Dilruba.) He has a particular fondness for philosophy and weaves that into his teaching style with healthy servings of joy and laughter.

Aside from the Guru, Jujhar Singh’s other loves in life include his beloved wife Dr. Harsimrren Kaur, his dog Akaal Kaur, martial arts, and the art of software engineering.

Mahan Rishi Singh Khalsa and Nirbhe Kaur Khalsa

Marriage and Dharmic Relationships

Mahan Rishi Singh and Nirbhe Kaur have had a beautiful marriage for over 34 years, walking together and serving on the spiritual path as Sikh ministers, healers, community builders, and Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainers. Together they  support and nurture the spiritual community in the greater New Jersey region. For many years, they have been tireless and inspirational sevadars in the Gurdwara team at Summer Solstice.

Mahan Rishi’s joy is to serve others in their path of personal transformation. Having taught nationally and internationally, along with traveling numerous times to India, he seeks to bring the ancient wisdom and authentic devotional practices of yoga and meditation into everyday life. He is also a chiropractor and herbal nutritionist, and has studied many forms of healing.

Nirbhe Kaur is a soft spoken woman with a gentle and warm heart who feels her greatest joy is in teaching, sharing, and inspiring others to find their wholeness, radiance, and bliss.  She also loves to perform sacred weddings. She is a massage therapist and administrative director of their wellness center. Together they founded the Khalsa Healing Arts Center in Yardley, PA, where they have a thriving practice.

Mata Mandir Singh Khalsa

Gurbani, Gurmukhi, Naad Yoga, and Nitnem; Japji Sahib

Mata Mandir Singh is an international teacher of Naad Yoga and Kundalini Yoga as well as a pioneer of the chant/mantra genre, having recorded over 28 CDs and cassette tape titles spanning a period of time from 1970’s to the present day. He writes on Naad Yoga, and offers his recordings at YogaOfSound.com

Mata Mandir Singh currently resides in San Francisco with his wife, Sat Nam Kaur, where he helps his son, Waheguru Khalsa-Smith, run two dosa food trucks. He gained his chef skills while working in and running Golden Temple Conscious Cookery restaurants in Washington, DC, and Amsterdam, Netherlands, as well as supervising and cooking hundred of langars over the years in Sikh community kitchens and Solstices.

He is a life-long musician and composer, and has been teaching Kundalini yoga and gatka (an ancient martial art used by the Gurus) for over three decades.

Ram Singh

History and Composition of Siri Guru Granth Sahib

Ram Singh first encountered Kundalini Yoga as a child in Togo, West Africa, in the early 80s. In the years since, he has been blessed to be guided by his spiritual teacher, Shiv Charan Singh, through the deep journey of Kundalini Yoga teachings.

After years of teaching in contexts where Yoga is still little present — a center for drug addicts, a group of elderly students, an institution for autistic teenagers, a nursing training school, and more — he and his wife Gururavi Kaur founded the Dharamsal Yoga Center in Toulouse, France, in 2011, dedicated to the teachings of Kundalini Yoga.

As a Kundalini Yoga Lead Teacher Trainer, Ram Singh is involved in several KRI-approved Teacher Training programs worldwide, including Centre de Kundalini Yoga à Toulouse, International College of Kundalini Yoga, and Yoga Teachers 4 Africa. Ram Singh also teaches Karam Kriya, the sacred science of applied numerology.

A singer and musician, he is the author of three albums of mantras of Kundalini Yoga and sacred songs from the Sikh traditions. As a lover of Sikh sacred scriptures, Ram Singh teaches courses on Jap Ji Sahib. After translating the Jap Ji and the whole Nitnem — the collection of Sikh daily recitations — into French, he has recently committed to completing the translation of the whole Siri Guru Granth Sāhib.

Sangeet Kaur Khalsa

The Power of Prayer

SS Sangeet Kaur Khalsa is a Kundalini Research Institute (KRI) Senior Lead Trainer from Phoenix, Arizona, and a Sikh Dharma minister since 1993. She studied with Yogi Bhajan for nearly 30 years.

Founder of Womanheart® retreats, and author of the popular book by that name, she is also the founder of a series of meditation retreats, The Journey to Brahm Prakash™ , and has also touched people’s hearts around the world as a master humanologist, numerologist, and specialist in relationships. Her book and workshops The Blessings Code™ presents her ground-breaking work in Aquarian-based numerology.

Learn more about Sangeet Kaur’s work at her site, The Healing Source.

Sahaj Singh Khalsa

Spiritual Warrior

SS Sahaj Singh Khalsa has been a Sikh and a member of the Sikh Dharma/3HO community for his entire life. He has been a teacher, administrator, and General Manager of Sikh Dharma Education International (SDEI), and taught at Miri Piri Academy in India for many years.

He has been a Paramedic for almost 20 years, and serves in leadership roles on various state and national EMS boards and committees. He is the Program Director of the EMS Institute at Santa Fe Community College, responsible for oversight of all aspects of educating 120 new EMTs and Paramedics each year.

Sahaj Singh lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife, Sat Shabad Kaur, and two daughters. 

Sat Jagat Singh Khalsa

Seva

Sat Jagat Singh Khalsa has been teaching Kundalini Yoga since 1973 and is KRI Certified.

He and his wife, Gurusurya Kaur Khalsa, teach in their ashram home in Brooklyn, New York. They own and operate Kundalini Yoga in Park Slope, and teach Kundalini Yoga and Meditation as well as offer Sat Nam Rasayan^®, Vegetarian Cooking, Kirtan, Monthly Women’s Nights, Group Sadhana, Gurdwara, Chanting, as well as overnight accommodation for travelers.

Sat Jagat Singh has a residential renovation contracting business, and you might recognize him as the manager of the Solstice Kitchen where he has served many years. He studies jazz piano.

Satya Kaur Khalsa

The Power of Prayer

Satya Kaur has been walking the Sikh path for over 38 years.

Satya Kaur is an IKYTA-certified yoga teacher and now incorporates the teachings into her NeuroModulation Technique healthcare practice. She resides in Maine and works in service of Guru Ram Das supporting people to experience their self-healing.

Satya says, “Prayer sustains me through bright days and dark nights. I explore and teach it – at Summer Solstice and at professional conferences. I rely on it as my most valued tool and resource in every aspect of my life.” She looks forward to sharing the Power of Prayer with you.

Dr. Sham Rang Singh Khalsa and Arjan Kaur Khalsa

Marriage and Dharmic Relationships

Sham Rang Singh is a physician and Sikh minister who has studied eastern systems for over 35 years. He holds certifications in Ayurveda, Acupuncture, and Emergency and Internal Medicine, and counsels and teaches about mind-body medicine. He also practices marriage with his delightful wife, Arjan Kaur.

Arjan Kaur is an Intuitive Counselor & Healer, who is a devoted lover of God, an Angel Therapy Practitioner, a gifted medium, and an equally experienced yogini and meditator. Arjan Kaur & Sham Rang Singh met and married 20 years ago after each had already discovered deep romantic relationships with God as the Beloved.

Shiv Charan Singh Khalsa

Seva

Shiv Charan Singh is an unassuming and authentic teacher as well as an outstanding spiritual counselor who has worked internationally with groups and individuals for over 30 years. He is the founding director of the International Karam Kriya School, which trains students and teachers in Kundalini Yoga, Spiritual Consultancy, and Applied Numerology all over the world, as well as the founder of Quinta do Rajo, a retreat centre in Portugal.

Shiv Charan Singh has authored several books and articles on different aspects of spiritual life, including Let the numbers guide you. Meeting and being with him is an invitation and opportunity to look at life from a very new perspective and to experience something fresh, surprising, and magical.

As a young person, Shiv Charan Singh had a number of nearly fatal incidents. These near-death experiences gave him an intimate knowledge of living and dying that we all seek to understand. In his teachings, he is neither self-seeking nor political. He is entertaining and both charismatic and humble in the way he speaks. And, above all, his warmth and compassion reach out and welcome all, regardless of age or background.

Siri Sevak Kaur Khalsa

Nitnem Banis

Siri Sevak Kaur enjoys sharing her love of Sikh Dharma with others, which makes presenting in Journey Into the Heart of Sikh Dharma a delight for her. She has experienced her own evolution of prayerfulness through forty years of sadhana, kirtan, Akhand Paths, and personal prayer, and looks forward to hearing others speak about their experience of prayer.

She has been studying Gurmukhi and Japji since the early 70’s and has pursued and shared this learning ever since. Teleclasses and a website, SiriSevak.com, have opened up her ability to reach people across the country and around the world.

Siri Sevak Kaur has studied classical Gurbani Kirtan with Bhai Baldeep Singh of Delhi since 1998. She and Harbhajan Kaur, a fellow student, sing together regularly in the Gurdwara in Millis and teach kirtan together at Solstices.

Siri Sevak lives at Guru Ram Das Ashram in Millis, Massachusetts, near Boston. Guru Ram Das Ashram, on 18 beautiful wooded acres, has daily sadhana, weekly Gurdwara, residential living space, guest space, and many wonderful classes, workshops, and trainings through Baba Siri Chand Yoga Center. Siri Sevak Kaur and Harbhajan Kaur teach ongoing classes in Gurmukhi and Gurbani.

Snatam Kaur Khalsa

Japji Sahib

Snatam Kaur is a world renowned Sacred Chant artist who has been touring throughout the world for over 12 years inspiring and uplifting thousands with sacred words and uplifting melodies from the Sikh tradition. In 2018 she was nominated for a Grammy for her beautiful chant music. She has a deep and profound knowledge of Gurbani, Gurmukhi, and Naad Yoga, which she has developed over her lifetime.

Snatam was born and raised in a Sikh family in an environment of deep devotion, cozy sangat, kirtan, and interfaith and environmental activism. She has devoted her life to living and sharing not only these teachings, but also the astounding experience of the practice of Naad Yoga. Snatam’s book, Original Light; the Morning Practice of Kundalini Yoga, is a compassionate and supportive guide to creating a personal daily spiritual practice.

Snatam also enjoys teaching children’s yoga, meditation, and chanting. Her teaching style comes straight from a pure place in her heart. She knows many stories from Sikh history that bring the teachings and the music alive to her students.

Snatam Kaur lives in New Hampshire, with her husband, Sopurkh Singh, and her daughter, Jap Preet Kaur.