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Teacher Spotlight: Mukta Kaur Khalsa — From Student to Founding Teacher of SuperHealth

By Dhanjot Kaur

Few teachers carry as direct a line to Yogi Bhajan® as Mukta Kaur Khalsa, PhD, whose fifty-year journey through Kundalini Yoga became the foundation of SuperHealth, a global system for healing addiction and stress. This Kundalini Yoga teacher spotlight traces her path from a first class in early-1970s Los Angeles to thirty years of direct study with Yogi Bhajan®, and finally to the SuperHealth trainings she leads today from her base in New Mexico. A Teacher Rooted in Direct Lineage Mukta Kaur Khalsa began studying Kundalini Yoga in 1972 and started teaching just two years later, in a landscape without…

NKYTA Spotlight: Inside KYTANZ, Kundalini Yoga Across Australia & New Zealand

By Dhanjot Kaur

KYTANZ Kundalini Yoga connects teachers across two of the most geographically vast countries in the world. Founded in 2008 by Guru Jivan Kaur, the Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association of Australia & New Zealand supports certified and aspiring teachers with professional membership, connection, and advocacy. Today, 18 years later, KYTANZ represents its members within the international IKYTA network while entering a new chapter shaped by a 2026 Strategic Plan focused on accessibility, community, and teacher support. A Community Spanning Two Countries KYTANZ was founded in 2008 by Guru Jivan Kaur, one of Australia’s longstanding Kundalini Yoga teachers and teacher trainers. She…

IKYTA History | How Yogi Bhajan’s Vision Became a Global Association

By Dhanjot Kaur

IKYTA history began quietly, at Solstice gatherings in the early 1990s, and grew into a global professional association for KRI-certified Kundalini Yoga teachers. This guide traces that path — from a grassroots newsletter to a worldwide teacher community — and shows how the same founding vision still shapes IKYTA today. If you teach Kundalini Yoga under KRI certification, this is the story of the home you belong to. The Grassroots Beginning (1992–1994) In 1992, Nam Kaur Khalsa began meeting with teachers from around the world at Solstices and the Kundalini Yoga Teachers Conference. She wanted to know one thing: what…

Universal Communication for Sensory Communication

By Kiret Naam Kaur

Taught by Yogi Bhajan, August 22, 2000. * You can find many recordings of this mantra online; the one Yogi Bhajan used when he taught this meditation was sung by Gurudass Kaur. Open and close your hands to the rhythm of the mantra and sing for 31 minutes. To end, inhale deeply, hold the breath, and stretch your arms and spine while tightening the fists. Then let the breath out and relax your arms down. This meditation gives you the ability to communicate as a self-sensory being, improving your environments and your life. Your kind, loving, projective communication will bring…

The Mayan Calendar and the Khalsa Raj Platinum Age

By Dhanjot Kaur

Krishna Singh gives a scholarly introduction to the relationship of the Mayan calendar which ends on 12-21-12, to the 5,000 year Khalsa Raj cycle. He talks about the Platinum Age, when the purity of humanity will rule in the mode of compassion and service for the next 5,000 years. He talks about the western astrological calendar, the Aquarian Age, and the significance of the date 12-21-12.