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NKYTA Spotlight: Thailand

By Dhanjot Kaur

Thailand’s National Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association (NKYTAT) began not with a grand vision, but with a practical idea about Kundalini Yoga Thailand membership costs — and it grew into a community bound by shared Sadhana and mentorship. Founded around 2011, the association has quietly built one of IKYTA’s most enduring national chapters. Here’s how it started, what holds it together today, and how you can connect with it. How NKYTAT Began A Practical Idea from Tien IKYTA once sent an email to local teachers and trainers explaining that joining as a National Association was more affordable than paying individually. Tien,…

The Part of Becoming a Teacher You Can’t Learn From a Screen

By Rai Singh

After years of change in how Kundalini Yoga teachers are trained, five schools in South America came together to restore something increasingly difficult to replicate online: the experience of being a student together. The way people encounter Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training has changed. The shift had already begun before the COVID pandemic. Students were increasingly able to enter Level 1 Teacher Training with less prior experience attending Kundalini Yoga classes in person. Then COVID accelerated that transformation dramatically. Online classes became part of everyday life, Teacher Trainings moved online or adopted hybrid formats, and people were able to participate from…

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…