Ravi Kaur (Christine Mason)

Ravi Kaur has 24 years experience teaching raja yoga in Northern VA. She teaches raja yoga and meditation in Oakton and Vienna., including private classes and classes at the Oakmarr Recreation Center for Fairfax County Park Authority. She is a certified IKYTA teacher and has taken the IKYTA level 2 courses on Authentic Relationships and on Vitality and Stress.

A PhD educator, Ravi uses her extensive knowledge of education to facilitate her instruction. She is executive director of the Center for Educational Improvement and author of nine recent books published between 2020 and 2025, including:

• Cultivating Happiness, Resilience, and Well-Being through Meditation, Mindfulness, and Movement (co-published with the Kundalini Research Institute)
• Mindfulness Practices: Cultivating School Communities where Students Thrive and Flourish,
• Mindful School Communities: The Five Cs of Nurturing Heart Centered Learning
• Compassionate School Practices: Fostering Children's Mental Health and Well-Being
• Visioning Onward: A Guide for ALL School.
• All of these books reference a vision for heart centered schools. Her organization, the Center for Educational Improvement collaborates with others, including the Program for Recovery and Community Health at Yale University to bring about justice, equity, and compassionate school cultures. See her author's website

Ravi is currently offering mindfulness and meditation seminars for schools and has created "Heart Beaming" - mindfulness breaks for schools. She has also established a HeartMind Community with a monthly eNewsletter. As an educator she furthers yoga practices in a variety of ways. Her eNewsletters contain scientific research supporting yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and related practices. Contact her if you want to join her email listserv and receive her monthly newsletters.

Ravi was trained in New Mexico and has served on the board of Miri Piri Academy in Amritsar; she was Chair of the Education Committee from 2005-2009. She also is certified in Shakta Kaur's Radiant Child Yoga.