Faculty Members

Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa, PhD, C-IAYT

Shanti Shanti Kaur brings the ancient teachings of Kundalini Yoga into modern medicine as Founding Director of the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine & Humanology. Under the guidance of Yogi Bhajan she developed and directs the IAYT accredited International Kundalini Yoga Therapy Professional Training. A Kundalini Yoga teacher since 1971, Dr. Khalsa began to specialize in teaching Kundalini Yoga and Meditation to people with chronic or life threatening illness and their family members in 1986, under the direction of Yogi Bhajan.

She is a Certified Yoga Therapist, a Mentoring Lead Trainer for Levels 1 and 2 Kundalini Yoga teacher training, a Medical Family therapist, and a charter member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Her Kundalini Yoga program for people living with HIV is featured in the book, Yoga as Medicine by Timothy McCall, MD, and her groundbreaking work as a Kundalini Yoga Therapist is featured in the book, Yoga Therapy and Integrative Medicine: Where Ancient Science Modern Medicine.

Atma Jot Kaur, C-IAYT

Atma Jot Kaur is from Goettingen, Germany and has been a Kundalini Yoga teacher since 1986. Her life is deeply rooted in the teachings of Yogi Bhajan and in the therapeutic application of Kundalini Yoga. She teaches internationally as the European Representative for the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine & Humanology and as a KRI certified Professional Teacher Trainer. Atma Jot Kaur holds a BA in Indology and Religious Studies and practices as a Kundalini Yoga Therapist, a naturopath and Gestalt therapist.

Hari Kirin Kaur Khalsa, MD

Hari Kirin Kaur, started in health care as a nurse's aide in 1976.  Through a rewarding nursing career and then in practice as an obstetrician gynecologist for 14 years, she gained a unique perspective on health care.  In search of her own stress reduction, she began practicing Kundalini yoga and meditation in 2003, becoming a teacher in 2007. She and her colleagues offer Kundalini yoga and meditation by donation in Worcester, MA via Kundalini Yoga for All.   She serves as volunteer faculty at U Mass Memorial Health Care where she participates in the Integrative Health Academic Interest Group. She and her husband, author Peter Gray, live in Millis where they enjoy kayaking and long walks with the dog.  Hari Kirin is a leader in bringing the integration of yoga and meditation as a therapeutic modality into hospitals, medical clinics, and in support of providers.  It's all about feeling better, physically and energetically!

Jai Dev Singh Khalsa, CAS

Jai Dev Singh is a yogi and Kundalini Yoga teacher.  His innovative Yoga and Ayurveda courses have been studied by thousands of people throughout the world. His flagship teachings include The Complete Course of Ayurveda, The Radiant Body Home Course, Unlocking the Life Force, The Sweetest Love, and The Life-Force Academy. Jai Dev Singh is a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist and previously served as the Clinical Director at the California College of Ayurveda, as well as the director of the college’s Pancha Karma Center. Jai Dev Singh serves on the board of the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine and Humanology and is a partner at Floracopeia, Inc.

Japa K. Khalsa DOM, C-IAYT

Japa Kaur is co-author of the textbook Enlightened Bodies; Exploring Physical and Subtle Human Anatomy. She is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine combining traditional acupuncture with herbal and nutritional medicine, numerology and energy healing.  She travels and teaches as an International Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainer and inspirational speaker. As a second generation physician she has a special passion to help the current health care system by helping people to awaken their own internal ability to self heal and to train professionals how yoga and meditation work.

Julie Staples, PhD (Guru Parkash Kaur)

Julie Staples received a doctorate in Cell and Molecular Biology from St. Louis University. Her research for the past 20 years includes studies with populations world-wide on the benefits of yoga and mind-body medicine. She is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, and the past Board President of the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine and Humanology. She is the author of the Yoga chapter in the textbook Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Her new book Reclaiming Life After Trauma will be released in Spring 2018.

Ravi Kaur, C-IAYT

Ravi Kaur is a KRI Level 1 and Level 2 Kundalini Yoga teacher trainer internationally and practices as a Kundalini Yoga therapist. She is a counselor and has worked in rehabilitation centers for recovery from substance abuse, and in counseling centers that address violence towards women and people with HIV/AIDS.  Ravi Kaur is trained in the use of family constellations and uses this method to reveal states of illness in the individual and in the family lineage. She is currently writing a Dissertation through Wits University on the results of a research study entitled: “The experiences of women with self-reported symptoms of PTSD, in the second trimester of pregnancy, who do yoga therapy”.

Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D.

Sat Bir Singh received his doctorate in human physiology and neuroscience at the University of Toronto and has conducted research in neuroscience, biological rhythms, sleep and sleep disorders for over 30 years. For over 10 years he has been fully engaged in basic and clinical research on the effectiveness of yoga and meditation practices in improving physical and psychological health. He has been personally involved in the practice of a yoga lifestyle for over 40 years and is a certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher. He is currently the Director of Research for the Kundalini Research Institute, Research Director of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is a board member of the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine & Humanology.

Sherry Brourman, PT, E-RYT 500

Sherry Brourman is a physical therapist for nearly 50 years, and a yoga therapist for almost 20.  She is the author of  Walk Yourself Well and Using Yoga Therapeutically. Sherry’s work is a system fueled by a passion for both feeling and seeing the grace of fluid movement. In this system, all of the koshas (layers of being) and all of the gears (structural body) can be witnessed in one movement. Whether a footstep or one asana, the information is all there, visual, and teachable. Sherry teaches at yoga teacher trainings, yoga therapy mentorship programs and physical therapy seminars internationally.