August 1-4, 2015 Saturday –Tuesday 8:30 am to 6 pm $699 pre-registered by July 13 $ 799 Thereafter (IKYTA Members: 10% discount! Go to IKYTA site for code)
includes a delicious homemade vegetarian lunch
Pre-Requisite: You must be a Level 1
Certi fied Kundalini Yoga Teacher to attend. You do not yet have to be enrolled
in the 1000 hour Yoga Therapy program . Try it and see! Second segment is offered August 6-9. Third December 1-6. Full details at
grdc.org and yogaattheashram.org
Foundations: Principles and Practices of Kundalini Yoga Therapy
With Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa, PhD
The First Segment of the IAYTA Accredited 1000 hour training Required to become a Professional Kundalini Yoga Therapist
This Segment is also Open to all Level 1 KY Teachers for enrichment and CEUS
Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa, PhD is founder and director of the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine & Humanology. A
yoga instructor since 1971, she 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. The Center provides direct
client services and yogically based programs for people with diabetes, cancer, heart disease, chronic fatigue,
fibromyalgia, HIV, anxiety, depression and life transitions. The center offers professional training and conducts outcome
studies on the medical effects of yoga practice.
Dr. Khalsa is a RYT 500, a KRI Certified yoga teacher trainer and a charter member of the International Association of
Yoga Therapists. She provides training to health professionals and yoga instructors on the application of yoga and
meditation to the spiritual, psychological and behavioral aspects of getting and staying well.
As Level 1 Kundalini Yoga Teachers, we serve people who are healthy. A separate set of skil l s is required to teach people with
heal th conditions. This training gives Kundalini Yoga teachers the foundation we need to begin to develop those skills and to deepen and
expand the application of yogic philosophy, technique and habits of conscious living toward health recovery.
Special attent ion is given to the personal development to engender awareness, strength and subtlety of the sensory system, intuition, compassion, deep listening, sensitivity, humility, endurance, radiance and grace.
A six week Kundalini Yoga curr iculum for a mixed conditions group c lass is inc luded.
Training is approved for 36 contact hours for nurses as required by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Provider #CEP 13960, for 30 Continuing Education Credits for MFT’s and LCSW’s as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #PCE1361, and for 30 Continuing Education Credits by IKYTA and Yoga Alliance.
CEUs for licensed nurses, counselors, social workers available via the CA State licensing boards and for yoga teachers through IKYTA and Yoga Alliance.