Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa's Posts
Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa, PhD, C-IAYT, brings the ancient teachings of Kundalini Yoga into modern medicine as Founding Director of the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine & Humanology. She developed and directs the 1,000 hour 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.
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."
For more information, call 800-326-1322, send an email to [email protected], or visit her website: www.grdcenter.org.
Recent Articles
Hearing Your Inner Voice
Every person has inner guidance available to them and a choice to listen and live with its support. The inner voice is the voice from the soul. It is our guide and guardian.
A Handbook for Grief Recovery in Community
This summary is gathered from 35 years of experience in serving people with life-threatening illness and their families. Although some of what follows is from traditional grief therapy, most is from what Guru Gobind Singh (the 10th Sikh Guru) taught about loss from the example of his own life, and the tradition of Kundalini Yoga.
A Yogic Model of Grief Recovery as the Integration of Change
This guide is a non-linear model. We move in and out of the various stages. We recognize that it is vital for people to have the opportunity to experience these stages in whatever time frame best meets their needs, in order to allow for the spectrum of grief response.
Kundalini Yoga and the Stress Response
Change can be as simple as a shift in room temperature or as destabilizing as losing one’s job. Since change happens nearly every instant, we have a stress response nearly every instant. Stress is natural and necessary.
Overcoming Cold Depression
Cold Depression is when the external demand is greater than the internal capacity to deliver and we have spent our reserves. We are depressed but we are so numb and insensitive to our own self, we do not feel it. The depression is therefore “cold.” This leads us to inner anger and isolation from our soul.