LEVEL ONE HYBRID
KUNDALINI YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
October 2025-April 2026
We are bringing the Masters to You
Training at Sat Nam is an opportunity to learn directly from the great legacy teachers and lineage-holders of Kundalini Yoga. We are honored to host this special collaboration of teacher trainers within our temple walls.
Kartar Singh Khalsa
Lead Trainer - Humanology
Kartar’s passion is to create experiences through which people can learn. His greatest love in teaching is the Kundalini Yoga kriyas and classes of Self-Empowerment and Self-Realization. He is a Level One and Level Two Kundalini Teacher Trainer and was honored by the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association as Teacher of the Year in 2014. He teaches extensively throughout the Eastern United States, as well as regularly in China.
Nirvair Singh Khalsa
Trainer - Mind & Meditation
Nirvair Singh Khalsa began studying with Yogi Bhajan in 1971. He is a retired University Instructor at the University of Alaska Anchorage where he taught classes in Kundalini Yoga for 31 years. Globally considered a master teacher on the subject of the mind and meditation, Nirvair has taught classes, workshops and trainings throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. He is also a retired CEO of the Kundalini Research Institute, Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 certified teacher trainer, and author of nineteen DVDs and four books on the teachings of Yogi Bhajan. Currently, Nirvair Singh lives with his wife of 50 years, Nirvair Kaur, in Santa Rosa, California.
Karampal Kaur
Trainer - Postures, Breathwork and Lifestyle
Karampal is a seasoned Kundalini Yoga teacher with 18 years of experience, committed to making yoga accessible to everyone. Specializing in breathwork and trauma-informed yoga, with studies in Kundalini, Restorative, Yoga Nidra, Sound Therapy and the Healing Arts. Yoga Alliance E-RYT500
Her approach fosters curiosity and exploration, ensuring that all students, regardless of their background or experience, feel supported and inspired to deepen their practice. Karampal has taught in diverse settings, from inner-city neighborhoods to corporate environments, and has facilitated classes, workshops, retreats, camps, ceremonies for thousands of practitioners.
All while spearheading the initiatives of Sat Nam Yoga, our welcoming spiritual community here in Chicago and serving as our director since 2010.
Most recently, she joined the Aquarian Trainer Academy and is deeply humbled to teach alongside of some of her greatest teachers and mentors. With a blend of personal insight, clear instruction, and a touch of humor, she is dedicated to helping others discover their healing power and live more fully through the divine and potent practice of Kundalini Yoga.
Dev Suroop Kaur Khalsa
Trainer, Recording Artist - Mantra and the Science of Naad
Dev Suroop delights in sharing the pure practicality of a successful and authentic life nourished by the practices of Kundalini Yoga and Naad Yoga. A Lead Trainer in the Aquarian Trainer Academy as well as an accomplished musician and recording artist, she strives to break it down, keep it real, and guide students to their own empowered authenticity.
Her gift for training students to access the treasured science of Naad Yoga and the uplifting beauty of one's own voice is one-of-a-kind. She deeply enjoys training students and teachers in the science of sound, specifically, in the ins and outs of chanting mantras. As a yogi and trainer, she is on a continual quest for deeper and broader understanding of yogic principles. She currently lives with her husband in Espanola, New Mexico. Dev Suroop Kaur is certified as a Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT500) through Yoga Alliance and holds an MBA from the Claremont Graduate University.
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