Guru
Karam Benton, Director of Teacher Training
Guru Karam (Laura) has been a yoga practitioner for over 25 years.
As one of the first certified Kundalini Yoga Teachers, she has served
as a teacher training course facilitator in the Master's Touch program
taught by Yogi Bhajan and has directed teacher training courses since
1997 at both Level I and Level II. Along with her husband Mehtab,
Guru Karam is one of the original founders of Yoga Yoga. She currently
serves as the Director of Teacher Training in Austin. She brings a
lively sense of humor to the profoundly transformative practice of
Kundalini Yoga with a focus on ease and precision in postures and
the breath.
Mehtab
Benton
Mehtab completed his first yoga teacher training course in 1974 while
in residence at the Hargobind Kundalini Yoga Ashram. During the 1970s,
he taught yoga in the public school system and in drug rehabilitation
programs in California. He studied Kundalini Yoga under Yogi Bhajan
and was among the first students to be certified in Kundalini Yoga
through the Master's Touch training course in New Mexico. He has been
a Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainer since 1997, and has taught Level
I and Level II teacher training courses. Along with his wife Guru
Karam, Mehtab received the International Kundalini Yoga Teacher’s
Association “Building Communities in Yoga” award in 2000.
He has taught Kundalini Yoga workshops and classes to students and
teachers from around the world at the annual Kundalini Yoga Summer
Solstice gathering in New Mexico. He is on the Board of Directors
for the 3HO Foundation, dedicated to spreading teachings of Kundalini
Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, as well as serving as president of
the Yoga Care Foundation, created to sponsor yoga research and yoga
education for disadvantaged populations.
Siri
Bahadur Khalsa
Siri Bahadur Khalsa has taught Kundalini yoga since the 1980s when
he was in residence at the Dallas Kundalini Yoga ashram. He is a graduate
of the first Kundalini Yoga Masters Touch teacher training program
and has taught at Yoga Yoga since its inception. He brings music to
his classes with his original guitar compositions and through the
sound of the gong. He believes that yoga allows students to define
and redefine themselves as they travel their life path of realizing
and fulfilling their destiny.
