Siri Amrita met Kundalini Yoga As Taught by Yogi Bhajan in 1992, when she was still living in her native Trinidad. Her first teacher was one of Yogi Bhajan’s original students and took her to his feet just six months or so later, at the Summer Solstice in New Mexico in 1993. She received her name directly from his hands—he worked out her numerology for it on the back of her first letter from him which coincidentally had not yet been mailed to Trinidad. Magically, it was produced by one of his secretaries as she sat before him!
He told her: “The greatest thing in life is to teach and to heal people. You have a destiny to live this lifestyle.” She is a passionate student of this yoga and loves it for its basis in experience rather than abstract belief. She has witnessed firsthand its ability to transform and heal on many levels when practiced with devotion and discipline. She views studying, living and sharing Yogi Bhajan’s and yogic teachings, not just as a component of her life, but the very purpose of it. She has been teaching, informally, since 1993 but in 2012, she answered the call formally and became a Level I certified Kundalini Yoga instructor. This year, 2018, has seen her embark on an arduous Kundalini Yoga Therapy Training programme.
Siri Amrita currently lives in Virginia, with her husband of soon-to-be eighteen years, Sat Purkha Singh. She is a Prosthodontist (Advanced Dentist) at her practice “Shenandoah Smiles” in Harrisonburg.
Since 2012, she has been teaching weekly Kundalini Yoga classes at the same local studio (The Center Downtown Harrisonburg), as well as multiple KY workshops there and privately, on a variety of topics. In March of 2016, additionally, she taught an intimate weekend KY retreat in Virginia, entitled “The Elemental You”. In October of that year, she also led her first small group KY retreat to India and Nepal: “This Little Light of Mine”. In 2017, she led a second to Guatemala: "Healing The Wounds of Love". This year, she led a third to Morocco: "I Am Bliss". There are several people who have been on two, or all three, international retreats with her and by Grace, will join her on the fourth, to Greece in 2019.
He told her: “The greatest thing in life is to teach and to heal people. You have a destiny to live this lifestyle.” She is a passionate student of this yoga and loves it for its basis in experience rather than abstract belief. She has witnessed firsthand its ability to transform and heal on many levels when practiced with devotion and discipline. She views studying, living and sharing Yogi Bhajan’s and yogic teachings, not just as a component of her life, but the very purpose of it. She has been teaching, informally, since 1993 but in 2012, she answered the call formally and became a Level I certified Kundalini Yoga instructor. This year, 2018, has seen her embark on an arduous Kundalini Yoga Therapy Training programme.
Siri Amrita currently lives in Virginia, with her husband of soon-to-be eighteen years, Sat Purkha Singh. She is a Prosthodontist (Advanced Dentist) at her practice “Shenandoah Smiles” in Harrisonburg.
Since 2012, she has been teaching weekly Kundalini Yoga classes at the same local studio (The Center Downtown Harrisonburg), as well as multiple KY workshops there and privately, on a variety of topics. In March of 2016, additionally, she taught an intimate weekend KY retreat in Virginia, entitled “The Elemental You”. In October of that year, she also led her first small group KY retreat to India and Nepal: “This Little Light of Mine”. In 2017, she led a second to Guatemala: "Healing The Wounds of Love". This year, she led a third to Morocco: "I Am Bliss". There are several people who have been on two, or all three, international retreats with her and by Grace, will join her on the fourth, to Greece in 2019.
Siri Amrita leading an early morning practice in the Punjab-at the river of Guru Nanak’s enlightenment Oct. 2016
She loves to read and enjoys creative writing in many forms, but especially poetry. (You may visit her page on Facebook, ‘Siri Amrita Kaur,’ to see some of her poetry and other inspirational posts. In August this year, she published a first book of poems and passage, entitled The Fragrance of You.)
She adores pottery and glass art and is an amateur artist of both disciplines. She loves to cook (and eat!) healthy, pranic, vegetarian food—healing through diet is one of her avid interests. She loves to travel and has been lucky to have seen many places on this beautiful planet with her mom (who worked for an airline) from her earliest years.
Siri Amrita was baptized Catholic because of her father. However she was raised in her maternal grandfather’s home. He was Hindu and both a Hare Krishna and Guru Nanak devotee. She was equally comfortable in a church, gurdwara or a temple, and still is!
This, in addition to growing up in Trinidad where there is tremendous religious tolerance, has engendered in Siri Amrita a deep respect and acceptance for all dharmas. All paths can lead to The One: it is all about what is in the Heart. Here she is (below) teaching KY class in a Hindu temple in Varanasi, November 2016.
Siri Amrita teaching a special class in a beautiful open air location at a friend's house, after which there was a book signing and potluck. This was on August 26, 2018 in honour of her beloved Teacher Yogi Bhajan, on his birth date.
