Clarity on KRI’s mission and next steps after the regional trainer meetings regarding the trademark
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Together Again – EYF Trainer Forum
After three years, trainers will gather in person for an annual European Trainer Forum just before the European Yoga Festival at Chateau de Jambville. We are so happy to be “Together Again.” The Forum is open to all trainers and applicants and begins 16:00 on Friday 29 July and all day Saturday 30 July. Registration will open soon. Save the date and plan you travels. Hari Charn Kaur and Amrit Singh look forward to seeing all of you soon.
Trainer relicensing
A valid ATA license will be required for you to be an automatically recognized voter in the upcoming SSSC elections (if you are a lead or professional) and is required if you plan to remain an active trainer in the ATA between July 2022 and June 2023. One way that we demonstrate our commitment to upholding our professional standards is by renewing and completing the licensing agreement.
Trainers in ALL ROLES NEED to renew, including INTERNS (100% code was sent to bypass payment section). Mentors and Lead trainers, check on your mentees and training teams if they are up to date with their licenses. Contact your ATA regional admin if you have any questions.
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Updated Level One exams
As you know, passing an exam is a Level One certification requirement. You may use your own version of an exam if you wish. But KRI is making 3 versions available for you to choose from if you wish. Two of these are minor updates to the in-class and the take-home exams that you are probably familiar with. The 3rd uses the same questions as the in-class exam, but is formatted to be given in an interactive style. This seems to be a great way, from a pedagogical perspective, to hold the exam, and the curriculum committee strongly encourages you to explore this method. Written descriptions are provided about how to deliver this interactive exam, as well as a video here. If you have any questions about how to can use this in your next Level One program, please email Amrit Singh to connect with a trainer uses used it before.
Trainer relicensing – LAST DAYS before 2021/2022 license EXPIRES
Regional pre-set discounts available and special bonus will also END on July 1st, 2022. A valid ATA license will be required for you to be an automatically recognized voter in the upcoming SSSC elections (if you are a lead or professional) and is required if you plan to remain an active trainer in the ATA between July 2022 and June 2023. One way that we demonstrate our commitment to upholding our professional standards is by renewing and completing the licensing agreement.
Trainers in ALL ROLES NEED to renew, including INTERNS (100% code was sent to bypass payment section). Mentors and Lead trainers, check on your mentees and training teams if they are up to date with their licenses.
Stay attentive to your email for the final confirmation from the Portal. Contact your ATA regional admin if you have any questions.
This month all of the regions will have a very important Regional Meeting, that will include critical conversations, updates from KRI, and a look at a potential proposal. The primary focus of these meetings will be to take our next collective step forward in applying the previously adopted decision-making Principles and Values, for discussing what to do about our current world-wide trademark, “Kundalini Yoga as Taught by Yogi Bhajan.” We will use these upcoming regional trainer meetings and the Global Trainer Summit in September to try to avoid getting caught into a divisive, binary, decision-making exercise and instead use our previously agreed upon principles to expand the solution-space, embrace diverse opinions, and strive for creative, heart-centered solution(s) that strengthen our community rather than create more division.
At these Meetings in June, the participants will participate in a process that Just Outcomes assisted the Trainer Forum team in developing, and we truly hope to see you there and keep building together this community.
Please register now!
European Trainer Regional Meeting. June 22nd from 5-8 pm Central European Time. Registration Link
North America: Wednesday, June 15 from 4-7 pm Central Time. Registration link
Latin America: Friday, June 24 from 4-7 pm CDMX; Chile from 5-8 pm; Brazil from 6-9 pm. Registration link
Asia/Oceania: Tuesday, June 28, 9:30 am Beijing; 11:30 am Melbourne; Monday, June 27, 8:30 pm Central Time USA. Registration link
July in-person meeting in France
Amrit Singh and Hari Charn Kaur look forward to seeing you at the European Yoga Festival in France and invite you to come to the first in person Trainer Forum! The European Trainer Forum will be held on Friday July 29th at Château de Jambville (the location of the European Yoga Festival) at rue de Tilleuls – 78 440 Jambville – France. Very soon KRI will send you the details of the agenda and the details of housing etc.
The Certification Committee is looking for a new member
The Student Certification Packets are due Six weeks after the last day of your program. Please organize the required documents for each student in a PDF Document and send by email as a ZIP File to your ATA regional Admin. – For a Level One Program, Students Packets MUST contain:
Live Questions and Answers session regarding the recently announced Independent Healing and Reparations Program (IHRP) will be held on Monday, June 27, 2022 from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. EST (5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. PST).
No, KRI is not removing the spiritual, Dharmic aspects from Teacher Training. We’re staying focused on maintaining the spirit! Let us know what else KRI can do to support you
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Trainer relicensing
A valid ATA license will be required for you to be an automatically recognized voter in the upcoming SSSC elections (if you are a lead or professional) and is required if you plan to remain an active trainer in the ATA between July 2022 and June 2023.
One way that we demonstrate our commitment to upholding our professional standards is by renewing and completing the licensing agreement. This ensures our community’s integrity, helps to keep everyone safe and expands our impact.
Regional pre-set discounts available and special bonus until June 30th, 2022.
As shared earlier, KRI will be using each of training we run as a laboratory to try out new pedagogy ideas. We will then share the results with all of you, so we are all learning and improving together (and we also plan to have a wiki-style pedagogy area of our trainer website so this grows to be a peer-to-peer sharing process as well). The first of these reports, from a Level Two Authentic Relationships course on how we tried to increase the sangat consciousness in the training, can be found here.
Global Meeting for Mentors – Meet Your Fellow Members – Network, Self Reflect, Support
We invite ALL MENTORS to our first Global Mentor Meeting. We honor our experienced mentors’ years of knowledge and skillful practices which will be shared as well as discussions on how different mentoring models can serve the future of the Academy. Please join us for this historic gathering. We truly believe in the inspiration and value of this worldwide connection.
4pm – 7pm California / 7pm – 10m New York / 8pm – 11pm Brazil Thursday June 9th: 6am – 9am Thailand / 7am – 10 am China / 9am – 12am Australia.
Regional Trainer Meetings online in June
This month all of the regions will have a very important Regional Meeting, that will include critical conversations, updates from KRI, and a look at a potential proposal. The primary focus of these meetings will be to take our next collective step forward in applying the previously adopted decision-making Principles and Values, for discussing what to do about our current world-wide trademark, “Kundalini Yoga as Taught by Yogi Bhajan.” We will use these upcoming regional trainer meetings and the Global Trainer Summit in September to try to avoid getting caught into a divisive, binary, decision-making exercise and instead use our previously agreed upon principles to expand the solution-space, embrace diverse opinions, and strive for creative, heart-centered solution(s) that strengthen our community rather than create more division.
At these Meetings in June, the participants will participate in a process that Just Outcomes assisted the Trainer Forum team in developing, and we truly hope to see you there and keep building together this community.
Please register now!
European Trainer Regional Meeting. June 22nd from 5-8 pm Central European Time. Registration Link
North America: Wednesday, June 15 from 4-7 pm Central Time. Registration link
Latin America: Friday, June 24 from 4-7 pm CDMX; Chile from 5-8 pm; Brazil from 6-9 pm. Registration link
Asia/Oceania: Tuesday, June 28 from 7-10 am Beijing; 9 am-12 pm Melbourne; Monday, June 27 from 6-9 pm Central Time USA. Registration link
July in-person meeting in France
Amrit Singh and Hari Charn Kaur look forward to seeing you at the European Yoga Festival in France and invite you to come to the first in person Trainer Forum! The European Trainer Forum will be held on Friday July 29th at Château de Jambville (the location of the European Yoga Festival) at rue de Tilleuls – 78 440 Jambville – France. Very soon KRI will send you the details of the agenda and the details of housing etc.
SAVE THE DATE – Global ATA Trainer Summit – September 8-12 online
Details will be out in July. This will be our annual Summit. Just Outcomes will facilitate the first day.
Register to VOTE in the upcoming SSSC election
All Lead and Professional trainers are automatically registered to vote in the upcoming SSSC elections. And interns and associates can apply to be voters. KRI strongly encourages you all to exercise your right to vote! All remaining deadlines for the 2022 elections will be delayed by 75 days. Read more details in your language here:
An invitation to the June trainer meetings, and to visit Amrit sometime
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Regional Trainer Meetings online in June
There will be a series of online trainer meetings (just 3hrs long) in June. These are very important for we will begin the work of applying the ATA principles to a discussion on the current trademark “Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan.” The work we do in these Regional meetings will inform the work that we will do at the Trainer Summit in September. You are welcome to attend any of the below meetings that work for your schedule. Please register now!
European Trainer Regional Meeting. June 22nd from 5-8 pm Central European Time. Registration Link
North America: Wednesday, June 15 from 4-7 pm Central Time. Registration link
Latin America: Friday, June 24 from 4-7 pm CDMX; Chile from 5-8 pm; Brazil from 6-9 pm. Registration link
Asia/Oceania: Tuesday, June 28 from 7-10 am Beijing; 9 am-12 pm Melbourne; Monday, June 27 from 6-9 pm Central Time USA. Registration link
July in-person meeting in France
Amrit Singh and Hari Charn Kaur look forward to seeing you at the European Yoga Festival in France and invite you to come to the first in person Trainer Forum! The European Trainer Forum will be held on Friday July 29th at Château de Jambville (the location of the European Yoga Festival) at rue de Tilleuls – 78 440 Jambville – France. Very soon KRI will send you the details of the agenda and the details of housing etc.
SAVE THE DATE – Global ATA Trainer Summit – September 8-12 online
Details will be out in July. This will be our annual Summit. Just Outcomes will facilitate the first day.
Trainer relicensing
This will be required for you to be an automatically recognized voter in the upcoming SSSC elections (if you are a lead or professional), and is required if you plan to be part of a Level One or Level 2 training team between July 2022 and June 2023! Click here now!
Global Meeting for Mentors – Meet Your Fellow Members – Network, Self Reflect, Support
A time to come together as Mentors in the Aquarian Trainer Academy, to connect with each other, to reflect on and share experiences and challenges to build our worldwide training community.
All Lead and Professional trainers are automatically registered to vote in the upcoming (August 2022) SSSC elections. And interns and associates can apply to be voters. KRI strongly encourages you all to exercise your right to vote! Read more details in your language here:
We are looking for someone 10-15hrs/wk to help write content for our website, emails and social media posts. Please see a complete job description here. If you, or anyone you work with, is interested in applying, please email a resume and writing sample to Amrit Vela Kaur Ramos.
The Certification Committee is looking for a new member
The yoga world is changing. We need to adapt. How can KRI help you do that? Share your thoughts in our Sutra discussion!
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Trainer Licensing is now OPEN
Please take a moment and relicense now! You can switch to your language using the dropdown menu at the top-right.
Register to VOTE in the upcoming SSSC election
We are excited that the SSSC Board has opened up the process for Lead and Professional Trainers to be voters in the upcoming election. You automatically qualify to be able to vote if you are a Lead or Professional Trainer.
Please support your community in getting out the vote and expanding the electorate to include people who have been practicing Kundalini Yoga & Meditation for 7 consecutive years.
Ways you can help: We hope that all Interns and Associates will join the electorate pool! Your voice matters and we want you to vote.
Send out a message to your community to include your longtime students in the electorate and write recommendations for them
For leads and professionals, here is the link to write recommendations for people
KRI’s website is now multi-lingual!
Yes, finally, you can choose your language at the top right hand corner of the main KRI web site!
How can KRI help you?
Most training programs are attracting a lot less students now than they used to. Share in this online Sutra discussion what you think KRI can do to support your training programs!
Please don’t send in physical Student Packets anymore!
Please email them as digital documents. If you have any questions, please contact your regional administrator. Thank you!
KRI 2022 Honorees
You all, the ATA members, have selected Sarabjit Kaur (Spain), Sarb Jit Kaur (Espanola), and Gurudarshan Kaur (Mexico) as our 2022 KRI Outstanding Awardees! There were 12 amazing nominees – it is truly inspiring the caliber and quality of the teachers in our community. Congratulations Sarabjit and Sarb Jit, and thank you so much for your years and years of service. You can read about their amazing service (and all the prior recipients) here.
BIPOC affinity group zoom gatherings
KRI is organizing a Monthly Community Gathering for Teachers and Trainers of Color for mutual support and solidarity. Click here to sign up for this meeting on the Third Tuesday of the month at 1 pm PST, 4 pm EST., facilitated by Atma Chanan Kaur PhD. Open to all who identify as BIPOC family or person of color.
In-Person Interviews at the European Yoga Festival, and other ways to get involved
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Trainer relicensing
Starting next week you can renew your KRI trainer license. This will be required for you to be an automatically recognized voter in the upcoming SSSC elections, and is required if you plan to be part of a Level One or Level 2 training team between July 2022 and June 2023. Look for an email with a link to relicense shortly!
Register to VOTE in the upcoming SSSC election
As previously mentioned, all Lead and Professional trainers are automatically registered to vote in the upcoming (August 2022) SSSC elections. And interns and associates can apply to be voters. KRI strongly encourages you all to exercise your right to vote! Read more details in your language here:
The Global Advisory Committee serves the Academy through visioning the Trainer Summits and by stewarding the process of expansion and change in the Academy through the proposal and voting process. The Committee is currently actively working on the Global Summit in September. Members are needed from Asia, Oceania, and Europe. KRI will have meetings for these time zones. Please contact Hari Charn Kaur [email protected] if you are interested in participating.
Are you a mentor and open to taking on new mentees?
Are you a mentor in the academy who has time and the passion for supporting the development of the next generations of trainers? There are Professionals who are looking for Practicum mentors needing your wisdom and support. There are also applicants needing mentors. There are members of the academy looking for a new mentor. KRI needs your name for we are creating a list of available mentors. If you are open to taking on new mentees, please let Hari Charn Kaur know!
KRI is looking for a part time writer
We are looking for someone 10-15hrs/wk to help write content for our website, emails and social media posts. Please see a complete job description here. If you, or anyone you work with, is interested in applying, please email a resume and writing sample to Amrit Vela Kaur Ramos.
BIPOC affinity group zoom gatherings
Have you ever asked (or been asked) why BIPOC people are drawn to each other and feel comfortable gathering with each other? Twenty years ago, African American Beverly Tatum wrote the book, “Why All The Black Kids Sit Together at the Cafeteria?A National Bestseller that spurred dialogue of what’s really important to people whose voices have not been heard before. We want to listen to those voices today, and learn how to bridge the gap so that we all feel validated, heard and seen across our yoga trainings and classes.
Monthly Community Gathering for Trainers/Teachers of Color; a group support meeting for teachers/trainers in the community who have been underrepresented and self-identify as persons of color for mutual support and solidarity. Click here for more information and to sign up for this meeting on the Third Tuesday of the month, 1:00 pm PST, 2:00 MT; 4 pm EST; 7 pm Togo, Africa; 9:00 Paris, France, Berlin, Germany, & South Africa, 5:00 am Sidney, Australia.
White-Bodied affinity group zoom gatherings
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences,” Audre Lorde.
In these times when polarization is everywhere, we can use our yogic knowledge to further the creation of a truly welcoming Kundalini Yoga community, where we can truly find The One not by minimizing our differences, but embracing and understanding them. What would it take to collectively create an environment of equality and validation and explore the themes and steps toward a more inclusive yoga community? Developing the muscle to discuss identities, intersections and our various privileges is a way that we can value and support our diverse global perspectives. At KRI we want to encourage White-Bodied people to gather together and explore books, videos, and links to educate oneself and become versed in holding space for others, honoring and celebrating our differences.
Monthly Community Gathering for White-Bodied/Light Skin Trainers & Teachers; a group support meeting for teachers/trainers in the community to explore whiteness as a dominant paradigm and the impact of privilege in our yoga Kundalini world. Click here for more information and to sign up for this meeting on the Third Tuesday of the month, starting Wednesday, May 18th, 11:00 am PST, 12:00 pm MT & Central times; 2 pm EST/New York, USA; 5 pm Togo, Africa; 7:00 pm Paris, France, Berlin, Germany, & South Africa, 4:00 am Sidney, Australia.
The following statement from the Siri Singh Sahib Corporation and all our affiliated organizations is being shared on our continuing work to acknowledge and learn from the various experiences of harm shared by current and former members, and to heal our global community. To read the Acknowledgment, Apology and Reparations Plan Announcement, please click below.
KRI hopes to have another letter to share in our next trainer update with additional support specifically for you as trainers.
Kundalini Beyond Borders is an initiative by KRI & IKYTA to provide grants to KRI certified Kundalini Yoga Teachers who are bringing Kundalini Yoga to an underserved population. KRI is committed to ensuring that any person who wishes to experience Kundalini Yoga has access, feels welcome, and feels safe in the practice. This grant program is designed to support this commitment by providing grants to teachers expanding the impact of Kundalini Yoga into those populations with limited or no access currently.
You can read more about this great program here. And if you are currently doing work, or planning to, that could fit the criteria for these grants, you can apply here.
New resources on the KRI website for you and your students
KRI is organizing a Monthly Community Gathering for Teachers and Trainers of Color for mutual support and solidarity. Click here to sign up for this meeting on the Third Tuesday of the month starting April 19th, 2022, 1 pm PST, 4 pm EST., facilitated by Atma Chanan Kaur PhD. Open to all who identify as BIPOC family or person of color.
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New Code of Ethics is approved and ready for you to use in your Level One trainings!
We will be adding the new Code of Ethics to the Aquarian Teacher textbook, but for now you can find it on the KRI website here.
Kundalini Beyond Borders
Kundalini Beyond Borders is an initiative by KRI & IKYTA to provide grants to KRI certified Kundalini Yoga Teachers who are bringing Kundalini Yoga to an underserved population. KRI is committed to ensuring that any person who wishes to experience Kundalini Yoga has access, feels welcome, and feels safe in the practice. This grant program is designed to support this commitment by providing grants to teachers expanding the impact of Kundalini Yoga into those populations with limited or no access currently.
You can read more about this great program here. And if you are currently doing work, or planning to, that could fit the criteria for these grants, you can apply here.
BIPOC affinity group zoom gatherings
KRI is organizing a Monthly Community Gathering for Teachers and Trainers of Color for mutual support and solidarity. Click here to sign up for this meeting on the Third Tuesday of the month starting April 19th, 2022, 1 pm PST, 4 pm EST., facilitated by Atma Chanan Kaur PhD. Open to all who identify as BIPOC family or person of color.
KRI Staff also being in the ATA
KRI has many staff members who are also members of the Aquarian Trainer Academy. Some of them also serve as translators for programs around the globe. You may have opportunities to work with them in many different settings which KRI hopes will enrich everyone’s experience. And much the same way that Hari Charn Kaur and Amrit have traveled and occasionally served in different programs with no conflict of interest, KRI feels that the administrators can also serve in many different roles – being open to support all program equally, and being recused in certain circumstance if needed. We are open to any concerns or feedback you have about any of the KRI team and how we serve.
SSSC voting and 2022 KRI Outstanding Achievement Awards.
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Upcoming SSSC elections
As previously mentioned, all Lead and Professional trainers areautomatically registered to vote in the upcoming (August 2022) SSSC elections. And interns andassociates can apply to be voters. KRI strongly encourages you all to exercise your right to vote!
As part of KRI’s efforts to increase the communityparticipation, we held open nominations this year for the KRI Outstanding Achievement Award.The honoree or honorees will be chosen by YOU–the members of the ATA! Read about the nominees in your language using the links below. And then vote for who you’d like to see recognized in this way here
We’ve received word that the VICE program, “True Believers”,featuring the SSSC and 3HO, will begin airing on 11 April 2022. While we have not yet seen the show ourselves, sources have indicated that the coverage of our organizationsand the practiceof Kundalini Yogais likely to be slanted and may paintan unbalanced picture of our communityand practices. We have prepared some basic information here to assist you, if needed, in dealing with the impact of this program.
Global Meditation to project for peace
We encourage everyone to be chanting the “Sat Narayan Wahe Guru, Hari Narayan Sat Nam” mantra to project for the end to all wars around the globe.
3HO Europe has organized a daily online practice that anyone can join via their website.
More transparency
At your request, KRI has a new webpage that describes the standing committees, how you can participate, links to previous meeting notes, etc. Check it out here.
Diversity Equity & Inclusion
KRI’s goal is to have our Level One graduates, members of the ATA, KRI’s staff and KRI’s board of directors to be fully representative of the communities we serve – and that means representative across all dimensions (such as race, gender and sexual identity, geography, socio-economic status, education level, etc.). We aren’t there yet, and so we need to keep inquiring about why. Why are there so few trainers of color? Why are the percentages of Level 1 graduates of color less than in the broader community? Until we can understand and address these issues, we won’t be as effective as we need to be in sharing the technology of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. A piece of this is our annual demographic survey – which will be part ofthe trainer licensing process this summer.
The SSSC is hosting an open Community Forum event, with 2 sessions, March 25th and 27th
Especially with Lead and Professional trainers now able to automatically vote in the upcoming SSSC board elections, learn more about what’s happening, and voice your opinions. Read more about it, find the meeting details, and links to register here.
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Global Meditation to project for peace
We encourage everyone to be chanting the “Sat Narayan Wahe Guru, Hari Narayan Sat Nam” mantra to project for the end to all wars around the globe.
3HO Europe has organized a daily online practice that anyone can join via their website.
Reminder of the L2 Manuals International Distribution Policy
In October 2019 a new policy governing the distribution of L2 manuals in the English language and the available translation was approved. Its implementation for the L2 English manuals started by February 2020. You can read the complete Policy in HERE.
Copyright info: The Level One and Level Two manuals are copyrighted materials managed by KRI. This means that any reproduction, transmission and distribution of these materials – including photocopying or recording – without formal and written agreement constitutes copyright violation, so please do not email students PDF copies (even though this is how the Level 2 manuals used to be done)!
We continue to look at our welcoming nature, how to be more welcoming and inclusive to communities of color around the world. As a global community, this is a complex but much needed exploration. Our 2nd annual ATA demographic survey will be held as part of the relicensing process this June; measuring how diverse are we and how can we grow in our awareness. Please take the time when you relicense to thoughtfully review this survey and answer the questions.
If you would like to be part of the Diversity Equity & Inclusion committee, please contact [email protected].
Upcoming eLearning courses in January
Click below to find out more!
Circle Facilitation Training
Just Outcomes will be leading 4 different 3.5hr training sessions in Circle Facilitation in March. One of the intentions of offering this, is to help build the capacity of leaders and community members to support compassionate reconciliation in the work that they do and that we continue to do all together.
The SSSC is hosting an open Community Forum event, with 2 sessions, March 25th and 27th
Especially with Lead and Professional trainers now able to automatically vote in the upcoming SSSC board elections, learn more about what’s happening, and voice your opinions.
Read more about it, find the meeting details, and links to register here.
