Shakta Khalsa

Shakta Kaur Khalsa has been practicing and teaching yoga for over three decades, having had the great fortune to study directly with Yogi Bhajan, Master of Kundalini Yoga. Yogi Bhajan recognized her as a teacher of children, and for many years had her answer inquiries he received about children’s yoga. Shakta is an IKYTA certified Kundalini Yoga instructor and teacher trainer, an AMS certified Montessori educator, and an E-RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance.  

Shakta began teaching children yoga in 1976 when she lived in a spiritual community in Baltimore, MD.  She loved making up yoga stories, and the children seemed to love it too. In time she became a Montessori teacher, and started each day of her little school with yoga and meditation.  From there, she began teaching yoga in schools and daycare centers and realized that she could not personally meet the demand for children’s yoga. Thus was born the Radiant Child Yoga Program (RCYP), a comprehensive system for training children’s yoga teachers. Shakta travels to around 40 cities each year teaching RCYP.  Tens of thousands of people all over the world have benefited from this training, and RCYP has been recognized as CEU credits in public schools and therapy institutions as well as with Yoga Alliance.

In 1998 Shakta wrote Fly Like a Butterfly:  Yoga for Children, which launched her career as an well-known author of several yoga books, musical CDs, and, most recently, Yoga In Motion DVD and Workbook.  These can be found in our store.

She also teaches yoga workshops especially for women, based on her best-selling book Yoga for Women, and Kundalini yoga workshops for all levels.  See www.shaktakaurkhalsa.com for more information.

Shakta lives in Herndon, Virginia, USA with her beloveds;  Kartar (husband) and Ram Das (16 year-old son).

Personal Consultation calls with Shakta

Personal consultations are being offered in response to requests from those who have not been able to attend Shakta's courses, as well as from course participants.

• yoga for children of all ages
• parenting/teaching children
• deepening your personal yoga practice
• using/teaching Kundalini yoga effectively

Telephone, Skype, or iChat
$75/half-hour   $150/hour, includes take-home recording of consultation
Email for details and to set an appointment  at shaktakhalsa@mac.com