Keval Kaur Khalsa, M.A., E-RYT 500, YACEP is a Kundalini Research Institute-certified Level I Lead Trainer and Mentoring Coach. She has trained Kundalini Yoga teachers in North Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, California, Colorado, Michigan, and Accra, Ghana. Keval Kaur has been teaching Kundalini Yoga for over 20 years in university settings, studios and community centers in North America, South America, and Africa. She owns Kundalini Yoga Durham, a donation-based, inclusive community yoga space in Durham, NC. She currently offers KRI-certified 220-hour in person Level I Teacher Trainings at her studio, as well as weekly community classes and special workshops and retreats.
After meeting master yoga teacher and Y.O.G.A. for Youth founder Krishna Kaur, Keval Kaur found her passion – bringing the tools of yoga and meditation to young people. She co-founded a satellite Y.O.G.A. for Youth program in North Carolina in 2007 which has served young people across four North Carolina counties. As a Y.O.G.A. for Youth Teacher Trainer, she helped develop the online version of the 46-hour training and regularly offers this specialty training that prepares yoga teachers, classroom teachers, school personnel and parents to bring the tools of yoga and meditation to underserved youth. She currently serves on the Y.O.G.A for Youth Board of Directors.
Keval Kaur is a Professor of the Practice Emerita of Dance at Duke University. As a faculty member in the Duke University Dance Program for 32 years, Prof. Khalsa directed the Dance Program for seven years, and taught courses in dance, Kundalini Yoga & Sikh Dharma, and activist theater. For seven years, she served as Co-Primary Investigator for a research study on the effects of the Y.O.G.A. for Youth curriculum on elementary and middle school students’ stress response, emotional regulation, mindfulness, physical health, and body image. Her research focus is embodied, experiential education, particularly that which promotes social change. She is committed to the utilization of dance, theater and yoga as tools for personal and social transformation, particularly with communities often identified as “underserved” or “at risk”.