Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa, PhD has taught Kundalini Yoga since 1971. She began to specialize in teaching to people with chronic or life threatening illness and their family members in 1986, under the direction of Yogi Bhajan. At his request she founded the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine and Humanology. The Center provides direct client services, professional training and conducts outcome studies on the medical effects of yoga practice. She is a Medical Family therapist, a KRI Certified Level One and Level Two Kundalini Yoga teacher trainer, a RYT 500, and a charter member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Dr. Khalsa trains yoga teachers and health professionals to incorporate Kundalini Yoga and Meditation to the psychological, spiritual and behavioral aspects of health recovery.