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Yogi. Teacher. Adventurer. Writer. Advocate. Entrepreneur. Policy Wonk. Climate Geek. Spouse. Aunt. Daughter. Friend.
The many elements that comprise me began to awaken when I took my first kundalini yoga class in 2006. My Kundalini adventure got supercharged with the sacred sound current when I attended the first Sat Nam Fest in 2010. and I have been blessed to dance my way through life ever since. I am an IKYTA certified Kundalini yoga teacher teaching at multiple locations in the DC metro area and connecting to yogis across the world through my online yoga experiences and video sessions.
As a longtime community organizer and political activist, I love to connect with people and create community around shared values and passions. Through my yoga teaching and online experiences, I seek to connect yogis to support each other in building and sustaining their personal daily yoga, meditation and spiritual practices.
I bring my background as an effective communications and engagement consultant in the hyper-stressed DC area to my yoga teaching and coaching. I love to share the insights I have gained as I continue to consciously de-stress in an increasingly frenetic world. I have found ways to balance between the disparate parts of my life, including both my consulting and yoga worlds, and would love to help you find your optimal balance as well.
Inspired Teachings for Yogis, Yoga Teachers, Studio Owners and Retreat Leaders
Do you get super inspired at events like Summer Solstice and Sat Nam Fest , but then struggle to bring that inspiration into your daily practice at home?
Is it a challenge for you to fit anything else into your hectic life?
I lead multi-day online experiences to support you in your transition home or make a new start in your personal practice. I send each yogi in the online experience a daily email with content customized based on their goals and interests and provide helpful support to bring your inspiration and bliss home. I also develop bonus content and collaborative live online experiences to supplement your practice.
When is the next online experience? 11 Days of Bliss starting Monday, 7 July 2014, following 3HO’s Summer Solstice 2014. Click here to learn more.
Do you feel stuck in your daily practice?
Do you need some ideas to help fit your spiritual practice with the rest of your life?
Haridev has lived these challenges and is called to share her insights and ideas, inspired by the teachings of Yogi Bhajan. Video sessions can be added on to online yoga experiences, or organized separately for individuals or groups. Contact Haridev for more information.
Are you trying to build the size of the kundalini classes at your studio?
Are you a teacher in an area that does not have much of a yoga community?
Do you have a special guest teacher visiting your studio and want to build your yoga community following the event?
Do you want the benefits of your retreat or workshop to be reinforced once your students go home?
I will work with you to develop a customized 11- or 40-day experience based on your goals and the needs of your students. Using your branding, direction and any amount of your content, I will develop and distribute daily experiences for your students that inspire them to engage with your studio, classes, retreats and/or yoga community. Contact Haridev for more details.
Upcoming Events and Classes
bal•ance /baləns/ noun
an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady.
So many of us speak of trying to find and establish our balance. Whether it is in tree pose or seeking an equilibrium between our professional and personal lives – the notion of finding steadiness in the sea of change that surrounds us is challenging.
For example, tree pose is often difficult for me. I always try to stand so straight and solid. But I have come to realize some days I am just not that straight nor solid. Some days I just need to move through the position with an alternative sense of alignment as the winds of life pass by me. I have come to realize that my tree poses on those days are ever more beautiful because of this self acceptance and love in my heart.
Kundalini yoga can help us to increase our sensitivity to our inner balance and recognize the triggers in our life that can send us off course. I have recently been pursuing practices that focus on grounding through the lower triangle – or the root, sacral and navel chakras. Then on practices that focus on meditative expansion through the upper triangle – or the chakras associated with the throat, third eye and tenth gate. These balancing practices have been particularly healing and strengthening to the heart – the chakra that sits in the middle of us in many ways.
Join me for a series of Kundalini yoga classes at Lighthouse Yoga Center focused on balance in all its forms – to enable us to live into and open our hearts to the beauty and potential around us.
Three Thursday nights – 23 & 30 April, and 7 May 2015
7:15-8:30 pm
Lighthouse Yoga Center, 4203 9th St. NW, Washington DC 20011
Located in the heart of Petworth, at 9th and Upshur Streets
Drop in cost: $17
Register online at Lighthouse Yoga Center.
Join Haridev Kaur at Lighthouse Yoga Center as she leads a series of classes of Kundalini Yoga (as Taught by Yogi Bhajan) customized for beginners. Taught on Sunday evenings, the practice will be a gentle one infused with energizing kriyas (or sets of exercises), peaceful meditations and revitalizing relaxations. Haridev’s classes feature clear explanations while creating an environment where experience is the teacher.
Called the “Yoga of Awareness”, Kundalini Yoga is taught in set “kriyas” which are series of dynamic and static exercises using asanas (postures), pranayama (breath), mudras (gestures), bandhas (body locks), and mantra (chanting). Kundalini Yoga kriyas and meditations use visualization, projection and focus to attain specific effects in the physical, mental and emotional body. It was brought to the US in 1969 by Yogi Bhajan and is a safe, comprehensive and therapeutic practice that is accessible to all levels and body types. This is a practice that uplifts and empowers, and can bring you to a state of bliss.
Explore a new yoga experience through a four week series at Lighthouse Yoga Center starting on February 22.
Classes will be sequential, building from one week to the next, so we encourage you to sign up for the entire 4 week series. Just $55 for all four classes.
Drop-ins with prior approval. Drop in cost is $17.
Sundays 7-8:15 pm
February 22 – March 15
For more info visit bit.ly/exploreky
Photo Courtesy of Navkirin Kaur
Four Consecutive Sundays
Starting February 22nd – 11:30am – 1:00pm
Register at http://kundaliniyoga1.eventbrite.com
The world is facing more conflict. Income inequality continues to grow both here in D.C. and across the globe. We are facing increasing threat from a changing climate. Many of us are feeling the pain many parts of our world are experiencing.
But there are increasing numbers of people focused on raising their individual and the collective consciousness – embracing truth, love, gratitude and compassion in the present rather than living in fear. How can we fuel ourselves within to persevere and share our gifts in the midst of all this conflict?
Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan is an amazing technology that gives us the strength to thrive from within – with truth as our identity in the oneness of the universe. Seizing the peace and power within during these stressful times will enable us to seize our inner love while serving others at a time of great need. With yoga kriyas (or sets of exercises) and profound meditative practices, Kundalini Yoga is a unique and powerful practice that complements other yoga and spiritual practices well.
Starting on Sunday, 22 Feb, join us for four weeks of exploring the technology of Kundalini Yoga. All levels are welcome. The series will provide a diverse experience with plenty of explanation for the new student, whether you have done yoga in the past or not. You will learn about the core elements of the practice while experiencing the depth of this powerful technology and learn about how this technology can fuel you for your future. The 90 minute class will enable us to explore more extended meditation practices.
Classes are Sunday 22 Feb, 1, 8 and 15 March at Samsara House, 36 R Street NW (the Bloomingdale neighborhood). Some street parking is available; the Red and Green metro lines are within safe walking distance (Shaw or NoMa), and the P6, 80, 92, 93 Buses stop within a block or so of Samsara House 2023.
Cost is $75 for all 4 classes and is non-refundable. Yoga mat not required.
(Registration Required)
Register here: http://kundaliniyoga1.eventbrite.com
Location: 36 R Street NW (approx. half-block from Big Bear Café) light blue house with Tibetan prayer flags over the door.
Samsara House 2023 at 36 R Street NW is an Awareness-based shared space where world-shifting communities are meshworked to experience and spread what’s emerging. Samsara House 2023 rapidly prototypes models for the new world to ignite a revolution in consciousness within ten years.
Samsara House 2023’s strategy is to exemplify a gift-economy over the current market economy, one that values giving over having. While all events cost at least one dollar to cover utilities, any additional contribution will go towards periodically giving half back to a socially responsible organization or cause in need in the community that you also help identify. Going together as a river, we build a thriving community of communities and pave the way for a new world. Samsara House 2023 is a Holacracy powered organization founded by Cullen Kowalski at a row house in Bloomingdale, New Washington, D.C.
Join Haridev Kaur on Friday evening, 20 Feb from 6:30-7:30pm at Lighthouse Yoga Center for a Kundalini yoga focused community class. The wind, snow and freezing temperatures that have been surrounding us in DC this week can make us feel depleted and in need of sunshine. But the slower pace of our bodies in this time can also put us in a place where self-healing is more accessible. Take time out on Friday evening for some self healing and enjoy getting back to your joy – regardless of the weather outside!
Where: Lighthouse Yoga Center, 4203 9th Street NW, Washington, DC
When: Friday, 20 February – 6:30-7:30pm
Cost: By Donation ($5 or $10 recommended)
Register: Visit Lighthouse Yoga online and click on classes
In the early morning hours we have great potential to uplift ourselves and find our own inner light and intuition through meditation. As the cold of winter has begun to settle within us, join us on Sunday, February 1 at 5am for 2.5 hours of what has been called the mother of all kriyas, So Darshan Chakra Kriya. Find your light within and let it warm you through this powerful practice.
So Darshan Chakra Kriya provides multidimensional benefits to those who practice it. It will help us build our intuitive selves and cut through all barriers within. It helps to clear the trash out of our subconscious while using the Kundalini to give us the necessary vitality to combat the negative effects of the subconscious mind. Kartar Singh Khalsa and Haridev Kaur will lead the group in some warmups before starting this powerful practice for 2.5 hours, which will help to cut our inner darkness and give us each a new start.
Yogi Bhajan said So Darshan Chakra Kriya is the simplest kriya, but at the same time the hardest. Click here to view a video with information about this simple yet powerful practice.
Venture out in the quiet cold early morning hours to the light and warmth of community to engage in this powerful revitalizing practice.
Where: Radiance Yoga, 901 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA
When: Sunday, 1 February 2014 – 5:00-8:15 am
Register: Visit Radiance Yoga online and register under workshops – a FREE community event
Living in the city, we don’t always get to see the best of winter as we face the dirty mounds of snow, scraping our cars and dealing with icy sidewalks.
But what about the beauty, peace and quiet of winter? I love to listen deeply to the sound of snow falling in the countryside…
Join us for some Kundalini Yoga and meditation to deeply listen within ourselves to find our inner peace in a hectic city.
We will practice vigorously, meditate deeply and relax peacefully…
Where:
YogaShare at BloomBars, 3222 11th St NW, Washington, DC
When:
Thursday, 22 January 2014
Gather 7:30 pm
Class starts at 7:45 pm
Yogi tea and snacks served at 9 pm.
Bring a mat, a blanket and/or pillow, and a mug for yummy yogi tea.
Cost:
By Donation ($10 recommended)
More information:
Visit YogaShare on Facebook
Another year has begun. Are you going to remain stuck in your patterns of the past or open your heart to new possibilities as our universe and city keep changing ever moment?
Come join us for some inspiring Kundalini yoga and meditation to kickstart our 2015.
Where: Lighthouse Yoga Center, 4203 9th Street NW, Washington, DC
When: Saturday, 10 January – 10-11:15 am
Cost: $17
Register: Visit Lighthouse Yoga online and click on classes
Yoga of Inclusion: How to embody diversity in the Kundalini Yoga community?
Perhaps you’ve experienced blocks based on race, gender, class, sexuality, age, religion or size. Some of these blocks are internal and some are societal. There is a way through every block. Through yoga, meditation and dialogue we will explore and share.
Join Awtar Kaur and Haridev Kaur at the 2014 Winter Solstice Sadhana Celebration to explore these concepts within ourselves and the collective through yoga, meditation and discussion. The gifted Bachan Kaur will also be performing live music in the workshop.
When: Wednesday, 17 December – 10:45am-12:45 pm
Where:The Pavillion at Circle F Dude Ranch in Lake Wales, Florida
Click here to register for the 2014 Winter Solstice Sadhana Celebration.
“I do not believe in miracles, I rely on them.” – Yogi Bhajan
The word miracle is one we use when we can cannot sense the connectivity between our consciousness and the manifestation of something we desire. In actuality, the non-physical parts of ourselves are quite capable of connecting with the manifestation of any desire; it is our on again/off again connectivity with our non-physical selves that makes the manifestation have delay.
This moment and every moment has the potential for miracles in each of our lives. The Miracle Mantra is a way to open the flow of the miracles in our hearts and manifest them.
Come celebrate the coming of the holiday season and the approaching Winter Solstice at a special morning sadhana practice led by Kartar Singh and Haridev Kaur. In the early morning hours, we will have a 2.5 hour practice using what Yogi Bhajan gave as the Miracle Mantra—a particular version of “Guru Guru Wahe Guru Guru Ram Das Guru.”
Starting at 5am we will have some warmup exercises and instructions, and then at 5:30 embark on a beautiful 2.5 hour practice with this powerful mantra.
Join us to awaken the miracle of your life. In the words of Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, the Director of Training of the Kundalini Research Institute, the Miracle Mantra brings you the power of miracle in your life. It gives life to the miracles your heart attunes to. A miracle is not something beyond imagination or reality. It happens simply as we end our limitations and open our imaginations. We always have the opportunity to fulfill our destiny and our highest purpose.
Where: Radiance Yoga, 901 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA
When: Sunday, 14 December 2014 – 5:00-8:15 am
Register: Visit Radiance Yoga online and register under workshops – a FREE community event
It is cold and the days are getting darker. We want to retreat within to cozy spaces and warm cups of tea.
But you know you have that fire within. You want to ‘be the change you wish to see in the world’. You have grit, desire, passion and commitment – most of the time…
Join Haridev Kaur and With Love DC for a heart opening kriya and deep meditation for the changing seasons shared in the Kundalini tradition as taught by Yogi Bhajan. All levels welcome!
Join us for some vigorous yet peaceful yoga to
… renew your inner fire
… savor your warmth within
… let the world see the beautiful light you offer to the world
Where: Samsara House 2023, 36 R Street NW, Washington, DC
When: Thursday, 20 November – 7:30-8:45 pm
Cost: Suggested Donation $8-10
Register: Not Required – Visit With Love DC or Haridev Kaur on Facebook
The leaves are changing, pumpkins are everywhere and I feel the need to take out my sweaters!
Join me for 60 minutes of cozy yoga for this season of transition.
Where: Lighthouse Yoga Center, 4203 9th Street NW, Washington, DC
When: Friday, 17 October – 6:30-7:30 pm
Cost: By Donation – Community Class
Register: Visit Lighthouse Yoga online and click on classes
Join us for some Kundalini Yoga to release the past and savor the joy of the present at YogaShare DC.
Haridev is just back from Sat Nam Fest East with her heart wide open from four days of chanting, yoga and meditation. She is so excited to share her bliss and joy at YogaShare DC this week.
Where:
YogaShare at BloomBars, 3222 11th St NW, Washington, DC
When:
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Gather 7:30 pm
Class starts at 7:45 pm
Yogi tea and snacks served at 9 pm.
Bring a mat, a blanket and/or pillow, and a mug for yummy yogi tea.
Cost:
By Donation ($10 recommended)
More information:
Visit YogaShare on Facebook
30 Minute Sessions by Donation
Visit Haridev Online at www.haridevkaur.com
Join me for the third class in a series focused on cultivating our inner peace and sharing it with the world.
Without peace within, we cannot have peace in our world. By fostering peace and deep listening within ourselves, this class will encourage us to open our heart and throat chakras to share our peace with our families, communities and world.
Now more than ever, the Earth needs us to be ambassadors of light, love and peace.
Join me for some uplifting Kundalini yoga and meditation to help us to share our inner light of peace and love with the world.
Where: Lighthouse Yoga Center, 4203 9th Street NW, Washington, DC
When: Thursday, 25 September – 7:15-8:30 pm
Cost: $16 drop in
Register: Visit Lighthouse Yoga online and click on classes
Join me for the second class in a series focused on cultivating our inner peace.
With the world filling with more violence and pain every day, it is hard to find our own inner peace and love. Now more than ever, though, the Earth needs us to be ambassadors of light, love and peace.
Join me for some uplifting Kundalini meditation to help us to share our inner light of peace and love with the world.
Where: Lighthouse Yoga Center, 4203 9th Street NW, Washington, DC
When: Monday, 22 September – 6:15-7:00 pm
Cost: $10 drop in
Register: Visit Lighthouse Yoga online and click on classes
Join me for the first class in a series focused on cultivating our inner peace.
With the world filling with more violence and pain every day, it is hard to find our own inner peace and love. Now more than ever, though, the Earth needs us to be ambassadors of light, love and peace.
Join me for some uplifting Kundalini yoga and meditation to help us to share our inner light of peace and love with the world.
Where: Lighthouse Yoga Center, 4203 9th Street NW, Washington, DC
When: Thursday, 18 September – 7:15-8:30 pm
Cost: $16 drop in
Register: Visit Lighthouse Yoga online and click on classes
“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy, Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high…”
-Ella Fitzgerald
“Summer, summer, summertime – Time to sit back and unwind…”
-D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
Join Haridev for some cooling summertime Kundalini yoga at YogaShare.
Dismiss the drama and stress that hot weather brings.
Embrace your yoga to live your life with ease.
Where:
YogaShare at BloomBars, 3222 11th St NW, Washington, DC
When:
Thursday, 31 July 2014
Gather 7:30 pm
Class starts at 7:45 pm
Yogi tea and snacks served at 9 pm.
Bring a mat, a blanket or pillow, and a mug for yummy yogi tea.
Cost:
By Donation ($10 recommended)
More information:
Visit YogaShare on Facebook
We may not be at the beach, but that does not mean we can’t be enjoying our summer in the city!
Join me for some cooling Kundalini yoga and soothing meditation to end your work week.
Where: Lighthouse Yoga Center, 4203 9th Street NW, Washington, DC
When: Thursday, 24 July – 7:15-8:45 pm
Cost: $16 drop in
Register: Visit Lighthouse Yoga online and click on classes
Raj Yoga, 22821 Silverbrook Center Dr #160, Sterling, VA
Join Haridev to beat the heat while breaking the cycle of endless “busy-ness”. Learn practical skills so you can thrive in a stressed-out world. Release old patterns and relax into your most abundant self. Bring a journal and learn techniques to maximize the revitalizing power of your downtime this summer.
Cost:
$25 ($35 if registering after July 12)
To register, visit Raj Yoga online and click on “Events” .
STARTING MONDAY, JULY 7, 2014 – REGISTER NOW!
Connect with Haridev at the amazing summer solstice gathering of Kundalini yogis. Catch her as she makes announcements at dinner. Meet up with her in the bazaar to learn more about joining “11 Days of Bliss” (link to the post below). If you are a kundalini yoga teacher, chat with her about how she can create online experiences to support you in building the commitment of your yoga students to their daily practice.
Has anyone else had a “moment” in the past few days? Like when you suddenly feel like “Wow. This is all happening.” Or in the parlance of my brain, “Da#n. Sh!t’s gettin’ real!” I don’t even need to name it, but we are all being challenged with fundamental changes at numerous levels at this…
A concept that got reinforced within me this past year is that of infinity. I am infinite, you are infinite, we are all infinite. But we can choose to tap into that infinity – or not. And our infinity is still there – regardless of how much the world is…
I was so pleased when my writing was recently featured prominently on the Spirit Voyage weekly newsletter and blog. In the days leading up to Mercury Retrograde, which started back in May and will continue through June 11, I heard a lot from those around me and on the Internet…
Sat Nam is an uplifting phrase used as a greeting and farewell in the Kundalini yoga community, meaning “truth is my identity.” Join me as I share an uplifting practice of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation with the Bates Yoga Kula on Friday, 8 May 2015. I am so pleased to…
bal•ance /baləns/ noun an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady. So many of us speak of trying to find and establish our balance. Whether it is in tree pose or seeking an equilibrium between our professional and personal lives – the notion of…
“The Kundalini experience does not mean you have gone into a deep breathless trance and are beyond this world. … It integrates you more fully with reality and gives you a broader vision and sensitivity so that you can act more efficiently.” ~Yogi Bhajan I frequently speak of how much…
I received an amazing email a few days ago. It was an email I had received multiple times in the past, but it had a whole new meaning to me this time around. Here it is: Subject: We Miss You! From: Hari Simran (Raj Yoga) Dear Renee (Haridev Kaur), We…
Another year – 2015 – did it start with a set of “resolutions” that have been forgotten or pushed down on the priority list? Did you have lots of hopes for the new year and now you just feel stuck back in your old routine? There is still time to reinvigorate your…
Join me in the bazaar at Sat Nam Fest East on 8-12 October 2014 for yoga, meditation, mantra, bliss, peace… For more details and registration visit Sat Nam Fest East online
As I am about to attend my ninth Sat Nam Fest in just a few short weeks, I am starting to get reflective about how my experience with Kundalini yoga and meditation truly began at that first “Spirit Fest” in the woods of West Virginia back in 2010. While I…
