Banesa is one of the founders of Kundalini Africa Rising, which promotes social justice as a spiritual practice. Every week, she teaches children at Ekhaya park in Hillbrow, one of the most dangerous inner city areas in South Africa made famous for its gun raids, drugs and criminals.  She also teaches with Street Light Kids, which aims to give underprivileged children the same right to access world class education. She helped launch Open Kundalini Yoga classes in areas such as the inner cities in Soweto and Alex townships, Lesotho and Mozambique to enable specific communities of color to gain access to Kundalini Yoga and its benefits. 

Guru Updesh hosts a langar group that cooks and serves many portions of vegetarian food three times a week to the homeless and disabled. She teaches yoga and meditation as a seva to the elderly, and has cared for abandoned children.

Shango teaches yoga to children pre-K to high school in Chicago, Illinois, where he helps kids learn to cope with their problems through meditation. He works as a male mentor coordinator with I Grow Chicago Peace House, a community gathering and healing resource space. He also patrols the Chicago area for Cease Fire, a public health anti-violence program. 

Zutu-ocloo Kofi keeps the teachings of Kundalini Yoga alive in Accra, Ghana. He also helps African-American youth on trips to Ghana to rediscover their African heritage and develop a daily sadhana.

Atma Jodha from Texas is a volunteer chaplain in the TX State Prison system and shares Kundalini Yoga with male prisoners. He also shares Kundalini Yoga with people recovering from strokes and brain tumors, having survived his own brain tumor a few years ago.

Sunderta is developing a donation-built community center in an underserved area of Brazil for impoverished children and adults to learn the tools of Kundalini Yoga. She is the founder of Yoga e Negritude, which seeks to raise the profile of Black yoga students and teachers in Brazil.

Maria serves the Spanish Association of Kundalini Yoga (AEKY) tirelessly, organizing up to 4 annual meetings for the community and sharing Kundalini Yoga at fairs across Spain.  She is a founding member of an organization that promotes the welfare of women and children.

Renato Oliveira Moura (Tej Partap Singh) brings gong and sound healing to the elderly in nursing homes and shares Kundalini Yoga in men's prisons in Brazil.  He also takes children on outdoor hikes to help them connect to the natural world, serves at festivals, and supports his Gurdwara however he is called to serve.

Dalia Adel Ibrahim (Amrita Nishan Kaur) hosts free and donation based community Kundalini Yoga classes in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt.  She is passionate about sharing that you can be a Kundalini Yogi and a Muslim and tirelessly supports the studio which brings teacher training to Egypt.  She is currently working on a translation of the teacher training manuals in Arabic.

Ram Singh has been leading Kundalini Yoga classes and sadhana in Togo since 1989.  In 2002, he became the leader of the Kundalini Yoga association in Togo and since 2005 has supported Krishna Kaur’s teacher trainings in Togo.  He makes TV and radio appearances to share the benefits of yoga for stress and nutrition in Africa, organizes yoga conferences and holds free classes on the UN Day of Peace.  Every day he hosts morning sadhana and teaches classes for children and adults in his living room, and he is working to raise the funds needed for a dedicated yoga studio in Lomé.

A practicing Sikh, every Sunday he leads Gurdwara services, and remains dedicated to reading Japji and sustaining a morning practice.  He teaches tolerance for all paths of life through example, maintaining his kesh and turban even under great cultural pressure to conform.  Through it all, he is a devoted single father of 3. 

Liam teaches youth in detention facilities and to young adults on Riker's island for the New York Corrections Department. Liam provides incarcerated youth with skills and practices to improve physical and mental health, manage stress, reduce anxiety, and cultivate a relationship with their own consciousness using meditation, breath work, and movement techniques from Kundalini Yoga, Hatha Yoga, and Tai Chi.

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Off the mat, Liam is a head basketball coach with the non-profit Steady Buckets, an organization serving over 5,000 members of New York City's youth. He developed the yoga and meditation program for the community and actively weaves Kundalini Yoga with basketball to expose children to natural healing modalities and empowerment practices.

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Liam studies from world renowned teachers Krishna Kaur, Hari Kaur, and Nevine Michaan and is the Regional Director and an Associate Trainer for Y.O.G.A. for Youth.

A Kundalini pioneer, Jagdeesh Kaur writes about Kundalini Yoga in Croatian and helps serve as a translator to other Kundalini yoga students, bridging the gap between English and Croatian, helping many who otherwise would not have access to the teachings.

Her desire is to spread Kundalini yoga throughout the Balkan region. She has taught classes and workshops in Banja Luka, the capitol of Republika Srpska; in Serbia; in many cities in Croatia where she grew up; and now most regularly teaches classes in Zagreb, Croatia’s capitol. 

The war in the Balkans ended 25 years ago, but the after effects are still very much present in the society and culture: trauma, stress, high depression and anxiety rates, and an ever growing presence of pharmaceuticals as the primary coping strategy.  People are eager for solutions that will help them reduce their stress and feel happier, and

Kundalini yoga improves people’s lives in a palpable and dramatic way.

Kenneth Strickland is a board member for Yoga 4 Youth NC. Kenneth has been educating youth in the power of Kundalini Yoga, the breath, and Love since 2013. He believes in the inherent wisdom of children and works to create spaces where children can become aware of this wisdom. Kenneth is currently living in Little Rock, Arkansas teaching English, Social Studies, and Meditation at North Little Rock Academy. Kenneth also is attending Naropa University, in Boulder Colorado, where he studies Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a concentration in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling.