Adesh Kaur has 24 years acting experience in NY and LA with numerous film, television and theatre credits. She is co-founder of The New Theatre Guild and owner/director of Our House Studios--coaching and teaching kids, teens, adults and Special Needs kids. Adesh teaches the Kundalini Yoga Classes For Creativity. She shares her experiences on the artistic journey with humor and truth. Her classes support & expand the creative journey of every soul. With the techniques of Kundalini Yoga, you will develop your intuitive awareness, open your heart, & strengthen your commitment to your authentic Self. Adesh shares her personal artistic experiences with humor & truth. Join us for a gathering of creators on the path of Self.

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." ~ Goethe

Blaire Baron Larsen

Blaire Baron Larsen, IKYTA, RYT is a Youth Arts Professional who teaches children ages 6+ Kundalini yoga all over Los Angeles. She is Yoga Director at both the City Ballet of L.A.(School) and Shakespeare Youth Festival L.A.

Her Sunday morning JUMBO yoga class at Golden Bridge is the only class with enough time to really go deeper with her students. This class is well known for its transformative effect on young people, sparking a desire in them to take up their own yoga practice at home. The children gather in a tribal circle and share on specific topics, then they play stimulating, ice-breaker games, developing especially the right hemisphere of the brain, then participate in a solid one hour yoga set ending with meditation and deep relaxation and a closing ceremony.

Brenna has great enthusiasm for both children and kundalini yoga. She has developed her practice through the invigorating kundalini yoga teacher-training program at Golden Bridge. She has completed the Y.O.G.A. for youth certification program with Krishna Kaur in addition to being certified in the Khalsa Way prenatal yoga techniques as taught by Gurmukh and Davi Kaur. Her children's yoga class will nurture the young spirit by expanding bliss through the playful use of kriyas, games, dance and musical creativity. It is her delight to increase the scope of awareness, to foster self-confidence and self-love, therefore greatly affecting all aspects of a child's life both today and in the future. "Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom" Swami Sivananda

Brent Stevens

As a writer/director and performance artist, Brent specializes in using Kundalini energy for creative projects and helping others do the same. The strength of his yoga practice is in combining the ancient technologies with a young, active, urban lifestyle. His classes focus on a comprehensive foundation of the basics of Kundalini Yoga: body locks, breath awareness and anatomy, so students can safely go into deep states of meditation at the end of each class.

Guided by her experience, education, and sincere love of children, Crystal creates a safe and fun environment for children 3 - 12 years of age to expand, explore, and express their unique physical, emotional, and mental gifts, by incorporating yoga sets with nature and animal based games, dance, and songs to stimulate, encourage and enhance the health, intuitive awareness, and creative freedom of the young spirit

David Scharff

David Scharff has been meditating for 30 years, exploring many of the world's different spiritual traditions. He became a student of Tibetan Buddhism after attending the Kalachakra empowerments given by H.H. the Dalai Lama in NYC in 1991 and found his practice lineage when he met H.E. the 16th Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche in 1994. Scharff became the center leader for Chagdud Gonpa Orgyen Ling in NYC for two years, then moved to Chagdud Gonpa, the North American seat of Chagdud Tulku. There he received empowerments and teachings on the different levels of Tibetan Buddhism and engaged in retreats to put these teachings into practice for another two years under his root teacher (and Chagdud Tulku's lineage holder) Lama Pema Drimed Norbu. Living in LA since 1999, Scharff has also received empowerments, instructions and done retreats with numerous other lamas of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, including H.E. Namkha Drimed Rinpoche and the Terton Kunzang Dechen Lingpa.

Dev Avtar Kaur

Dev Avtar Kaur discovered Kundalini Yoga at Golden Bridge in 2005 and since has become a certified teach through IKYTA and is a member of Yoga Alliance. It is her belief that the healing power of Kundalini Yoga can help many others walk through their own fears, release worrisome thoughts and stress and come to a place of inner strength, joy and bliss. The message she wishes to pass along to each and every student who attends her class as spoken by Yogi Bhajan:

“Total harmonious relaxation cures the body. To achieve this there must be coordination between the three facets of ourselves: body, mind, and soul.”
Yogi Bhajan

D.M. Osborne

D.M. Osborne is among 500 yoga instructors nationwide who are certified to teach YogaEdtm, a curriculum that has been used by schools in 30 states, and that has been shown to improve academic performance and physical fitness. Prior to teaching yoga, D.M. enjoyed a career as a senior staff writer with national business and legal magazines.

Growing up on the Florida Panhandle, Osborne studied and apprenticed with Elvie S. DeMarko, an influential dance teacher who garnered Osborne a spot at New York’s Joffrey School of Ballet. Osborne continued to dance at Hunter College in the City University of New York, where she obtained her BA. She went on to obtain a Masters of Science at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and began working as a magazine writer.

In 2007, inspired by DeMarko’s positive influence on her own life, Osborne embarked on a new career as a children’s yoga teacher, hoping to have a similarly beneficial impact on the physical and emotional well-being of children and young adults. She completed her Yoga Alliance-approved teacher training in Hatha Yoga at Liberation Yoga in Los Angeles, and has since taught yoga to women and to children ages 2 - 13 in public and private schools; in homes; and at Golden Bridge. She has been part of the Golden Bridge community since 2006.

Francesca Aster (Liv Preet Kaur) is a Registered Nurse Board Certified in Pain Management. For the past two decades, she has specialized in the areas of Cancer, AIDS and Hospice. She presently coordinates the pain team at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She teaches pain management as well as meditation and relaxation techniques to the staff. She is also certified in small animal massage therapy and is a Reiki 1 practitioner.Her goal is to assist others in releasing blocked areas in their bodies, therefore releasing pain, be it spiritual, emotional, physical or mental.The focus is on opening the heart chakra allowing our love to flow throughout our bodies,cleansing us of negative energies from our past and present. Come join her on this blissful journey!!

Gail Bennett

A former marathon runner and dancer, Gail learned how to sit still when she discovered yoga twenty five years ago. She fell in love with Khalsa Way prenatal yoga when she was pregnant with her son in 2003. She was so inspired by the way it helped her to connect to her body and her baby that she took the Khalsa Way teacher training with Gurmukh. Gail has been teaching yoga for five years. She is certified in both Kundalini yoga and Khalsa Way prenatal yoga. Her class guides mothers-to-be through singing, dancing, chanting, stretching, toning, and breathing exercises that help moms build the stamina and confidence they need to move through their labor without fear. Each session culminates with a calming, empowering meditation that helps the mother release the chatter in her mind and connect to the life inside her. The lessons learned in Gail’s class are life lessons. A happy, healthy and conscious mother brings into this world a happier, healthier and more enlightened baby.

Gahl refers to himself as a Cycle-Analyst; he uses cycles to understand the workings of the Universe and life. Gahl in Hebrew means "A wave." And for him everything in the cosmos is a form of frequency, a type of vibration. Gahl uses astrology (the cycles of the planets), Kabbalah (the cycles of the spheres) Mythologies (the cycles of stories) and symbolism in his talks and consultations. His workshops are not only entertaining and funny, but insightful and allow his students from all religions and walks of life to begin to perceive life and existence in a unique way. He now sees clients privately at Golden Bridge.

Gayatri was first certified as a Hatha Yoga instructor in India by the Sivananda Organisation in 2002. Subsequently, in Germany she continued her studies, incorporating various yoga schools and styles such as Yoga Vidya and Iyengar. Then, in 2005, she found her true passion and love for Kundalini Yoga in Los Angeles. Now a certified teacher through IKYTA, she trained at Golden Bridge Yoga. Along with challenging kriyas, meditation, and pranayam, she places great focus on the deeply moving value of sound and chanting in her classes, which she finds invokes the experience of grace and universal union.

Geoffrey Earendil

You might recognize Geoffrey's smiling face from the Kitchen in the Night Moon Cafe or as LA Yoga Magazine's Featured Teacher for the Month of May, 2010. Geoffrey now brings the same spirit of Service and Devotion, combined with 10 years of experience teaching Hatha Yoga, to Golden Bridge. Geoffrey, who was recently bestowed the spiritual name of Raksha in honor of the diety Shiva, has recently moved to LA after a decade in the Deserts of Joshua Tree and Palm Springs where he was Yoga Teacher to the Stars at an exclusive Health Spa and Retreat Center. He has studied Medical Chi Kung with Dr Robert Haberkorn, and Ayurveda with Dr Vasant Lad, Professional Yoga Therapy with Joseph LePage, and continues to train in the Shadow School of Yoga under Shandor Remete and Senior Teachers. Combining a deep reverence for the spiritual and esoteric roots of Hatha Yoga Vinyasa with ten years of experience working with students of all ages, shapes, sizes and abilities, Raksha facilitate a Physical Practice that is grounding and enlightening, practical and inspiring, challenging yet accessible to all. Raksha is profoundly grateful to have found a home and a spiritual community at Golden Bridge Yoga.

Gina Martocci

Gina Martocci is certified through IKYTA and trained under the supervision of Gurmukh at Golden Bridge Yoga in Los Angeles. Gina Has practiced yoga for over 12 years starting with Hatha and Anusara yoga. Gina has been in recovery for over 11 years, so her classes are focused on breaking through the blocks we’ve accumulated over the years and finding the love within ourselves. Helping others to become more of who we are.

Gurushabd, co-director of Golden Bridge, teaches classes that are musical, challenging and provocative. He encourages students to move beyond old comfort zones, and into deeper, and more meditative realms of being. Married for 22 years to Gurmukh, they reside in Los Angeles with their many dogs.

Gurmukh is the co-founder and director of Golden Bridge Nite Moon, Los Angeles' premier center for the study and practice of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. Since being baptized 35 years ago with the Sikh spiritual name meaning "One who helps people across the world ocean," Gurmukh has dedicated her life to fulfilling her namesake. For nearly three decades, students in Los Angeles and from around the world have sought out her classes in Kundalini Yoga, meditation, and pre-and post-natal care. She has been married for 22 years to Gurushabd and has a 22 year old daughter who also lives in Los Angeles.

Dr. Gurudev (Dr. Julian Neil) is a psychoanalyst, and Holistic Doctor in private practice that has taught Kundalini Yoga internationally for over 20 years. He is the former West Coast Director of the Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy (FACT) and is currently on the Medical Board, the Board of Trustees and is the Director of Health for the National Association for Child Development (NACD). He has appeared on national television and radio, as well as in publications as an expert in the field of addiction cure. Dr. Neil is also the Founder and Director of the S.T.E.P. Institute, the Institute for Spiritual Transformational Enrichment Psychology. A martial artist and motorcycle enthusiast, Dr. Gurudev‘s life of dedication to healing others finds its rewards and inspiration from the love of his wife Saska, and their two children Gitane, and Marko.

Each class is a unique experience beginning with a short teaching on the amalgamation of Tibetan Buddhism, Yogic Science and the spiritual principles involved in the healing unity of, body, mind, and soul. A Kundalini Yoga set follows that evenings’ theme augmented by live drumming performed by master percussionist Julio Moreno and guests. Class ends with a pertinent meditation and a session with the gong. Join Dr. Gurudev for a transformative healing journey into self-discovery and self-reliance.

Gwen Yeager-Stofko

Gwen Yeager-Stofko began practicing yoga in 1995. Her love of the art, science and spirituality of yoga led her to take YogaWorks’ 200-hour Teacher Training Program early in 2007. In June 2008 she completed YogaWorks’ 300-hour Professional Program, a six-month mentor-based course, where she continued to study with senior teachers and deepen her knowledge of anatomy, anatomy of injuries, yoga therapy, pranayama, subtle body work, Ayurveda, vinyasa flow sequencing and more.

Gwen teaches light-hearted and challenging Hatha classes that blend the moving meditation of vinyasa flow with periods of breaking down and holding poses. Her classes have a strong emphasis on self-knowledge, alignment and breath. Gwen believes that yoga is a bridge to many places, and lessons on the mat translate into lessons about yourself and life. Gwen teaches privately and at yoga studios and businesses in Los Angeles. She is registered with Yoga Alliance at the 500-hour level.

Hargopal Kaur has been a practitioner of SNR for 20 years, a student of Yogi Bhajan, practicing yoga and meditation for 30 years, and is a facilitator of family constellations. On the healing path she combines compassion, wisdom, and pragmatism.

Harijiwan has been teaching Kundalini yoga since 1975. For a number of years he served his teacher, Yogi Bhajan, directly, and traveled the world extensively with him. Harijiwan possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of yoga and meditation. His classes are funny, profound and poetic and offer students the opportunity to receive rarified instruction and enjoy vast change.

Hari Narayan Kaur

Hari Narayan moved to Los Angeles in 2003 to complete her Kundalini teacher’s training at Golden Bridge. She has been a part of the Golden Bridge family from her training until today and is delighted to be a part of this great blessing to this earth.

She primarily teaches Kundalini Yoga with Aromatherapy, classes that highlight her vast knowledge of the benefits, applications, and uses of essential oils. Hari Narayan loves creatively weaving the many benefits of essential oils with the clearing and balancing effects of Kundalini Yoga, helping her students feel of beautiful and radiant. She holds a healing intention for all, allowing the flow of the heavens to bring the light onto the earth.

She also gives healing facials and essential oil Raindrop treatments in the Amrit Davaa Wellness Center, located at Golden Bridge, and has created a line of customized organic serums and creams to heal the skin and soothe the mind.

Hari Parkash Kaur is a graduate of the Golden Bridge Teacher's Training Program and has been a long-time student of both Kundalini and Hatha yoga. She believes very strongly in the power of the mind to heal the body and brings that energy to all of her classes. She challenges students to use the ancient and powerful combination of asana, mantra, and meditation of Kundalini Yoga to walk through their own fears, release their worries and stress and come to a place of inner strength, joy and bliss!

Himat has studied hatha yoga for sixteen years and Kundalini yoga for nine. He encourages his students to develop greater body awareness to move through perceived blocks. His classes are focussed on strengthening the immune system and healing the mind and his gentle but challenging approach is suitable for all levels of study. Himat is honored and blessed to be a part of the Golden Bridge family since 2000.

Irina Brudno

Irina was born in a beautiful Ukrainian town, Poltava, where she learned how to play piano and dance tango, cha-cha, waltz and samba at an early age. Later, she became a Ballroom Dance Teacher and an Aerobics Instructor.

After her arrival in L.A. in 1992, Irina obtained her AFAA Certification and became “L.A. Fitness” Instructor of Yoga, Aqua Aerobics and Mat Pilates; Russian/Jewish Community Centers (West Hollywood and West Hills) Instructor of Stress Reduction Exercises for Women’s Groups.

2006-2007 brought great transformation in her life when she discovered a science of Kundalini Yoga and completed powerful Teacher’s Training at Golden Bridge in Hollywood. Now she utilizes Kundalini Yoga principles in her every day life, practice and teaching.

Irina’s Mat Pilates classes are an exciting new way to get in shape, tone your muscles with fun of using dance movements, stretching and resistance, to improve your strength, coordination, balance and flexibility, with emphasis on breathing and concentration and mind-body awareness.

Jai Gopal is an IKYTA Certified Kundalini Yoga instructor. As a West Point graduate and Army Officer, Jai Gopal was trained in all aspects of general physical fitness as well as organized team sports and various martial arts. After a mountain biking injury, unable to do resistance training or run long distances, Jai Gopal found yoga as a fitness alternative. Having practiced many of the different schools of yoga, over the last several years, he has come to love and teach Kundalini Yoga with a passion.

When Jamila began practicing Kundalini yoga it transformed her life. This ancient science has completely shifted how she deals with stress, leaving her much happier and more effective in her other life as an accessories designer and entrepreneur. Jamila discovered Golden Bridge and thus Kundalini in April 2006 through a dear friend who encouraged her go. Once she got a taste of the transformational technology and Grace of Kundalini yoga, she jumped right into learning and experiencing as much as possible. In addition to completing the in-depth Level 1 Teacher Training course at Golden Bridge, Jamila has dived into the Level 2 journey, which began with the (amazing) Mind and Meditation intensive course at Golde Bridge in May 2007. Join Jamila in bi-weekly yoga classes and "clear your arteries of perception" with her heartfelt work out.

Jean-Paul appreciates the opportunity to join the Golden Bridge teaching staff. He began his Kundalini yoga practice in 1993 with Dr. Gurudev Neil. He graduated from KRI Level One Teacher's Training at Golden Bridge in September 2000 and most recently completed the Level Two Mind and Meditation Course in May 2007.

His yoga practice has been the catalyst for his success as a creative entrepreneur as the principal visionary at White Gate Design Studio for the past ten years.

Kate Duyn began dancing at the age of nine and graduated with a B.A. in Dance and Film from Mills College in 1998. In 2000, she traveled the world and settled down in Manhattan to pursue dancing. While in NYC she fell in love with Kundalini Yoga. She received her Hatha/Vinyasa teacher's certification at Laughing Lotus Yoga Center. For the next four years Kate taught Vinyasa Yoga all over Manhattan and Brooklyn. In the fall of 2007, Kate moved to San Francisco to assist in the opening of the Laughing Lotus sister center there, and served as a mentor and instructor of Pre-Natal Yoga for the Teacher Training Program. Her classes are known for their eclectic and inspiring soundtracks, creative sequencing, wild and free flow, and acro-athleticism. Within her practice, Kate is interested in going deep, but staying open, and maintains that a good sense of humor is a key component to healing. She is extremely grateful for the warm welcome from the Golden Bridge family and the opportunity to learn from such wise and gifted teachers.

Krysta Close began her study of yoga as a young child with her grandmother, a certified Hatha yogini and a lay Catholic nun. Her first experience with Jivamukti yoga was with Michele Baker (Vani Devi) in Costa Rica, and she was drawn in by the style's focus on spirituality, yogic philosophy, and the use of sound. After this enlightening experience, she studied with the founders of Jivamukti, David Life (Deva Das) and Sharon Gannon (Tripura Sundari), whenever possible, while pursuing various artistic avenues as a professional classical singer at home in Los Angeles. It was her work with underprivileged middle-schoolers in an after school arts program that cemented her commitment to teach yoga. While sharing a yoga lesson with several students and artists in the program, she became deeply aware of the transformational power of yoga and her calling to spread its teachings.

Libby Lydecker (Dya)

Libby Lydecker (Dya) is an IKYTA certified instructor who has studied Kundalini yoga with Gurmukh for over 11 years.

Originally from the East Coast, Dya has found her home in Los Angeles. She is an actress, a wife and a mother of two children.

Dya has found becoming a mother to be the most profound, challenging and beautiful experience of her life. She finds Kundalini yoga to be an integral tool for remaining grounded and graceful through the journey of motherhood and an incredible opportunity for finding peace and joy amidst the chaos of life.

Dya believes the technology of Kundalini yoga is a gift for the healing of the planet and for finding harmony within our human experience. She is deeply honored and blessed to share this ancient wisdom with all students.

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi

Akal began practicing Kundalini Yoga in 2002. She became certified to teach Kundalini Yoga and Khalsa Way Pregnancy Yoga in 2005. She teaches Mommy and Me Yoga, Pregnancy Yoga and Kundalini Yoga.

She is also a Registered Nurse at Cedar's Sinai on the Postnatal Unit and teaches the Childbirth Education classes here at Golden Bridge. She brings humor, warmth and compassion to her classes.

Megan Hughes

Megan grew up in Hawaii, where she developed an appreciation of yoga and eastern philosophy. Later, she moved to New York and studied modern dance and choreography at Sarah Lawrence College and the Martha Graham Academy. Megan is a veteran of the theatre and alumnus of The Neighborhood Playhouse. She has performed in Off-Broadway Plays, television and film.

While pursuing her career in the Arts, Megan studied the therapeutic principles found in movement through traditional pilates training. She also began to practice Kundalini yoga, taught by the master Yogi Bahjan. Upon moving to L.A. in the early ‘90s, Megan began to teach yoga.

Megan has been Head of Development and Chief Coordinator for “Yoga For Youth,” a nationwide, non-profit organization that brings yoga to incarcerated and at-risk youth. She is also certified by The Golden Bridge in Ancient Formulas for Addictive Behavior and has on-going workshops in this area. Megan has brought this technology to people internationally, including major cities in Russia, Italy, England and throughout the U.S. She has taught at treatment facilities such as The Marshack Clinic in Malibu, consulted privately at Wonderland and gives seva at the “Friendly House” sober living facility for women.

Megan feels blessed to witness remarkable demonstrations of resilience and awakening on a daily basis and treasures the gift of compassion. Her classes are always fun and often challenging. Megan is a dynamic and intelligent teacher who offers personal transformation and a healthy dose of laughter. She believes in miracles. "The only language God knows is the one that speaks from the heart." Yogi Bahjan

Mesha Kussman

Mesha Kussman teaches Hatha Flow and Restorative Yoga. With a background in dance, she infuses her classes with a deep sense of rhythm, moving gracefully and powerfully through a natural and intelligent sequence of postures. Mesha understands yoga as a movement meditation and encourages her students to focus on the breath in order to dive deeply into the flow of the present moment. She trained with Shiva Rea, Max Strom, Saul David Raye and Aaron Reed and assisted Max and Aaron at Exhale Center for Sacred Movement in Venice. Mesha hopes to provide a safe and sacred space in the classroom where her students can explore the internal landscape of the body, mind and spirit. Her goal is to help her students find peace within and share that wholeness of spirit with the outside world.

Holistic Fitness and Wellness Practitioner and Lifestyle Coach. Monique uses her holistic approach to treat the whole person, Mind Body Spirit Fitness, her business name. With her infectious spirit, passion for wholeness and zest for life, she has been literally transforming peoples "states of mind", since 1989.

Monique is a certified Personal Fitness Trainer, Pilates Instructor, Holistic Health Counselor, Lifestyle Coach, Nutritional Consultant and has now completed training in The Khalsa Way Pre-natal Yoga Teacher Training, taught by Gurmukh and Davi Kaur at Golden Bridge.

Monique began her study of yoga and meditation as a young child with both her mother and father. She has since continued to share her joy of yoga and deep awareness by teaching worldwide on private yachts, her private clientele and volunteering for inner city students through Yoga on the Inside Foundation. She’s an avid practitioner of Iyengar and Hatha Yoga.

Monique blends strength training, martial arts, healing arts, and dance arts to create a high-powered, synergistic workout that she calls fusion training. Combining mental, spiritual and physical exercises reflect her core beliefs: “To Get the Body You Want, You Must Simply Love the Body You're In”, which is the title of her bi-weekly health & beauty column that appears on the web www.beverlyhillspeople.com. In addition Monique has just filmed her 1^st prenatal yoga video (while 8 1/2 months pregnant) , due for release next year.

Monique enjoys helping others improve their lives by assisting them in truly exploring their heart on all levels-physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Its what she finds the most inspiring and rewarding.

Natalia/Nirbhoa Kaur was born in St.Petersburg, Russia and lived in Los Angeles for the last 15 years. She completed Kundalini Yoga teachers training with Gurmukh in 2002 and Khalsa Way Prenatal Kundalini yoga teachers training with Gurmukh and Davi Kaur in 2006. She is also an avid learner of Sat Nam Rasayan and a practitioner and teacher of ancient Russian healing techniques. Natalia teaches relaxing, centering and joyous Kundalini yoga meditation classes that are ideal for healing anything in your life as well opening each individuals unique creative abilities.

Navjot Wyle

A Los Angeles native, Navjot began a Hatha practice at 15 before joining the Golden Bridge family in 2004. IKYTA certified in both Kundalini yoga and The Khalsa Way prenatal training, Navjot has had the blessing to study with many senior yoga teachers and healers. Using the ancient science of Kundalini yoga, mantra & meditation, Navjot encourages students to discover the power of the meditative mind to create a more harmonious lifestyle and planet.

Nina Phelan

Nina is blessed to share the ancient wisdom of yoga with her students. Her classes are intuitive, heart opening, uplifting and challenging. She encourages students to re-discover the power within by connecting to their breath, body, mind and soul.

She is particularly honored to teach Pre Natal Yoga. The legacy of motherhood is an ancient initiation; a time to remember the power of one’s maternal lineage and trust in the Feminine Wisdom.

Nina is an ITKYA trained Kundalini Yoga Teacher, and a certified Khalsa Way Prenatal Instructor. She is trained in the Radiant Child Program, Mommy & Me Yoga, and is certified through Yoga for Youth. She is a Reiki/Energy Healer.
Her work is inspired by Earth Medicine and evoking Ancient Wisdom; anchoring into the expansion of The Feminine Energetic. Nina has traveled throughout the world doing ceremonial work in such sacred places as The Ancient Goddess Temples of Malta, the Temples of Macchu Picchu and throughout Peru, and also sacred energy work with dolphins in Hawaii.

~Remember who you are.~

Padmini feels truly blessed to help others in their discovery of Yoga, so started her work with immigrant children in the Los Angeles Unified District Continuing education program/ CBET teaching yoga to immigrant children 3-12 in 2005.

Her classes emphasize equally the body, breathe and mind to initiate an opening of the heart to practice asana as meditation and healing so we can become the finest vision of a human we can imagine. She teaches Yoga to immigrant inner city children as her Seva. A 20 Year veteran in the film and television industry, Padmini works as a documentarian and Producer/director for commercial and reality projects. She has been practicing and studying yoga for over ten years, and has been teaching for over 3 years in New York and California. She trained in India, and is a Certified Sivananda Vedanta Hatha Yoga Instructor. She completed training in The Khalsa Way Pregnancy/Pre-Natal Yoga as taught by Gurmukh and Davi Kaur and inspired by Yogi Bhajan.

She is an avid practitioner of Both Raja/Ashtanga Yoga (the eight fold path) including Hatha and kundalini yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Padmini has continued study in Structural Yoga Therapy with Mukunda Stiles. She has completed several certifications In the Wise Earth School of Ayurveda and Nutrition with Mother Mayatitananda. She has also completed the Y.O.G.A for youth certification program with Krishna Kaur and the Kundalini Teacher's Training Program at Golden Bridge.

Petula is a certified teacher in both Hatha yoga and the art of Budokon. She received her Hatha vinyasa teacher training with Ganga White and Tracey Rich at the White Lotus Foundation and she continues her studies in Tantra under the guidance of Everett Newell. Her Budokon teacher training was conducted under the guidance of Sensei Nathan Mills and she continues to practice with him as well as with Budokon creator, Kancho Cameron Shayne.

Petula brings her love and enthusiasm for yoga and Budokon to her teaching. She leads strong, invigorating classes that simultaneously cultivate strength, stamina, and flexibility. In her classes, she encourages students to approach their mats as safe spaces where they can experience the pleasure and joy of their physical practices as well as investigate the sources of discomfort, unease, and fears in their lives. She challenges her students to find their personal edges and, in the process, expand their worlds and transform their lives.

Ram Kirin

Ram Kirin has been loving this Kundalini journey from day 1. He feels blessed to have done his IKTYA teachers training at Golden Bridge under the guidance of such dedicated senior teachers.

His classes can be both energetic and deeply meditative. “I like to send my students away with more confidence, self love, determination, and deeper awareness of the self on all levels. So they can become more efficient in whatever they’re doing in their external lives.”

"It is the birthright of every human being to be Healthy, Happy and Holy"…Yogi Bhajan

Rose Ghavami

Rose was first introduced to yoga by way of her father who quite literally stumbled into his first class many moons ago. It was through the changes in her father that her interest grew. Under the guidance of a radiant yoga instructor in her local gym, her personal journey began. Having studied Performance Art at the University of California, Irvine, Rose has always held an appreciation for movement and the use of the body for expression. When she began practicing yoga, she found a medium that not only supported her means for expression but it also touched her soul in a way she had never experienced before. It was this same teacher that planted the seed for Rose to entertain the idea of becoming a teacher. Having always fancied the idea herself, she decided to plunge headfirst into the world of yoga. It was through Yoga Works that her dream came true and she became certified completing a 500 hour Professional Program where she trained under well renown yogis such as Jeanne Heileman, Annie Carpenter, Lisa Walford, Carmen Fitzgibbon, Malachai Melville, and Birgitte Kristen.

Inspired by her brilliant mentor, Jeanne Heileman who comes from a Tantra Hatha Yoga perspective, Rose gained the knowledge and support she needed to begin teaching. She has taught in various studios and settings and privately since. In addition to being a member of the Golden Bridge family, she is currently teaching at Yoga Works in Westlake Village and also Heal and Soul in Encino. Her classes harness the fundamentals of yoga with a strong practice to support it. She likes to include several different elements into her classes to give her students a well rounded yogic experience. Some of these include but are not limited to, the expansive qualities of Pranayam, the quieting subtleties of Meditation, the emphasis of alignment ala Iyengar, the movement and momentum of Vinyasa Flow, a knowledge of Ayurveda, and the subtle body elements of Tantra. She hopes to provide the education and attention her students need in order to take their own personal journeys to the next level.

Sada Simran is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher through the Golden Bridge Teachers Training program. She is also a practioner of Sat Nam Rasayan.

After encountering the effects yoga and meditation had on our daughter’s developmental, physical and emotional well being, together with helping my family be balanced and happy, I became the most passionate about teaching this wonderful science to many other children and women. In the following years I studied to be certified as an International Kundalini Yoga teacher, Prenatal and Postnatal teacher, teacher of Yoga for Children and most recently finished a certification program of Yoga for the Children with Special Needs.

For the past 8 years I have been teaching Prenatal Kundalini yoga and am graced with an opportunity to teach yoga to our children in Charter Schools.

By incorporating the wisdom and inspiration of two homebirths and the practice of peaceful, respectful and empowering way of parenting, an environment is created where pregnant woman gather safely in an ancient circle of belonging. The classes are playfully graceful, and spiritual experiences of sharing the dance of life and birthing our higher selves, along side our children, into being.

My work is also with children with special needs. Teaching our children with special needs yoga and meditation and exposing them to the communities with “typical” children we are a step closer to removing the veil of an illusion of difference between us all.

My background is in Acting, Dance, Healing, Aromatherapy, Buddhism, Photography and Philosophy.

Sat Daya

Sat Daya has been a yogi for six years and a teacher for four. His classes focus on harnessing the warrior energy and strengthening the nervous and glandular systems.

When he is not trekking in the Andes or the Himalayas, Sat Daya is blessed to live in Los Angeles with his wife, Marne Moore (Akal).

Sat Puran Kaur has been part of Golden Bridge for over 6 years. She is currently the store buyer when she is not pursuing her full time career as a photographer. She enjoys teaching the Sunshine Yoga class and feels that the early morning class is a great way to start your day, to wake up and energize the body, clear out the mind and set a great intention for one's day with an open heart and strong body in a healthy way.

Sat Siri (Rachel) Dougherty

Sat Siri, an ex-Ballerina with the Australian Ballet has been practising Yoga and Meditation for fifteen years. She was blessed to complete her Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training under the guidance of Yogi Bhajan six years ago in New Mexico. It profoundly opened her heart.

Soon after, she opened the first Kundalini Yoga Studio in Sydney Australia in 2003, and has been teaching in Australia, and internationally ever since.
She travels to India every year, returning to the home of Yoga and to her other home at Parmarth Niketan in Rishikesh, finding a deeper ‘home’ inside of her own self, year after year.

Sat Siri’s classes are uplifting, challenging, and healing at a very deep level.
She believes it is everyone’s birthright to experience the peace, grace and blessings you discover within you with daily Yoga and Meditation.

Sussy Castilla

Sussy Castilla happened upon Kundalini Yoga by surprise at a summer festival and after doing a few simple movements in a set something shifted inside that changed her course in life. She knew this technology was different from any other form of yoga she had practiced before and so immersed herself in the teachings. She was trained at Golden Bridge Yoga Studio and is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. Born in Nicaragua and raised in Costa Rica she moved to the U.S. with her family in her early teens and considers herself just as much American as Latina. She loves teaching this sacred technology to other Spanish speakers and people who wouldn't normally have access to yoga, as well as anyone wanting to better their lives. Sussy brings strength, practicality, love and enthusiasm to every class she teaches. She loves sharing what she knows and allowing her students to experience their own transformation and healing.

(Sussy Castilla encontró Kundalini Yoga por sorpresa en un festival del verano y después de hacer unos movimientos simples en una secuencia de ejercicios algo turnó dentro de ella que cambió el rumbo de su vida. Ella supo que esta tecnología era diferente de cualquier otra forma de yoga que había practicado antes y se sumergió en las enseñanzas. Fue entrenada en el estudio Golden Bridge Yoga y es completamente bilingüe en Inglés y Español. Nació en Nicaragua y se crió en Costa Rica. Se mudó a los EE.UU. con su familia en su temprana adolescencia y se considera tanto Americana como Latina. Le encanta enseñar esta tecnología sagrada a otras personas que hablan Español y a personas que normalmente no tendrían acceso al yoga, así como a cualquiera que desee mejorar su vida. Sussy enseña sus clases con practicalidad, amor, fuerza y entusiasmo. Le encanta compartir lo que sabe y permite que sus estudiantes realizen su propia transformación y sanación.)

SuzE Q

SuzE Q began her Kundalini Yoga practice in the year 2000 at Golden Bridge Yoga. She immediately fell in love with the intense mind, body, spirit connection it awakened within her. Since then she has studied under the senior staff at Golden Bridge and completed Level 1 Teacher Training in 2007 for her KRI certification. Now crossing over from the entertainment industry where she serves as a professional dancer, choreographer and much more, SuzE Q brings her unique charisma, compassion and acute body awareness to Kundalini Yoga instruction.

Tanka's journey into yoga began in the 80s when she happened upon Priscilla Patrick's yoga program on PBS. Years later, she came to rely on her practice for balance and sanity while working in the chaotic political world of Washington, DC, where she began teaching in 2003. An insatiable student, Tanja is a self-described "yoga mutt," combining elements from Ashtanga, Anusara, and Integral yoga into her flow-based classes. Shea's studied with the yoga masters of our time David and Doug Swenson, John Friend, Shiva Rea, Rod Stryker, Rodney Yee, Ana Forrest, and Judith Lasater, to name a few and has been influenced by many less famous but equally inspiring teachers. Her favorite teaching moments are when new students discover yoga's profound, life-changing powers and more advanced students awaken to their own connection to the divine. An avid outdoorswoman, Tanja spends her free time doing things like rock climbing and mountaineering that sometimes keep her loved ones from sleeping soundly at night.

Tej has been a student of Yogi Bhajan for over 30 years. She is the Custodian of the Archives of the Teachings of Yogi Bhajan, and a recognized authority on the teachings. She has been involved in numerous Yogi Bhajan publications as transcriber, editor, and compiler including the Woman's Camp Series, "72 Stories of God, Good and Goods," and "The Master's Touch." She holds a Masters Degree in Counseling and for many years, worked on Yogi Bhajan's correspondence during which she received extensive training from him on yogic counseling. Her classes are occasions to enjoy deep meditative experiences and to learn vast amounts of yogic knowledge

After many years of dance, at age 19, Vanessa was faced with a near fatal car accident which lead her to the ancient practice of Yoga. Her recovery was so rapid, the doctors were amazed! Since, she has spent a number of years studying the Healing Arts, Meditation, Tibetan Buddhism and many different forms of Yoga: All of which influence her teaching style. She is eternally grateful to have studied with some of the worlds most esteemed teachers; Baba Hari Das of Mount Madonna, John Friend of Anusara, Geshe Michael Roach and Christie McNally of The Yoga Studies Institute, Sharon Gannon and David Life of Jivamukti, Eric Shiffman, Gurmukh and His Holiness The Dalai Lama . . . to name a few Vanessa feels truly blessed to help facilitate others in there discovery of Yoga and by doing so continue her learning. Her classes emphasize equanimity of body breathe and mind along with the traditions of Tibetan Heart Yoga, Asana as prayer. . .an opening of the heart. It's an honor to be apart of The Golden Bridge community.

Wahe Guru Kaur Khalsa

Wahe Khalsa brings a lifetime of experience and enthusiasm to her classes. Wahe spent 10 years in Northern India attending school and traveled extensively throughout the country. She is a veteran performer and choreographer and welcomes people of all abilities to come join the fun...