RCYP Trainers
Every few years, Shakta trains a small, select group of facilitators of the Radiant Child Yoga program. Listed here are the certified group of trainers who are ready and able to provide Radiant Child Yoga level 1-2 trainings around the world.
Lisa Brodrick
U.S.
Lisa Brodrick is an RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance, Radiant Child Yoga Facilitator and a New Jersey State licensed school teacher with a Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology. She believes that each day is an opportunity to play and celebrate the joy of life! An educator since the year 2000, she has experience working with special needs students, at-risk youths and dual language learners. Having been raised between the US and Argentina, Lisa is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Lisa completed her 200 hour certification with Yoga Programs of Sonoma, CA, and completed the 500 hour Life of a Yogi Program at Dharma Yoga Center in New York City, with Sri Dharma where she experienced the true humble, loving essence of yoga that continues to flourish in her spirit and heart.
In 2005, she began her path with the Radiant Child Yoga Program with Shakta Kaur Khalsa. She experienced yoga through the eyes of a child with Shakta’s masterful and energetic approach. The very next work day after the first training weekend she found a transformation within herself and the at-risk youth with whom she worked at the time. Kundalini yoga suits the energetic needs of children, and Shakta’s radiant spirit and life’s work through Radiant Child is a conduit joyfully bridging body, mind and soul. In 2009, guided by her experience, education, and sincere love of children, Lisa became a facilitator for the Radiant Child Yoga Program. Her sole aim is to creatively inspire and empower all students regardless of age. She believes that each day is an opportunity to play and celebrate the joy of life, and together we can create a world “which is playful, full of laughter, where even the great masters behave like children.”* *Osho
Lisa currently lives in Asbury Park, NJ, with her puppy, Oreo, where she teaches yoga classes from infant to adult (even in Spanish!). She is available to bring the Radiant Child Yoga Program anywhere in the US and Internationally. She can be contacted via email at: lbrodrick108@gmail.com Website: www.omholisticyoga.com.
BB “Shabdpreet” Kaur
U.S.
Shabdpreet Kaur is a Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher IKYTA, RYT 200 hours. She completed her Kundalini Teacher Training with Deva Kaur Khalsa in South Florida. Shabdpreet Kaur is a certified facilitator of the Radiant Child Yoga Program® and trained directly with founder Shakta Kaur Khalsa. Shabdpreet Kaur is available to lead teacher trainings nationwide and internationally, available upon request. Shabdpreet Kaur teaches children’s and adults yoga classes in South Florida where she lives with her husband and son. Shabdpreet Kaur is bi-lingual and speaks English and Spanish.
Her passion for yoga serves as her inspiration to teach others the powerful technology of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Yoga has been such a blessing in her life that her personal practice has inspired her to share the love of yoga with children and adults. “Yoga Sprouting” is a program developed by Shabdpreet Kaur to spread awareness and consciousness “The Seed to Enlightment”. The program empowers children and adults teaching the gift of breath and connecting with their body, mind and spirit. “There is a way through every block, happiness is your birthright “ - Yogi Bhajan for more information please visit www.yogasprouting.com, e-mail info@yogasprouting.com, or call Toll Free at (877) 264-8171 x1001.
Fezia Tyebally
Asia and Australia
Fezia Tyebally has a passion for yoga! She is a Radiant Child Yoga ® Facilitator, certified to teach levels 1 and 2, a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, a licensed practitioner in Yoga for the Special Child™, and is a certified Yoga therapist at the 500 level. Fezia has lectured extensively in Southeast Asia on programmes for children with special needs. She currently teaches a module that she has created for adapting children’s yoga for the differently-abled child; ranging from Cerebral Palsy to Autism.
As a therapist, Fezia'’s yoga sessions naturally lean towards the therapeutic benefits, but her playful nature ensures classes are fun and lighthearted. With a home base of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, she is available to teach Radiant Child Yoga in Asia, Australia, and other parts of the world as well.
In addition to these very specialised therapy skills, Fezia is a trained CranioSacral therapist who completed her Advanced level and Pediatric level training with the Upledger Institute. She has also completed a two-year diploma course in Biodynamic CranioSacral Therapy.
To contact Fezia, please e-mail: fezia@tm.net.my
Sue Ducros
Canada
Sue lives in Ottawa, Canada with her 3 children Timmy, Jamey and Anna.
She has a B.Sc. and M.B.A. diploma in Early Childhood Education, and is trained in Hatha and Kundalini yoga (400 hours) and has worked with developmentally disabled adults.
Sue is willing to travel to facilitate the RCYP workshops. She works in Community Relations for lululemon athletica. Currently Sue is teaching babies and moms yoga and children's yoga. She can be contacted at sueducros@rogers.com.
Cristin Tighe (Simran Kaur)
Europe and U.S.
Cristin, MEM, MA, PCD(DONA), RYT is the former owner of Spiral Flight, DC’s oldest yoga and healing arts center. She is certified to teach Kundalini Yoga through the Kundalini Research Institute’s International Teacher Training program, and has advanced training in Conscious Pregnancy© Yoga and Level 2: Transformation. She is also an Advanced Relax & Renew (Restorative Yoga) Trainer® and a Yoga4Teens trainer. In addition to RCYP, she is certified to teach children's yoga through ChildPlay Yoga, Itsy Bitsy Yoga™ (Babies, Tots & Tykes), Next Generation Yoga®, Samarya Center for Integrated Movement Therapy™, Yoga4Teens™, Yoga Ed™.(K-8 & Tools for Teachers), Y.O.G.A. for Youth®, and Yoga for the Special Child.
Cristin has been around children most of her life and has taught yoga to kids of all ages since 2003. Her extensive experience with children includes being a mother, working with underprivileged children, and teaching sixth graders during intensive week-long environmental programs at outdoor schools in the U.S. She is a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher and an International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association member.
She teaches regular RCYP courses in DC, FL and Brussels, Belgium and is available to lead RCYP trainings internationally, particularly in Europe. Please reach her at cristin@kidsandyoga.com, and see Kids and Yoga! (www.kidsandyoga.com) and Yoga Simran (www.yogasimran.com) to learn more!
Amy Pfaelzer
U.S.
Amy Pfaelzer has been practicing yoga since 1995. Amy’s journey toward teaching children’s and Kundalini yoga began with the birth her own baby. Amy practiced pre-natal yoga throughout her pregnancy and then she and her new baby Grace attended a beautiful Mommy and Baby post-natal yoga class. When Grace was too old for Mommy and Me class, they began to attend a Mom and Tot yoga class for the next two years. Amy was inspired to see how thoroughly the little ones loved exploring yoga. As a former elementary school teacher, Amy knew she wanted to continue to work with children and combining her love for yoga with her commitment to children’s well-being would be a perfect match. Amy believes that sharing yoga with children when they are young gives them the foundation for a lifelong path to health, happiness and peace.
Amy is a registered yoga teacher through Yoga Alliance, a certified Kundalini yoga teacher though the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association and holds a Master’s Degree in Education. Amy currently teaches Children’s Yoga, Parent and Tot Story-time Yoga, Teen and Adult Yoga classes in Clearwater, FL where she lives with her husband and two beautiful little girls (who also love to do yoga!) Amy is available to lead teacher trainings nationwide and internationally. For more information please visit her website, www.littleonesyoga.com.
Amanda Reid
New Zealand
Amanda Reid discovered the joy and immense benefits of Yoga in 1992 and has
been teaching since 2000. She has teaching qualifications in Integral,
Satyananda and Kundalini Yoga, Basic Certification and Advanced Levels 1 and 2
of Yoga for the Special Child programme, and Radiant Child Yoga (RCYP1-3 and
international facilitator training). Amanda is an E-RYT200 Yoga Alliance
teacher and member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She
is also a Certified Infant Massage Instructor, massage therapist and
naturopath, utilising complementary therapies, body therapies and Yoga to
support infants and children with special needs, pregnant women in conscious
birthing and parenting, and adults with chronic health conditions. Amanda
teaches RCYP workshops in New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, and South East Asia
(including Hong Kong, Malaysia and Vietnam), leads Yoga and Ayurveda retreats,
and facilitates a RYT200 teacher training program in New Zealand, Australia and
the UK specialising in Yoga from pregnancy to teens.
Contact details
E-mail: info@samadhi.co.nz
Phone: 64 6 362 6142
Website: www.samadhi.co.nz
Siri Mukta Kaur
Australia
Siri Mukta Kaur's yoga practice is with
children and their families. With a passion she assists to open the
hearts and minds of children, inspiring them to search deeper, seek
further and explore their own inner gifts.
After the birth of Oliver, her first child, in 1998, Siri Mukta sought a more natural, holistic and enjoyable way of combining parenting and work. Siri Mukta felt a deep need for programs to equip children to enjoy life through a strong sense of self and purpose, non-competitive exercise and skills to calm and encourage their natural radiance. With this inner strength children have the ability to adapt to and initiate positive change and to confidently create their lives and community. In 2003 and 2006 Siri Mukta sponsored Shakta Kaur Khalsa to teach in Australia. Shakta provided skills, inspiration and qualifications to Australians passionate to pass the gift of yoga to our children. Siri Mukta completed the Radiant Child Yoga Program Levels (1-3) five times and the RCYP Facilitator Program with Shakta and is an international RCYP facilitator. She received her Kundalini Yoga teacher training with Guru Jivan Kaur (KRI approved - KYTANZ member). With Sonia Sumar she completed Yoga for the Special Child Level 1 training.
As a yoga practitioner for over 14 years, Siri Mukta continues to inspire others with yoga. With her many have and will learn to teach new generations of children how to know their inner selves and live in peace, love and authenticity: to be. Siri Mukta is the Founder and Director of Yogibee. She is the mother of Oliver, Saskia and Akira and together with her husband practices conscious parenting. She offers RCYP Teacher Training internationally as well as children's yoga classes in Australian schools, yoga studios, community centres, after-school facilities, childcare centres and playgroups. She also teaches Kundalini yoga to adults and offers Yoga for the Special Child as taught by Sonia Sumar.
E-mail: mychel@yogibee.com.au Website: www.yogibee.com.au Telephone: (02) 4323 3366
Har Simrat Kaur/ Briellen (Brie) Kalamir
Australia
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Har Simrat/ Brie is the director of Spirit Rising Yoga in Brisbane, Australia. She has been practicing yoga for 10 years, and began yoga teaching in 2003 after taking Shakta's RCYP training; since then she has gone on to complete yoga teacher training's in Australia and the USA in Kundalini Yoga (Masters Touch in New Mexico) and hatha yoga, as well as intensive training with Shakta for the Radiant Child Yoga Program.
Har Simrat is a dedicated and passionate yogini, who loves to share her knowledge and experience of yoga, to enable others to experience its many joys and benefits - whether young, old or in between. Awakening in others the skills to teach and share yoga is and essential part of her path, and one that allows her to bring together her international training and experiences in early childhood learning, design, and yoga.
In addition to her work sharing the Radiant Child Yoga Program, Har Simrat also teaches regular classes for adults and children in her Brisbane studio, in Kundalini and children's yoga. She is currently commencing Level 2 Kundalini yoga teacher training and embarking on her training under Gurudass Singh to become a certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainer.
Based in Brisbane, Har Simrat trains and teaches throughout Australia, and is able to travel internationally. She can be contacted on info@spiritrisingyoga.com.au, or by calling 0422 963 207. Details of upcoming courses, workshops and regular classes are available at www.spiritrisingyoga.com.au.
Penny McAlpine (Sat Shabad)
Australia
Penny McAlpine (Sat Shabad) began her yoga journey whilst pregnant, and continued after the birth of her beautiful daughter in early 2001. She attended Shakta’s inaugural Australian RCYP Training in Sydney 2003, experiencing Kundalini Yoga for the first time with an overwhelming sense of coming home.
Since then, Penny has completed RCYP Level 1-3, attended an intensive RCYP Teacher Training Program and been certified to teach RCYP Level 1. In January 2007 she also completed the Level 1 Basic Course in Yoga for the Special Child™ with Sonia Sumar.
Penny has been teaching children’s yoga in the Newcastle Region for 5 years: with play groups, in preschools and primary schools, as an after school activity and at festivals in Newcastle.
In January 2006 Penny began teaching Kundalini Yoga and Meditation™. As well as weekly adult and children’s classes, she also runs workshops and weekend retreats in the Newcastle, Hunter and Port Stephens Regions.
Penny’s passion for yoga comes across in all her classes, as does her enthusiasm for children’s yoga. For Penny, yoga is a tool for life - a healthy, happy, whole life for each and every individual.
Email: sat.shabad@aapt.net.au
Alima Clarke
Australia
Alima Clarke is the Director and founder of Children’s Yoga
Australia. She is a qualified teacher with over 20 years experience
working with children and families. Within yoga, Alima holds
qualifications as a Radiant Child Yoga Program teacher trainer, an
IKYTA certified Kundalini Yoga instructor, a Yoga for the Special Child
Level 1 therapist and a Radiant Child Yoga Program Teacher (Levels 1,2
and 3). Alima draws on a wealth of valuable experience gained from her
teaching within Montessori Education, Steiner Education, Special Needs
Education and children’s yoga classes.
Alima offers R.C.Y.P. teacher training throughout Australia and is also available for overseas teacher training sponsorship. Alima works privately in the Blue Mountains offering yoga and yoga therapy services.
Blue Mountains and surrounding regions
Alima Clarke RCYP 3, RCYP Teacher Trainer.
contact:
www.childrensyogaaustralia.com.au
email: namaste@pnc.com.au
Guru Hans Kaur
Mexico
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Hans Kaur was a professional dancer for 11 years. She has been teaching
ballet and jazz dance to children since she was 17. Her love for the movement
of the human body gave her the opportunity to get close to Kundalini Yoga,
finding in this discipline a completely new way of life. She has been
practicing Kundalini Yoga for 20 years and became a KRI certifiedyoga
teacher in 1999.
Now she would like to share this beautiful discipline
with people who have a spanish language background.
She lives in México
City and is willing to give courses outside Mexico.
If you want to sponsor
a course you can contact her at guruhans@cablevision.net.mx.
Her website is www.yogaparaninos.com
Yolanda Oliver Yancey
U.S.
Yolanda holds a BS in Special Education and currently works as a
Disabilities/Mental Health Coordinator in Annapolis, Maryland.
She is a
mother and true advocate for children with special needs. She is
experienced in play therapy, yoga for young children, and is in the
final stages of publishing 12 coloring books geared towards educating
children and their families on Health and Mental Wellness.
Yolanda can be contacted at oliveryolanda@hotmail.com
