Meditation class at Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa - Rishikesh

Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa teaches 'Appreciation - the highest meditation of the Aquarian Age' during the annual International Yoga Festival which was organized by Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India.

Gurmukh is the Director of Golden Bridge Yoga. With centers in Santa Monica and New York City, Golden Bridge is the premier center for the study and practice of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation as taught by Yogi Bhajan.

Since being baptized 45 years ago with the spiritual name that means “one who helps people across the world ocean,” Gurmukh has dedicated her life to fulfilling her namesake. As the world’s leading Kundalini Yoga teacher, she and her husband Gurushabd travel worldwide, bringing this vast Technology and Teachers’ Training Programs to students globally in the U.S.A., Mexico, Europe, Russia, India, and South Africa.

She is as well the creator and pioneer of The Khalsa Way Prenatal Teachers’ Training Program, now in its 32nd year. Her daughter Wahe Guru Kaur, 31, works alongside her parents in fulfilling this Mission.

Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India organizes the annual International Yoga Festival.

The International Yoga Festival was originally a creation of Uttar Pradesh Tourism, in the days when Rishikesh was still part of Uttar Pradesh. Held at Hotel Ganga Kinare in the first week of February, the Festival ran for many years and attracted a small number of participants. In 1999, the Government of Uttar Pradesh approached Parmarth Niketan Ashram to host the Festival at the ashram. Participants were still staying at the hotels, but their classes and programs were held at Parmarth. Pujya Swami Veda Bharatiji gave inspiring discourse and led mediations. Yogasanas were taught by Yogacharya Bharat Bhushanji and his team. The Uttar Pradesh Tourism Department was led by Shri Ravindra Singh, Director General Tourism, Shri B.M. Vohra, Commissioner, Garhwal and Shri R.C. Pandey, Assistant Director, Tourism. What began with a handful of people in a