Nathalie Paoli
Nathalie Paoli is the Founder/Director of Kundalini Yatras Inc. since 2009, where she leads meditative journeys to sacred lands. With more than 22 years of experience as a yoga teacher, she specializes in Kundalini and Classical Hatha Yoga, serving as a certified IAYT Yoga Therapist, Teacher Trainer, and Sound practitioner. Her emphasis on precise posture and deep breath-work are transformative tools for self-healing.
Nathalie’s retreats provide life-changing immersions in yoga and meditation practice. Her extensive global teachings have taken her to places such as India, where she has visited 18 times, as well as Egypt, Mexico, New Zealand, China, Tibet, South Africa, Paris, Denmark, Sweden and upstate New York. As a native New Yorker, she brings a rich tapestry of cultural experiences to her teachings. Participants in her retreats have the potential to receive cultural insights, conscious transmission and soul guidance from the heart of these magnificent ancient cultures.
Joseph Young Jr
Joseph is an Herbalist and New York licensed acupuncturist and massage therapist and a teacher of Anatomy & Physiology. He is also a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher with nearly a decade of experience. He holds a Master of Science in Traditional Oriental Medicine from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the Cooper Union.
Joseph has counseled others in in issues of health, relationships, career, and life choices for over a decade. He draws upon the wealth of Eastern/Chinese Medicine, Yoga, Meditation, in every session. As every person is unique, Joseph uses his experience and insight to tailor a personal roadmap to health and harmony for each individual.
Joseph has produced 3 musical albums to accompany yoga classes.
Kathy Latham BA/MS CYT C-IAYT
Program Administrator, Yoga Research, Supporting Teacher for KM 1-6, Mentor
Kathy Haridev Latham is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher & teacher trainer, yoga therapist and Sat Nam Rasayan practitioner based in Oslo. With an inclusive and joyful approach, she has taught yoga to a wide range of populations, including children, seniors, pregnant women and veterans. In addition to Kundalini Yoga, Haridev is certified in Relax and Renew Restorative Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, YOGA for Youth and in aromatherapy. Complementing her yoga therapy degree with Kundalini Medicine, she has foundational training in yoga therapy with Prema Yoga. Haridev has years of experience studying and teaching multiple folk and esoteric traditions. She holds a Bachelors in Sociology and a master’s degree in Applied Social Research, which includes training in both qualitative and quantitative methods of research.
Vivian Rosenthal
Vivian Rosenthal is a certified Breathwork facilitator and a Kundalini Yoga teacher. Over the last decade, Vivian’s dedication to alleviating mental health has led to her guiding over 10,000 people through therapeutic breathwork sessions.
Shw has been featured on the Today Show with Hoda, addressing how breathwork can be used to reduce anxiety and stress.
Additionally, Vivian is working alongside a group of scientists and researchers on a pilot study to show the efficacy of breathwork to treat PTSD, depression and anxiety in Veterans. Vivian is also working closely with the Biofield Research Group to help bring more awareness to the therapeutic benefits of breathwork as a healing energy modality that positively impacts the biofield.
She received her BA from Brown University and her Masters in Architecture from Columbia University. Her graduate thesis focused on how immersive spaces shape and affect our psychology, which later informed the creation of the Frequency Dome, an immersive set and setting which used animated sacred geometry inside of a womb-like space to create a safe and sacred container for collective healing.
Vivian maintains a private practice in NYC, CT and the Hamptons and has taught at Menla, Omega, Kripalu and Blue Spirit.
Melissa Wu
Melissa is a life long yogi, movement teacher, sound healer and a multidisciplinary artist in dance and digital media based in Brooklyn, NY. She infuses her research and studies as a professional dancer in movement, somatics, anatomy, psychology, reiki, biology and her own lived experience with eastern medicine as a Hong Kong native, into the systematic teachings of Kundalini Yoga. Inspired by her own journey recovering from drug addictions and domestic violence, Melissa aims to share practical tools to alchemize one’s life circumstance into its fullest creative expression.
Melissa presents herself alongside upcoming artists and healers in-person and online through her art collaborative WUWU. She services independent dance/music artists and art non-profits in NYC with social justice focus to find their voices in creative and art direction through her media company 828 Media.
Melissa is a K.R.I. certified Kundalini Yoga teacher and an active teacher since 2019. She completed her Level I training with Guru Dharam and Siri Sat in 2020, and began her Level II training series with Hari Kaur in 2023. She received Gong training in Las Vegas, Neveda with Mandeep Khalsa and Dr. Gurucharan Singh Khalsa. She is a Vinyasa and Hatha yogi since 2010 and holds a B.A. in Dance, with focuses in Kinesiology, Psychology, Biology, Choreography, Sociology and Dance on Camera aside from her extensive movement training in Ballet, Horton and Release Technique.
Guru Dharam
Guru Dharam has taught Kundalini yoga since 1979. He founded the Lotus Healing Centre, a multidisciplinary holistic facility, in London in 1989 and served as the Vice Principal of the London Academy of Oriental Medicine until 1997.
His formal qualifications have been complemented by intensive postgraduate interdisciplinary study of the esoteric; Kabbalah, MesoAmerican Shamanic Dreaming, West African healing practice and many years study of the Mastery Path, White Lotus healing, Black Hat Feng Shui and the Red Thread empowerments. Since 1980 Guru Dharam has developed a practical system of Yogic Therapy, applying the science of Kundalini, mantra and visualization, helping to empower many thousands of people toward a healthier and happier life.
Guru Dharam has developed the Sacred Yoga Therapy Training as a safe, effective and therapeutic complement to the mechanics of western medical practice. Guru Dharam is recognized as a highly experienced Teacher and Teacher Trainer often referred to as “the Teacher’s Teacher” Find out more at www.kundalinimedicine.com
GUEST TEACHERS ON INDIAN CULTURE & HERITAGE
The Wahe Guru Family
Also known as the Baba Fateh Singh Khalsa Jatha, are a group of highly accomplished musicians based in Amritsar, India. They are well-versed in Classical Indian Music, Classical Folk Music, and Sufi Qawwali, and Gurbani Kirtan as well as other traditional forms of music. The group has toured all over India, and internationally playing at festivals, our yoga retreats and teacher trainings. They have won numerous awards, including first place in zonal and inter zonal folk song at the GNDU Youth Festivals from 2014-2017 and a silver medal in the National Youth Festival held at Raipur, Chhattisgarh in 2015. The group also has had a 3-month residency playing and teaching at the Khalsa Diwan Sikh Temple Hong Kong in 2018 as well as currently in 2024. All members of the group are also music teachers with Masters degrees in music.
“Shuniya |shoo-nee- yuh| means ‘zero’, ‘nothing’, and describes a state of awareness in which the mind is brought to complete stillness, perfect harmony, neutrality, peaceful calm. It is a state of emptiness, where no positive or negative is assigned to things: there is no good or bad, there is no trying, no searching, no desire, no wanting. There is nothing. From the state of ‘shuniya’ things can simply unfold, without you having to ‘try’ or ‘do’ anything. You just create the required empty space and then watch how things happen and unfold.”
