About Sat Shakti
At nineteen, a doctor told me I'd be in a wheelchair by 30 if I kept pushing. So I stopped dancing.
The injury had started at fourteen — a back problem that was repeatedly dismissed, misdiagnosed, passed between specialists until finally an MRI revealed permanent nerve damage. The advice was blunt: stop dancing, stop exercising, lie down when it hurts. For life.
I avoided the wheelchair. But I lost the thing I loved most.
For fifteen years I built a different life. Arts administration. A career I respected. A full enough existence. The back pain was manageable. But something essential was missing — a quiet depression I had learned to live around, a body I had learned not to trust.
Then in my mid-thirties I stumbled into a Kundalini yoga class at a gym in New York. I didn't know what it was. I wasn't looking for anything in particular.
I felt transformed. Immediately.
Somewhere along the way — I couldn't tell you exactly when — I realised I wasn't in pain any more. The spinal flexes, the breathwork, the movement had freed my lower back and rebuilt my core in ways nothing else had managed in twenty years. The depression that had quietly settled in began to lift.
Kundalini didn't just help me manage my injury. It reignited joy in my life.
I took teacher training in 2006. Purely for selfish reasons — I wanted to understand what was happening to me. Teaching was the last thing on my mind. But here we are.
I joined the teaching team in New York, then the teacher training team. In 2016 I began producing Kundalini events in London — more than a hundred events in two years, large and small. In 2018 JOY became a full studio: 54 weekly classes, workshops every weekend, teacher training, specialist events. Nothing quite like it had existed in the UK before, and hasn't since. Then Covid hit. We navigated the pandemic, moved online, and kept going. In 2023 the studio closed — but JOY didn't. Smaller now, more intimate, and led by me directly. The mission hasn't changed.
CREDENTIALS
KRI-Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher •Qualified in Levels 1, 2, and 3 Training • Aquarian Trainer Academy Member • Teacher Trainer • Sat Nam Rasayan Practitioner • SNR Level 1 certification by Guru Dev Singh • Founder of JOY, 2016
FROM STUDENTS & COLLEAGUES
What people say about Sat Shakti
“Sat Shakti Kaur has developed into one of the finest teachers that I have taught. She embodies all of the best qualities of a teacher of Kundalini Yoga and personifies these qualities in everything she does.”
“Her calm presence and steady nature, her patient explanation of questions and her embodiment of both power and ease are qualities which make her a wonderful instructor for beginners as well as experienced students.”
“Sat Shakti’s level of knowledge and dedication are immeasurable. She brings an integrity that inspires confidence. She is supportive, kind, attentive and a joy to be around.”
“She is one of the warmest teachers that I have ever encountered. Her caliber of knowing the teaching of Kundalini Yoga, modeling the teaching by living so gracefully — this makes her one of the finest teachers I’ve ever come across.”
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