Kundalini Yoga: The Architecture of Awareness:  From Lineage to Experience

This masterclass offers a structured and experiential introduction to Kundalini Yoga as a science of human consciousness, one that bridges lineage, methodology, and experience.

The session opens with an articulation of the historical and methodological foundations of the practice, as brought to the West by Yogi Bhajan. It situates Kundalini Yoga within the wider landscape of yogic and North Indian spiritual traditions, while clarifying how the practice has been organized into a coherent and teachable form that continues to be shared globally today.

Kundalini Yoga is presented as a technology that works through the integration of posture, breath, sound, and focused awareness to influence the nervous system, glandular system, and overall mental-emotional state.

Participants are guided through the essential components that give the practice its structure and precision:

• Kriya as a precise sequence of actions designed to produce a specific effect
• Pranayama as a means to regulate energy and stabilize the mind
• Mantra as the use of sound current to refine attention and internal rhythm
• Mudra, drishti, and timing as elements that create coherence within the system

The emphasis remains on understanding Kundalini Yoga as a complete and systematic discipline, where each component has a function and contributes to a measurable internal shift. At the same time, the session maintains a clear orientation toward direct experience, allowing understanding to be grounded in what is observed.

The second part of the masterclass moves into a guided practice. Through a carefully held kriya, participants engage directly with the structure of the teachings. The experience offers an immediate recognition of how repetition, breath, and sustained attention influence the body and mind. The practice is intended to become a process of observing internal response, building capacity, and stabilizing awareness.

Designed within the context of teacher training, this masterclass supports participants in developing both clarity and discernment. It creates a bridge between understanding the methodology and embodying it, while highlighting the responsibility of the teacher to hold the integrity of the practice and remain responsive to the human experience within it.

About the Facilitator

Nancy Zabaneh, also known as Hari Darshan Kaur, a senior Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainer with the Kundalini Research Institute and the founder of Darshan, a platform through which she has trained and mentored generations of teachers across the Arab region and internationally. Her work reflects a living continuity of teaching; one that extends beyond technique into the cultivation of presence, responsibility, and clarity in those who guide others.

Her yogic studies have taken her across the world; from India to Europe, to the Far East and North America - shaping a perspective that is both rooted in tradition and responsive to diverse cultural contexts.

Her formation has been guided through study and mentorship with leading teachers in the field, including Shiv Charan Singh, founder of the Karam Kriya School, and Sat Dharam Kaur, founder of the Saibhang Institute and the Beyond Addiction and Sutradhar programs. Her approach, integrates numerology, therapeutic application, and the broader psycho-spiritual dimensions of the practice.

Nancy is also a Compassionate Inquiry® Practitioner and Educator, and serves as the Arab Country Coordinator for the approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté. Her work supports individuals, leaders, and organizations in understanding the patterns that shape behavior, perception, and connection, particularly in times of pressure and change.

Her teaching is grounded, precise, and experiential. She creates spaces where structure supports meaning, and where practice becomes a way of accessing greater awareness and a more conscious relationship to self and others.