Guru Shabad De Santis, the first Kundalini Yoga and Gatka teacher in Italy, has been training teachers in both disciplines for over 30 years. Yogi Bhajan invited him to become Baba Nihal Singh’s direct Gatka student, and then introduced him personally to the Sword Therapy. At that time, Yogi Bhajan asked Guru Shabad for two twin swords (now kept with the Sikh Dharma treasures), and told him: “One sword will be mine and one will be yours. Each time you will heal by the use of the sword, I will be there with you”.

I decided to be a Yoga teacher after my firs kundalini Yoga class, that i didn't like at all but at the same time i felt straight away that it was my path. At that time i use to be a flight attendant for Alitalia, in 2008 i stopped my work and started a Teacher Training in Rome. I started teaching as soon as i finished the training and from that moment I teach every day. In 2017 together with my dharmic sister Shiv Anter Kaur, I founded a yoga center in Rome Fiumicino and organized a TTL1 that as been a great experience. Thanks to the support of my teacher Shiv Charan Singh, i am continuing my path as a Trainer.

Gundula Avenali, aka Puran Sukh Kaur, has been dealing with natural sciences and spiritual teachings for 25 years. After completion of her university degree in Food Engineering and Biotechnology she was more than 10 years in business and politics. In 2004 she founded the internationally renowned WALDZELL INSTITUTE, which brought together personalities like His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Paulo Coelho, Isabel Allende, Frank Gehry, Christo and numerous Nobel Prize winners with decision-makers from business and politics. In 2013 Puran Sukh Kaur founded the Veda Yoga School in Switzerland, which she has been managing since then. In 2014 she established the Waldzel Leadership Institute with her husband Sadhana Singh Avenali, where she teaches Kundalini Yoga according to the teachings of Yogi Bhajan, and Integral Yoga according to the Swami Sivananda tradition. Puran Sukh is also a yoga therapist, having been formed in Kundalini Medicine by Guru Dharam Khalsa. Hers is the pro bono initiative “Architects of the Future”, a world-wide community of inspired young social entrepreneurs who seek to disseminate their deepest and most special concerns on the basis of successful ventures.

Ravijit is a student and a Karam Kriya and Kundalini Yoga consultant, mentor and L1 & L2 trainer. She loves nature, writing poems and living in Sangat. She studies with Shiv Charan Singh since 2008 and she is committed to the path of Sikh Dharma. Deeply transformed by Gurbani, she learned Gurmukhi and translated Japji Sahib, Anand Sahib and other shabds from the original text into italian and english, she teaches Gurmukhi to beginners who want to approach Shabd Gurud in a non-dogmatic, heartfelt way. She studied cultural anthropology in Bologna, where she obtained a first degree with a thesis in classical world religions and a second degree with a research on the contemporary transmission of oriental philosophies. In 2016, with her husband Luca she founded Nabhi – Centro della Terra, an Ashram in the beautiful nature of the italian Appennines, a place dedicated to the practice, the study and the promotion of disciplines of awareness and art, a space of conscious life style and dialogue between nature, human and spirit. Currently she is a Professional Trainer in the Academy.