Do you really need a certificate for your soul?”
This was once said to me by a friend to whom I confided many doubts about whether I was ready to run courses, workshops and teach anything to other people.
I have a lot of respect for that, because here we put our dreams, our very self, on the line. Our mental health, everything depends on it. It's not a photoshop course or a cash register course. It's a course on how to use yourself.
The Kundalini Research Institute certificate confirms certain standards of a Kundalini yoga teacher. Anyone can complete such a course and everyone becomes a different teacher. However, we all went through the same process of becoming a teacher, which was designed by Yogi Bhajan, the master of Kundalini yoga. I have great respect and humility for this. Sometimes I feel that it goes far beyond my idea of what this course was for me.
Sometimes some things during the course were completely against me, I would get pissed off and sit in a corner, hiding my ego in my pocket.
At times I was very grateful and happy to have the opportunity to be part of such an endeavour, for which I must have worked hard many incarnations on this planet.
Sometimes I admired my teachers and was grateful, and sometimes I felt like getting up and leaving.
At times I shed tears of gratitude and joy, soaking up knowledge and experience like a sponge.
This course was very challenging.
I am very proud and happy to have this certificate.
It confirms my professional background and subject knowledge, but it also confirms the profound process of becoming an Aquarius Era Teacher that I went through, which was designed by Kundalini yoga master, Yogi Bhajan.
It means a lot to me and I have respect for it.
As certified Kundalini yoga teachers, we have a lot of knowledge about the teacher's code, the structure of the practice, the human being on different planes of his/her existence: physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual. We know a lot about yogic philosophy, the workings of the practices: pranayama, mudras, mantras, asanas. We have had to put into practice many of the principles of the yogic lifestyle, which have stayed with us and which we continue to develop.
We have at our fingertips the sangat support of other teachers with different levels of experience and practice. We learn to work together and support each other. We learn to be open about our path and who we are as people and teachers. For me it is important to act, to live, to create together, despite our differences and the successive stages of spiritual development we go through as Kundalini yoga practitioners. To transcend divisions and personal likes, antipathies. To trust that the other person continues to grow and share the unique truth they express, as a teacher offering it to others and lifting them higher than themselves. This takes courage.
Kundalini yoga teacher training course according to Yogi Bhajan 
Comos, a no-holds-barred ride, ups and downs, a great adventure, immense gratitude, pride, joy.
Do I really need a certificate for my soul?
Of course not.
But I'm also doing it for you. You can be assured that I haven't fallen off the Christmas tree. I continue to deepen my passion, expertise, increase my professionalism, I have an international organisation behind me and the support of thousands of teachers from all over the world, we have our standards, codes. Wherever you go in the world to take a Kundalini yoga class according to Yogi Bhajan, you are assured that everyone has taken this course, this no-holds-barred ride 
It is very interesting to meet other Kundalini yoga teachers.
But it's also important to consult one at the end of the day on the key things for your development. Grow with him and by his side. If you have one, hold on to him, because he is a great treasure.
Kundalini yoga teacher training courses are held in Poland every year, each in a slightly different style, some approved by the Kundalini Research Institute, others not. Each demanding in some respect 
Who would like to experience the process of becoming an Aquarius Era Teacher? Who is going on the course this year?
Who would like to experience the process of becoming an Aquarius Era Teacher? Who is going on the course this year? Amrita Darshan