Hari Kirin Khalsa, MD, C-IAYT, has been serving in health care since 1976, as a nurse’s aide, then a registered nurse who decided to go on to medical school.  Midpoint into a busy career, she found yoga and meditation for her own stress reduction.  She became a kundalini yoga teacher in her community, tandem with her medical practice.  She began studying yoga for health recovery with Dr. Shanti Shanti Kaur in 2010 and completed the yoga therapy training in 2019 while coming on board as faculty.  She serves as volunteer faculty for the University of Massachusetts Medical School.  In her lifelong participation in healthcare, she has been honored to witness the triumph of the human spirit.  Her current mission is to empower this unique inner strength, via awareness and lifestyle change.