Every war brings a breakthrough in medicine. We believe that Trauma Responsive Kundalini Yoga Therapy for special populations is the breakthrough that arises out of the war in Ukraine.

In June 2023 the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine & Humanology faculty began training Ukrainian Kundalini Yoga teachers to bring trauma responsive skills and specialized protocols to those impacted by war.

Currently our faculty leads the Resourcing Ukrainian Resilience Initiative as a seva. We grew substantially in 2025.

As of this writing, more than 7,000 military personnel and family members have received specialized Kundalini Yoga Therapy protocols taught by the 195 teachers we have trained in the Kundalini Yoga Therapy methods. 

These military yoga therapy specialists serve in Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Odessa, and Vinnytsia, with a few teachers based in smaller communities throughout the country. They teach the protocols we developed for recovery from traumatic brain injury, complex trauma, amputees, special forces, military rehabilitation, and military families experiencing grief and loss.

The training in each of our protocols is:

Skill Based: compassionately, safely, & effectively instruct trauma responsive Therapeutic Kundalini Yoga 

Science Based: the ways trauma dis-regulates the brain, nervous, structural, and endocrine systems and what specific Kundalini Yoga practices re-set self-regulation over the effects of trauma

Research Based: review of the published studies on the bio-medical effects of yoga practice on trauma recovery in amputees, TBI, rehabilitation, veteran, and assault populations

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In 2024-25 we:

  1. Expanded the communities we serve to include women recovering from conflict-related sexual violence, survivors of domestic violence, and military veterans. Our faculty developed protocols and training for Kundalini Yoga teachers to prepare them to serve each of these communities.
  2. Instituted a skills assessment protocol and trained a core group of 8 teachers to administer practice series and grading of skills. Teachers who need further practice receive support for solidifying their new skills.
  3. Established and implemented a communication and professional development plan for the Resourcing Ukrainian Resilience Initiative team leaders in Kyiv. These leaders organize and support the Kundalini Yoga teachers who teach the trauma responsive protocols throughout the country.
  4. Began training Ukrainian Kundalini Yoga teachers who immigrated to Poland, UK, Germany, and the United States at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. They now teach Ukrainian soldiers who are recovering in military hospitals in these countries.
  5. Our leadership team in Ukraine expanded the number of locations where they offer the specialized protocols from 4 to 7 in Kyiv and from 3 to 5 in Vinnytsia. The number of locations in other cities and villages continue to grow.
  6. Initiated a system to expand our training to new and longtime Ukrainian Kundalini Yoga teachers who are now being reached through newly established channels.
  7. Presented Best Practices for Trauma Responsive Yoga Therapy in Conflict Zones at the International Association of Yoga Therapists annual clinical conference

In 2026 we plan to: 

  1. Support the Ukrainian leadership team as they attract additional teachers into the Resourcing Ukrainian Resilience Initiative protocol training. Our faculty will continue to offer training, support, and skill assessment as we grow the number of teachers who are part of this initiative.
  2. Continue to train Ukrainian Kundalini Yoga teachers who immigrated to Poland, UK, Germany, and the United States at the beginning of the full-scale invasion
  3. Develop a protocol and specialized training aimed to support civilians and train the Resourcing Ukrainian Resilience teachers in the delivery to civilians.
  4. Present at the KRI Symposium in February 2026. Our Ukrainian leadership team Raj Navjot Singh will present with Shanti Shanti Kaur on our protocol for Traumatic Brain Injury and Jagtaran Kaur will present with Shanti Shanti Kaur on Best Practices for Kundalini Yoga Therapy in a war zone.
  5. Enroll those in the Ukraine Leadership team who have strong English language skills into the 300 hour Bringing Kundalini Yoga Therapy into Healthcare training. This will result in a core group of Ukrainian Kundalini Yoga teachers with skills in Kundalini Yoga Therapy that are beyond trauma recovery. They will learn how to address and resolve structural system conditions, transform anxiety & depression, and much more.
  6. Begin research on the outcomes of one of our protocols: recovery from traumatic brain injury.
  7. Continue to raise funds to support research and training.

Your donation in any size to support the Resourcing Ukrainian Resilience initiative ensures these groundbreaking protocols continue to help those impacted by the war to restore stability, endurance, and resilience.

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“From the very beginning of the war I knew that I would be among the people who would be rehabilitating veterans and the victims of war one day. . . Thank you for giving me the skills to serve in this way.”

—Anastasia/Ajeet Arti Kaur, one of the teachers participating in the therapeutic training

Life-saving Research

Blast-related traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in both civilians and soldiers are a daily occurrence. According to a study from the JAMA network, up to 28% of armed forces experience TBI. Long-term health impacts may include:

  • Chronic headaches
  • Cognitive problems (e.g., difficulty concentrating, memory loss)
  • Sleep disturbances
  • Emotional problems (e.g., anxiety, depression)
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Board member Sat Bir Singh and our Ukrainian team have initiated a partnership with the National Technical University of Ukraine Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute to develop research models to measure and document the outcomes of our groundbreaking traumatic brain injury recovery protocol.

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How you’re making a difference…

Of the participants who consistently showed up and did the home practice, their PTSD went from very high to having NO PTSD after 8 weeks. I am very happy to have seen such amazing changes and look forward to see how they do at follow-up. It was also so rewarding to see the personal growth and the changes they were making in their lives. I am so happy to be doing this work. Thank you for getting me—and my students — to this place! 

I have just started teaching a small class of people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. They have already felt the benefits. Two ladies are in their sixties with incredible life stories, one with a disintegrating spine in constant pain, the other is transforming so fast it is like watching a flower unfolding. 

It is the last week of my first the trauma recovery course I taught using the curriculum you trained us in.  I want to share with you a little feedback. A friend’s husband has been doing the course as well as having therapy for the past 9 weeks.  She told me today that it is like she has the man back she married 18 years ago. She said that since he has been doing his weekly class, he has been able to find himself and who he is and from that he has been able to shine, something she hasn’t seen in a long time. Thanks you for sharing this technology with us all. 

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