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	ask the experts gurmukh kaur khalsa

Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, lovingly known as "Gurmukh" in the yoga world, loves to celebrate life. And how? People are always around her, eating, meeting, talking, having fun. She loves to bring people together. Every Sunday night after a hearty 2 hour yoga class, up to 90 to 100 people gather for a Sunday night dinner, creating the feeling of the old time "Family Get Together."

What warms her heart the most? Watching the pregnant mamas be pregnant and then bringing their babies back after 40 days. She loves to see the mothers and their children as they grow up. And she loves to watch the children as they grow and blossom.

One of her greatest loves of the day is rising in the early morning, and meditating before the sunrises. She loves to sit on her Indian swing, and swing in her garden as she chants sacred hymns. Her interests, besides yoga, include rollerblading, swimming at the YMCA, and working in her garden. She loves to go to India as many times as she can, up to 2-3 times a year. She hikes in the Hollywood Hills with her 22 year old daughter, her husband of 25 years, and their family dogs.

Gurmukh is the co-founder and director of Golden Bridge, the premier center for the study and practice of Kundalini yoga and meditation in Los Angeles, CA, and now also in New York City. She was given her Sikh spiritual name by Yogi Bhajan, her Spiritual Teacher since 1970, meaning "one who helps people across the world ocean," 37 years ago. Since then, Gurmukh has dedicated her life to fulfilling her namesake. For over three decades, students in Los Angeles and around the world have sought her classes in Kundalini yoga, meditation and pre and post natal training. She is the author of The Eight Human Talents: The Yogic Way to Restoring the Natural Balance of Serenity Within You, and Bountiful, Beautiful, Blissful: Experience the Natural Power of Pregnancy and Birth with Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. She also has three videos available, PreNatal Yoga, Post Natal Yoga, as well as Kundalini Yoga with Gurmukh, and trains yoga teachers throughout the world.