About Me

Meherbani Kaur Desrochers Khalsa, Founder and president MScA, PYT (KhalsaWayMC) Certified Kundalini yoga and Breathwalk, Prenatal KhalsaWay and Brain Longevity Specialist (Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation), Dying Into Life Journey programs, and Registered Orthomolecular Nutrition Practitionner, CanFit Pro Certified Level 1 Urban Poling Nordic Walking Instructor.

Meherbani Kaur Desrochers Khalsa resides in eastern Ontario rural Ottawa. She has been an Orthomolecular Certified Nutritionist since 1994. She is an internationally certified professional teacher-trainer in Kundalini Yoga and Breathwalk (La Marche Méditative – un pas vers Soi ™), a death éducator,  specializing in the uplifting and empowering of women of all cycles of life and those who support them through body, mind and spirit Satsangs, classes, workshops, trainings, retreats, private consultations and coaching in French, English, primarily in Canada and all over India but also in USA, Japan, Cuba, for more than 25 years.

She is equally a Certified Specialist in Longevity of the Brain® and recently completed the Level One certification of the Dying into Life Journey® doula training.  Meherbani Kaur has received her certification as a Prenatal Yoga Teacher of the Kundalini-Based Khalsa Way® and has trained with Dr. Shanti Shanti Kaur of the Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine and Humanology of New Mexico for Kundalini Yoga Therapeutics – Bringing Kundalini Yoga into the Healthcare Field certification.

She is a lover of languages and culture; presently studying Korean, Italian, Hindi and Punjabi. She is also a dedicated student of Gurbani kirtan with her teacher in Anandpur Sahib, India. She shares these elevating vibrations with all open to receive, to strengthen the body, calm the mind and to live one’s birthright of true happiness.

She explains that the effort to sit and be with one’s self and be expansive through the Guru is to reach the calmness within and the joy that that brings. All doubt is melted away like the dirty snow on a warm spring day. A newness of life emerges, one breath at a time.

She has trained as Level 1 Urban Poling Nordic Walking instructor. This training is recognized by:

• CanFit Pro
• Ontario Kinesiology Association (OKA)
• Ontario Fitness Association (OFA)
• British Columbia Recreation and Parks Assoc (BCRPA)
• Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Assoc (SPRA)
• Manitoba Fitness Council (MFC)
• Alberta Fitness Leadership Certification Assoc (AFLCA)
• Canadian Center for Active Aging (CCAA)

Her Kundalini Yoga teacher training of 500 hours is internationally recognized and certified by the Yoga Alliance and the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association. She has added to this training another 500 hours of specialization in cancer prevention, addiction recovery, prenatal, postnatal and restorative yogas for people with health conditions. From the beginning of her teaching career in 2005, these highly specialized techniques have provided her with the tools to assist any person no matter their age or health condition (and this always with prior approval from their physician).

Living in the spirit of her name “Meherbani” meaning kindness, she breathes to serve students and others by sharing the science of Kundalini yoga with all who wishes to experience it, whether in classroom or institutional settings or in daily life, so they can all experience their birthright of Happiness and Health.

Meherbani offers person-centered lifestyle and nutrition counseling and coaching services. For the past fifteen years, she has been presenting community and corporate seminars, locally, nationally, and internationally, specializing in Women’s health issues – from the first breath to the last –, stress management and addiction recovery. She is a long standing certified member of the International Organization of Nutritional Consultants and the Board of Natural Medicine Doctors and Practitioners/Natural Medicne Certification Council.