Cristin Tighe (Simran Kaur), RYT-500, MEM, MA, is certified to teach Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, through the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI) International Teacher Training program. She has advanced training in Conscious Pregnancy© Yoga (prenatal and postpartum), Level 2: Transformation, and is an Excel & Celebrate for Women facilitator. 

Cristin is currently a Kundalini Yoga Intern Trainer with KRI; she began mentoring with Siri Ram Kaur in Brussels at  Sounyai Center/Amrit Nam Sarovar. Now, in Accra, she is working with Krishna Kaur Khalsa on teacher training in Ghana and on the Ghana-Togo Yoga & Health Festival & Conference.

Additionally, Cristin is an Advanced Relax & Renew (Restorative Yoga) Trainer®, and is working toward her certification in Anusara Yoga. She is the former owner of Spiral Flight Yoga, Washington, DC’s oldest yoga & wellness center. She also teaches yoga to children and trains children's yoga teachers (see Kids & Yoga!), and she is a doula and childbirth educator (see Conscious Empowered Birth).

Cristin is a member of the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association and a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher. She has a Master degree from Yale University in environmental health and a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University in International Health Policy. Reach her at cristin@yogasimran.com.