Conference 2024

With over 35+ years experience, Master Davinder Singh Panesar is a world class expert, author, public speaker, pioneer, visionary and specialist in optimising personal & transpersonal health and wellbeing; backed by evidence-based advanced self-healing sciences and rooted in ancient wellbeing heritage traditions. With an authentic lineage of enlightened Teachers and Masters, he bridges the gap between science and spirituality.

 

Master Dav Panesar is a mind-body & heart medicine expert, internationally pioneering authentic Hridya-based health interventions internationally and a prominent figure in transpersonal (psycho-spiritual) & transformative health and wellness medicine. He  is a pioneer of Hridya Medicine and contemplative based health interventions in the UK, with over 35 years of experience in developing, teaching and working with transpersonal & consciousness based psychology and models within the health, public and the private sector that has earned him international respect and recognition, making him and his approaches highly sought after.

 

Master Dav founded the revolutionary Gurmat Therapy health model that redefines, health, wellbeing, human potential and consciousness evolution. 

With 13+ years in practice, Sonya is a Hridya Medicine specialist and Gurmat Psycho-Spiritual (Transpersonal) therapist who transmits authentic yogic wisdom, integral holistic healing modalities and multidisciplinary medicine for improving health.

 

Her expertise lies in providing a unique 'whole' approach to optimising human potential that integrates health, science and mysticism. Sonya teaches ancient wisdom practices, embodied yoga and pranayama therapy through the renowned Gurmat Therapy Health model.

 

She bridges the gap between science & spirituality through her dedication to the exploration of neuroscience, quantum physics and epigenetics. Sonya is a Therapist, Metaphysical Scientist, Wellbeing Rx assessor & Authentic yoga and right-mindfulness meditation teacher. She focuses on the development and flourishing of human health and wellness through training and evolution of mind, essential human condition and potential. 

Arvind-Pal S. Mandair specializes in Sikh and South Asian studies. His research and teaching cut across several different fields including: World Philosophies, continental philosophy, postcolonial theory, translation studies, history and theory of religions, political theory and the study of spirituality and consciousness.

 

Book Publications: 

 

• Spiritual Warriors: Violence and Non-Violence in Sikhism, Cambridge University Press (2021); 

• Sikh Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic Press,  (forthcoming 2022);

• Geophilosophical Encounters: Decolonial Praxis, Diasporic Logics & Sikh Thought, Routledge (forthcoming 2022)

• Religion and the Specter of the West: (Columbia University Press (2009)

• Sikhism:  Vol 8 of Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, Springer (2017)

• Sikhism: A Guide For the Perplexed (Bloomsbury 2013)

• Secularism and Religion-Making (with Markus Dressler, Oxford University Press 2011)

• Teachings of the Sikh Gurus (with Christopher Shackle, Routledge 2005.

• Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity, co-edited with Christopher Shackle & Gurharpal Singh. Curzon Press (2001)

 

Books in Progress:

 

• War Machines: Sovereignty, Violence and Civic Space (monograph)

• The Sikh World (edited volume with Pashaura Singh)

• Diasporicities (edited volume)

 

He is founding editor of the Routledge journal Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture and Theory and edits two new book series: Routledge Critical Sikh Studies  and  Routledge Studies in Translation and Religion. 

Dr. Ravjot Kaur is a distinguished medical psychiatrist with comprehensive training in biomedicine and a unique specialisation in Gurmat Therapy. With a robust career dedicated to the mental well-being and holistic development of his patients, Dr. Singh seamlessly integrates the scientific rigors of traditional psychiatry with the profound, experiential practices of Gurmat Therapy.

 

Education and Training:

• Doctor of Medicine (MD), Psychiatry: Renowned Medical School

• Biomedicine: Extensive training in biomedical sciences and clinical practices

• Gurmat Therapy Practitioner: Completed a professional experiential postgraduate program in Gurmat Therapy under the guidance of world-class experts Master Dav Panesar.

 

Dr. Ravjot's approach to mental health is grounded in the principles of Gurmat Therapy, which emphasises the cultivation of a fully functioning person who embodies both personal and transpersonal health. Dr. Ravjot's unique blend of medical psychiatry and Gurmat Therapy provides patients with an unparalleled pathway to holistic health and well-being, rooted in both scientific and ancient wisdom traditions.