Jeff Knepper

Dr. Knepper has been an educator for the past 17 years serving Special Education and General Education students. He acquired his Educational Doctorate from the University of Southern California where he was awarded ‘Dissertation of the Year for USC’s Rossier School of Education in 2016 for his study on ‘The impact of the mindful method Youth Empowerment Seminar (SKY for Schools) on students’ self-efficacy, self- regulation, and academic performance for becoming college-and career-ready’. The study involved over 400 middle school students and found students’ academic self- regulation and academic performance had a positive significant increase.

He was first introduced to Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and the Art of Living’s stress- reduction techniques of meditation and the SKY breath over 27 years ago and shortly thereafter was trained to be an Art of Living (AOL- www.artofliving.org) community youth programs teacher & SKY Schools teacher for AOL’s sister organization, International Association for Human Values (www.iahv.org). For over 20 years Dr. Knepper had taught the SKY Schools program to thousands of school youth in the Los Angeles area.

Jeff first became curious about power of intuition when he heard the story of Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar being able to recite the Bhagavad Gita as a young boy of 4 to the amazement of many. Jeff was honored to become one of the first Intuition Process (IP) Teachers in North America in 2018. He has taught many courses and continues to be amazed by the power of intuition for our youth and their overall ability to manage life happily and successfully.

Jeff is blessed with a wonderful family. His wife, Patty, is a nurse and his daughter, Sophie, received her Master’s in Bio-Medical Engineering.