When Kelvin Chin was 19, he learned Transcendental Meditation (TM) and soon began to give introductory meditation lectures to students at Dartmouth College, as well as the general public in New Hampshire. In 1971, as the founding president of the Students International Meditation Society (SIMS) of Dartmouth, Kel continued lecturing, and was interviewed by newspapers, and radio and TV stations throughout New Hampshire.

In the summer of 1971, he attended the one-month preliminary teacher training program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. After graduating a semester early from Dartmouth in 1973, Kel completed the TM teacher training program in La Antilla, Spain with Maharishi, and returned as the NH State Coordinator for the TM movement. He continued to lecture, teach TM, and lead advanced TM residence courses, including a one-month in-residence program on the Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI) at the University of Maine, Orono.

While at Yale Graduate School, Kel continued teaching TM at the university and throughout Connecticut. In 1974, on behalf of the TM movement, Kel successfully renegotiated its lease with Yale University. He also taught the first TM meditation courses at West Point Military Academy, which involved lectures to several hundred cadets, officers, and staff.

Within days of graduating from Yale, Kel got a call from Maharishi saying that the Movement had a free first class round-trip ticket on Swissair's inaugural flight to Hong Kong and that he would like Kel to go there to teach TM. As the first National Leader of Hong Kong and Director of Expansion in East Asia, Kel lectured to all sectors of Hong Kong society including business, education, and government, and was a guest speaker on television shows, at universities, and was featured in many newspaper articles. He also lectured and taught the first TM courses in the US Army in South Korea including on the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) between North and South Korea.

Kel continued his lecturing, teaching, and leadership in the TM movement as the Chairman of the Cambridge TM Center, and as a visiting teacher in the Washington, DC TM Center.

The last official TM project that Maharishi asked Kel to lead involved the training of Chinese American meditators to become TM teachers to prepare them to teach in China. This special project was based at MIU in 1978.

Kelvin speaking in 1973 to engineers at Raytheon.