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Exploring the Niyamas: How does Ishvara Pranidhana affect our lives?

June 18, 2013 by 2 Comments
Surrender

by Kara-Leah Grant Do we dare, do we dare, do we dare surrender to God? Oh boy - the G-word in yoga. Scary stuff indeed. How on earth does God relate to yoga? Let's start by ditching the word God - although that's what Ishvara refers to, instead we can call it the Grand Ordering Design if we like. It's nothing more than the infinite intelligence throughout the Universe that  keeps everything in place - the sun rising, the moon waxing and waning, the tides rising and falling, seeds … [Read more...]

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I’m actually quite a spiritual guy. Oh really?

May 22, 2013 by 11 Comments
Where's my sacred???

By Kara-Leah Grant Can we, like, ban the word spirituality already? And spiritual. Like, if someone says, I'm actually quite a spiritual guy, I just want to gag. What the hell does that mean anyway? What does spiritual and spirituality mean?   I turned to that font of all modern knowledge to find out. Wikipedia. The term spirituality lacks a definitive definition, although social scientists have defined spirituality as the search for "the sacred," where "the sacred" is … [Read more...]

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On having the courage to pull the plug at the 11th hour

January 15, 2013 by 5 Comments
Sometimes we have to bow to life

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Last week, I wrote the acknowledgements and officially signed off from Forty Days of Yoga, completing the final draft. It was a surreal moment - as if I'd been here before and knew what to do. And of course I have, many times, in my dreams. I've been a writer since childhood and always knew I'd write a book. What I didn't know was how many people would join me on this journey, how supportive they would be and how humbling it would be to receive … [Read more...]

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Folding forward into Easy Pose for instant stress-relief

January 11, 2013 by 4 Comments
Easy Pose

by Kara-Leah Grant The last couple of years I’ve been getting up close and personal with long, slow holds in seated poses. There’s a couple of reasons for this. One is that I’m often exhausted from being a single parent and running my own business - the thought of standing postures or sun salutes sometimes makes me shudder. Giving myself permission to just sit on what mat and see what unfolds from there means I'm far more likely to practice every day. The second is that I’m yang … [Read more...]

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Nine ways to master yourself, and therefore life

November 19, 2012 by 15 Comments
Yoga is a key practice for mastering Self, and therefore life

by Kara-Leah Grant There are two ways to live life. One is as a victim, getting upset and angry at what life throws at you, and trying to change the people and circumstances around you to make life easier. The second is as a Master, taking whatever life throws at you and using it to change yourself, making yourself stronger and more resilient so life becomes easier and easier. If you've been wasting energy on trying to change people around you, or wasting energy on reacting to the … [Read more...]

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Is our addiction to Spirits a symptom of an UnSpirited society?

October 9, 2012 by 16 Comments
Spirits making up for a lack of connection to Spirit?

by new columnist Melissa Billington, Ear2Earth MYOGA’s second focus in the deeper part of winter has been on the 7th chakra -  Sahasrara - a place of surrender, acceptance, unity consciousness and spirit. As I let my vision be filled by these ideas, I became more and more aware of society’s mass disconnection from a sense of anything larger than ourselves – from Source - and how this shows up in our levels of medication and self-medication. It is no accident that alcohol is called … [Read more...]

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