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Expand your yoga into the dreamscape.

June 13, 2022 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By Sarah Marlowe Spence That time a vacuum cleaner sabotaged my kirtan. Yup, an odd situation. So I delved into that dream to figure out what it was trying to tell me. Dreams happen to most of us when we’re asleep, yet dreams can also be daydreams of where you want to go in life, or waking dreams, i.e. what is happening right now in life. When I was a teenager, I found a dream dictionary in the secondhand bookstore, as we did in life before Google. I wondered what the meanings of my busy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Awakening • Creating a More Beautiful World, Energetic Practices, Meditation Practices, The Process of Waking Up, Uncategorized, Yoga Styles Tagged With: dream yoga, dreams, unconscious

Shambhavi Sarasvati on Direct Realization Tantra & The Play of Awakening

December 18, 2019 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant I discovered Shambhavi Sarasvati when I went looking for Tantra books to deepen my knowledge of the Trika Shaivism lineage. I found The Play of Awakening, which is an accessible, enjoyable, gem of a book. I felt like I was sitting in satsang with Shambhavi, and had many insights and a'ha! moments through reading her words. I love her approach to Tantra and Self-Realisation - it feels relaxed and grounded in day-to-day life. She says that direct realization traditions, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paid, The Process of Waking Up

When it turns out Exile was just a Sabbatical • My return to the Yoga World

August 29, 2019 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Three weeks ago, after a three or four year sabbatical, I stepped back into a Yoga Studio to teach. I’d stopped teaching because my practice no longer resembled a studio yoga class, and it was impossible to teach something I wasn’t doing. It felt contrived, and wrong. Walking away from teaching felt like walking away from a core part of my identity. But sticking it out felt like a lie. So I stopped teaching. And I stopped going to studios because I was invariably … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat, The Process of Waking Up

Overwhelm: When You Can’t Escape Your Life, Try Mindfulness

August 15, 2019 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Angelena Davies “Hello Overwhelm my old friend, I’ve come to talk to you again, Because a vision softly creeping, Left its seeds while I was sleeping.” I often break into song when I feel her coming again.  Overwhelm. With her short breath, her pinched shoulders, her scratchy throat, her distracted conversations (“Mum, are you listening?”) her constant pull to the list, the bloody list, her tumble of thoughts, thinking thinking thinking,  her creepy whispers of “That’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga, The Process of Waking Up

What Does it Mean to be an Awakened Heart Warrior in Troubled Times?

May 23, 2019 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, The news isn't getting any better. Extinction is looming for 1 million plants and animals, thanks to human activity, says the UN. Trump's Administration heralds melting sea ice as opening new opportunities for trade. And global beverage giants continue to bottle New Zealand's water at aquifer-destroying rates. Storms are worse. Refugee numbers are climbing. Our rivers are increasingly polluted. We've cleared 75% of our forests, and a whopping 95% of our wetlands. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Process of Waking Up

The Power of Just Being: Reflections on a Silent Retreat

May 9, 2019 by Guest Author 2 Comments

By Sandra Palmer I am a talker, a chatterbox even. So, I received some surprised responses (shocked, disbelieving and even amused!) when I informed people that I was attending a seven-day silent retreat. Some friends were plainly envious and thought it sounded divine. Many were curious: But why? They asked. Why would you do this? What is the purpose of being silent? Others wanted to know how hard it would be for me. I did not have answers to these questions. I was too busy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Process of Waking Up

How Your Unconscious Beliefs Shape Your Body & Mind

October 19, 2018 by Guest Author

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by KeiShana Coursey, Opti-mum As a midwife and yogi who has walked alongside women and observed  their navigation through all that is birth, it appears to me that the mind doesn’t mind what you believe about sensation, and that it will loyally serve you to create whatever it is you’ve unconsciously chosen to believe. Let me explain… I became very interested in the vast difference between the individual experience of labour and birth when observing the stark contrast between women who believed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Process of Waking Up

Exorcism: An Invitation to Work Consciously with Fear

October 4, 2018 by Kara-Leah Grant

by Kara-Leah Grant This week, I took part in an exorcism. But let's just call it a healing, because that word exorcism caries all kinds of connotations that can stop us from bringing our hearts and awareness into the moment. There was nothing to fear in this healing, except, of course, fear itself. More than ten years ago, I took on an energy, an entity, a being of the subtle realms... it's not something I've talked about much because, you know, crazy. Yet it wasn't crazy for me. It was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Process of Waking Up Tagged With: exorcism, fear, healing, kara-leah grant, tohunga

The Difference Between Being a Victim and Being Victimised

September 20, 2018 by Guest Author

by Freya Vajra I was chatting with a good friend of mine the other day, about all this Agama/sex cult stuff. For those of you who don’t know, one of the biggest Neo tantra schools in the world, Agama, was recently outed by Be Scofield for a whole load of sexual assault and misconduct by the heads of the school. It’s a school I have trained at and didn’t stay at because the waft of dogma and abuse was so strong. My friend, who spent a number of years there, was saying how she felt that she had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Process of Waking Up Tagged With: abuse, Agama, Freya Vajra, trauma, Victim, yoga

Being an Awakened Heart Warrior: An Interview with Kara-Leah

September 12, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland

Kara-Leah Grant Yoga

by Lucinda Staniland, Last week, Kara-Leah sat down with Erika Bélanger of the On and Off Your Mat podcast to dive deep into conversations about yoga, leading retreats and what it really means to be an Awakened Heart Warrior. Over the years, Kara-Leah has spent hundreds of hours interviewing interesting yogis, but this is the first time I've heard her being interviewed herself! Tune in to hear Kara-Leah answer the following questions: How does having a daily home practice has impacted … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Process of Waking Up

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