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Why I Don’t Go To Yoga Classes Anymore (But Maybe I Will)

May 17, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland 2 Comments

Why I don't go to yoga class

by Lucinda Staniland I have a confession to make. Even though I practice yoga every day and work for a yoga website, I haven’t regularly attended yoga classes in years. My home yoga practice is consistent and serious, I'm constantly consulting my bookcase of yoga books, and I attend the occasional one-on-one session with a teacher. But yoga classes? That thing where you join a group of people to be led through asana and perhaps some pranayama and meditation? The answer used to be, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Going to Class Tagged With: Going to class, Imperfection, injury, scandal, yoga class

Yoga Injuries and Pain During Yoga Class – What’s the Story?

February 3, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 12 Comments

We can injure ourselves in yoga class

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Matthew Remski is currently researching asana-related injuries in an attempt to understand what we are actually doing with yoga, and how we can know the value or safety of the postures we practice. After taking the time to read his first article on the subject - What Are We Actually Doing in Asana - I found myself asking questions about my practice and the pain I sometimes experience in yoga. In particular, Matthew says: I would like to explore … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga in the Media Tagged With: astanga, Bikram, injury, Matthew Remski, pain, sciatica, SI joint

The Real Meaning of Aum and Why We Chant It

November 14, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 4 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant An extract from 'The No-More-Excuses Guide to Yoga' The number one thing that freaks out new yoga students is the thought of opening their mouth and making a vowel sound followed by a consonant in a room full of strangers. Yes, the simple sound of OM makes people want to run screaming from the room. There are a few reasons for this - one is that Aum (as it's correctly written) has a bad rap. It's weird, strange and the butt of all kinds of jokes. Plus, making a sound like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: Aum, chanting, first yoga class, kirtan, new to yoga, New yoga student, Om

What are Vasanas and How Do They Affect Your Yoga Practice?

June 15, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 3 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Earlier this year I took a short workshop with Duncan Peak from Power Living. In the workshop he mentioned the term 'vasana', defining it as character traits or tendencies and he talked about how our practice stirs up these tendencies and brings them into consciousness. Now I'd never heard of vasanas, and struggled to remember the term after the workshop, which happened the day before Wanderlust. The day after Wanderlust, I was driving from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: ambition, duncan peak, gunas, rajas, sattvic, vasanas

Why a Great Yoga Teacher is Sometimes Crucial to Progress Your Practice

March 21, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Six weeks or so into regular Mysore-style classes with Peter Sanson and I've having some serious insights and openings - not just on the physical level, but also on the emotional, mental and energetic level. But of course - how could it be any other way? These things are all intertwined and I've known this for a very long time. Before I found Peter, I'd been searching for a yoga teacher for a decade or so, while doing a home practice and sporadically … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: ashtanga, back pain, fear, Peter Sanson, support

The Kundalini Awakening Process: An Inside Story

August 19, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant

Bow to the Kundalini Process

WIN a copy of Kara-Leah's new book 'Field Notes from Kundalini Awakening', publishing in 2018. Guaranteed to take you on an intimate journey into the depths of the Kundalini experience. Click here to sign up for the book launch list and go into the draw to win one of THREE print copies. by Kara-Leah Grant It's 7:15pm and I'm upside down on the carpet in front of the fire, balancing on my hands and knees, head hanging low, not quite touching the carpet. I'm meant to be on the computer, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat, The Process of Kundalini Tagged With: kundalini, kundalini awakening, kundalini process, Kundalini symptoms, positive Kundalini

You’ve got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em

April 11, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 5 Comments

By Kara-Leah Grant, author Forty Days of Yoga The more I practice yoga the more I realise it's got nothing to do with "flexibility". At least - not in the way that we often think about it, as the stretching of muscles. Rather, yoga often has to do with letting go and releasing our nervous system and the patterns of holding that result from years of activating the fight or flight system. These patterns of behaviour create the shapes of our bodies, as much as our muscles and bones … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice Tagged With: body armour, character structure, flexibility, holding, resistance

How to Cure a Hangover With Yoga or a Spiritual Practice

August 21, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 4 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant I know, you practice yoga, 'you're not supposed to drink', and you're definitely not supposed to drink to excess. But it happens. And when it does, best you know how to handle it. Fact is, we live in a culture that drinks heavily, and it can be hard to break out of that mindset. Yoga most definitely helps, and so does being kind to yourself as you transition away from regular heavy drinking to mindful samplings of delicious beverages. What can help even more is applying … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga Tagged With: drunk, hangover, hungover, metta, mindfulness, tantra

Applying the fifth yama, Aparigraha (non-hoarding), to daily life

October 9, 2010 by Kara-Leah Grant 5 Comments

by Kara-Leah, Of all the yamas, this is the one which, if kept, would have the most profound effect on our western, consumer, materialistic society. If we all lived in such a way that we were non-possessive, non-accumulative, and non-hoarding... it would totally shift our relationship to stuff, to the earth, to ideas, to ego-identity and to each other. The way we did business would change. The way we manufactured products would change. Our footprint upon the earth would lighten enormously. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga, Musings from the Mat Tagged With: aparigraha

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