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Search Results for: nada yoga

How do I go about becoming a yoga teacher? Part III

March 19, 2010 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

Swami Karma Karuna of Anahata Retreat

I'm still getting a fantastic response from yoga teachers on what it takes to be a yoga teacher. This week we have an in-depth exploration from Satyanada representative Swami Karma Karuna. Satyananda teachers are amongst the most immersed in the world of yoga. Their training is both deep and wide, taking many years to complete, but perhaps most important of all, Satyananda teachers all have a relationship with a guru, creating a direct line to true knowledge. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Training Tagged With: yoga teacher training

An interview with Swami Muktimurti about the power of sound to transform

March 1, 2010 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

Anahata Retreat

There is a rich Satyananda Yoga tradition in New Zealand, which means we are fortunate to often play host to traveling Satyananda Swamis from around the world. Next month (March 2010), Anahata Retreat just outside of Nelson is hosting Swami Muktimurti from Mangrove Mountain near Mountain. An expert in Mantra and ancient Sanskrit, she is hosting a nine day/ten night retreat focused on Nada Yoga, or the yoga of sound. Swami Muktimurti  is well known for her singing. She has pursued a deep … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Events Archive, Teacher Interviews Tagged With: anahata retreat, Committing to Yoga, mantra, nada, retreats

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

Climate Change, Extinction & How to be an Agent of Change

March 28, 2019 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

by Kara-Leah, It can be scary and painful to see the truth of the moment as it is. But many of us have been learning how to do this in our personal evolution as awakening human beings. We've been learning how to work with fear. How to sit with grief, shame and guilt. We've learned that by doing this, we can then release the wounds, the traumas and historical pain and free ourselves from the past - our own past, and the past of our ancestors. What's this got to do with Climate Change? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Activism, Awakening • Creating a More Beautiful World

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

How to Activate Your Chakras, Unlock Your Asana Practice & Make Your Heart Sing

September 29, 2016 by Guest Author 2 Comments

By Premaloka, Yoga on Waiheke Join Premloka for her Awakened Heart Yoga Retreats and Workshops: Raglan, New Zealand 28th-30th October 2016  Kovalam, India August/September 2017. Find out more here. Would you like more Happiness in your life? Would you like your practice to not only be connected to the physical body, the mind, and your breath, but to also transform you emotionally? Through working directly with the chakras and then connecting with the Bhavas (the body’s emotional … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Home Yoga Practice, Meditation Practices, Physical Practices, Practices Tagged With: Anahata, asana, chakra, chakras, kundalini, meditation, pranayama

When Kundalini Awakens. Now What?

July 26, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant

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 Recently, I sat down cross-legged to do my daily Kashmir Shaivism Tantric* practice as I have done every day for the past 150+ days. More if you count my first attempt at hitting 1000 Day … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat, The Process of Kundalini Tagged With: kundalini awakening, shakti, shiva, tantra, union

Nine Ways to Master Yourself, and Therefore Life

June 10, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 24 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga Tagged With: Acceptance, blame, home practice, letting go, master, mind, resistance, responsibility, slave, solutions, surrender

So that’s what Brahmacharya is all about. Containing my Inner Vamp

May 4, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

Learning to stand my ground and contain my energy, opening only on my terms.

by Kara-Leah Grant This New Year’s Eve was a watershed for me. For the first time in my life, I tamed the wild demon of my sexuality. Never have I felt more powerful or more in integrity, and that sense of power and integrity has since spun out, infusing every element of my being. I was at a five day festival and in the company of an extraordinarily sexy man. The connection between us was humming and thick and a mere sideways glance was enough to bring on dry mouth and heart palpitations. And … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: brahmacharya, Relationship, sex, sexuality, yama

Whereupon the Giant Flashes Back to Early Childhood and Wakes Up

July 12, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat I'm on a 500hr Yoga Teacher Training with the Power Living Crew called Allow the Giant to Emerge. I'm triggered, massively, and have spent four days of mired deep in my shit. This Thursday evening I'm exhausted and I'm sitting in a Core Belief session with Keenan Crisp and Kristi Clark leading. (Which is really all about working with vasanas.) I'm sick of hearing about core beliefs, I'm sick of hearing about people's childhood memories, I'm even … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: duncan peak, manipura, Power Living, third chakra, yoga retreat

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