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Search Results for: nada yoga

If All Ambition Falls Away, How Does Anything Get Done?

June 23, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 13 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat It's a crisp, clear, clean autumn morning in Napier, New Zealand. Almost a frost, but not quite. Cold enough for me to see my breath as I stood waiting for the jug to boil. I have entire day stretching out before me with no appointments and no yoga teaching. My only commitments today are to The Yoga Lunchbox and writing. Something's missing though. Something that's been with me for a long, long time. Possibly since childhood. Actually, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: ambition, failure, fear, Krishnamurti, Osho, success, The Heart

This Moment is Enough: A Simple Practice for Peace

March 24, 2014 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By guest author Mary O’Malley In this moment, I invite you into the peace and the ease that you long for. After your next in-breath, allow yourself a long, slow out-breath.  Melt into your out-breath, letting any tension in your body melt with it. Now, on the next in-breath, tighten your muscles.  Exaggerate the tension in your body and then say “ahh” as you melt again into your out-breath. Revel in the deliciousness of a deep out-breath coupled with the powerful healing sound of “ahh”.  (You … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Practices Tagged With: Acceptance, awakening, enough, fixing, Mary O'Malley

Is Awakening the Evolutionary Destiny of Humanity?

November 13, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

WIN a copy of Kara-Leah’s new book ‘Sex, Drugs & (mostly) Yoga - Field Notes from Kundalini Awakening’, publishing in November 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 I once knew a yoga teacher who would joke how awakening would never happen to her - she wasn’t far enough along the path, or didn’t know enough, or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Process of Kundalini, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: adhyashanti, awakening, drugs, evolution, kundalini awakening, psychosis, swami muktidharma, swami shantimurti, video

Kundalini Awakenings: Symptoms, Process, Benefits, Support & Help

August 11, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant

Kundalini, or prana, rising up the spine

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 Whether you've had a Kundalini Awakening, are curious about the process of awakening Kundalini, think you might have some of the symptoms of a Kundalini Awakening or are looking for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews, The Process of Kundalini Tagged With: awakening, energy shifts, evolution, kundalini awakening, kundalini rising

Exploration of the no-self: A total waste of time?

May 24, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 9 Comments

WIN a copy of Kara-Leah’s new book ‘Sex, Drugs & (mostly) Yoga - Field Notes from Kundalini Awakening’, publishing in November 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 I started this article over two years ago... and never finished it. But thanks to suggestions from a YLB commenter, I found and read a book by Jed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat, The Process of Kundalini Tagged With: avidya, awakening, enlightenment, identity, jed mckenna, kleshas, no identity, no-self

I’m exhilarated, and terrified, all at the same time

August 9, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 9 Comments

Opening up to dreams

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Today I claimed my moment, owning what it is I want to do with my life. I declared to the YLB audience, and all my friends and family on Facebook, that, with their support and help, I was going to publish a book. It was petrifying. Oh sure, it was also exhilarating and exciting and awesome... but it was also petrifying. Ten minutes after Facebook'ing out the article I'd written, announcing there's going to be a PledgeMe campaign to raise the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: boldness, dreams, failure, feelings, success

Tossing aside the familiarity of struggle for the mantle of success

June 12, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 9 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat A friend asked me this week (and I'm paraphrasing and editing for dramatic effect): How come you always write/talk about your struggles with life? Does your life suck that bad? And I explained that I had to write that way... that I loved writing about life, and only had my life to write about, and that meant sharing my struggles with the world - so other people could resonate, realise they're not alone, feel inspired and connect with me as a human … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: ease, failure, job search, relax, struggle, success, surrender

Home is where the heart is, heart is what the home needs

October 23, 2011 by Kara-Leah Grant 7 Comments

The latest Musings from the Mat by Kara-Leah Grant Home. It's a deceptively small four-letter word, but oh how much punch it can carry. Our home is our whole world when we're kids, and when we grow up to be adults, we often unconsciously carry around that childhood home inside of us, even when it's not the kind of home we want to recreate in our lives. Home isn't just the place where we live though. Home is also a place where we are truly ourselves, where we let our guard, and our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: conscious, family, heart, home

My third eye’s a’twitchin’ – does that mean she’s awakening?

November 24, 2010 by Kara-Leah Grant 33 Comments

Kara-Leah

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 My third eye has been twitching all afternoon, a sensation which started during my recent trip to LA for teacher training with Shiva Rea. The last time I can remember it doing this I was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat, The Process of Kundalini Tagged With: kundalini awakening, third eye

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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