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Search Results for: yoga teacher training

How Your Unconscious Beliefs Shape Your Body & Mind

October 19, 2018 by Guest Author

waves on the beach

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

12 Things You Must Know About Kambo Before Getting Pricked

June 20, 2018 by Guest Author

Kambo

by Chris Kelly, If you’d told me years ago that the slimy secretion from an Amazonian tree frog - sometimes called “ordeal medicine” - was incredible for my health, I’d think you were a little nuts. If you told me it was applied directly into the lymphatic system through small little burn marks on the skin, I’d think you were completely nuts! I never would have believed that I’d be applying these very same burn marks and this slimy frog secretion to myself, let alone regularly serving it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Process of Waking Up Tagged With: frog, healing, Kambo

Leslie Kaminoff on Why Asanas Don’t Exist

October 5, 2017 by Lucinda Staniland 2 Comments

by Lucinda Staniland Meet Leslie Kaminoff, a Yoga educator with forty years experience in the study of Yoga and the breath. Leslie studied with T.K.V Desikachar, a teacher renowned for his emphasis on the therapeutic aspects of yoga, and he is the co-author of the bestselling book Yoga Anatomy. In Leslie's conversation with Kara-Leah Grant, I was struck by his particular brand of what I would call respectful realism. This is a man with a deep belief in the power of the work that he … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights, Video Interviews Tagged With: asana, Jivamukti Yoga, Leslie Kaminoff, OM Yoga Studio, T.K.V Desikachar

Donna Farhi on How to Release the Psoas & Resolve Back Pain

May 25, 2017 by Guest Author 5 Comments

Pathways to a Centered Body: Gentle Yoga Therapy for Core Stability, Healing Back Pain and Moving with Ease by Donna Farhi and Leila Stuart

by Donna Farhi, co-author of Pathways to a Centered Body: Gentle Yoga Therapy for Core Stability, Healing Back Pain, and Moving with Ease. A recent collation of several back pain studies in America revealed that 8 out of every 10 Americans will have back problems at some point during their lifetimes, yet only one in ten people find out the primary cause of their pain. A further 54 percent of Americans who experience low back pain spend the majority of their workday sitting, a position that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Practices Tagged With: back pain, Constructive Rest Position, donna farhi, Pathways to a Centered Body, Psoas

Lawrence Edwards on The Divine Power of Kundalini Awakening

October 7, 2016 by Guest Author

by Kara-Leah Grant Meet Lawrence Edwards, a neurotherapist, psychotherapist, and an expert in Kundalini Awakening. Lawrence is unusual in this field because he has a deep grounding in both Eastern and Western traditions, and applies them both to his work with Kundalini. Join Lawrence and I as we explore Kundalini awakening in the modern world: why it can be so freaky, how it is connected to mental illness, and the trials and perils of finding an authentic teacher. On defining Kundalini … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Interviews, The Process of Kundalini, Video Interviews Tagged With: Conciousness, kundalini, kundalini awakening, kundalini yoga, Lawrence Edwards, meditation, Mental Illness, Pyschosis

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

Peter Fernando on Illness as a Spiritual Practice {audio}

July 15, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant Peter Fernando has been living with chronic illness for almost two decades, including seven years spent as a monk in the Thai Forest tradition. He's seen over 24 different health professionals in different modalities, including both conventional, Tibetan, Chinese, and alternative medicine. At some point though he realised that his experience may not go away and his focus shifted to changing how he was relating to his illness and the pain. His new book Finding Freedom in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Interviews, Video Interviews Tagged With: book review, Buddhism, illness, peter fernando

How I Dropped the Ball on Day 338 of My 1000 Day Practice

July 5, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant Today is Day 138 of a 1000 Day practice I'm doing. It should be about Day 500. But earlier this year, on Day 338 something happened and I dropped the ball. I've been doing Forty Day practices for nearly a decade now. At first, it took great dedication, commitment and mindfulness to practice yoga every day for forty days in a row, especially when I was doing the same practice each day. I learned so much about myself, how my mind worked, and where I was sabotaging … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Musings from the Mat Tagged With: Christopher Tompkins, commitment, Kashmir Shaivism, mind, patanjali, self practice, shiva rea, Vritti, Yoga Sutras

An Interview with Tom Myers of Anatomy Trains on the New Anatomy of Interconnectedness

March 31, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant Back in 2001, movement specialist Tom Myers published a book called Anatomy Trains. In it, he put forward an idea that was to forever change the way that people understood "stretching" - a systems-oriented view of our musculo-skeletal anatomy. That is, that when we stretch, we're not just stretching separate and individual muscles, but that we're also working with fascia, which is a webbing overlaid and connecting all muscles. This book was born out of the work that Tom … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews, Yoga & Community Tagged With: anatomy trains, fascia, online couse, Tom Myers, webinar

Forget New Year’s Resolutions. Ask Yourself this One Question Instead

January 20, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

Kara-Leah becoming a successful professional speaker

by Kara-Leah Grant It's my first day back at "work" in 2015. I'm starting by renaming "work" as "creation", because that's really what I do. I create. And I love it. I create words, movement, ideas, processes, life and ultimately, myself. This year I'm cranking up the mojo on my speaking career (find out more about booking me here) and I'm working on launching my first webinars. Actually, I was meant to do the webinar thing last year, but I kept putting it off. Out of the comfort zone, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: fear, new year's resolutions, success

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