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How to Use Your Yoga Practice to Cultivate Specific States of Being

January 27, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

Goddess

by Kara-Leah Grant When Wanderlust asked me to submit four classes to teach at the inaugural four-day festival in New Zealand, I pondered how to theme those classes. One of my yoga students had recently told me how she thought my teaching was Goddess-focused and she always felt like I was helping her step into her feminine power in class. I pondered that for a few days. And then it hit me. I was a long-time Tarot enthusiast and love the symbology and depths of insight revealed in Tarot … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: abundance, bhavana, compassion, courage, discernment, master

The Full Creative Abundance Sun Salutation Sequence

December 19, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant Welcome to the sixth and final Creative Sun Salutation Abundance flow video here on The Yoga Lunchbox. This week we put it all together - everything that we've been exploring over the last five weeks. This time, I verbally talk you through two circular sun salutations - once on the right leg and once on the left leg. This is to help you fully learn the sequence. However, once you've got it, forget about watching me and the video and instead play and explore in your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video Tagged With: abundance, practice online, Sun Salutation, vinyasa flow, yoga video

Why it’s Possible to Evoke Abundance through a Yoga Practice

December 10, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

A deceptively simple but powerful posture - notice the hands in mudra.

by Kara-Leah Grant Welcome to the fifth Creative Sun Salutation Abundance flow here on The Yoga Lunchbox. This week we explore our final three postures, facing the back of the mat. As always, we're using the same tools and techniques to find freedom and ease in our bodies - breath, micro-movements, pulsations. It's also becoming more clear how it's possible to evoke a sense of abundance through a sun salutation. Our first posture this week is about releasing and bowing to the earth - … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video Tagged With: abundance, gifts, home yoga video, personal development, talents

The Ups and Downs of Mastering Squat Pose

December 4, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

Transition pose - the squat. Seems simple, but there's a lot of power one can cultivate here.

by Kara-Leah Grant Welcome to the fourth Creative Sun Salutation Abundance flow here on The Yoga Lunchbox. This week we explore a transition posture as we move from the front of the mat to the back of the mat - an important part of working with circular sun salutations. In this particular variation, I'm using a squat to make that transition, which gives us a greater sense of our roots or foundation. Squatting is all about our relationship to the earth - we have to both surrender downward … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video Tagged With: abundance, malasana, squat, video

How to Cultivate Abundance on the Yoga Mat Part 2 {video}

November 18, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant Welcome to the second Creative Sun Salutation flow here on The Yoga Lunchbox. As with the last six-part series, the first two episodes in this series are free for anybody to access, and the final four are for Insiders only. (You can become a member of Inside the Box here.) This week we add on to the beginning of our abundance sun salutation, moving through halfway lift, high plank, low plank, upward dog, downward dog, three-legged dog and knee to nose. Most of you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video Tagged With: abundance, core, Mula Bandha, sun salutations, Uddiyana Bandha, video

How to Cultivate Abundance on the Yoga Mat Part 1 {video}

November 11, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

Abundance comes from the way we're connected to what nourishes us and the way in which we open ourselves to give & receive

by Kara-Leah Grant Welcome to the second Creative Sun Salutation flow here on The Yoga Lunchbox. As with the last six-part series, the first two episodes in this series are free for anybody to access, and the final four are for Insiders only. (You can become a member of Inside the Box here.) When I teach and practice yoga, my tendency is to work with different energies on the mat, cultivating those energies as required, depending what's going on in my life at that time. This particular … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video Tagged With: abundance, Lotus Mudra, online yoga video, shakti, Sun Salutation, uttanasana

The Emergence of the Gift Economy: Greater Wealth & Abundance for All

August 8, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 5 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat I've been pondering money, value, gifts, offering and exchange this week. I met with a friend who talked about how she was doing work she was passionate about that barely paid her enough to survive on. This work is about how we create our societies and so benefits everybody. She said that she'd noticed it as an increasing trend - that on one hand we do what we need to do to earn the money to survive, and on the other hand we do our important work. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: abundance, gift, gifting, wealth

10 reasons why I’m excited to choose corporate work over teaching yoga

May 16, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 18 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Oh yes loyal Lunchboxers, after weighing up what I need in my life right now, I've decided to forgo trying to earn a living wage as a yoga teacher and website publisher, and instead head back into the workplace. I've been sprucing up my CV, writing cover letters, and getting in touch with recruitment agencies. It feels GREAT! Normally the story we hear is about people getting disillusioned with working for a living, with being in the corporate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: abundance, career, corporate, job, money, passion, solo mum, support, teaching, The Heart, work, yoga

Breaking away from asana and exploring the other limbs of yoga

May 22, 2011 by Jessica Powers 4 Comments

Eight limbs of yoga

We have just moved house, my partner and I.  In the midst of trying to insure we have all our things in spaces that make sense, I’ve been eyeing the large deck and huge lounge floor. This house is made for practicing Yoga. Which I haven’t done in I don’t know how long.  Not specifically the sort that everyone thinks of when they hear the word ‘yoga’, anyway.  That is to say: my life has had no asana practice for a couple weeks. Since asana is only one of eight – 1 of 8! – limbs of Yoga, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga Tagged With: abundance, home practice, relationships, yoga philosophy

The path to true abundance lies within

November 20, 2009 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

We live in an infinitely abundant universe. This is a fact. Stare up at a clear sky night and try and count the stars. Cut open a capsicum and try and count the seeds. Stand on the corner of Lambton Quay and Willis Street and try and count the people flowing in all directions. Life is abundant. It flourishes under even the harshest of conditions. Deserts. Mountain tops. Ocean depths. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: abundance, money, scarcity, seva

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