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How Long Should I Meditate For?

January 19, 2017 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

Samuel meditating

by Kara-Leah Grant If you've googled your way to this article, you've likely come looking for some kind of concrete answer to your question. Like 10 minutes a day. Or twenty minutes, three times a week. If that's the kind of answer you're looking for, because you're using meditation as a way to de-stress, or chill out, or because all the cool kids are doing it, you may as well stop reading right now. This article won't help you by giving you a definitive answer. However, if you're meditating … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meditation Practices, Practices Tagged With: consciousness, enlightenment, fears, meditation, waking up

A Brand New Vision! Of… No-Thing-Ness. Again.

November 28, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant One month ago I wrote about creating a new vision to orient The Yoga Lunchbox behind. Normally when I set sail on a course of action like that, things move fast. Normally that vision would be laid out clear by now. But these are not normal times, at least, not in my world. Over the last six months I have been on the super-highway to facing reality as it is. At least, that's what it's felt like. A perfect storm of people and circumstances have given me ample opportunity … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Musings from the Mat Tagged With: awakening, enlightenment, New Paradigm, vision

The Difference between Practicing Yoga Postures and Having a Yoga Practice

April 7, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 9 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant There are many people doing yoga poses today, but there are far less people who have a yoga practice. Postures are everywhere - Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, advertising, magazines, yoga classes, yoga retreats, yoga teacher trainings. However, postures do not make a yoga practice. A yoga practice requires at least two other important elements before it can serve its purpose - that of self-realisation, or of waking the practitioner up from the dream of Maya … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: container, enlightenment, kleshas, maya, samskaras, teacher, yoga practice

On the Dilution of the Genuine Transmission of Yoga Part 2

December 1, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 5 Comments

The Soloist by Alex Seton

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat I've been contemplating the many reactions I received to this article over the past week or so, On the Dilution of the Transmission of Yoga. One person unsubscribed from the website (or at least - one person told me they had because of this article, more people may have!) saying that I had made some good points but she found the article judgemental and unyogic. Other people rejoiced that someone was speaking such things out loud. It does feel … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: consciousness, enlightenment, Teacher training, teaching

The Best of Yoga Philosophy

August 28, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

The Yoga Lunchbox is proud to host this week's edition of... Best of Yoga Philosophy A Virtual Magazine & Forum The very best Yoga philosophy articles from all over the Web. Follow daily on Pinterest (best browsing), Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin Please pass the word to your friends who like Yoga philosophy. Thanks for your interest and support. Bob W. Editor ***** Very interesting discussion about the Bhagavad Gita ~ A Fascinating Discussion Going on over at Facebook - read … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Community Tagged With: bhagavad gita, enlightenment, yoga philosophy

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 actually quite a spiritual guy. Oh really?

May 22, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 11 Comments

By Kara-Leah Grant Can we, like, ban the word spirituality already? And spiritual. Like, if someone says, I'm actually quite a spiritual guy, I just want to gag. What the hell does that mean anyway? What does spiritual and spirituality mean?   I turned to that font of all modern knowledge to find out. Wikipedia. The term spirituality lacks a definitive definition, although social scientists have defined spirituality as the search for "the sacred," where "the sacred" is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: enlightenment, forget, let go, satsang, spiritual, spirituality, surrender, teachings, waking up

Enlightenment is available to us in every moment – right here, right now

June 30, 2010 by Kara-Leah Grant 11 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant Never more am I reminded that every moment is an opportunity to wake up than during a morning with a crying baby. We came home last night from a week in the mountains to a cold, damp, empty house and discovered the fridge had been accidentally switched off and the kitchen was rank with defrosted fish bait. It's been cold enough in Dunedin that most of the contents of the fridge are salvageable but the freezer's a write-off. No worries... open some windows, light some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: enlightenment

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