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Forty Days of Meditation and Manifestation – Did It Work?

June 29, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 3 Comments

Meditation is awesome - really!

by Kara-Leah Grant I've just finished a Forty Day Meditation and Manifestation practice. It's something I completely made up. I'd been wondering for many months about combining daily meditation with a conscious manifestation process because I'd observed in my own life that the first key step for creating anything new is always getting clear. Usually, before I write, I meditate or walk first. This helps to shift me into the ground of being, and out of my head. Out of this space, creativity and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Musings from the Mat Tagged With: failure, fear, manifestation, meditation

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

Why a Great Yoga Teacher is Sometimes Crucial to Progress Your Practice

March 21, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Six weeks or so into regular Mysore-style classes with Peter Sanson and I've having some serious insights and openings - not just on the physical level, but also on the emotional, mental and energetic level. But of course - how could it be any other way? These things are all intertwined and I've known this for a very long time. Before I found Peter, I'd been searching for a yoga teacher for a decade or so, while doing a home practice and sporadically … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: ashtanga, back pain, fear, Peter Sanson, support

What is Love? Deep Acceptance of the Other, and Opening to Vulnerability

March 7, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 3 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat I've been pondering the nature of Love over the last year or so, holding many deep conversations with my wonderful girlfriends and reflecting over two decades of short and long-term relationships. I've got plenty of material to draw upon! And you know what? I think I've got it. I know what love is - and what it is not. Love is a deep acceptance of the other person. Out of that ground of deep acceptance arise actions that create one's day to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: Acceptance, fear, intimacy, Relationship, The Heart, vulnerability

What if Non-Attachment is Merely a By-Product of Liberation?

November 1, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 6 Comments

ego layers dissolving

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat I'm sitting at my computer listening to a great DJ mix on Soundcloud, doing my daily work for The Yoga Lunchbox. Formatting and editing articles, dealing with advertisers, answering emails, posting on social media. Underneath the surface, as I work, I'm aware of a shift in my energy. This shift happened a few weeks ago. Maybe a month. I'm not quite sure. Whatever it was that had been driving me incessantly to publish on the internet - ever since … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: courage, creativity, doubts, fear, life, trust

Why Letting Go is a Crucial Aspect of Loving Well

July 22, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 9 Comments

Pain is love

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat It's the summer of 2000 and I've just come back to Whistler, BC after nine weeks living on the side of a volcano in Maui. I'd been on a mad adventure with a man I'd meet waitressing that winter in Whistler - but that's another story. My life is packed full of stories from that time, many of them involving men. I was young, carefree and a permanent traveller. It was four years since I'd graduated my Journalism Course and bailed on New Zealand, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: anxiety, commitment, fear, Relationship, The Heart

Keeping New Year’s Resolutions is not about willpower or discipline

January 3, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 4 Comments

Kara-Leah Grant

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat I was up early on New Year’s Day. It’s one of my favourite ways to start the year. Early morning, the world seems fresh and alive and ripe for new opportunities and new ways of being. The possibility of new choices and new ways of being seems stronger. 'How will I live this day?' 'How will I live this life?' On January 1st, this sense of potential and possibility feels stronger. New Year’s is a time for resolutions, as we make up our minds we’re … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: commitment, Committing to Yoga, consciousness, discipline, fear, forty days of yoga, home yoga practice, new year's resolutions, unconscious, willpower

Why do I resist my yoga practice when I know it’s good for me?

March 16, 2011 by Kara-Leah Grant 13 Comments

Been resisting your yoga mat lately?

This is something that's come up a few times lately from readers - why is it so hard to get on the mat when I know it's good for me and I feel so good afterwards? Oh boy, have I been there! Here's my experience, what helped me bust through that resistance once and for all, and what I learned in the process. My first yoga experience was a ten-week Iyengar course in 1995. I knew, without a doubt, that yoga was going to be an integral part of my life. That it was Super Duper Important and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Physical Practices, Practices Tagged With: emotions, fear, feelings

Surviving and thriving in the Christchurch earthquake

September 7, 2010 by Kara-Leah Grant 5 Comments

Hanuman the Monkey God

Like many yoga workshops, the recent Anusara Workshop in Christchurch with Noah Maze shook up our concepts of reality, purpose, values and life. Only in this workshop, Heroes and Heroines: Stories and Practices of Yoga, it wasn't the teachings nor the practice or even the teacher doing all the shaking, it was the earth herself. On Saturday morning, at 4.35am... just hours after a stimulating two hour practice to kickstart the weekend underpinned by the mythology of Hanuman the Monkey … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: anusara, fear, Hanuman, noah maze

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