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Five Strategies for Starting & Maintaining Your Home Yoga Practice

February 5, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant, author of Forty Days of Yoga If you'd rather watch a video than read an article, skip to the end of this article and you'll find a short video of me going over these same five points. These are simple and effective strategies for creating and maintaining your home yoga practice and it's the type of thing we explore in more depth in Forty Days of Yoga. None of these strategies are rocket science - it's all plain common sense, but these strategies can challenge underlying … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video Tagged With: book, forty days of yoga, home yoga practice, mark whitwell, ritual, strategies

Do too many perfect yoga images do yoga a dis-service?

February 3, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 5 Comments

By Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Check out that image to your right. It's beautiful. A beautiful woman in a beautiful setting doing a beautiful posture. I love to look at images like that. But it's not the kind of image I've chosen for the cover of my book Forty Days of Yoga. I've chosen an image of me sitting on a chair - not even a beautiful chair - just a nondescript chair on a white background. I'm wearing jeans and a t-shirt. I'm not doing a recognisable yoga … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: book, commit, forty days of yoga, home practice

On having the courage to pull the plug at the 11th hour

January 15, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 5 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Last week, I wrote the acknowledgements and officially signed off from Forty Days of Yoga, completing the final draft. It was a surreal moment - as if I'd been here before and knew what to do. And of course I have, many times, in my dreams. I've been a writer since childhood and always knew I'd write a book. What I didn't know was how many people would join me on this journey, how supportive they would be and how humbling it would be to receive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: book, courage, failure, forty days of yoga, letting go, success, surrender, worthiness

Forty Days of Yoga: A journey to create a home yoga practice

January 9, 2013 by Guest Author 9 Comments

by guest author Sara Foley, Smells Good, Feels Good I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep it burning. I said: what about my heart? God said: Tell me what you hold inside it? I said: pain and sorrow? He said: ...stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ~ Rumi I am one of Kara-Leah’s ‘beta readers’ for her upcoming book Forty Days of Yoga – Breaking Down the Barriers to a Yoga Home … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice Tagged With: deserve, discipline, forty days of yoga, home practice, sara foley, self-worth

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

The world doesn’t need another yoga practice progamme

December 13, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 6 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Last week, after publishing the article outlining Forty Days of Yoga, I received an email from a reader excited about the  book. She was particularly excited about having a set programme of yoga she and her students could do. Pause. A moment of clarity. Forty Days of Yoga is not a set practice programme. There is no instruction on asana at all, and for very good reason. The world does not need more information on what postures to do, how and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: book, forty days of yoga, home practice, home yoga practice, sequence, set practice

What is a Sadhana and Why Do I Need One in My Life?

June 25, 2009 by Kara-Leah Grant 11 Comments

By Kara-Leah, Regular readers will well remember I started a forty day sadhana (spiritual practice) oh... a few months ago. It was an Infinite Wealth and Prosperity meditation, and I was loving doing it. But then something happened. I found out I was pregnant, and as this particular meditation involved stomach pumps (a no-no for pregnant women), I had to stop. But I couldn't write about it immediately, because I had to wait to tell people I was pregnant. Now I can tell people... so I can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Classics, Home Yoga Practice, The Foundations Tagged With: Committing to Yoga, forty days of yoga, spiritual practice

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