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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

How Understanding the Kleshas and Gunas Helps Your Asana Practice

April 15, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 7 Comments

yogic breahting

by Kara-Leah Grant Asana is a powerful tool to access our psyches, release tension in the body, and help us understand the hidden aspects of Self. Practicing asana gives us the opportunity to observe our relationship with the postures, with our bodies, with our minds and with our breath. This relationship is what reveals ourselves to ourselves. In other words, paying attention to questions like this is how we use asana to awaken. Are you liking the pose? Disliking the pose? Or are you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: attachment, aversion, gunas, kleshas, 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

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