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10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Yoga

February 10, 2017 by Lucinda Staniland 2 Comments

by Lucinda Staniland Most of us come to yoga with a whole lot of misconceptions about what yoga is. I was no different. Here are some of the mistakes that I made, and lessons that I learnt, as a new yoga student. 1. Asana does not equal yoga. When I started doing yoga I was awed by the strength and grace of the physical practice I saw my fellow students doing. I couldn't wait for the day when I too would move with such beauty. I fell in love with asana. But asana (physical postures) is not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: beginner yoga, flexible, home yoga practice, injury, kundalini, starting yoga, yoga, yoga teacher

Lawrence Edwards on The Divine Power of Kundalini Awakening

October 7, 2016 by Guest Author

by Kara-Leah Grant Meet Lawrence Edwards, a neurotherapist, psychotherapist, and an expert in Kundalini Awakening. Lawrence is unusual in this field because he has a deep grounding in both Eastern and Western traditions, and applies them both to his work with Kundalini. Join Lawrence and I as we explore Kundalini awakening in the modern world: why it can be so freaky, how it is connected to mental illness, and the trials and perils of finding an authentic teacher. On defining Kundalini … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Interviews, The Process of Kundalini, Video Interviews Tagged With: Conciousness, kundalini, kundalini awakening, kundalini yoga, Lawrence Edwards, meditation, Mental Illness, Pyschosis

How to Activate Your Chakras, Unlock Your Asana Practice & Make Your Heart Sing

September 29, 2016 by Guest Author 2 Comments

By Premaloka, Yoga on Waiheke Join Premloka for her Awakened Heart Yoga Retreats and Workshops: Raglan, New Zealand 28th-30th October 2016  Kovalam, India August/September 2017. Find out more here. Would you like more Happiness in your life? Would you like your practice to not only be connected to the physical body, the mind, and your breath, but to also transform you emotionally? Through working directly with the chakras and then connecting with the Bhavas (the body’s emotional … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Home Yoga Practice, Meditation Practices, Physical Practices, Practices Tagged With: Anahata, asana, chakra, chakras, kundalini, meditation, pranayama

Jonni Pollard on the Nature of Unbounded Consciousness and Awakening {video}

July 28, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant I first met Jonni Pollard at Wanderlust Great Lake Taupo in 2015. He was leading the mass meditation at 7pm on the Saturday night. I'd bumped into the other Jonnie from Wanderlust - Jonnie Halstead - hovering nervously around the Mothership, which turned into the mainstage and dance floor in the evening. Jonnie with an E confided in me that this dude from Melbourne - also called Jonni - was about to lead a mass meditation and he wasn't sure how it was going to go down. Yes, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meditation Practices, Practices, Teacher Interviews Tagged With: 1 Giant Mind, consciousness, Jonni Pollard, kundalini, meditation, shakti, The Heart, Vedic Meditation

How to Make your Kundalini Awakening a Positive Event

August 26, 2013 by Guest Author

Can Kundalini Awakening be positive experience

By guest author Tara Springett, Buddhist Therapist and Teacher My own Kundalini awakened at the age of twenty four during three courses of bioenergetic therapy, in which we held painful body postures while screaming our heart out. It was a rough approach and it achieved what it set out to achieve: it ruptured my repressive ‘body armour’ and allowed the life-force and Kundalini to flow more freely. Fifteen years later I tried to purposefully increase the amount of my Kundalini through methods … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews, The Process of Kundalini Tagged With: kundalini, kundalini awakening, Kundalini symptoms, positive Kundalini, Tara Springett

The Kundalini Awakening Process: An Inside Story

August 19, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant

Bow to the Kundalini Process

WIN a copy of Kara-Leah's new book 'Field Notes from Kundalini Awakening', publishing in 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 It's 7:15pm and I'm upside down on the carpet in front of the fire, balancing on my hands and knees, head hanging low, not quite touching the carpet. I'm meant to be on the computer, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat, The Process of Kundalini Tagged With: kundalini, kundalini awakening, kundalini process, Kundalini symptoms, positive Kundalini

The pros and cons of growing up as a yogini’s daughter

March 9, 2013 by Jacinta Aalsma 5 Comments

by guest author Jacinta Aalsma A question that pops up regularly for most yogis and yoginis is; 'How long you have been practising yoga?' I don’t have a clear memory of when I started practising or when I undertook that first life changing yoga class. I’ve been brought up with yoga, because my mum has been a yogini and yoga teacher for as long as I remember. Often, the assumption is therefore made that I’m super bendy and flexible and that I would make a great yoga teacher. After all, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: Africa, agitated, ashtanga, flexibility, hatha, journey, kundalini, mind-set, reflections, restless, Teacher’s Training, teenage rebellion, yoga class, yoga school, yogi mum

Suggestions on What to do if You’ve had a Kundalini Awakening

May 9, 2011 by Kara-Leah Grant

Kundalini Awakening

WIN a copy of Kara-Leah's new book 'Field Notes from Kundalini Awakening', publishing in 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 It can be scary, disorientating, dislocating and downright awful when Kundalini awakens. Sometimes a Kundalini Awakening will look like mental illness, physical illness or emotional … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Practices, The Process of Kundalini Tagged With: kundalini, kundalini awakening, psyche, psychosis

What is a Kundalini Awakening and Have I Had One?

April 27, 2011 by Kara-Leah Grant

Kundalini Shakti

WIN a copy of Kara-Leah's new book 'Field Notes from Kundalini Awakening', publishing in 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 The following information is not gospel - it's just my reflections and my understandings based on my own experience of Kundalini Awakening. As always, don't believe a thing I say unless it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Practices, The Process of Kundalini Tagged With: kundalini, kundalini awakening, psyche, psychosis, samskara, shakti

Kundalini Yoga – the Yoga of Consciousness

April 2, 2010 by Guest Author 2 Comments

Yogi Bhajan

by guest author Amanda Reid  Kundalini Yoga is an ancient and powerful school of Yoga utilising the science and technology, and reaping all the benefits, of Hatha, Raj, Mantra and Laya Yoga. Maintained as an oral tradition for thousands of years to protect the techniques from abuse, this secrecy also created an unnecessary image of mystery which remains today. Brought to the West in 1969 by Yogi Bhajan, there is no tradition of asceticism in Kundalini Yoga, no need to take oneself away … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga Styles Tagged With: amanda reid, kundalini

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