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Can Yoga Teacher Scandals and Transgressions be an Opportunity for Growth? 

February 15, 2018 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant The guru model is dead in modern Western Yoga. And the list of scandals involving gurus, or teachers, or swamis just seems to be growing longer. Where the hell are all the enlightened and perfect teachers? They don't exist. Our teachers - known and unknown, big and small, experienced and fresh, revered and loved, skilled and talented, wise and powerful - they are also human. Which means that our teachers, like us, have unconscious shit that can get in the way of their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: Bikram, fall from grace, john friend, power, responsibility, Yoga Scandal, yoga teacher

Nine Ways to Master Yourself, and Therefore Life

June 10, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 24 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant There are two ways to live life. One is as a victim, getting upset and angry at what life throws at you, and trying to change the people and circumstances around you to make life easier. The second is as a Master, taking whatever life throws at you and using it to change yourself, making yourself stronger and more resilient so life becomes easier and easier. If you've been wasting energy on trying to change people around you, or wasting energy on reacting to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga Tagged With: Acceptance, blame, home practice, letting go, master, mind, resistance, responsibility, slave, solutions, surrender

The First Step to Consciously Heal Anything

February 26, 2016 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Ben Ralston The first step in truly healing anything - which means uprooting the cause of the problem - is to take responsibility for the problem. Many of us begin this journey by getting on the yoga mat. However, sometimes, that’s not enough. At the root of all our problems - everything that needs healing today - is trauma. At some point in our lives (or in the lives of our ancestors) a trauma was experienced that wasn’t completed. As a result, we now experience problems - like anxiety … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews, The Process of Kundalini Tagged With: ben ralston, healing, responsibility, retreat, trauma

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