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How to Prevent the Practicalities Getting in the Way of Your Dreams

May 14, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

Get clear on your dreams and then take action. You will be supported.

by Kara-Leah Grant Over the past decade I've become skilled at working with the unconscious and that which holds us back from realising our dreams. I'm adept at identifying something I would like to experience, and then making it happen. I wanted to write and publish a book. I've now written and published two. I had a dream of teaching Yoga Trance Dance with a live DJ rocking it behind me, and I'm now part of Yoga Rhythms with fellow yoga teacher, DJ and Goddess Rire. I dreamt of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat, Yoga & Community Tagged With: dream realization, dreams, forty day process, habit-hacking, habit-hacking workshop, Mount Maunganui Workshop, success, workshop

Have You Given Up Reaching for Your Dreams?

May 8, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant Never before in human history have we known so much. We have unlimited information at our fingertips, and that information is constantly being updated. We know how to maintain optimum health including how to eat, how to exercise and how to practice yoga. We can learn any new skill for free - a new language, a musical instrument, we can even get a degree for free. No matter what dream we want to pursue, the information required to do so is available to us. Yet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Community Tagged With: change, forty day process, habits, success, workshop

How I Learned to Live My Yoga and Rock My Life

April 2, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

Yoga rhythms

by Kara-Leah Grant Ten years ago I was six months out of an Acute Psych Ward after two psychotic episodes, and was just beginning the process of cutting down the medication I'd been given after a diagnosis of bipolar. The emotional pain of being dumped by my fiance was still fresh and raw, and I'd only just stopped sobbing my heart out every day. Not that I was crying only about our break-up. The psychosis had ripped open decades of unexpressed emotion plus the spiritual awakening I'd had at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me Tagged With: mental health, recovery, success, yoga philosophy, yoga webinar

Forget New Year’s Resolutions. Ask Yourself this One Question Instead

January 20, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

Kara-Leah becoming a successful professional speaker

by Kara-Leah Grant It's my first day back at "work" in 2015. I'm starting by renaming "work" as "creation", because that's really what I do. I create. And I love it. I create words, movement, ideas, processes, life and ultimately, myself. This year I'm cranking up the mojo on my speaking career (find out more about booking me here) and I'm working on launching my first webinars. Actually, I was meant to do the webinar thing last year, but I kept putting it off. Out of the comfort zone, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: fear, new year's resolutions, success

The Conundrum of the Inflexible Yoga Teacher

October 29, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 14 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat One Sunday recently I retired to the beach for 90 minutes to work my way through a set yoga sequence a friend had posted on their Facebook page. It was total luxury. My son was with his uncle, I had no-where to  be and nothing to do, but soak up the sun, the salty breeze, and washing sound of the waves while immersing myself in a yoga sequence. I hated it. Oh, not the scene, or the setting, or the child-free time but the sequence. From the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: failure, flexible, good enough, success, yoga teacher

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

Transmutation of Feeling States or What To Do When You Feel Like Shit

May 20, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 3 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat I'm making video tomorrow, of me teaching, to you, a home yoga student who wants to be inspired in your practice. I've done this before, a couple of years ago, when I started the Yoga Exploration Series. This is more of the same, yet different. Then, I stopped filming because I didn't have the audio quality necessary and was getting complaints from people about not being able to hear what I was saying. That project went on the back-burner while I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: failure, perfectionism, success, video

I can’t do that. Actually, maybe I can. Hey, I can do it!

May 9, 2013 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

Sara Foley

by guest author Sara Foley, Smells Good, Feels Good I'm not really sure how to begin this post, except to say: These ideas that you have about what you can and can't do, the things that are too hard or to big to begin - often these ideas are formed in a time of perceived failure. We don't think to ourselves; Oh, right, maybe I am not ready to do that yet, or maybe if I try that a different way it will work, or maybe I need some help to do that, or even let's sleep on that and try again … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me Tagged With: disipline, failure, forty days of yoga, headstand shoulder stand, perception, sara foley, success

What does ‘Yoga is a path to self-realisation’ mean?

March 27, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 5 Comments

By Kara-Leah Grant It's the eve of my book launch and I'm watching a talk on TED called The Gift of Asking. Earlier, I took time to sit on the front deck of my Aunt's house, high on a hill over looking Thames and watched the sun set. The views were panoramic, the insect life vibrant and lyrical, and as I sat I felt profoundly connected. I felt, in my bones, a sense of achievement and accomplishment as I realised I'd done it; I'd come back from insanity - all the way back. For the first time, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: failure, path, samskara, seal-realization, self-realisation, success

I can do it. (And so can you)

March 22, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

By Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Oh yes... the pressure has been on this week. I leave this Saturday for Auckland in preparation for launching Forty Days of Yoga at the International Yoga Conference Festival next Friday. My book hasn't gone to print yet. There's been issues with corrupted files. Scheduling difficulties with layout folk and designers. Couriers that don't deliver. Trimming accidents. And finally, font issues on the print proof. It's to be expected. There's always … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: decisions, failure, forty days of yoga book, issues, power, pressure, success

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