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Everything You Need to Know About Kundalini Awakening (But Didn’t Know to Ask)

June 8, 2022 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

Photo by Pete Longworth

Kundalini Awakening, the activation and rising of Kundalini energy in the body, can be a frightening and even dangerous experience.

This is especially the case if you experienced a spontaneous Kundalini Awakening before doing the work to prepare yourself for it. That’s when a Kundalini Awakening can lead to horror stories of out-of-control “crazy” behaviour and symptoms like Kudanlini-induced psychosis.

Eighteen years on from my own Awakening (and yes, it included all of the above) I’ve learned a LOT about how to skillfully integrate Kundalini energy.

I’ve studied Kundalini within the Yogic and Tantrik traditions, I’ve fully integrated my own Awakening and I’ve supported hundreds of students in their healing and integration process.

Because although Kundalini Awakenings can be downright awful there are so many benefits that come when you integrate, heal, and get the support you need.

How do you get there? As a starting point, I’ve gathered together my top Kundalini Awakening resources. They range from free articles and videos to online courses, books and 1:1 sessions.

The Best Articles

Kundalini Awakening: Symptoms, Process, Benefits, Support & Help

What is a Kundalini Awakening and Have I Had One?

Suggestions on What to Do if You’ve Had a Kundalini Awakening

The Kundalini Awakening Process: An Inside Story

Can Kundalini Awakening trigger Psychosis?

The Best Videos

The Best Books

“Is it possible… is it possible that kundalini awakening could look like psychosis?”

After ditching university, Kara-Leah Grant spent her twenties traveling the world in search of adventure, creativity and a tribe of like-minded souls.

Sex, drugs, yoga and music festivals were simply part of the fun, until they weren’t.

Diagnosed as bipolar after leaping topless onto a moving logging truck in the wilderness of British Columbia, Kara-Leah returns to New Zealand to heal her soul, face her past, and uncover the deep truths of her innermost being. This is her story of healing, recovery and liberation.

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Join Kara-Leah on a 4-week course & explore the roadmap and practices necessary to integrate YOUR Kundalinī Awakening. Discover how to avoid the traps, obstacles, and pitfalls along the way. Meet the challenges with ease and make the most of the energy and wisdom now available to you.

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Kara-Leah has worked with hundreds of clients and students as a spiritual mentor. She helps people identify and dissolve their conditioning, reprogramme their operating systems (psyches) and step into their desired experience of life. Kara-Leah works with people for a minimum of three month in a process that includes 1:1 sessions, wrap-around support and access to The Tantrika’s Toolbox.

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What the F*ck Has New Zealand Done to Stop Genocide in Gaza?

Context (the horror, the facts you need to know) on what NZ has done to stop genocide. On 7 October 2023, Hamas launched a coordinated attack into southern Israel — killing civilians, storming towns, taking hostages. The Israeli security apparatus responded with ferocity. In the chaos, some Israeli troops even ended up killing their own …

How I was the source of my own suffering when I had an intense Kundalini Awakening (is this you too?)

Something that’s common amongst people experiencing an intense Kundalini Awakening is a desire for things to be different, a desire to fix or change things. It’s such a paradox but the doorway for a Kundalini Awakening, the portal, is our willingness to meet and embrace whatever’s unfolding exactly as it is. The paradox is that …

Cannabis as a Sacred Plant Medicine: Journeying, Accessing Trance States & Psychosis

by Kara-Leah Grant, (I wrote this in 2019, and only just published it, 2025) This article has been a long time coming. Given that Canada has just legalised cannabis, and New Zealand is finally having a referendum on legalising it in 2020, it feels like now is the time. The danger in writing about the …

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