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The Best of Kara-Leah

New Zealand’s Best Transformational Festivals

February 20, 2024 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

Transformational Festivals – What are they? My definition is that the purpose of the festival is not just to entertain, or party, but also to have a transformative effect on participants. If there are workshops like yoga, meditation, personal development, growth-orientated, green-focused, breathwork or education-focused, then it’s likely a transformational festival. If the organisers share …

Category: Awakening, The Best of Kara-Leah, YogaTag: dance, festivals

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

June 8, 2022 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

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 …

Category: Awakening, The Best of Kara-Leah, Yoga

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Battling Spiritual Materialism: That Time I was Kicked off an Online Summit

September 14, 2020 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

Recently, I was invited to appear as a presenter on an online Summit that was focused on raising consciousness. Turns out it was likely all about spiritual materialism*. When the invite showed up in my inbox, from people I didn’t know, I went to check out the material, check out their website, and see who …

Category: Business, Kundalini, The Best of Kara-LeahTag: awakening, presenter, spiritual materialism, truth

Todd Muller, Panic Attacks and the Shame of Mental Illness

August 10, 2020 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

The front page article of the Herald on Saturday was a sympathetic interview with Todd Muller, he who was National leader for 53 days, and his wife Michelle. ‘I had anxiety. I experienced that quite severely and I had panic attacks,’ says Muller in the article. This is a man who has been involved in …

Category: Mental Health, Politics, The Best of Kara-Leah

What’s with Tantra and Sex?

May 26, 2020 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

There it was, in black and white, blazoned across the Google search results, Tantra and sex, everywhere: “Tantra worship has flourished in popularity in the Western World, establishing a reinterpretation of Hindu and Buddhist practices. This new, modern practice is often referred to as Neotantra. As time progressed, some of the ancient outdated teachings of tantra have been readopted …

Category: Tantra, The Best of Kara-Leah, YogaTag: sex, tantra

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