All righty, I’ve got an email here from someone asking a question about the Kundalini Awakening Purification Process, so let’s dive in. Watch the video, read the article, or do both! You said that a Kundalinī awakening highlights when you’re deluded, stuck, attached, in aversion, or out of alignment with reality. It must eventually lead …
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 …
Kundalini Awakening: Symptoms, Process, Benefits, Support & Help
by Kara-Leah Grant Whether you’ve had a Kundalini Awakening, are curious about the process of awakening Kundalini, think you might have some of the symptoms of a Kundalini Awakening, or are looking for support for a Kundalini Awakening, you’re in the right place. Over the last decade, I have explored Kundalini Awakenings from many perspectives, …
My Third Eye’s A’twitchin’ – Does That Mean She’s Awakening?
December 2010By Kara-Leah Grant My third eye has been twitching all afternoon, a sensation that started during my recent trip to LA for teacher training with Shiva Rea. The last time I can remember it doing this I was sitting in a Wellington restaurant with my Aunt, who’s a straight-up, salt of the earth, farmer, and …
When Kundalini Awakens. Now What?
by Kara-Leah Grant Recently, I sat down cross-legged to do my daily Tantrik Yoga* practice as I have done every day for the past 150+ days. More if you count my first attempt at hitting 1000 Day Practice, when I got up to Day 338. This practice has become very familiar to me. However, unlike …






