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The Biggest Mistake I made after Kundalini Awakening

October 17, 2025 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

A Kundalini Awakening Pitfall to Avoid • The Grasping to Be Somebody One of the biggest mistakes I made after a strong awakening experience came from what followed that glimpse of freedom. My personal identity disappeared for a time — everything fell away. But life circumstances were challenging. I ended up in a psych ward, …

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When protest becomes play. On inciting a revolution of joy

October 17, 2025 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

Rana is home. A ‘ceasefire’ has been declared. Trump is claiming credit for ‘peace’ in the Middle East, whilst attempting to send troops into Portland, Oregon, because he claims it’s a “war zone” and “burning to the ground” due to people protesting the actions of ICE. The courts disagree and have blocked him on the …

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What is Awakening? A View from the Trenches

October 11, 2025 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

The Nature of Awakening • What IS Awakening? Awakening is a process, not a destination or an arrival. It is the recognition, the realization, the remembering that what you are, what I am, what we are, is not our conditioning, not our trauma, not our unresolved emotion, not our patterns, not our personas, not our …

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

September 24, 2025 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

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 …

Category: Awakening, Enjoyment of Life, Kundalini, YogaTag: 1000 Day Practice, awakening, kundalini awakening, suffering, tantra, tantrik yoga practice, trauma

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

September 23, 2025 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

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 …

Category: Awakening, Healing, Kundalini, Liberation, Mental Health, YogaTag: awakening, cannabis, mental health, psychosis

Returning to Facebook: What happened when I came back after 5 years of absence

September 7, 2025 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

My favourite part of returning to Facebook after 5 years is becoming friends with my friends. Of starting fresh and new and more or less only friend requesting or saying yes to those who ARE my friends. Given how much I’ve moved, constantly leaving behind communities in Whistler, up & down New Zealand, and now …

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