Scholarship Fund • Kara-Leah

The Scholarship Fund

Making the alleviation of mind-created suffering accessible to all

Love the work that Kara-Leah offers to the world? Want to make is possible for more people to access that work?

Over the past decade, Kara-Leah has worked with hundreds of people on retreats, trainings, immersion and 1:1. She’s supported people to identify and uninstall limiting beliefs, to fully heal and dissolve deep childhood wounds and trauma, and to become empowered on their journey of awakening and liberation.

Throughout her teaching career, Kara-Leah has given away scores of scholarships, doing whatever she can to make the work accessible. However, she’s contacted by more people ready and willing to do the work than she can financially support. Now she’s opening up a Scholarship Fund to give the wider community an opportunity to support others to access this important work.

Every month, Kara-Leah takes any donations received into the Scholarship Fund and uses them to offer scholarships for people to access her work:

Trainings • Retreats • Workshops • Immersions • 1:1 Sessions.

These community-funded scholarships are in addition to the partially-funded scholarships that Kara-Leah also funds herself. These are usually offered at cost to at least 1 or 2 participants on every offering.

If you’d like to contribute to the Community Scholarship Fund, please use one of the buttons below. There is always a general scholarship fund in action, plus sometimes a targeted scholarship for a particular person. You’ll see your choices when you get to Paypal.

If you’re donating via Bank Transfer, please use ScholFund as the code, plus the name of the person or event if you would like to be specific. (See below for current options.)

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Community Scholarship Recipients

Current applicants have * stars on either side * of their names.
Previous applicants now funded have the stars removed.

* Mental Health Worker * • Ancestral Trauma Healing Retreat • October 2021

We’re currently raising money for a Mental Health Worker to attend this Retreat. This single parent has been dedicated to Classical Tantra for the past two years, and has had huge shifts in their experience of life. When they began, they’d been taking anxiety medication for decades, and had been unable to work. They are now off the medication, and working. Any money raised will support their attendance at this Retreat.

Jemma and Paul • Yoga Rhapsody • Ancestral Trauma Healing Retreat • October 2021

Thanks to your generous donations, Jemma and Paul will be attending the Ancestral Trauma Healing Retreat in October 2021. As Yoga Rhapsody, Jemma and Paul offer all kinds of community groups music & yoga for healing – including regular prison work. Your scholarship donation means they can come and receive powerful practices that will support them in this work.

Jemma says: “For the last 6 years, Yoga Rhapsody has been dedicated to being of service, for different groups within the community. This includes heading into prisons, rehabilitation units, men’s and women’s shelters, and mental health support centres. At its core, our mahi is about offering a bridge towards connection through maanakitanga and encouraging people to uphold and stand in their mana. We offer what we can to help people find a comfortable way to reconnect within and to those around them. Sometimes It is through yoga/movement/meditation/mindfulness, other times it is a hairdressing service or the sharing of music/waiata, or genuine kōrero over a cuppa or kai etc. More than anything it is sharing time and presence with each other, getting to know one another and building friendship. Disconnection creates a dis-ease. We know this from our own personal journeys as well as from the wisdom shared by the incredible people we spend this time with. Whilst moving gently towards re-connection, we softly plant the seeds that may encourage further steps along a personal path of healing and reclaiming each and every part of self, with love.“

Fixed Costs of the Retreat Fully Funded • $1500 raised in total.

One Participant • Direct Realization Tantra Training • July 2021

This student had this to say about receiving a full scholarship to attend this Training:
“Dear friend, I just want to express my gratitude for your generosity in funding a scholarship for Kara-Leah’s most recent training. It has been such a blessing and transformative experience in my life to get back into my spiritual practice and work. After a long period of life challenges and ill health, I felt lost in my spiritual life and was experiencing a lot of difficulty in getting back into it. Through the week I was able to release some of my baggage. On returning home, I realized I had been able to finally shift from a place of harbouring anger and resentment, to a place of being truly grateful for the painful experiences in my life. To me this is a profound change and shift within, as I have tried to make peace with my past, to move to a place of gratitude, but without the genuine experience. Now, I feel a sense of freedom and opening in my life with this change. I am eternally grateful. Thank you from the depths of my soul.”

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Fully Funded • $1995 received from one Community Supporter

Yoga Rhapsody – Recent Scholarship Recipient

FAQs

Can I apply for a scholarship?

Yes! When you register for any of Kara-Leah’s events, there’s always an option to apply for a scholarship. Just tick that box and Kara-Leah will be in touch with more details.

Can I get a receipt for my donation?

Yes! Kara-Leah can issue you a receipt for your donation through Xero, which is her accounting software. However as her business is not a registered charity, you can’t deduct this as a donation from your taxes.

What People are Saying about Working with Kara-Leah

“This work is not just a symptomatic fix, but a total perspective shift, one which supports you in up-leveling every area of your life. I’m learning how to turn inwards to be with uncomfortable feelings, get curious about what is going on, and find my own inner knowledge.“

EmilyMentoring Client

“If you are seeking practical, real-life tools, practices, and teachings for spiritual awakening, you will find them with Kara-Leah. She offers a practical application for aligning with reality in an accessible way, whatever your personal path in this lifetime.“

AndreaOnline Direct Realization Tantra Training

“Kara-Leah is the most real, authentic, and quite frankly life-changing ‘help’ I have ever had. I can’t speak highly enough of her work.

JennieIgnite Your Career program

I am beyond grateful for my teacher, Kara-Leah. With her guidance, I have been able to welcome curiosity and lightness into my practice, such unfamiliar territory for me – yet, with her support, I feel it now.

TanDirect Realization Tantra Training

“Kara- Leah has created a training that is both personally transformative and universally healing. I have personally experienced big shifts during the training, and the work continues to manifest and feature in my daily life.”

KirstyDirect Realization Tantra Training