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Mentoring Client Transformation • Mastering the Annual Review

April 20, 2024 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

But what do you DO with clients? Help them master life – including the corporate annual review. Here’s a story. She’s a mentoring client, who’s had a kundalini awakening, is working a corporate job, and is focused on integrating her awakening and medium-term transitioning into running her own business. Her annual review was coming up, …

Category: Client SuccessTag: awakening, Liberation, mentoring

Can you feel the love tonight? How about now?

November 2, 2021 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

It’s November. That means mid to late spring here in Aotearoa – the lambs have already been and gone, and so have the daffodils. But the trees are still greening up, and the mostly-steady heat of summer has yet to arrive. Can you feel the love? It’s also 2021. That means Covid-19, Lockdowns, vaccines and …

Category: Awakening, Enjoyment of Life, TantraTag: awakening, covid-19, love, tantra, vaccine

An example of Śāmbhava Upāya in action

April 4, 2021 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

According to Abhinavagupta, a master of the Tantrik lineages, there are three skilful means to liberation, or Upāya, of which one is śāmbhava upāya. He first outlined this framework in Tantrāloka around 10 centuries ago. The first is the Embodied Means (ānava upāya), which focuses on practices that use the body, breath and imagination, focusing …

Category: Awakening, Tantra, YogaTag: abhinavagupta, awakening, earth beat festival, Liberation, Upaya

spiritual materialism

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

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