I want to talk to you about joy, not as an emotion and not as a feeling, but as the inherent nature of beingness, and what this means on the Joy Rebel Path. In non-dual Shaiva Tantra, joy isn’t something you chase, cultivate, fix or manufacture. It isn’t the opposite of sadness. It isn’t the …
What’s the First Step in dealing with a Kundalini Awakening Purification Process?
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 …
Beyond the Window of Tolerance: Alchemy, Co-Regulation, and Completing the Unfinished Cycle
In much of contemporary trauma work, practitioners talk about the window of tolerance — a concept developed by Dr. Dan Siegel, psychiatrist and founder of the Mindsight Institute. It describes the range of arousal within which a person can function smoothly: think clearly, feel emotion, and stay connected to themselves and others. When the nervous …
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 …
Mentoring Client Transformation • Mastering the Annual Review
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, …