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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

How to Resolve Trauma in Real Time with Tantrik Yoga Practices

June 18, 2021 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

I’m in a strip-mining phase of the awakening journey. This shows up through intense emotional triggers, and old trauma nervous system responses. I’m being called to resolve trauma in the system in real time. Fortunately I’ve got the practices, tools, techniques and skills todo this. Most importantly, my Beloved is able to hold the space …

Category: Awakening, Mental Health, TantraTag: Liberation, mental health, resolving trauma, tantra, tantrik yoga practice, trauma

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

Can Kundalini Awakening trigger Psychosis?

November 6, 2020 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

The short answer is yes. However, this does not mean that every experience of psychosis is attributable to Kundalini Awakening. And even if the experience of psychosis has been triggered by the activation of Kundalini energy, it can still be necessary to use medication, therapy, or other western medial interventions in order to stabilise the …

Category: YogaTag: kundalini awakening, Liberation, psychosis, tantra, therapy

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