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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

A Tale of Mat Resistance, and Practicing Anyway

March 16, 2021 //  by Kara-Leah Grant

Mat resistance. Happens to the best of us, no matter how long we’ve been practicing. Here’s a glimpse into a moment of mat resistance in my life, back in 2013. Notice how I respond to it, notice the process, notice life isn’t all peaches and cream because I’m practicing yoga everyday. ***** It’s been a …

Category: Mindset, YogaTag: Forty Days of Yoga, Mat resistance, psychosis, yoga

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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