Description
For our 11th episode, I had the pleasure to sit down with Kara-Leah Grant. Kara-Leah is an internationally-renowned yoga teacher, author and retreat leader. She is the founder of New Zealand’s most popular yoga website The Yoga Lunchbox, she’s also a contributor for Elephant Journal, and has published two books. Today we sat down to talk about her yoga practice and how it has influenced the way she teaches and leads her retreats.
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Kara-Leah is an internationally-renowned retreat leader, teacher and author. She has impacted millions of people over the last decade through her articles, books, videos and teaching. Passionate about liberation in this lifetime, Kara-Leah practices and teaches an every day path of awakening - the path of the Awakened Heart Warrior.
This path is grounded in Tantra and focuses on dissolving layers of the conditioned mind into deeper and deeper heart-felt presence. Kara-Leah’s work, through her teaching, writing and retreats, focuses on using the process of compassionate inquiry to reveal conditioned mind, and so help people to drop down into being-ness and presence.
Find more about her here:
Retreats: karaleah.com/events/
FB: Kara-Leah Grant
IG : Kara-Leah Grant
Books: The No-More-Excuses Guide to Yoga & Forty Days of Yoga on karaleah.com/books/
QUESTIONS SHE ANSWERED DURING THIS EPISODE :
- Can you tell us a bit about yourself and what brought you to yoga originally?
- How does your practice serve you now? What do you seek, why is it an important part of your life?
- How does having a daily practice and a home practice has impacted your life as a yogi and as a teacher? You’re doing a 1000 days of home practice challenge? How is that going? What did you learn from the experience so far?
- Why does self-study and inquiry are at the center of what you do?
- What is the first step for teachers that want to start teaching more than asanas?
- Tantric philosophy seems to influence your teachings. Why? How? Where would you suggest people start if there are interested in the subject?
- You’re the founder of New Zealand’s most popular yoga website The Yoga Lunchbox. What were your intention when you started this website?
- You wrote a lot of articles on The Yoga Lunchbox and you’re also a contributor on Elephant Journal. On both platform, you have written some very open, honest and vulnerable articles. How do you decide what to write about? Any advice for teachers that want to share deep and personal experiences? Have you encounter any challenges?
- You call yourself an Awakened Heart Warrior. What does that mean? How does it influence and direct you work in retreats and 1:1?
- Any tips for teachers that are just starting to lead retreats? How can they make the experience more potent?
OTHER REFERENCES:
Shiva Rea
Rod Stryker
Twee Merrigan
Christopher Tompkins
Sarah Hon
Kara-Leah's Photos by : Pete Longworth
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