Dear Community,

In the beginning, the old stories tell us that the waters came again and again.

The sea rose. The eggs were taken. The nest was moved, and still the waters advanced. The cry went out to Vishnu, the Preserver of Life, and the sea was swallowed so Mother Earth could appear.

These are not just stories from long ago.

They are teachings.

They tell us about life, destruction, protection, survival, creation, and the way the Earth herself carries memory in her body.

The Himalayas rise as mountains of the gods. They hold the story of pressure, violence, uplift, shadow, life, death, and the great forces that shape our world. To those who live in the southern shadow, the Himalayas have brought life. To those who live in the northern shadow, they have brought death.

This is the teaching of contrast.

This is the teaching of shadow.

This is the teaching of paying attention.

I have visited Mustang and Dolpo in Nepal. I remember arriving by foot, high in the mountains, where one man sat alone on the stone steps of his place of worship, waiting for the arrival of the King and Queen of Nepal by helicopter.

My spirit knew I was in the company of the highest wisdom.

We had climbed. We had pushed through. I had pushed my newlywed husband up that mountain so we could reach our destiny and be safe in time. We were at such altitude, where the body must learn how to breathe again. The spirit in me found an unlimited will to go beyond the sickness of acclimatizing, beyond the fear, beyond the exhaustion, because safety was calling.

Those stone steps became an altar.

That high priest gave me security.

This was my initiation.

And later, Annapurna came into my life. In 1985, below Mustang, the wind blew so hard that if we hesitated, we would struggle to get through at all.

You learn something in those places.

You learn that the body has intelligence.

The mind has intelligence.

The spirit has intelligence.

We are survivors of the most intelligent kind when we remember how to listen to all three.

Now we stand in the shadow of the Lunar Eclipse, the Full Moon in Pisces, and we watch disaster unfolding in so many places. Flood waters release. Dams break. Fires burn. Earth shakes. Storms arrive. Lives are lost. Children are threatened. Families are torn from the arms of the very ones meant to protect them.

How do we keep up?

How do we hold faith that recovery is possible when the waters have taken so much?

How do we remember renewal when the planet is crying, when parents are grieving, when children are frightened, when the day moves so fast we barely know what day it is?

We breathe.

We pray.

We listen.

We stop pretending we can outrun the waters.

We ask the waters to teach us how to move differently.

Because there are waters outside us, and there are waters inside us.

There are floods in the world, and there are floods in the heart. There are dams that break in the Earth, and there are dams that break inside the human being when we have carried too much for too long.

We can only take so much.

So we must learn to release before we rupture.

We must learn to pray before violence erupts.

We must learn to pause before confusion becomes action.

We must learn to ask:

What is most important now?

What is asking for protection?

What is asking for repair?

What is asking us to stop?

What is asking us to begin again?

This is where practice matters.

Not because practice removes the storms.

Because practice helps us stand inside the storm with a clearer breath, a steadier body, a softer heart, and a stronger prayer.

The deeper connections are our responsibility.

The mountain teaches us this.

The flood teaches us this.

The wind teaches us this.

The old stories teach us this.

The body teaches us this.

We are not separate from what is happening. We are being asked to pay closer attention — to the Earth, to the children, to the waters, to the violence inside and outside, to the speed of our lives, to the way we forget the sacred when we are moving too fast.

So let us come back to the breath.

Let us come back to prayer.

Let us come back to the altar.

Let us come back to the stone steps inside ourselves where wisdom is waiting quietly.

Let us ask the waters to weave us into stability.

Let the waters cleanse what is too heavy.

Let the waters soften what has become rigid.

Let the waters reveal what has been hidden.

Let the waters carry us back into right relationship with Earth, with one another, with the children, with the body, with the breath, with the Divine.

We can come above the waters.

We can resurrect.

We can remember what matters.

We can stop the inner violence before it becomes outer harm.

We can honor the grief without becoming the grief.

We can hold the prayer without losing the action.

We can move together with courage, humility, and care.

This is not a time to sleep through the signs.

This is a time to listen.

To breathe.

To pray.

To protect.

To repair.

To love.

To begin again.

May the mountains steady us.

May the waters cleanse us.

May the children guide us.

May the breath return us.

May the prayer protect us.

May Mother Earth be healed.

And may we learn, together, how the waters can weave us into stability.

Sat Nam,

Karuna

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New Podcast: Karuna and the Path of Awakening

I am grateful to share a new podcast conversation released this week: Karuna and The Path of Awakening.

In this conversation, I speak about the living process of Kundalini awakening and the way this work unfolds through The Path of Awakening:

Begin.

Deepen.

Transform.

Lead.

This Path is for seekers, students, and those who are ready to enter healing, practice, awareness, and transformation with steadiness and devotion.

We begin by observing the mind.

We deepen through practice and emotional integration.

We transform through breath, discipline, and inner reorganization.

We lead by bringing awakened presence into daily life, relationship, community, and service.

The lineage is the root.

The Path is the living expression.

I invite you to listen, receive, and share with anyone who may be ready to take the next step.

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The White Mustard Seed

There is a well-known Buddhist parable that gains more significance as I age. It concerns Kisa Gotami, whose son has died. Denying his death, she believes he is merely asleep and visits one house after another, seeking medicine to wake him. Eventually Buddha offers to help if she brings him a white mustard seed from a family untouched by death.

Kisa Gotami knocks on door after door but cannot find a single family that hasn’t experienced death. She returns to Buddha empty-handed, understanding that pain, suffering, and death are unavoidable parts of life.

Thus enlightened, she becomes a nun.

Now I’m happy to skip the nun ordination, but the lesson is valuable. John Muth adapted this story into a picture book, replacing the mustard seed with a sugar bowl. Bittersweet, just like shibui.

This fable reminds us of the universality of loss.

Rather than seeing death as something to fear or deny, it acknowledges death as the natural conclusion to lites story. There is a quiet elegance in this acceptance-not resignation, but a clear-eyed understanding that makes our limited time more precious.

From Shibui: The Japanese Art of Finding Beauty in Aging by Sanae Ishida

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Yoga Sets You Free

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Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

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Dear Community,

Walking up the mountain, climbing through what looked like curdled cottage cheese, I could feel the old layers breaking down.

What no longer needs to be repeated does not need to be addressed again in the same old way.

Catch your thoughts.

Catch them before they become the old sentence.

Catch them before they become the old reaction.

Catch them before they become the old blame.

Catch them before they become the same conversation wrapped in new clothing.

Ask yourself:

Am I someone others can sit next to and feel inspired?

Or am I carrying grumpy, selfish behaviors while pretending to be sacred?

The mala around the neck does not make us spiritual if the heart is closed.

The sacred is not a costume.

The sacred is how we listen.

How we respond.

How we make time.

How we stop pretending.

How we catch the thought before it becomes harm.

Right now, the presence of the sacred and the spiritual may be running side by side with calamity, chaos, confusion, and blame. This is why we practice. This is why we pause. This is why we return to the breath.

Put away the device that tells the world you are interested while showing the people near you that you are too busy.

Busyness can become an identity.

Noise can become an identity.

The bigger SUV. The next journey. The train track. The airplane. The searching for where to go next.

And then, ultimately, we stop.

Because the truth always wins.

The conflict begins when we invite confusion instead of simplicity.

So are we going to catch it this time?

This day?

This moment?

This breath?

Yes, we can.

We can come above the waters.

We can resurrect.

There are four seasons for a reason. Each season teaches us something different. Each season takes something away, gives something back, and asks us to notice what is ready to change.

Your compliments and gratitude are heard.

Thank you.

We are born into these super sweet moments right now, and everyone is welcome.

My intimacy is real.

My love is real.

Real love does not need performance. Real love does not need pretending. Real love does not need us to be divided into categories of age, identity, language, or understanding.

We are all entering blended exactly where we are.

It is not compartmentalized.

The youth belong.

The elders belong.

The ones who understand the words belong.

The ones who do not yet understand the words also belong.

The Path is lived through experience.

Begin.

Deepen.

Transform.

Lead.

Dive into the new and join the crew — not because you have figured it all out, but because you are willing to take the next breath with us.

Did you know the bristlecone pine can live for thousands of years?

Some are said to live nearly 5,000 years.

What does a tree like that know?

It knows how to stay.

It knows how to bend.

It knows how to grow slowly.

It knows how to root deeply.

It knows how to receive from harsh conditions and still continue.

Its relationship is to grow, expand, endure, and return what is no longer needed back into the earth.

Find the answers in nature.

Find them in your recycling.

Find them in your personal composting.

What are you still carrying that could become soil?

What thought can be caught before it becomes conflict?

What habit can be broken down before it becomes another season of repetition?

What can be returned to the earth so something new may grow?

Even the needles of the tree know how to fall, soften, decompose, and feed the roots.

Even the mountain knows how to hold what is breaking down.

Even the water knows how to rise.

So catch the thought.

Come above the waters.

Keep it simple.

Let truth win.

Let love be real.

Let the old become compost.

Let the new take root.

Sat Nam,

Karuna

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Weekly Recipe

Mantra Milk

When the mundane becomes the sacred, we experience the beauty of each small task at hand. This recipe for almond milk gets the name “Mantra Milk” from the somewhat meticulous process of peeling the skins of soaked almonds by hand. With each almond you can recite your mantra or affirmation, turning a seemingly mundane task into a meaningful meditation. Swap or add in cashews, hazelnuts, hemp seeds, or suntlower seeds to make a variety of delicious nut and seed milks. Iry steel-cut oats or basmati rice soaked overnight for a whole grain option. For a thicker creamer-like consistency, reduce ratio to 1 cup nuts to 2 cups water. For other flavor ideas, try seasonal variations below.

These homemade milks will last 3-4 days in the fridge and taste vastly better than anything you can buy in a box!

• Prep: 8-12 hours for soaking

• Cook: 5-10 minutes for peeling and blending

• Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 cup raw almonds

• 4 cups filtered water

• Pinch of salt

• Optional: 2 tablespoons maple syrup, raw honey, or 2 pitted Medjool dates, to sweeten

Directions

Place the almonds in a medium bowl and cover with filtered water.

Soak overnight, until skins start to separate from the nuts. Remove the skins by rubbing each nut between your fingers, placing the peeled almonds in a new bowl and discarding the skins.

After the almonds are peeled, rinse and drain again. Transfer to a blender and add the filtered water, salt, and the sweetener or pices here, if using a seasonal variation. Blend until smooth and frothy.

Pour through a nut milk bag, cheesecloth, or other fine-mesh strainer to separate the pulp from the liquid. Store the milk in an airtight container in your fridge.

Note: Soaking almonds removes an enzyme inhibitor known as phytic acid from the nut and makes it more digestible. Peeling the almonds makes a creamier almond milk and reduces the drying and heating qualities the skins have. But if in a time crunch, you can make almond milk without removing the skins. Simply rinse and drain after soaking, then transfer to the

From Living Ayurveda by Claire Ragozzino

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From Glamour to Grace with Sandi Sedgbeer

Karuna with Humanity Stream

Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

Karuna with Dom Brightmon on The True North Podcast

Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

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Dear Community,

Can you imagine taking your very first step ever?

The moment before the foot moves. The body preparing. The mind wondering. The courage gathering. The unknown waiting.

Have you thought it through?

Of course you have.

If you are an adult reading this, you probably know how the mind can negotiate. We ask questions. We ask one billion questions. We challenge the challenge, and then we challenge it again, until we have squeezed out even the option of taking the first step.

Analysis paralysis.

Oops.

We wanted clarity, and suddenly we are buried in knowledge, data, research, science, papers, numbers, pages, details, shocking statements, more evidence, more reasons, more proof. We gather the studies. We distill them down. We want everything to back up the reason to spend the money, take the class, make the change, choose the practice, begin the path.

And sometimes the whole thing began with something much simpler:

We just wanted to feel better.

Here comes the nurturer.

The kind one.

The tender one.

The one who cares about your children. The one who cares about you. The one who offers comfort and says, “You are allowed to begin.”

So when will we take action?

When will we push the button?

When will we prioritize the life we say we want to live?

This is my lifestyle.

This is practice meeting real life.

This is my ADHD meeting Hollywood.

This is the mind making a movie, while the soul is quietly asking us to take the next step.

When will I be enough?

When will I know enough?

When will I become the one who belongs in the chief category, the leadership category, the certified category, the Hall of Fame of my own life?

Maybe the first step is not waiting for us to be perfect.

Maybe the first step is what helps us remember we are already worthy to begin.

If we speak from light to light with one another, coherence begins. And with coherence, community, and the collective, we can collaborate. We can welcome each other without bargaining our character for benefits. We can come together without selling our spirit to be approved.

Here is a wonderful, easy access point.

And yet the mind still questions the self.

So let us raise the bar.

Let us become Hall of Famers in our own devotion.

As the clouds pass by my window right now, they remind me of what I am saying to you, and what I am saying to us. The “we” is universal. The message is transparent.

Begin.

Deepen.

Transform.

Lead.

This is The Path of Awakening.

And yes, it may have already taken decades to say yes.

So let us break the old habits.

Let us come fresh.

Let us begin with 81 Facets of the Mind and give ourselves the time to observe the patterns, the projections, the reactions, and the subconscious habits that have been moving quietly beneath the surface.

Let us give ourselves time to Heal Grief — not by forcing it away, but by holding it with breath, devotion, tenderness, and practice.

Let us move together with harmony, stamina, and strength through Awakening the Ten Bodies, remembering that we are not only this physical body, not only this thinking mind, but a living system of energy, awareness, radiance, and soul.

Calling all collaborators.

Calling all community.

Calling all promoters of light.

Help us carry these offerings forward.

Help us share 81 Facets of the Mind.

Help us share Healing Grief.

Help us share Awakening the Ten Bodies.

Not as products.

As doorways.

As invitations.

As ways to begin, deepen, transform, and lead.

Someone you know may be standing at the edge of their first step.

Someone may be ready to stop negotiating with the old story.

Someone may be tired of waiting until they are perfect, ready, researched, certified, or certain.

Someone may simply need a hand, a breath, a practice, a path, a community, and a reminder:

You can begin now.

You can deepen now.

You can transform now.

You can lead from where you are.

Done deal.

Sat Nam,

Karuna

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Sunday, August 16th, 9am Mountain Time

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81 Facets of Mind

12 Weekly Tuesday Sessions at 12pm Eastern, beginning September 22nd

Explore 81 Facets of Mind through 12 unique sessions with Karuna from Light on Kundalini. In total, there are 42 meditations to take you on a journey through different aspects and projections of the mind.

The program will run Tuesdays from September 22 through December 8, 2026, 12:00-1:30 p.m. Eastern, with the existing 12-session video library, digital Yoga Manual access, and three months of Light on Kundalini App access.

The 81 Facets of the Mind introduces the discipline of observing and understanding your mind.

Every thought we experience carries layers of memory, habit, emotion, and perception. When those layers remain unconscious, they quietly shape how we react, relate, and move through the world.

This journey invites you to slow down and observe those patterns with patience and compassion.

Over twelve weeks, you will explore meditation practices that help stabilize the nervous system, refine awareness, and cultivate a deeper relationship with your own mind.

This work is not about forcing change.

It is about creating the conditions where clarity naturally arises.

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Relive the Light on Kundalini Book Launch Ceremony

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Out now! A Kundalini Yoga manual by LOK and Karuna! Start reading now by visiting lightonkundalini.com.

New Podcasts and Featured Guests

From Glamour to Grace with Sandi Sedgbeer

Karuna with Humanity Stream

Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

Karuna with Dom Brightmon on The True North Podcast

Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

Sacred Stories: Healing Grief

Sacred Stories: Awakening the Ten Bodies

YouTube Channel

Sharing Deeper Conversation

Karuna in Awakening World

Teach.Yoga

Karuna in Canvas Rebel

A Quest for Well-Being - Kundalini Yoga: The Flow of Spiritual Energy

Wisdom Keepers, The Mystical Path of Kundalini Yoga

Sacred Stories: Karuna as Luminary

Karuna on Voyage Denver, Part II

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Dear Community,

Shine your light so bright that it shades all darkness around you.

Turn the pages toward the new refresh. Stay clear of the temptation to deny this opportunity of awakening.

This is 8/8.

The portal.

The Lion’s Gate.

The place where we remember the courage of the heart, the roar of the soul, and the infinite light that has been waiting for us to stand inside it.

Eight plus eight becomes sixteen. One plus six becomes seven — the aura, the radiance, the field around us.

Eight minus eight becomes zero.

No-thingness.

No ego.

The empty place where the Infinite can enter.

The Tenth Gate opens to unlimited possibility, and we are invited to listen. To rise. To restore. To salute the Sun. To enter the water haven. To let intuition move through the old judgment and transform it into deeper listening.

May I honor every one of you participating in this sacred ceremonial time of breaking free.

Recently, I waded through the river on all fours.

I was going and growing with each new reach, moving toward the raw formation of the earth, next to moss-covered bedrock calling me closer. The green carpets were so soft beneath my hands. The stones were ancient. The river was alive.

I touched the moss. I sank into her softness.

Beneath me, the spring was trickling. Around me, the critters were speaking. And suddenly there was such a state of ecstatic calm that I could only begin to giggle my whole way home.

Joy.

Laughter.

Harmony.

Peace.

This is how nature teaches us.

Not by explaining everything.

By inviting the body to remember.

By letting the water carry what the mind no longer needs to hold. By letting the moss receive the hand. By letting the stone show us how to be ancient and alive at the same time.

The Lion’s Roar brings us into bold, creative energy.

The Sun in Leo reminds us to attain our dreams, to step into our light with courage, creativity, and authenticity. Dream bigger. Trust yourself more deeply. Let the heart become brave enough to be seen.

And as the August 12 eclipse approaches, we are invited to watch not only the outer sky, but the inner sky.

What is being covered?

What is being revealed?

What is ready to transform?

If you are watching the eclipse with your outer eyes, honor the Sun and protect your sight. And if you are watching with your inner eye, honor the soul and protect your peace.

This is a metamorphic time.

A time to maneuver old judgment into listening.

A time to let the ego soften into no-thingness.

A time to let the aura brighten.

A time to rise above the old story and restore the original light.

We are not here to stay hidden.

We are not here to shrink from the opportunity of awakening.

We are here to shine.

To roar.

To laugh our way home from the river.

To trust the moss, the water, the Sun, the stars, the Gate, and the Infinite possibilities opening through us.

So shine your light.

Let it be bright enough to shade the darkness around you.

Let it be gentle enough to bless the child within you.

Let it be strong enough to carry you through the portal.

Let it be true enough to lead you into the new page.

Turn the page.

Refresh.

Rise.

Listen.

Restore.

Break free.

Sat Nam,

Karuna

A New Chapter for Light on Kundalini — An Invitation into The Path of Awakening

Dear friends and colleagues,

I am grateful to share a meaningful new chapter in the life of Light on Kundalini: The Path of Awakening

Begin.

Deepen.

Transform.

Lead.

The lineage is the root.

The Path is the living expression.

The Path of Awakening offers a grounded progression for exploring awakening as something lived — through the body, the breath, the mind, relationship, responsibility, practice, and service.

We begin by learning to observe the mind, the breath, the reactions, the projections, and the inner patterns with patience and compassion.

We deepen through emotional integration, energetic awareness, grief work, devotion, and the refinement of disciplined practice.

We transform through sustained breath, structured practice, Rebirthing, and deeper inner reorganization.

We lead by bringing awakened presence into responsibility, decision-making, relationship, influence, community, and service.

At the heart of this work is a simple remembrance:

The light, wisdom, and living intelligence we seek have never been outside of us.

This new chapter brings together The Path of Awakening, my book Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening, the companion Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual, the Light on Kundalini app, guided programs, practices, resources, solo sessions, and opportunities for deeper engagement.

I warmly invite you to explore the Path here:

Explore The Path of Awakening

The first live Begin-stage course, 81 Facets of the Mind, opens this fall. This 12-week journey offers a structured introduction to observing the mind, building daily practice, developing Constant Conscious Conversation, and discovering how awareness can bring greater clarity, steadiness, and freedom.

You may begin with 81 Facets, explore the deeper programs and resources, or simply spend time with the teachings and practices that resonate with where you are now.

If this next chapter speaks to you, I would be grateful for anything from conversations to collaborations that may naturally arise.

May we begin with awareness.

May we deepen through devotion.

May we transform through practice.

May we lead through presence.

Sat Nam,

Karuna

Founder, Light on Kundalini

Author, Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening

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Sunday, August 9th, 9am Mountain Time

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81 Facets of Mind

12 Weekly Tuesday Sessions at 12pm Eastern, beginning September 22nd

Explore 81 Facets of Mind through 12 unique sessions with Karuna from Light on Kundalini. In total, there are 42 meditations to take you on a journey through different aspects and projections of the mind.

The program will run Tuesdays from September 22 through December 8, 2026, 12:00-1:30 p.m. Eastern, with the existing 12-session video library, digital Yoga Manual access, and three months of Light on Kundalini App access.

The 81 Facets of the Mind introduces the discipline of observing and understanding your mind.

Every thought we experience carries layers of memory, habit, emotion, and perception. When those layers remain unconscious, they quietly shape how we react, relate, and move through the world.

This journey invites you to slow down and observe those patterns with patience and compassion.

Over twelve weeks, you will explore meditation practices that help stabilize the nervous system, refine awareness, and cultivate a deeper relationship with your own mind.

This work is not about forcing change.

It is about creating the conditions where clarity naturally arises.

Learn more at lightonkundalini.com

Solos Sessions with Karuna

A solo session includes but is not limited to:

• One hour Zoom session

• Yoga practice guidance

• Your own 40 Day Meditation

• Lifestyle recommendations: skincare, diet, recipes

Learn more at lightonkundalini.com

Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening and the Compation Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual

Relive the Light on Kundalini Book Launch Ceremony

See the book on Amazon here.

Audiobook now available on Audible and Audiobooks.com!

Out now! A Kundalini Yoga manual by LOK and Karuna! Start reading now by visiting lightonkundalini.com.

New Podcasts and Featured Guests

From Glamour to Grace with Sandi Sedgbeer

Karuna with Humanity Stream

Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

Karuna with Dom Brightmon on The True North Podcast

Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

Sacred Stories: Healing Grief

Sacred Stories: Awakening the Ten Bodies

YouTube Channel

Sharing Deeper Conversation

Karuna in Awakening World

Teach.Yoga

Karuna in Canvas Rebel

A Quest for Well-Being - Kundalini Yoga: The Flow of Spiritual Energy

Wisdom Keepers, The Mystical Path of Kundalini Yoga

Sacred Stories: Karuna as Luminary

Karuna on Voyage Denver, Part II

iOS Mobile App

With over 100 classes filmed in live classes for you to engage and participate. The time is now! It’s all here for you.

Dear Community,

Hello from the Rocky Mountains.

It is with gratitude of heart and soul that I share: we have rain.

The mitigated land is green. The meadows are being nurtured. The forest is breathing again with rain and morning sunshine.

The best time to get out is early, between 7 and 9 in the morning, walking on the wet land before the sun asks for sunscreen, before even the sunglasses are needed. The Colorado Rockies are full of wildflowers, even after the drought we faced in winter.

And still, we take precautionary steps.

We listen to the experts. We listen to Wildfire Partners. We do the work that protects and secures the land from these disastrous fires.

Remove the mulch. Remove the juniper bushes. Limb the trees. Place gravel around the house. Clear what needs to be cleared.

Take the time, friends.

Stay safe.

This coming eclipse season is a time for us to ignite the inner fire, not the outer fire.

As I walk around my own property and forest, there is always something more to do. It is never finalized. The five-year mitigation project continues. The clearing continues. The listening continues.

Nature is always communicating.

She shows us what needs to be removed. She shows us what needs to be protected. She shows us what has grown back, what has become too dense, what needs space, what needs care.

And isn’t this also the practice?

We are asked to build longevity. To build stamina. To build energy. To build the spirit that can guide us through change.

We are better together.

We cannot do this on our own.

Each of us brings information to the table. Each of us carries a piece of the larger knowing. Each of us has something to share that may help another person see the next step.

All Yoga practices and meditation practices are woven into a bigger plan, and the planner is vast.

We do not always see the whole design. We see the next branch. The next stone. The next piece of mulch to remove. The next breath. The next child. The next neighbor. The next opportunity to serve.

So let us take advantage of this time together.

Let us put these fires to rest.

Let us release attachment so we can receive the inner applause — the quiet recognition that comes when we have done what responsibility asked of us.

How are we making these steps?

How are we finding the courage to stand, to evolve, and to recognize our role?

We are not angry.

We are not kidding.

We are awake.

And we insist on being heard from the place of mastery, not from the place of continual emotion.

It is in our mastery to become healthy, steady, clear, and useful.

So let us get out there together.

Ask your mayor to proclaim a Children’s Day of Peace.

Let us gather on November 20 and celebrate our children. Let us help make this Founding Mothers movement a global event.

Please visit the Founding Mothers website, sign up, and add to the conversation in your own community.

Ask:

What can I offer?

Where can I begin?

Start now.

Go to your schools. Go to your health clubs. Go into your communities. Speak with the people around you.

Let us work for the children.

Let us save the future of the children in a positive flow toward freedom.

Creativity is part of this.

Dance is part of this.

Music is part of this.

Community is part of this.

Everyone can play a bigger role.

Thank you.

As the water continues in this loving Divine Presence, so do we.

We keep flowing.

We keep growing.

We keep breathing.

We keep clearing.

We keep protecting.

We keep gathering.

We keep choosing the inner fire, not the outer fire.

And I invite you to join us for the Light on Kundalini Pathway of Awakening.

Feel that you are part of each and every movement.

Begin where you are.

Deepen with devotion.

Transform through practice.

Lead through presence.

Sat Nam,

Karuna

Upcoming Events

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Today, Sunday, August 2nd, 9am Mountain Time

I am so excited to be with all of you again. This Summer has brought so much more light and love to share and experience. All classes are in Mountain Time and streaming live on Instagram!

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Recipe

Garlic and Cheese Betzels / Phyllo Triangles (Algeria)

Betzels, or pastels, is the Sephardic term for what the Algerians call Samsas and the Moroccans call Briouats. Whether rolled into the shape of a cigar or shaped into tasty little triangles, Betzels can enfold a variety of fillings, from cheese to meats and seafood. These particular Betzels cannot be frozen, but they will keep uncooked in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3 or 4 days.

• 8 eggs

• 1 cup (4 ounces) freshly grated Gruyere cheese

• 10 to 12 garlic cloves, minced

• 24 fresh flat-leaf parsley sprigs, minced

• 5 fresh mint leaves, minced

• 12 green olives, pitted and minced

• Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

• 2 teaspoons sweet paprika

• 8 sheets (about 8 ounces) frozen phyllo dough, thawed

• Vegetable oil for frying Lemon wedges for garnish

In a medium saucepan, place 6 of the eggs, add water to cover, and bring the water to a low boil. Cook the eggs for 12 to 15 minutes. Drain and let cool. Peel, place the eggs in a medium bowl, and mash them coarsely with a fork. Mix in the cheese, garlic, parsley, mint, olives, salt, pepper, paprika, and i lightly beaten raw egg.

Cover a working surface with a damp towel. Carefully unwrap the phyllo and unfold it on the towel. With the long edge of the phyllo facing you, and using a sharp knite, cut vertically through the stacked sheets of dough to make 4 equal sections, each about 4½ inches wide. Cover with another damp towel if you are not using the phyllo immediately.

Place 1 tablespoon of the filling about i inch from the bottom edge of one strip. Fold over a bottom corner of the strip to cover the filling. Continue folding as you would a flag, to obtain a triangular shape. Beat the remaining egg and use it to seal the top edge. Repeat the process until all the filling has been used.

In a heavy, medium saucepan, pour oil to a depth of 2 inches and heat it over medium-high heat until it reaches 325°F, or a piece of the dough sizzles instantly.

Fry the pastries in batches to avoid crowding them, until golden, about 6 to 8 munutes, and drain them well on paper towels. Serve at once with lemon wedges.

From North Africa: The Vegetarian Table by Kitty Morse

Private Session with Karuna

A private session includes but is not limited to:

• One to two hour Zoom session

• Yoga practice guidance

• Your own 40 Day Meditation

• Lifestyle recommendations: skincare, diet, recipes

Learn more at lightonkundalini.com

Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening and the Compation Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual

Relive the Light on Kundalini Book Launch Ceremony

See the book on Amazon here.

Audiobook now available on Audible and Audiobooks.com!

Out now! A Kundalini Yoga manual by LOK and Karuna! Start reading now by visiting lightonkundalini.com.

New Podcasts and Featured Guests

From Glamour to Grace with Sandi Sedgbeer

Karuna with Humanity Stream

Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

Karuna with Dom Brightmon on The True North Podcast

Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

Sacred Stories: Healing Grief

Sacred Stories: Awakening the Ten Bodies

YouTube Channel

Sharing Deeper Conversation

Karuna in Awakening World

Teach.Yoga

Karuna in Canvas Rebel

A Quest for Well-Being - Kundalini Yoga: The Flow of Spiritual Energy

Wisdom Keepers, The Mystical Path of Kundalini Yoga

Sacred Stories: Karuna as Luminary

Karuna on Voyage Denver, Part II

iOS Mobile App

With over 100 classes filmed in live classes for you to engage and participate. The time is now! It’s all here for you.

Dear Community,

Oh, dearest rain, do not let me stop you.

You water my forest with our pain, with your bursts of thunder, with your tears falling from the sky. You beam down in no wasted moment to remind me of this grateful heart.

Tears of rain, I bow to you.

This week, I taught my mother the mantra:

Wake up.

Grow up.

Clean up.

Show up.

And I left it by her side in poster-size letters, with another message beside it:

Keep Up.

There is such inner beauty in the elders. Especially a mother. How long have we been doing this dance together? How long have we been learning how to elevate, communicate, and relate on the level of now?

Is this not one of the most amazing blessings in life?

To be given another moment. Another conversation. Another chance to see the soul inside the form, the child inside the elder, the mother inside the human, the love inside the history.

Sometimes we have to put aside the grief, the trauma, the old story just enough to find where we can tap back into the spirit. The observer. The witness.

And then she comes.

The part of us that can see.

The part of us that can breathe.

The part of us that knows we are more than the reaction moving through the body.

I was deeply in thought in the forest, walking the Point Lotus path, when suddenly I was interrupted by a black German Shepherd sprinting toward me.

He came fast.

Then leapt up on me as I turned away.

It immediately shocked my meditative pace, and in that same instant, another memory opened.

I was outside of Paris many years ago, on a tennis court for a photo shoot. I went inside to use the restroom and heard a woman screaming at her dog as it attempted to attack. I urgently got behind the bathroom door to save myself.

The body remembers.

Trauma exists.

And where do we store it all?

In these bodies.

In the nervous system.

In what we call the subconscious mind.

And how quickly it can be triggered by the same pattern, the same sound, the same movement, the same kind of animal, the same feeling of threat that caused it originally.

This is where practice becomes real.

Not only when we are calm.

Not only when we are prepared.

Not only when the candle is lit and the mat is waiting.

Practice becomes real in the sudden moment when the body races into survival mode.

That is when we recognize:

This is here.

This is old.

This is active.

And this may no longer be necessary in the same way.

So we take it to the practice.

We do not shame the body for remembering.

We do not shame the subconscious mind for trying to protect us.

We say:

Thank you.

I see you.

I know you have been carrying this.

And now I will bring awareness.

Now I will breathe.

Now I will open the toolbox.

Now I will choose the technology that helps me wake up, grow up, clean up, and show up.

This is the work.

A trigger becomes a teacher.

A shock becomes a doorway.

A dog on the path becomes a messenger.

A memory from long ago becomes the place where healing is asking to be met.

And then, if we are willing, we can even say thank you.

Thank you to the rain.

Thank you to the forest.

Thank you to my mother.

Thank you to the elders.

Thank you to the mantra.

Thank you to the body for remembering.

Thank you to the practice for giving me a way through.

And thank you to Black Onyx, who ran toward me this morning.

Was he the puppy, the sign I had asked for earlier in Sadhana?

I will say yes.

Because life speaks in sudden ways.

The rain speaks.

The forest speaks.

The body speaks.

The subconscious speaks.

The elder speaks.

The animal speaks.

The practice speaks.

And when we are willing to listen, everything can become part of our awakening.

Wake up.

Grow up.

Clean up.

Show up.

Keep Up.

Sat Nam,

Karuna

Upcoming Events

Yoga with Karuna

Today, Sunday, July 26th, 9am Mountain Time

I am so excited to be with all of you again. This Summer has brought so much more light and love to share and experience. All classes are in Mountain Time and streaming live on Instagram!

Donate to LOK

Recipe

Mushroom and Herb Polenta

When cooking polenta my father always makes much more than he needs. Half of it he serves right away in the runny state, like a mash, with a flavorful sauce. The rest he spreads onto an oiled surface and allows to set. The next day he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with a chunky vegetable salad (tomato, cucumber, romaine lettuce) dressed lightly with red wine vinegar and olive oil. The dish here uses soft polenta, but you may want to double the quantity to follow my father’s idea.

Note that there are two types of polenta meal (or cornmeal available - a quick or instant variety and the traditional, slow-cooking one. For most purposes I find that the quick polenta is good enough. Either one can be used for this dish.

• 4 tbsp olive oil

• 4 cups mixed mushrooms, very large ones halved

• 2 garlic cloves, crushed

• 1 tablespoon chopped tarragon

• 1 tablespoon chopped thyme

• 1 tablespoon truffle oil salt and black pepper

• 2¼ cups vegetable stock

• ½ cup polenta (instant or traditional)

• 3 oz Parmesan, grated

• 2½ tbsp butter

• 1 teaspoon finely chopped rosemary

• 1 tablespoon chopped chervil

• 4 oz Taleggio (rind removed), cut into /-inch slices

Heat half the olive oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat.

Once hot, add half of the mushrooms and fry for a few minutes, or until just cooked; try not to move them much so you get golden-brown patches on their surface. Remove from the pan, and repeat with the rest of the mushrooms and oil. Off the heat, return all the mushrooms to the pan and add the garlic, tarragon, thyme, truffle oil and some salt and pepper. Keep warm.

Bring the stock to the boil in a saucepan. Slowly stir in the polenta, then reduce the heat to the minimum and cook, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. The polenta is ready when it leaves the sides of the pan but is still runny. If you are using instant polenta this shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes; with traditional polenta it could take up to 50 minutes (if it seems to dry out, add some more stock or water but just enough to keep it at a thick porridge consistency).

Preheat the broiler, When the polenta is ready, stir in the Parmesan, butter, rosemary and half the chervil. Season with salt and pepper, Spread the polent over a heatproof dish and top with the Taleggio. Place under the broiler until the cheese bubbles, Remove, top with the mushrooms and their juices, and return to the broiler for a minute to warn up, Serve hot, garnished with the remaining chervil.

From Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi

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A private session includes but is not limited to:

• One to two hour Zoom session

• Yoga practice guidance

• Your own 40 Day Meditation

• Lifestyle recommendations: skincare, diet, recipes

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Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening and the Compation Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual

Relive the Light on Kundalini Book Launch Ceremony

See the book on Amazon here.

Audiobook now available on Audible and Audiobooks.com!

Out now! A Kundalini Yoga manual by LOK and Karuna! Start reading now by visiting lightonkundalini.com.

New Podcasts and Featured Guests

From Glamour to Grace with Sandi Sedgbeer

Karuna with Humanity Stream

Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

Karuna with Dom Brightmon on The True North Podcast

Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

Sacred Stories: Healing Grief

Sacred Stories: Awakening the Ten Bodies

YouTube Channel

Sharing Deeper Conversation

Karuna in Awakening World

Teach.Yoga

Karuna in Canvas Rebel

A Quest for Well-Being - Kundalini Yoga: The Flow of Spiritual Energy

Wisdom Keepers, The Mystical Path of Kundalini Yoga

Sacred Stories: Karuna as Luminary

Karuna on Voyage Denver, Part II

iOS Mobile App

With over 100 classes filmed in live classes for you to engage and participate. The time is now! It’s all here for you.

Dear Community,

Does it mean we have to go away to find an altar? Must we travel somewhere else to bow before something sacred? Or can the altar be made right here, from what has already been offered?

A piece of plaster. Pine needles. A woven tapestry touched by unknown masters.

The small ordinary things in front of us suddenly become holy because we have learned how to see.

Sometimes peace does not arrive as a grand invitation. Sometimes it asks us to listen. To fumble. To nibble at exactly what is here and now. To look. To close the eyes. To feel:

What resonates inside of me?

What vibration is moving through my own heart?

What tear is ready to drop into a smile?

This is also an altar.

The place where the tear and the smile meet. The place where breath becomes expansion. The place where the body is no longer urgent. The place where the practice meets you in a new situation, on a new platform, at the exact level of your own personal maturity.

You remember what the teacher suggested. You realize you have taken the time to persevere. You have entered a new arena.

A place full of creativity. A place full of purpose. A place where the practice is no longer something separate from life.

It is meeting you here.

In the room. In the conversation. In the window at night. In the silence after the day. In the way the moon appears. In the way Venus smiles.

Children remind me of this.

Children are like hydration for the soul. They return us to the sea. They let us see the world again as if for the first time.

Through the eyes of a child, the whole planet becomes a universal aquarium. Water surrounds us. Life surrounds us. We are learning how to swim through it.

We cross oceans of doubt. We cross oceans of fear. We land again on the planet. We land again in the body.

We land again at the breast of the Mother, where nurturing is not an idea, but a reassurance. A planetary perspective. A remembrance that we belong to something larger.

And still, within all of this vastness, there is the simple will to communicate. To listen. To receive guidance. To look out the window at night and see the moon and Venus lighting up the dark with a balancing smile.

Her light says:

Rest.

Observe.

Receive.

Let peace come closer.

Let the altar be here. Let the sacred be made from what is already in front of you. Let the practice meet you where you are mature enough to listen.

You do not always have to go away to find the altar.

Sometimes the altar is the moment you stop searching. Sometimes the altar is the breath that opens. Sometimes the altar is the child’s eyes. Sometimes the altar is the tear becoming a smile. Sometimes the altar is the moon and Venus reminding you that peace has been waiting for you to notice.

Sat Nam,

Karuna

Upcoming Events

Yoga with Karuna

Today, Sunday, July 19th, 9am Mountain Time

Sunday, July 26th, 9am Mountain Time

All classes are in Mountain Time and streaming live on Instagram!

Donate to LOK

Private Session with Karuna

A private session includes but is not limited to:

• One to two hour Zoom session

• Yoga practice guidance

• Your own 40 Day Meditation

• Lifestyle recommendations: skincare, diet, recipes

Learn more at lightonkundalini.com

Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening and the Compation Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual

Relive the Light on Kundalini Book Launch Ceremony

See the book on Amazon here.

Audiobook now available on Audible and Audiobooks.com!

Out now! A Kundalini Yoga manual by LOK and Karuna! Start reading now by visiting lightonkundalini.com.

New Podcasts and Featured Guests

From Glamour to Grace with Sandi Sedgbeer

Karuna with Humanity Stream

Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

Karuna with Dom Brightmon on The True North Podcast

Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

Sacred Stories: Healing Grief

Sacred Stories: Awakening the Ten Bodies

YouTube Channel

Sharing Deeper Conversation

Karuna in Awakening World

Teach.Yoga

Karuna in Canvas Rebel

A Quest for Well-Being - Kundalini Yoga: The Flow of Spiritual Energy

Wisdom Keepers, The Mystical Path of Kundalini Yoga

Sacred Stories: Karuna as Luminary

Karuna on Voyage Denver, Part II

iOS Mobile App

With over 100 classes filmed in live classes for you to engage and participate. The time is now! It’s all here for you.

Dear Community,

Oh, what a beautiful morning.

There are days when the whole world seems to arrive with a song inside it, and something in us remembers:

Thank you.

Thank you, Divine Feminine. Thank you, Goddess. Thank you for showing up in extraordinary forms to support, redirect, soften, pause, and reveal what we could not see when we were trying too hard to make something happen before its time.

With Mercury in retrograde, many of us may find ourselves caught in the web of:

Why does this not feel right? Why am I trying so hard? Why am I forcing something that does not want to be forced?

It can feel like trying to give birth too early to a project, a decision, a relationship, a direction, or a version of ourselves that is still forming. And all the signs are doing their best to say:

Wait.

Pause.

Circle back.

Look again.

Let Mercury complete its dance before you decide.

This is where we need each other.

We need community to remind us that the mind has many aspects, many projections, many agendas, and many little conversations happening at once. One part of the mind wants to move. Another wants to control. Another wants to protect. Another wants to hurry. Another wants to hide.

And suddenly everything runs into everything else, creating conflict, confusion, and unnecessary pressure.

So we ask:

Where is my tribe? Where is the one who can help me remember? Where is the mirror?

And then we look around.

She is right here.

Right in front of us.

Exactly as she presents herself.

Pure Sattvic Guna.

Clarity. Harmony. Balance.

A presence that does not push, grab, dramatize, or force.

Sometimes the support comes through a friend. Sometimes through a sister. Sometimes through the one who reads the details and says, “Circle back. Look at the run of show. The script is already there.”

And then we arrive just in time.

OMG.

Thank you.

Because the day before, the wind may blow too hard. And the day of recording, there may be silence.

Perfect silence.

The kind of silence that lets us hear what is actually ready.

A dear friend once came up to me at Rally Sport while I was on the treadmill and said, “You speak in riddles.”

And yes, I probably do.

Life speaks in riddles too.

The Aquarian Age is offering us an opportunity to turn it all around. To see the conversation, the interruption, the glass breaking, the delay, the missed timing, the sudden change, the person in front of us, even the breakup, as information.

Not punishment.

Information.

The Gunas are always teaching us.

Sattva brings clarity, balance, and harmony. Rajas brings movement, desire, agitation, and activity. Tamas brings heaviness, resistance, dullness, and inertia.

And each one shows us something about how we are digesting life.

What are we taking in? What are we reacting to? What are we forcing? What are we refusing to feel? What are we ready to complete?

Sometimes frustration is not the final truth.

Sometimes frustration is the doorway.

Instead of letting the mind run into neediness, pressure, and confusion, we can pause and ask:

Is this serving me? Am I forcing? Am I in an old needy pattern? Can I turn this frustration into the truth of my own worth?

I am worthy.

Say it.

I am worthy.

Not because everything is going my way. Not because the project is ready. Not because Mercury is direct. Not because the timing has opened.

But because the soul already knows its worth.

The practice helps us remember before we act from confusion. The pause helps us rewrite the chaos. The community helps us see what we missed.

The Divine Feminine arrives in her many forms and says:

Wait.

Listen.

You are not late.

You are being aligned.

And now, perhaps, all we have to do is allow the timing to complete itself.

Mercury will go direct. Saturn and Neptune will continue their dance. The wind will settle. The silence will come. The script will reveal itself.

And we will be grateful that we did not force the birth before the blessing was ready.

Circle back.

Look again.

Find the Sattvic place.

Let the mind soften.

Let the support arrive.

Let the timing become holy.

Sat Nam,

Karuna

Upcoming Events

Yoga with Karuna

Sunday, July 19th, 9am Mountain Time

All classes are in Mountain Time and streaming live on Instagram!

Donate to LOK

Private Session with Karuna

A private session includes but is not limited to:

• One to two hour Zoom session

• Yoga practice guidance

• Your own 40 Day Meditation

• Lifestyle recommendations: skincare, diet, recipes

Learn more at lightonkundalini.com

Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening and the Compation Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual

Relive the Light on Kundalini Book Launch Ceremony

See the book on Amazon here.

Audiobook now available on Audible and Audiobooks.com!

Out now! A Kundalini Yoga manual by LOK and Karuna! Start reading now by visiting lightonkundalini.com.

New Podcasts and Featured Guests

From Glamour to Grace with Sandi Sedgbeer

Karuna with Humanity Stream

Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

Karuna with Dom Brightmon on The True North Podcast

Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

Sacred Stories: Healing Grief

Sacred Stories: Awakening the Ten Bodies

YouTube Channel

Sharing Deeper Conversation

Karuna in Awakening World

Teach.Yoga

Karuna in Canvas Rebel

A Quest for Well-Being - Kundalini Yoga: The Flow of Spiritual Energy

Wisdom Keepers, The Mystical Path of Kundalini Yoga

Sacred Stories: Karuna as Luminary

Karuna on Voyage Denver, Part II

iOS Mobile App

With over 100 classes filmed in live classes for you to engage and participate. The time is now! It’s all here for you.

Dear Community,

Why do I choose to keep up in these times?

Because, truly, we have no other choice but to lift and link up.

We are living in times that ask more of us. More awareness. More responsibility. More kindness. More discipline. More willingness to turn challenge into benefit.

And we do have great technologies to support us. We have the technology of breath. The technology of mantra. The technology of meditation. The technology of community. The technology of how we speak to each other, how we listen, how we pause, and how we remember who we are.

We can teach each other how to behave with grace because we are learning how to take greater responsibility for ourselves.

For the past few weeks, I have been studying myself in unfamiliar places, with people I had only just met that same day. And I have seen again how powerful it is to say yes to a new environment.

When we enter the unfamiliar, the subconscious mind begins whispering.

Softly.

Quietly.

Honestly.

And if we are willing, we can begin to befriend that subconscious mind like never before. Not with judgment. Not with force. Compassionately.

This is advancement.

Not because it is always comfortable.

Because it is not.

Each new environment may trigger discomfort. Each new relationship may reveal something. Each challenge may bring forward the part of us that is ready to wake up, grow up, clean up, and show up.

If you can consider yourself in an advanced modality, then you can also begin to understand discomfort differently.

Discomfort is not always a stop sign.

Sometimes it is a signal.

Sometimes it shows us that a cycle is ready to complete.

Sometimes it places us at an inner option point:

Will I accept change?

Will I stay put?

Will I keep up?

What will I choose?

The science of Kundalini Yoga meets challenge directly. It gives us the breath, the posture, the mantra, the meditation, and sometimes the impossible-feeling asana that brings us right to the edge of ourselves.

And eventually, we surrender.

Not give up.

Surrender.

There is a difference.

We surrender the old resistance. We surrender the story that says we cannot. We surrender the fear that has been driving the car.

I was driving away from Ram Das Puri into the biggest storm I have ever witnessed in New Mexico.

Everyone was pulling over. Visibility was zero. Torrential downpours. The road disappeared. And like monkey see, monkey do, I followed.

I pulled over too.

And then something chimed in.

That nine-second rule.

That small sacred space where fear rises, and then something deeper has the chance to speak.

It reminded me of who I am now.

The fear took a back seat.

And I carried on.

The storm cleared not only outside of me, but inside of me.

That is the clean-up part of waking up.

At some point, you take the bull by the horns and keep up.

You are unique.

You are you.

You are victorious.

And if screaming and shouting is your only method in the moment, then go into the forest and let it out.

Let the body release what it has been holding.

Let the voice clear the pressure.

Let the wild heart be heard.

And on your walk back, notice your clarity.

Smell the scent of your own wild heart.

Be at peace with yourself, please.

And then give yourself time to integrate.

Because awakening is not only the moment of breakthrough.

It is also what happens after.

It is how we land.

It is how we listen.

It is how we make meaning.

It is how we allow the practice to become life.

Mental Intersection

How do we integrate all of this?

How do we make it worth our while to believe that, yes, we can still reinvent the wheel while staying on a simple Yoga path?

There is a sensory feeling inside of us that motivates us. It is subtle, but it is there. We can tune into it daily.

In the 81 Facets of the Mind, Integration comes through the aspect of the Preserver: the Negative Mind crossed with Buddhi, the Impersonal Mind.

When we approach a mental intersection, we say:

Good morning, Madame Integrator.

This projection is resourceful, inventive, and expansive. It helps us gain clarity and insight into ourselves and our circumstances. It helps us make useful connections.

When this projection is too strong, we may feel prematurely complete. We may jump the gun and take action before the full depth has arrived.

When this projection is too weak, we may feel dependent on others or on the environment around us.

But when it is balanced, we feel complete.

Resources appear all around us.

We can accurately assess our current skill, our impact, and the connections created from our efforts.

This is integration.

Not rushing.

Not collapsing.

Not waiting for the outside world to tell us who we are.

But listening.

Connecting.

Assessing.

Choosing.

Keeping up.

Synchronization Meditation

This meditation helps bring balance in the midst of activity.

Sit straight with the elbows by your sides.

Place your hands at shoulder height, palms facing forward, with the hands in Gian Mudra — the tip of the index finger touching the tip of the thumb.

Pull the shoulders back and lock them.

Look at the tip of the nose.

Chant in a steady, clipped, marching cadence:

HAR HAR WHA-HAY GU-ROO.

Use one complete breath for each repetition of the mantra.

Use the tip of the tongue on HAR, and move the lips distinctly on the rest.

Continue for 31 minutes.

As the sound walks up your spine, you balance the five elements and the passions in the midst of activity.

This is the practice.

To keep up in the storm.

To keep up at the intersection.

To keep up when the subconscious mind whispers.

To keep up when the unknown appears.

To keep up when life asks you to wake up, grow up, clean up, and show up.

You are unique.

You are you.

You are victorious.

Sat Nam,

Karuna

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• Yoga practice guidance

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• Lifestyle recommendations: skincare, diet, recipes

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Blessings, dear ones.

What was Summer Solstice really like?

Absolute bliss.

How do you leave a place of such beauty and come back into one of the busiest places in the world — an airport?

All at once, there they are.

All the humans.
All the shapes and sizes.
All the characters.
All the masks.
EarPods.
Glasses.
Fingernails.
Colorful luggage.

Everyone going somewhere.

Everyone trying to arrive.

And there I was, coming from Ram Das Puri.

I left at 1:20 Mountain Time and drove through torrential rainstorms, wind, and visibility so low that cars were pulling over.

Twice.

The bonus was that the rain cleaned my car for me.

But oh my, it was raining.
It was windy.
And the children were arriving.

All 81 facets active.

I could have waited in the car.

I could have stayed protected.

But hey — less time with family?

I could not miss a second.

There is something so old-fashioned and beautiful about driving eight hours to pick up family.

No, I could not miss the last day of White Tantric.

And yes, I had to shuttle the ladies up the mountain.

Up and down.
Up and down.
Up and down.

Seva.

Even after that, I stopped for groceries.

Thank God I had a list.

I found a Natural Grocers in an unfamiliar landscape, and somehow the familiarity of the store made it easy. The woman checking me out looked at me and said, “You just came in here floating.”

And I was.

Right back at Ram Das Puri.

Floating.

This is what retreat does.

It opens something.
It softens something.
It reminds you of who you are beneath all the doing.

And then life says:

Wonderful.

Now come back.

Come back to the airport.
Come back to the groceries.
Come back to the rain.
Come back to the family.
Come back to the escalators and luggage and people rushing to destinations.

Come back and see if the practice is still alive in you.

I love driving through rural landscapes, neighborhoods, roads, and throughways where so many people are working long days just to live.

And I kept thinking:

I have been on retreat for eleven days thinking about how to help save the world — physically, mentally, spiritually.

And the reality is also this:

It is hard to feed a family these days.

There is no fanciness in that.

There is only real life.

The reality is, we are lucky to breathe.
Lucky to cope.
Lucky to hope.

And I pray prosperity will be arriving soon for us all.

I am humbled by Kundalini Yoga.

It is not easy.

It is super hard.

It keeps showing us where we are entangled.
Where insecurity lives.
Where chaos still pulls.
Where ego still rules.

And then practice asks us to dissolve.

To soften.

To truly trust.

Escalator after escalator, I watched people anxious to arrive, to see friends, to see family.

Me too.

So excited.

And I wondered:

How does it really work when you are asked to tell your story?

Treat it as an opportunity.

Your words and your voice are unique.

You do not need to perform your story.
You do not need to compete with anyone else’s story.

You tell it in waves.

In intervals.

In truth.

In the way only you can tell it.

Sometimes it takes only five minutes to give someone a moment of choice.

A moment of listening.

A moment of meaning.

Surrender is the most important part.

Because what comes through you may touch someone more than you know.

Not because they envy your life.

But because they feel inspired to share their own.

You have a story.

I used to say, “I had a story.”

And then it was not until I was sitting on the stage for the fourth time that the story came out honestly.

No teleprompter.

No hiding.

Just the truth arriving when it was ready.

So one could ask:

Do you show up when there is a challenge?

We need to exercise every muscle.

Not only the muscles we lift weights with to look strong.

But the muscles that help us pick each other up when we fall.

Spiritually too.

That is the challenge.
That is the opportunity.
That is why we practice.

Sometimes the practice is sitting in meditation.
Sometimes the practice is bowing to the Guru.
Sometimes the practice is driving through storms.
Sometimes the practice is shuttling incredible women up and down a mountain as many times as it takes.
Sometimes the practice is going to the airport with your heart still full of mantra.
Sometimes the practice is buying groceries and remembering how real life is.

This is how we land.

Clear to land.

Accept what comes.

Accept what delivers itself.

Congratulate yourself for arriving where you are.

Acknowledge what has opened.

Allow more to come through this activated vessel.

Because something is awakening.

Something is welcoming you deeper.

You can try to explain it.

But some gifts can only be experienced.

There is a maturity that arrives through practice.

A rare kind of readiness.

A new ocean of true awakening.

And when the practice asks you to come in white, with your head covered, this is not decoration.

It is respect.

It is reverence.

It is remembering that many cultures carry sacred ways of preparing the body, the mind, and the field.

We come clean.
We come ready.
We open gateways for the generations to come.

Our pineal and pituitary centers need our daily attention.

Our spiritual muscles need to be flexed daily.

Not so we can become better than anyone else.

But so we can lift ourselves and one another to greater heights.

Those heights are available.

They are here.

They are close enough to touch.

Let us trust the challenge.

Let us sit with one another.

Let us look into the eyes of another human being and open the heart.

Let us heal the traumas that taught us to close.

Let us learn forgiveness.
Let us learn honor.
Let us learn respect.

And all the while, may we wake up no longer so sad and scared.

Truly, the relationship with the self gets a chance to evolve through practice.

To elevate.

To mature.

No one can grab this for you.

No one can do it for you.

This is your opportunity.

It is ready whenever you are ready to invite your soul.

You find purpose.

You find destiny.

You find the courage to land.

Sat Nam.

Love,
Karuna

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In this heartfelt and experiential session, Karuna invites participants into a journey of Silence, Space, and Freedom—a gentle return to the inner landscape where clarity, intuition, and authentic guidance naturally arise.

Through reflection, meditation, story, and contemplative practice, participants will explore the shift from seeking answers outside themselves to recognizing their own inner authority and innate wisdom.

Together we will discover how stillness creates space, how space creates freedom, and how freedom allows us to reconnect with the most reliable guide we will ever know—the wisdom already present within.

This session is open to people of all traditions and backgrounds who feel called to deepen self-trust, cultivate inner peace, and remember that the light they seek has never been separate from who they are.

Come as you are. Listen. Look. And remember:

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Hissing Meditation for the Glandular System II

POSTURE: Easy sitting pose, chin in and chest out.

MUDRA: Left hand is at the level of the heart center, palm down, forearm parallel to the ground. Right hand is in Christ Mudra, Sun and Mercury (ring and pinkie) fingers held down by the thumb, Jupiter and Saturn (forefinger and middle finger) pointing straight up. The fingers are stiff and straight. The right hand is in alignment with the shoulder, neither forward or back, and the elbow is relaxed away from the body. Neither of the hands touch the body.

EYES: Tip of the Nose

MANTRA: Aad Sach, Jugaad Sach, Haibhai Sach, Naanak Hosee Bhai Sach.

True in the beginning, True throughout the ages, True at this moment, Naanak says this Truth shall ever be.

Whisper the mantra strongly, as though hissing like a snake.

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Dear Ones,

From Ram Das Puri, with so much light, joy, and love.

Happy Father’s Day.

Happy Summer Solstice.

These are sacred days to remember why we practice.

Kundalini is resilience.

When karma comes, practice gives us a way to move through it. Not around it. Not above it. Through it.

Picture yourself like a boat in choppy waves.

The waves are high. The wind is strong. The water is moving in every direction.

And still, there is a rudder.

Something steady beneath the surface.

Something that helps the boat cut through the waves and continue toward its destination intact.

That is what practice gives us.

That is what mantra gives us.

That is what a strong nervous system gives us.

And when we become steady enough, we may even be able to help tow a few other souls along the way.

We are here for our karma.

We are here for the cleanup.

We are here to learn how to meet life without creating more chaos.

The stronger the nervous system becomes, the less we are thrown by every wave. The more resilience we build, the less karma can toss us around.

This does not mean life becomes soft.

A soft life can sometimes create a soft muscle.

Then when we are asked to lift even a small weight, we do not know how.

Challenges build the spirit.

Challenges build the strength.

Challenges build the light that can guide others.

So be grateful.

Not because everything is easy.

But because everything is teaching.

You are the lighthouse.

When your soul becomes exalted through practice, you can handle the challenges of life and still give inspiration to others.

Sometimes you do not need many words.

Sometimes just a look can help another person remember who they are.

This is the chain reaction of resilience.

We practice.

We strengthen.

We clear.

We shine.

And then our presence helps others.

But dear ones, we must also be very conscious.

We do not want to be part of the problem.

We want to be part of the solution.

When we are unconscious, we create more karma.

When we gossip, slander, criticize, or put people down, that energy goes somewhere. It enters the field. It leaves an imprint.

So we must use the Fifth Chakra — the voice — to heal.

Speak truth.

Speak blessing.

Speak with awareness.

And sometimes the most powerful thing to say is nothing at all.

When negativity appears, you do not have to feed it.

You do not have to answer every disturbance.

You can silently say:

God bless this soul.

God bless this soul and their neuroses.

God bless this soul and their pain.

This does not mean we agree with harmful behavior.

It means we do not let our own consciousness fall into the same vibration.

Watch the ego.

It creeps into all places.

It wants to be right.

It wants to be seen.

It wants to comment.

It wants to join the noise.

So we Sat Nam it.

Again and again.

Sat Nam.

Truth is my identity.

Sat Nam.

I remember who I am.

Sat Nam.

I walk away like a servant.

When we are in a state of resilience and strength, we are able to hold a higher consciousness. We become less influenced by the chaos of others.

And this brings peace.

Not because the world is quiet.

But because something within us has become steady.

Innately, we all know this.

We just get caught in Maya.

The net of illusion.

And today, with social media at our fingertips, there is more distraction than ever. More noise. More reaction. More temptation to lose the inner sound current.

It can feel like a huge party where you cannot hear yourself think.

And if you cannot hear yourself think, how will you hear God?

This is why mantra is so incredible.

Mantra is the rudder.

Mantra cuts through the noise.

It is not only physical practice.

It is mental practice.

It is spiritual practice.

It is sound current.

When the waves are big and crashing down, repeat the mantra.

When the mind is loud, repeat the mantra.

When the world is chaotic, repeat the mantra.

Every day.

Again and again.

The mantra helps us return.

Some people feed on chaos.

Some people create disturbance because it feeds the ego.

But we do not have to join that field.

We can choose differently.

We can practice differently.

We can become the lighthouse instead of another wave.

The masculine and feminine energies are meant to move together.

They balance.

They support.

They clear.

They create harmony.

White Tantric Yoga offers a powerful space for clearing and cleansing, and this is why we come to practice. We are here for our souls.

We are here to clean the aura.

We are here to become steady enough to serve.

You know what gives me so much joy?

To see someone walk up to the Guru and bow down completely.

That humility.

That reverence.

That willingness to surrender the ego.

Not everyone can see your aura.

But you can feel it.

You can tend it.

You can keep it clean.

So keep your aura clean, dear ones.

Keep your words clean.

Keep your heart clean.

Keep your practice steady.

Build your resilience so you can help others.

Let mantra be the rudder.

Let your nervous system become strong.

Let your voice become a healing instrument.

Let your presence become a lighthouse.

And when the waves come, remember:

You were made to cross this water.

Sat Nam.

So much light, joy, and love from Ram Das Puri.

Love,

Karuna

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In this heartfelt and experiential session, Karuna and Akal Sergio invites participants into a journey of Silence, Space, and Freedom—a gentle return to the inner landscape where clarity, intuition, and authentic guidance naturally arise.

Through reflection, meditation, story, and contemplative practice, participants will explore the shift from seeking answers outside themselves to recognizing their own inner authority and innate wisdom.

Together we will discover how stillness creates space, how space creates freedom, and how freedom allows us to reconnect with the most reliable guide we will ever know—the wisdom already present within.

This session is open to people of all traditions and backgrounds who feel called to deepen self-trust, cultivate inner peace, and remember that the light they seek has never been separate from who they are.

Come as you are. Listen. Look. And remember:

You inside of you is the most beautiful.

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• Yoga practice guidance

• Your own 40 Day Meditation

• Lifestyle recommendations: skincare, diet, recipes

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Relive the Light on Kundalini Book Launch Ceremony

See the book on Amazon here.

Audiobook now available on Audible and Audiobooks.com!

Out now! A Kundalini Yoga manual by LOK and Karuna! Start reading now by visiting lightonkundalini.com.

New Podcasts and Featured Guests

From Glamour to Grace with Sandi Sedgbeer

Karuna with Humanity Stream

Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

Karuna with Dom Brightmon on The True North Podcast

Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

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YouTube Channel

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Wisdom Keepers, The Mystical Path of Kundalini Yoga

Sacred Stories: Karuna as Luminary

Karuna on Voyage Denver, Part II

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With over 100 classes filmed in live classes for you to engage and participate. The time is now! It’s all here for you.

Dear Ones,

As we prepare our bags and begin our journeys toward the sacred sites of Summer Solstice, I find myself reflecting on why these gatherings matter so much.

We belong to one another.

We belong in community.

We belong in these moments of coming together to practice, celebrate, learn, and remember.

There is something profound that happens when people gather with a shared intention.

Something begins to soften.

Something begins to open.

Something begins to heal.

Kundalini Yoga teaches us that the glandular system changes through practice.

Often quietly.

Sometimes unexpectedly.

The body responds long before the mind understands what is happening.

A release occurs.

A shift occurs.

A reorganization begins.

And sometimes we simply have to surrender to it.

We soften.

We receive.

We allow.

Many of these reactions happen below the level of conscious awareness.

Our subconscious begins to reorganize itself.

Meanwhile, life continues.

We still go to work.

We still attend meetings.

We still fulfill our responsibilities.

And often we are asked to carry our healing process into environments that may not fully support it.

The world continues doing what it does.

Rarely does it pause because we are transforming.

This is why sacred space matters.

This is why sanctuary matters.

This is why Summer Solstice matters.

Not because transformation cannot happen elsewhere.

It can.

I remember taking my Level One Teacher Training in Los Angeles.

Profound work can happen in great cities all over the world.

But Summer Solstice offers something unique.

A community sanctuary.

A place intentionally created to support transformation.

A place where many people are simultaneously saying yes to growth.

Yes to healing.

Yes to Spirit.

There is power in that.

There is comfort in that.

There is wisdom in that.

Ram Das Puri has always felt this way to me.

Far enough away from ordinary life to allow something deeper to emerge.

Far enough away to loosen our attachment to habitual reactions and familiar outcomes.

A place where Spirit has room to breathe.

And yet, not everyone can travel.

Not everyone can make the journey.

And that is perfectly okay.

Because sanctuary is not limited by geography.

You can create a ceremonial space wherever you are.

Open a window.

Welcome the air.

Welcome the light.

Welcome the water.

Welcome the joy.

Create a small sacred corner.

Sit quietly.

Listen.

Allow yourself to receive.

Transformation does not require a particular location.

It requires willingness.

The pain will eventually soften.

The body will teach you what it needs.

You will discover your own way of supporting the process.

This is where traditions like Ayurveda offer such wisdom.

This is where nourishment becomes practice.

This is where caring for ourselves becomes sacred.

I spend much of my time in meetings.

Like many of you, I hear the same questions repeatedly:

What should we do?

How should we do it?

And these are important questions.

But perhaps there is an even more important question.

How are you?

How are you sleeping?

How are you digesting?

How are you nourishing yourself?

How are you preparing the food that becomes your body?

How are you tending the life that sustains your energy?

Because stamina matters.

Vitality matters.

Movement matters.

And kindness matters.

When we care for ourselves deeply, we become more available to care for others.

We become capable of reaching the heart of another person because we have first learned how to listen to our own.

This feels important now.

Not someday.

Not eventually.

Now.

There is an urgency to remembering what truly sustains us.

Community.

Dignity.

Trust.

Presence.

Love.

As Summer Solstice approaches, I invite you to join me in whatever way you can.

Gather if you are able.

Create sanctuary if you are not.

Practice.

Celebrate.

Listen.

Allow yourself to be renewed.

Let us raise the vibration together.

Let us strengthen the frequency of unity.

Let us remember that trust is not only a feeling.

Trust is an action.

Trust is a practice.

Trust is the bridge that carries us through transformation.

And perhaps that is the greatest gift of Summer Solstice.

Not simply the light outside us.

But the light we discover within one another.

Sat Nam.

Love,

Karuna

Please Note:

We accidentally used an unedited sample of Erika Randall’s work in our last newsletter. Our sincerest apologies. Here is the edited sample:

From nowhere, a white feather blew onto her flip-flop. She picked it up, remembering how her mother never let her touch feathers as a little girl. “Filthy things,” she had said. “Filthy things from filthy creatures.” Had she ignored her mother’s phobia, what a collection she could have had by now. Certainly enough for wings.

~Erika Randall, Music for Leaving

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You Inside of You is Most Beautiful

3HO Summer Solstice Festival

Sunday, June 21st, 3:30-5:30pm Mountain Time

In a world filled with constant information, guidance, and competing voices, how do we learn to trust the quiet wisdom that already lives within us?

In this heartfelt and experiential session, Karuna and Akal Sergio invites participants into a journey of Silence, Space, and Freedom—a gentle return to the inner landscape where clarity, intuition, and authentic guidance naturally arise.

Through reflection, meditation, story, and contemplative practice, participants will explore the shift from seeking answers outside themselves to recognizing their own inner authority and innate wisdom.

Together we will discover how stillness creates space, how space creates freedom, and how freedom allows us to reconnect with the most reliable guide we will ever know—the wisdom already present within.

This session is open to people of all traditions and backgrounds who feel called to deepen self-trust, cultivate inner peace, and remember that the light they seek has never been separate from who they are.

Come as you are. Listen. Look. And remember:

You inside of you is most beautiful.

Learn more at lightonkundalini.com

Yoga with Karuna

Resuming after the Solstice! Stay tuned!

All classes are in Mountain Time and streaming live on Instagram!

Donate to LOK

Private Session with Karuna

A private session includes but is not limited to:

• One to two hour Zoom session

• Yoga practice guidance

• Your own 40 Day Meditation

• Lifestyle recommendations: skincare, diet, recipes

Learn more at lightonkundalini.com

Weekly Recipe

Asparagus Soup with Roasted Radishes

Radishes are an underappreciated vegetable. Cold and spicy when raw, they were always the thing • picked off a salad and set aside. I didn’t really understand their value until I started cooking them—-tasting them caramelized and tender, exploding with flavor after slow-roasting in the oven. They become slightly sweet and easier to digest when cooked.

They’re a great side dish or topping for soup. Here they add great texture and flavor alongside this light and cleansing green soup. While the radishes roast, prepare the soup.

Prep: 10 minutes | Cook: 30 minutes | Yield: 4 servings

Roasted Radishes

• 6-8 radishes (red or French breakfast, trimmed and quartered

• 2 tablespoons olive oil

• Salt

Asparagus Soup

• 2 tablespoons ghee or olive oil

• 1 bunch asparagus, trimmed and chopped

• 4½ teaspoon ground coriander

• Ye teaspoon asafetida

• 2 cups loosely packed greens (watercress, spinach, green chard)

• 2-3 cups hot water

• 1 avocado, pitted

• 4½ cup loosely packed flat-leaf

• Parsley

• * teaspoon salt

• Microgreens or pea shoots, for gamish

For the radishes: Preheat the oven to 400°F. Place radishes in a baking pan. Toss in olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Roast for 20-25 minutes while making the soup, or until tender and the edges lightly browned and crispy. Remove from oven and serve hot on top of the soup.

For the soup: In a medium pot, heat the ghee on medium heat.

Add the asparagus, coriander, and asafetida, and cook for 5 min-utes, until tender. Reduce to low heat, add the greens, and cook another 2-3 minutes. Transfer to a high-speed blender, add the remaining ingredients, and puree until creamy, adding more water if the consistency is too thick. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed. To serve, divide between bowls and garnish with roasted radishes and a handful of microgreens or pea shoots. For a heartier meal, pour soup over a scoop of cooked quinoa or millet.

From Living Ayurveda: Nourishing Body and Mind through Seasonal Recipes, Rituals, and Yoga

Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening and the Compation Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual

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From Glamour to Grace with Sandi Sedgbeer

Karuna with Humanity Stream

Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

Karuna with Dom Brightmon on The True North Podcast

Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

Sacred Stories: Healing Grief

Sacred Stories: Awakening the Ten Bodies

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Karuna in Awakening World

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Wisdom Keepers, The Mystical Path of Kundalini Yoga

Sacred Stories: Karuna as Luminary

Karuna on Voyage Denver, Part II

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With over 100 classes filmed in live classes for you to engage and participate. The time is now! It’s all here for you.

Dear Ones,

Forever the Vision Quest.

The journey continues.

Taking turns with triggering times.
Walking trails that smell of butterscotch.
Finding trees split open by veins of quartz.
Meeting friends at home.
Receiving help exactly when you are ready to receive it.

Life has a way of doing this.

Not always when we ask.

But often when we can finally appreciate the gift.

The Vision Quest is not only a journey into the wilderness.

It is a journey into wonder.
Into listening.
Into trust.
Into the quiet places within ourselves that already know.

Recently, I found myself steeping a new tea leaf three times.

Each steeping revealed something different.

The first was bright.
The second was deeper.
The third carried a wisdom that had been hidden from the beginning.

Practice can be like this.

We return again and again.
And each time something new is revealed.

So much of spiritual life is not about learning more.

It is about listening more deeply.

Staying steady.
Trusting intuition.
Tuning in.

How do we know if our practice is working?

Only we can answer that.

Only we can say yes to the invitation.
Only we can enter the forest and listen.
Only we can sit beside the trees and ask for guidance.
Only we can learn what it means to trust ourselves.

And perhaps that is the real practice.

To become the trustee of our own estate.

And the estate is Being.

How do we invent ourselves anew?

Perhaps not by trying harder.

Perhaps by listening differently.

Hearing a melody.
A sound current.
A note we have never heard before.

Improvising our way into deeper awareness.

Life rarely unfolds exactly as expected.

We search for familiarity.
We search for certainty.

And then change arrives.

Suddenly everything feels unfamiliar.
Sometimes frightening.
Sometimes overwhelming.

And sometimes we freeze.

Yet what if the very thing that feels like disruption
is actually melting the wax of who we used to be?

What if it is creating space for something new?

An opportunity.
An awakening.
An invitation into greater awareness.

Creative forces.
Loving forces.
Forces of unity.

Nature teaches this constantly.

This is why we must spend time outdoors.

Not occasionally.

Regularly.
Weekly.
Daily, if possible.

The forest remembers things we forget.

The trees hold a kind of wisdom.
The birds remind us how to belong.

Even the pigeons, often overlooked, carry remarkable intelligence.

The baby owls teach us about observation.

The animal world understands family in ways we sometimes miss.

Harmony is all around us.

This is one of the gifts of Summer Solstice.

The invitation to participate more fully in life.

To go out and meet new friends.
To welcome the inner spirit that is trying to move through you.

To feel unity.
To feel freedom.
To feel the love we have for one another.

We are weaving a tapestry together.

Each conversation.
Each kindness.
Each act of courage.
Each moment of presence.

All of it becomes part of something larger.

A creative collaboration with life itself.

A universal conversation.

A cosmic remembering.

And so we participate in the dance.

The inhale.
The exhale.

Movement.
Stillness.

Giving.
Receiving.

As the body moves, inflammation softens.

As the breath deepens, tension releases.

As awareness grows, health often begins to reorganize itself.

Not through force.

But through alignment.

Meditate.

Listen.

Trust.

Know that purity is not perfection.

Purity is honesty.
Purity is presence.
Purity is being fully yourself.

And from that place—

stay steady.

Trust your intuition.

Tune in.

The path is already speaking.

Sat Nam.

Love,
Karuna

From nowhere, a white feather blew onto her flip-flop. She picked it up, remembering how her mother never let her touch feathers as a little girl. “Filthy things,” she had said. “Filthy things from filthy creatures.” Had she ignored her mother’s phobia, what a collection she could have had by now. Certainly enough for wings.

~Erika Randall, Music for Leaving

Upcoming Events

You Inside of You is Most Beautiful

3HO Summer Solstice Festival

Sunday, June 21st, 3:30-5:30pm Mountain Time

Learn more at lightonkundalini.com

Yoga with Karuna

Resuming after the Solstice! Stay tuned!

All classes are in Mountain Time and streaming live on Instagram!

Donate to LOK

Private Session with Karuna

A private session includes but is not limited to:

• One to two hour Zoom session

• Yoga practice guidance

• Your own 40 Day Meditation

• Lifestyle recommendations: skincare, diet, recipes

Learn more at lightonkundalini.com

Weekly Recipe

Almond Cardamom Diamonds

Known as burfi, this fudge-style treat has only a few ingredients and is simple to make. Sure, it has a lot of sugar; but it also has building qualities and minerals from almonds and makes a wonderful celebrator treat. It’s one of those meditative recipes that has you stirring for a while. immersed in the aromas and qualities of the ingredients as they roast to a fantastic golden color.

To make this recipe ideal for the postpartum stage, add the optional ginger with the cardamom.

• 1 cup evaporated cane juice or less refined sugar

• 2/3 cup water

• 1 tsp ground cardamom

• 1 tsp ground ginger (optional)

• 2 cups almond flour (Blanched will have the skins removed, for digestion, and will make smoother fudge.)

• 2 tbsp ghee

• 2-3 tbsp slivered almonds

1. Line an 8 x 8-inch glass dish with an extra-large piece of parchment paper, folded and pressed into the corners.

2. In a wide, heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine the sugar and water. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring to dissolve. Reduce the heat to medium and boil for 10 minutes, stirring constantly.

3. Add the cardamom and ginger (if using); stir.

4. Add almond flour to the boiling mixture and mix quickly.

5. Keep stirring in a circular motion; the mixture will become thick. Soon the almond flour will absorb the liquid and become a paste.

6. Continue to cook, folding the mixture occasionally and not letting it burn. Collect any pieces off the sides. After about 6 or 7 minutes, the mixture will ball up.

7. Reduce the heat to low. Add the ghee and mix well, scraping the bottom of the pan.

8. Remove from the heat and transfer the ball to the paper-lined dish.

From Everyday Ayurveda for Women’s Health

Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening and the Compation Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual

Relive the Light on Kundalini Book Launch Ceremony

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Audiobook now available on Audible and Audiobooks.com!

Out now! A Kundalini Yoga manual by LOK and Karuna! Start reading now by visiting lightonkundalini.com.

New Podcasts and Featured Guests

From Glamour to Grace with Sandi Sedgbeer

Karuna with Humanity Stream

Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

Karuna with Dom Brightmon on The True North Podcast

Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

Sacred Stories: Healing Grief

Sacred Stories: Awakening the Ten Bodies

YouTube Channel

Sharing Deeper Conversation

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Teach.Yoga

Karuna in Canvas Rebel

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Wisdom Keepers, The Mystical Path of Kundalini Yoga

Sacred Stories: Karuna as Luminary

Karuna on Voyage Denver, Part II

iOS Mobile App

With over 100 classes filmed in live classes for you to engage and participate. The time is now! It’s all here for you.

Dear Ones,

New day.

Full Moon.

Blue Moon.

What do we say?

Ask the Guides.

The world is beyond our shortcomings now,
and it is time to speak up.

Not with fear.

Not with blame.

But with the truth
that has been waiting inside the body.

Many teachings remind us
that certain souls came in with a deep assignment.

Some of us carry wounds
from the collective consciousness.

Some of us have seen collapse before others name it.

Some of us recognize patterns
through memory,
through intuition,
through a pull toward purpose
that never really goes away.

Your soul is sacred.

And if you have felt this —
the ache, the tiredness, the not-quite-belonging —
perhaps you are not lost.

Perhaps you are remembering.

Edgar Cayce’s teachings speak to patterns
many old souls may recognize.

A bone-deep weariness.

A lifelong feeling of not fully belonging
to one group,
one family,
one community.

A capacity to sense collapse
before others do.

An irresistible pull forward.

And the knowing
that your most important work
may still be ahead of you.

This feeling is not delusional.

It may be part of the call.

We understand trauma.

We understand how patterns are modeled,
mirrored,
and shaped.

As my dear sister Dr. Marty K. Casey of the UnGUN Institute reminds us:

“Hurt people hurt people,
but healed people can heal people.”

This is why practice matters.

This is why tradition matters.

This is why discipline matters.

Not discipline as punishment —
but discipline as devotion.

A way of creating enough steadiness
for the pain to become wisdom.

What did we come here to do?

Perhaps three things.

Ancestral healing.

To break karmic chains.
To end patterns that have traveled through families
for far too long.

When one person truly heals,
living relatives can feel the shift.

Collective stabilization.

To become a calmer presence
in a world that feels overwhelmed.

To stand steady
without becoming numb.

To bring peace
not as an idea,
but as a lived nervous system.

And conscious transmission.

Through words.
Through presence.
Through art.
Through how we walk into a room.

This kind of transmission only comes
from what should have broken you —
but did not.

So share the hard wisdom
with integrity.

Pure soul requires calm.

And final activation happens through you
the moment you stop looking outward
for the permission you already carry within.

Recognition:

There is nothing ordinary about you.

Your story is a map.

Permission:

No one is coming to give it.

It is you.

You are the elder now.

Activation:

A direct conversation
between your soul
and what you came here to serve.

As Susan Jeffers so beautifully reminded us:

Feel the fear
and do it anyway.

Fear does not always mean stop.

Sometimes fear is the doorway.

Sometimes fear is the edge
where your courage is being born.

Even the way we speak to ourselves matters.

“It’s a problem”
can feel heavy,
deadening,
closed.

“It’s an opportunity”
opens a door.

Each time we see the gift inside an obstacle,
we stretch our capacity to meet life.

Each time we stretch,
we become more powerful —
not harder,
but more available.

As we move into June,
the sixth month of the year,
I think many of us can agree:

Time is moving so fast.

This thing called time.

Halfway through the year already.

And now we return to the number six.

In Kundalini Yoga, the Sixth Body
is the Arc Line.

For women, the Arc Line is understood
as the radiant arc across the chest —
a divine shield of protection.

For men and women,
it also moves across the hairline —
like a halo.

It is connected to intuition,
to the pineal gland,
to subtle knowing,
to the power of protection
that does not come from shutting down.

When the Arc Line is strong,
we can move through the world
with more clarity.

We can feel what belongs to us
and what does not.

We can remain open
without becoming available
to every disturbance.

This is sacred protection.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama teaches us
to be wisely selfish —
not only through prayer,
but through knowledge,
through education,
through understanding.

To care for the self
so we can truly care for others.

To strengthen the mind
so the heart may remain open.

To protect the radiance
so love can keep serving.

This is not ordinary selfishness.

This is stewardship.

We are developing new portals of teaching
and live Zoom gatherings through Light on Kundalini.

A place to meet,
to practice,
to greet one another,
to remember why we came.

Light on Kundalini will activate this next doorway
on June 21st,
Summer Solstice.

A sacred turning.

A day of light.

A day to practice together again.

Because when one person shows up happy,
radiant,
alive —
the rest of us feel it.

We say:

Whatever that is,
I want that.

That was the feeling after my first Yoga class.

That is why I wrote Light on Kundalini
and the Yoga Manual.

Yoga saved my life.

I hope it helps you live yours.

It is time to practice together again.

To commit to this thing called birthright.

This thing called happiness.

We walk our talk.

We strengthen the shield.

We speak the truth.

We become the calm.

And we remember that what we have lived through
can become medicine
when offered with humility and love.

Be courageous
like the sisters who are speaking now.

Like the elders who remind us.

Like His Holiness.

Like Dr. Marty K. Casey.

Like sister Laura and the Founding Mothers
who remind us that we have to make a change now.

Not someday.

Now.

And we can.

Together.

So ask yourself today:

Where have I been waiting for permission?

Where have I called something a problem
that may be asking me to grow?

Where is my story becoming a map?

Where is my fear asking me
to move with courage?

Return to your practice.

Strengthen your Arc Line.

Protect your radiance.

Share your wisdom with integrity.

Feel the fear.

Do it anyway.

Sat Nam.

Love,
Karuna

Upcoming Events

You Inside of You is Most Beautiful

3HO Summer Solstice Festival

Sunday, June 21st, 3:30-5:30pm Mountain Time

Learn more at lightonkundalini.com

Yoga with Karuna

Sunday, June 7th, 9am Mountain Time

All classes are in Mountain Time and streaming live on Instagram!

Previous Week’s Classes:

Beaming Meditation

Donate to LOK

Private Session with Karuna

A private session includes but is not limited to:

• One to two hour Zoom session

• Yoga practice guidance

• Your own 40 Day Meditation

• Lifestyle recommendations: skincare, diet, recipes

Learn more at lightonkundalini.com

Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening and the Compation Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual

Relive the Light on Kundalini Book Launch Ceremony

See the book on Amazon here.

Audiobook now available on Audible and Audiobooks.com!

Out now! A Kundalini Yoga manual by LOK and Karuna! Start reading now by visiting lightonkundalini.com.

New Podcasts and Featured Guests

From Glamour to Grace with Sandi Sedgbeer

Karuna with Humanity Stream

Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

Karuna with Dom Brightmon on The True North Podcast

Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

Sacred Stories: Healing Grief

Sacred Stories: Awakening the Ten Bodies

YouTube Channel

Sharing Deeper Conversation

Karuna in Awakening World

Teach.Yoga

Karuna in Canvas Rebel

A Quest for Well-Being - Kundalini Yoga: The Flow of Spiritual Energy

Wisdom Keepers, The Mystical Path of Kundalini Yoga

Sacred Stories: Karuna as Luminary

Karuna on Voyage Denver, Part II

iOS Mobile App

With over 100 classes filmed in live classes for you to engage and participate. The time is now! It’s all here for you.

Dear Ones,

It is a solid part of awakening to look for solutions.

We naturally want peace.

We naturally want harmony.

We want to help each other resolve the inner war.

And when that longing becomes practice — what an unbelievable gift.

Not a practice that needs to be scheduled.
Not something only placed on a calendar.

But a practice that arrives when all of you is ready.

Sometimes in the middle of the night.

Sometimes at 4 AM,
when the world is quiet
and the elements feel close.

The early morning practice
can feel like standing near sunrise
before sunrise has even come.

Earth.
Air.
Fire.
Water.
Ether.

All present.

All listening.

All guiding.

I was remembering recently
how I used to travel alone
with my children and our dogs
from Santa Monica to Colorado.

Into the car we went —
pillows, pups, children, nectar, everything.

Nineteen hours
to find home again.

How did we do it?

Trust.

When we trust,
we find energy we did not know we had.

We find guidance.
We find stamina.
We find the next breath.

Fear still arises.

Of course it does.

Sometimes in those early morning hours,
when the body is detoxing,
when the liver is working,
when the mind wakes up
and wants to make a story.

The body speaks.

The spirit speaks.

And we are asked to listen
without overstimulating ourselves.

Without turning every sensation
into panic.

Can we meet ourselves as we are?

Can we look at our age, our body, our life,
not as something to outrun,
but as something to be with?

Why are we always reaching
twenty years ahead?

Nature does not rush this way.

She gives slowly.

Rhythmically.

She teaches us to move,
to dance,
to breathe,
to stretch,
to receive.

And then the question comes:

Where are we dumping what needs to be tended?

Onto the earth?
Onto one another?
Onto ourselves?

Are we scattering our inner trash
onto the sacred Mother
without allowing the recycling
to happen within us?

This is not only about garbage.

It is about what we refuse to process.

The old fear.
The resentment.
The worry.
The unfinished grief.

The things we leave outside
until the bear smells them,
hungry and strong,
and pulls everything open.

Then we see it.

The untidiness of our cycles.

The things we thought were hidden.

The Divine Mother does not shame us.

She asks for our participation.

Are you participating?

Or are you leaving it
for your neighbors to clean up?

And can we go one step deeper?

Will you be the neighbor
who helps clean it up
to protect the forest?

This is practice too.

This is Yoga too.

To fold your own laundry.

To tend your own home.

To clear what is yours.

To care for the earth.

To care for the field.

To care for each other.

Open yourself like a mailbox
to receive the postcard that says:

I love you.

You are my royal arch.

You are my boulder
that keeps me strong,
stable,
grounded.

You are the transparent piece of sea glass
thrown and tossed,
bathed and shaped
by waves and time.

And still —
you are beautiful.

A gift.

A gem.

Even one breath of this love
is enough.

My mother once whispered,
barely audible:

“Take over.”

And I understand that differently now.

The Divine Feminine holds us,
but she also asks us to rise.

To participate.

To prepare.

To sustain.

To understand each other.

To stop abandoning what needs our care.

Maybe the solution
is not somewhere far away.

Maybe the solution
is what we are already walking with.

The breath.
The body.
The practice.
The earth beneath us.
The love between us.

It is here.

It is now.

It may feel scary.

It may feel like fear.

But underneath it all —
it is love.

Only love.

Let’s do it together.

Sat Nam.

Love,
Karuna

Upcoming Events

Yoga with Karuna

Sunday, May 31st, 9am Mountain Time

All classes are in Mountain Time and streaming live on Instagram!

Previous Week’s Classes:

Out of the Mud Comes the Lotus 🪷

Delight Meditation

Beaming Meditation

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Weekly Recipe

Mustard Greens, Cheddar, and Farm Egg Breakfast Pizza

When you really want to go for it at breakfast, make pizza! Imagine it-fresh, hot, babbling with cheese and the quivering yellow yolk of a farm-fresh egg. It’s worth the effort. and it’s quite a cinch if you make a habit of prepping your pizza dough ahead and keeping it in the freezer or fridge. This pizza gives glory to a good fresh egg a duck eg aloo does the trick!) from your local farmers’ market. I top my egg with smoked sea salt, to give it the smoky flavor some brunch-goers might crave after forgoing bacon.

Ingredients

• Fine cornmeal for dusting

• Flour for dusting

• One 14-16 oz/400-455 g ball homemade pizza dough or purchased pizza dough, at room temperature

• 2 oz/55 g sharp white cheddar or Comté cheese, coarsely grated

• 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling

• large bunch mustard greens, trimmed and chopped

• Sea salt

• 2 or 3 very fresh chicken eggs

• Smoked sea salt (such as alder smoked or smoked Maldon) and freshly ground pepper

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 475°F/240°C/gas 9 and place a rack in the bottom third of the oven. If using a pizza stone, sprinkle a pizza peel or paddle lightly with cornmeal. If using z baking sheet, preheat it in the oven until it is very hot and then dust it with cornmeal.

2. On a well-floured work surface or the peel or paddle, sprinkle the dough and your hands with flour. Stretch the dough with your hands to make any shape of pizza you please (see Shaping Pizza Dough, page 213), roughly 12-in/30.5-cm round or oblong, stretching the edges lightly to form a circle, oval, or rectangle that is evenly thin throughout the middle. Carefully transfer the dough to the prepared pizza paddle or hot baking sheet with both hands.

3. Top the pizza with the cheddar cheese.

4. If using a pizza stone, slide the pizza onto the hot stone and place it in the oven. If using a baking sheet, place the hot baking sheet in the oven. Bake until the pizza is pale golden and starting to look crispy, about 8 minutes.

5. Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the mustard greens and cook until wilted, about 3 minutes. Season with sea salt.

6. Open the oven door quickly, pull out the rack, and crack the eggs over the center of the pizza. Bake until the egg whites are set and the yolks are still slightly soft, 5 to 7 minutes.

7. Spread the mustard greens evenly over the pizza. Drizzle with more olive oil if desired, and sprinkle with smoked sea salt and pepper. Serve warm.

From Feast by Sarah Copeland

Private Session with Karuna

A private session includes but is not limited to:

• One to two hour Zoom session

• Yoga practice guidance

• Your own 40 Day Meditation

• Lifestyle recommendations: skincare, diet, recipes

Learn more at lightonkundalini.com

Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening and the Compation Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual

Relive the Light on Kundalini Book Launch Ceremony

See the book on Amazon here.

Audiobook now available on Audible and Audiobooks.com!

Out now! A Kundalini Yoga manual by LOK and Karuna! Start reading now by visiting lightonkundalini.com.

New Podcasts and Featured Guests

From Glamour to Grace with Sandi Sedgbeer

Karuna with Humanity Stream

Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

Karuna with Dom Brightmon on The True North Podcast

Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

Sacred Stories: Healing Grief

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Dear Ones,

I followed the leader through the forest this week
to see how the forest bed was recovering.

It has been nearly five years now
since many of you joined me in prayer and ceremony for this land.

We spoke to her.
We listened.

We asked for guidance
for how to care for what had been neglected,
how to help restore balance
after so much density, dryness, and change.

And now…

She is responding.

An expert from CSU, walked the land with me.

Over and over she said the same thing:

“How lovely everything looks.”

And it truly did.

The mitigation had taken so well.

The root systems were established.
The forest was breathing again.

Openings once filled with fear and overgrowth
had become habitat.

Places where the four-leggeds now feel safe to move freely again.

And my heart…

My Yogi heart…

felt such gratitude witnessing this recovery.

Nature knows how to heal
when given the chance.

And perhaps so do we.

As I walked the land,
I thought about the reason I wrote my book years ago:

Yoga saved my life.

And I still mean that.

When I was pregnant with my daughter forty years ago,
I practiced every single day as best I could.

My West Indian teacher, Jackie,
lived in a small apartment in New York City.

Every morning I would walk from Horatio Street
to practice with her.

Then I would go sit quietly at the macrobiotic deli,
eating tahini sprouts on toast,
before taking a taxi home to the West Village.

I remember feeling so connected to my baby.

At that time, she was simply… my baby.

I did not yet know who she would become.

One day Jackie looked at me and said:

“Your baby is coming today.”

And she was right.

My daughter came that very day.

Now forty years later,
I walk this land and witness another kind of birth.

The forest returning.

The earth reorganizing herself
through care, patience, and stewardship.

And I realize how much practice prepares us for change.

Not only yoga on the mat.

But the practice of relationship.
The practice of listening.
The practice of staying present through uncertainty.

These days I find myself volunteering in many communities.

Some working toward peace.
Some helping young people navigate difficult times.

And what I continue to learn is this:

Meditation, yoga, and life
eventually blend together.

At some point, the teachings stop living only in theory.

They become the way you walk through hardship.
Through relationship.
Through grief.
Through joy.

Nature teaches this so clearly.

The forest does not rush its recovery.

And neither do we.

Recently during family yoga practice,
I reached over and touched my daughter’s hand.

And in that small moment,
I remembered how important it is
to practice together.

To breathe together.

To keep returning to one another.

Because none of us truly knows
what life will ask of us next.

Later, while walking the land,
we came upon a tree unlike any I had seen before.

One strong base
branching perfectly into two.

And at her roots…

white crystals.

Large formations scattered through the earth.

And everywhere among them,
pieces of mica shimmering in the light.

When I was a little girl,
I loved finding mica.

Tiny mirror-like fragments hidden in the dirt.

And there I was again, decades later,
holding a piece nearly the size of my hand.

A mirror from the earth.

A memory returned.

So now I find myself going back to this tree.

My new hugging tree.

A gift arriving on my daughter’s fortieth year.

Another reminder
that life keeps revealing itself to us
step by step.

My friend Guru Dave recently reminded me:

One of the first teachings of Buddha
was to go toward the darkness.

Toward the shadow.

Because suffering is something we all share.

And when we meet it honestly,
it becomes compassion.

This new moon in Taurus
speaks to groundedness.

To the steady mountain we climb day after day.

To standing firmly rooted
even while shadows pass across the landscape.

So there I stood,
holding this crystal-rooted tree,
feeling her strength,
her alignment,
her quiet abundance.

And just then…

a hummingbird appeared.

As if to say:

“Sat Nam.
Love you so.”

The land keeps speaking.

And I keep listening.

I never used to walk this land like this
when the forest was thick with trees.

But now, after the burns,
after the clearing,
after the loss…

something new is visible.

Isn’t that true for us also?

Sometimes when life strips things away,
we finally begin to see clearly.

And if we leave ourselves alone long enough —
without panic,
without forcing,
without constant self-judgment —

something natural begins to return.

The inner guide becomes easier to hear.

The heart softens.

Wisdom rises quietly.

As Ana and I walked among the downed trees and burn patches,
everything felt strangely beautiful.

The critters had returned.

The habitats were alive again.

A turkey appeared beside me as I approached my rock
where I stand each day to do mantra.

A deer stopped and looked back at me.

And I suddenly felt how much of this journey
we travel alone.

Solo.

We come in solo.

We go out solo.

And yet somehow…

we belong to everything.

Sat Nam.

Love,
Karuna

Happy Birthday my darling Daughter

🌲✨🕊️

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Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

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Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

Sacred Stories: Healing Grief

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Karuna in Canvas Rebel

A Quest for Well-Being - Kundalini Yoga: The Flow of Spiritual Energy

Wisdom Keepers, The Mystical Path of Kundalini Yoga

Sacred Stories: Karuna as Luminary

Karuna on Voyage Denver, Part II

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Dear Ones,

Oh Mother…how I love you.

And how deeply we have loved one another through all these years.

Ninety-two years.

What a miracle.

What a journey.

I often think about the moments that stay alive inside us forever.

Like the time I ran onto the stage at the Boulder Theater while my mother was performing The Pajama Game.

I took a bow beside her.

I had to make sure she was okay.

I could always find her.

I still can.

And sometimes I wonder…

Why do you still visit me
in dreams as your younger self?

How does love continue this way
across time, across age, across memory?

There is something sacred
about growing older together.

The layers soften.

The defenses thin.

And somewhere within all of it,
wisdom begins to recognize itself.

Recently my mother said to me:

“You get me… because I’m a real trip.”

And in that moment,
something opened.

A depth.
A truth waiting quietly beneath the surface.

To be seen.
To be received.

This is one of the great gifts of practice.

Not perfection.

Not performance.

But relationship.

A returning to ourselves
through one another.

Again and again.

I was reminded of this today
while speaking with a gentle man I met last year on retreat.

He and his radiant wife entered my life
through one of those unexpected moments
that quietly changes everything.

I remember standing barefoot on the beach,
olive oil and sand removing tar from our feet,
surrounded by laughter, openness, and freedom.

Some people were swimming naked.

Completely unashamed.
Completely alive.

And then came the ranger.

Angry.
Threatening.
Certain she needed to control what she did not understand.

“You can’t swim naked here,” she said.
“What if a religious family sees you?”

And yet something extraordinary happened.

This beautiful woman —
still standing there completely naked —
met her not with fear,
not with defensiveness,
but with presence.

Calm.
Grounded.
Open-hearted.

And slowly,
everything changed.

The ranger softened.

Her entire demeanor shifted.

Peace entered where conflict had been.

I never forgot it.

Because in that moment,
I realized:

True power is not force.

It is presence.

Today, as my friend reached out to me again,
he reminded me of something deeper.

How vulnerable transformation really is.

How sometimes we must feel stripped bare
before we can meet ourselves honestly.

And how frightening — and sacred — that can be.

Who are we walking with
when life asks us to become more true?

Who reminds us of the light
when we feel lost inside our own shadow?

These are not small questions.

They are human questions.

Spiritual questions.

Mother questions.

To mother someone
is not only to protect them.

It is to see them.

To hold space for what is becoming.

To love through change.

To stay present long enough
for another person to remember who they are.

This is true for our children.

For our friends.

For our partners.

For ourselves.

Can we speak honestly?
Can we listen gently?
Can we live with reverence
for whatever role we are here to play?

This path is not about followers.

It is about relationship.

A deeper conversation.

One rooted in kindness,
compassion,
and the knowing
that we truly belong to one another.

And slowly…
piano piano…
little by little…

We soften.

We open.

We remember.

So today,
We honor all mothers.

Those here.
Those gone.
Those who mother through birth,
through friendship,
through service,
through presence.

Because every one of us
came through the heart of another.

And to my own children —
my daughter, my son —

what a blessing it is
to love you.

To learn peace through family.

To feel the heart stretched open again and again.

My grandmother used to call me “Kissy Wissy.”

And I suppose…
she was right.

Heartfelt joy and light
to all our mothers.

We all have one.

And somewhere deep within us,
we are always being called home to her love.

Sat Nam.

Love,
Karuna

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• One to two hour Zoom session

• Yoga practice guidance

• Your own 40 Day Meditation

• Lifestyle recommendations: skincare, diet, recipes

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Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening and the Compation Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual

Relive the Light on Kundalini Book Launch Ceremony

See the book on Amazon here.

Audiobook now available on Audible and Audiobooks.com!

Out now! A Kundalini Yoga manual by LOK and Karuna! Start reading now by visiting lightonkundalini.com.

New Podcasts and Featured Guests

Karuna with Humanity Stream

Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

Karuna with Dom Brightmon on The True North Podcast

Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

Sacred Stories: Healing Grief

Sacred Stories: Awakening the Ten Bodies

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A Quest for Well-Being - Kundalini Yoga: The Flow of Spiritual Energy

Wisdom Keepers, The Mystical Path of Kundalini Yoga

Sacred Stories: Karuna as Luminary

Karuna on Voyage Denver, Part II

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My Dear Ones,

Happy Scorpio Full Moon and Happy Global Love Day!

What helps you soften into Love? What makes it easy for you to open into love? Feel the softening, to feel the ease, surrender and release.

Focus on the crackling of the fire, this one pointed devotion to God. Two more deep breaths. Infuse the field.

Ease, kindness, connection with divine, serenity, trust, patience, compassion, safety, balance, shared companionship, loved ones, nature, my nature, so many pathways into love.

Every time life tugs at you in a direction, come back to the pathway into love. The more love we feel, the more love we can share. I share with you in our continuing conversation, two practices below found their way to you, come and breathe and take a deeper dive, you will receive the transmission here.

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From my Heart fire to yours,

Love, and Sat Nam,

Karuna

Practice #1

from Khadijih

Find a very comfortable space, seated, laying down, allow your eyes to gently close. Allowing your breath to deepen and slow, take a moment to notice what you are feeling. Allowing what ever is present to be perfect for right now. With each deep breath invite your body to soften just a little more. Noticing if there is any tension in your face or in your jaw, allowing this to relax. Notice how your shoulders are being held, breath into your shoulders and let them drop down. Breath into your heart, feel your heart, let any resistance around the heart soften. Breath into our belly notice if you have been clenching any muscles in the parts of the body, take a deep breath relax. Breathe into pelvis and hips there is so much energy where it is stored, keep moving into every part of your body allowing the muscles to soften. Notice anywhere that is holding, bracing, gripped, invasions, soften and let go. Breath into the organs the adrenal glands and allow the flame of fire to burst through and release. Breathe into the precious place the heart the seat of our soul where our true spirit resides. Breathe into the heart and feel it expand and connect with the essence of you, breathe out and feel how your heart emanates beyond your physical form. Spread your wings expand.. breathing in feeling, breathing our becoming aware of your heart field. Where can I feel the love flowing through me the subtle or not so subtle vibrations of love within me and all around me. Sending our love out to the Universe and even further. I AM and anything that follows I am tells a story of ourselves. From the bio field you took us through a journey a universal love we share with nature and animals. The animals who sit with me this week are big male elk, two sitting, lying and breathing. The Turkey male in full expression came earlier with his female consorts crunching through the iced land, picking up the seeds we are planting only to restore our land into balance. They kept my attention engaged for as long as I could witness my own yearning to connect in this same way they were healing me, filling me, the true kindness of their still presence and not so still when its time to relate.

Practice #2

from Tatiana Speed

Open the back door of your heart, journey into your heart space, let your heart be filled with this source love. When your heart feels full shine this light down into the body, beam it down into your legs into your hands feel washed into into the tips of your fingers, belly, torso, up your neck into your head, imagine you are being filled with every cell into your body until your whole embodiment is soaking into your own true essence your own true nature. When you feel you are literally glowing into your central nervous system your sushmana allow it clear all the trauma removing the sludge and keep doing over and over and over again and again charging you with your own love light power, beauty. Imagine it changing direction even to throughly clean and clear the blocked passage ways to all the organs. Feel your own verticality, how do we embody this love letting this love take dominion over these bodies to carry into all relations. How do we hold that much love, Blue Ray Practice: how to hold more light more love.

We have the tools in the hand of love. Our evolution is so necessary. Each one of you is a light being leading a very important way into the heart being. This field is so amplified and rich, creating into the heart space let still ness grow louder. When you give attention to stillness it grows into the potency of love.

Our hearts are open receiving we surrender into the arms of love, we are ready we are ready. Omg Nama shiva Shivaya Ong Na Ma Shivaya….. feel your heart glowing and journey through your body into your cells and see them glow with love, feel like a beacon, your whole being is radiating this love.. lets join forces and send this to the world. We are these light houses, torches, energy pouring out from your heart into you hands which are connected to your heat and carry love let your palms serve. See which part of the world calls to you and offer a prayer, May all Beings Be Free May all beings know peace, love, human connections, may there be healing between men and woman, how we treat Mother Earth, and all four legged, winged ones, all those that creep and crawl and fly and live in the clean oceans. We are ready to walk on this earth with love.

We will make the angels cry with how we love. In a thousand years nothing will remain of us but how we love ohh but how we love, so lets love deeply love each other completely, but how we love. But we loved. IN a thousand years nothing we remain of us so lets love deeply love each other completely, our love is a song that never ends, you will always hear the melody of love. Who do you need to tell you love. What is one form of self love you can do for yourself. So with courage let’s do it! What one act of love you are going to share. I am going to call my om and tell her how much I love her. What an act of love I am going to take?

What does love feel like to you? Gerald Jampolsky.

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A private session includes but is not limited to:

• One to two hour Zoom session

• Yoga practice guidance

• Your own 40 Day Meditation

• Lifestyle recommendations: skincare, diet, recipes

Learn more at lightonkundalini.com

Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening and the Compation Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual

Relive the Light on Kundalini Book Launch Ceremony

See the book on Amazon here.

Audiobook now available on Audible and Audiobooks.com!

Out now! A Kundalini Yoga manual by LOK and Karuna! Start reading now by visiting lightonkundalini.com.

New Podcasts and Featured Guests

Karuna with Humanity Stream

Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

Karuna with Dom Brightmon on The True North Podcast

Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

Sacred Stories: Healing Grief

Sacred Stories: Awakening the Ten Bodies

YouTube Channel

Sharing Deeper Conversation

Karuna in Awakening World

Teach.Yoga

Karuna in Canvas Rebel

A Quest for Well-Being - Kundalini Yoga: The Flow of Spiritual Energy

Wisdom Keepers, The Mystical Path of Kundalini Yoga

Sacred Stories: Karuna as Luminary

Karuna on Voyage Denver, Part II

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With over 100 classes filmed in live classes for you to engage and participate. The time is now! It’s all here for you.

Dear Ones,

As we continue our conversations together each week,
I feel something opening…

A quiet spreading of light through our relationships.

There was a time when we felt unseen, skipped over, or misunderstood.

And yet now — something is shifting.

Everything you share matters.

Even the small moments.
Even the ones you think go unnoticed.

Relationships are not always easy.

Conversations can lead us into places we did not expect.

Sometimes into confrontation.
Sometimes into old patterns that feel so familiar
we almost know the ending before it begins.

And here is the moment of choice.

Which path will you follow?

Which “rabbit hole” will you enter?

We can meet these moments with kindness.

With awareness.

With a willingness to observe rather than react.

Is the other person able to meet you there?

You may not always know.

And that is part of the practice.

Because what often happens is this:

A small moment touches something deeper.
A memory.
A wound.
A story that has been carried quietly.

And suddenly — the past is speaking through the present.

The pattern repeats.

The same words.
The same reaction.
The same outcome.

We’ve all felt it.

The weight of a grudge.
The pull of something unresolved.

It can sit quietly inside us, like something stored away…waiting.

But you do not have to carry it.

You do not have to feed it.

You do not have to bring it
into every new interaction.

Kindness is not weakness.

It is a choice.

A powerful one.

“Kill them with kindness,” we say — but what we are really doing
is choosing not to continue the cycle.

Because when we hold onto pain,
it doesn’t stay contained.

It moves.

From one interaction
to the next…
to the next…
to the next.

Until it becomes a way of being.

An inner tension that slowly wears us down.

And sometimes we ask:

How did I become a threat?

Why does this feel so charged?

Often, it is not about you.

It is about what you represent.

A mirror.
A moment of truth.
A place where something can no longer stay hidden.

And still — life brings us back to connection.

To unexpected moments of joy.

I remember one morning on Pearl Street.

Out of nowhere, my dear sister Pamela shouted, “Maintenance! Maintenance!” to a man in a bow tie, sweeping leaves.

I could barely contain my laughter.

It was spontaneous, joyful, completely alive.

I looked back and saw something I will never forget:

A smile filled with charisma, presence, and kindness.

That moment became a doorway.

We met Richard that day — and he has remained in my life ever since.

A simple moment.
A shared laugh.

And a relationship was formed.

This is how life works too.

Not only through challenge — but through lightness.

Through openness.

Through the willingness to show up.

So today, I invite you to consider:

How are you caring for your relationships?

How are you maintaining yourself within them?

Because this is a practice.

Not only of the body, but of the heart.

Of awareness.
Of presence.

Of choosing again.

I recently listened to a conversation that reminded me of this in a deeper way — how we maintain what matters, how we take responsibility for what we carry.

If it speaks to you,
I invite you to listen as well.

You do not have to hold onto everything.

You do not have to repeat what no longer serves.

You can choose kindness.
You can choose awareness.
You can choose to meet each moment as it is.

This is the care of relationship.

This is the practice.

Sat Nam.

Love,

Karuna

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Today, Sunday, April 26th, 9am Mountain Time

Tuesday, April 28th, 9am Mountain Time

Thursday, April 30th, 9am Mountain Time

Sunday, May 3rd, 9am Mountain Time

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Previous Week’s Classes:

Creative Capacity for Life

Aware, Intelligent, Radiant

The Mind

Donate to LOK

Private Session with Karuna

A private session includes but is not limited to:

• One to two hour Zoom session

• Yoga practice guidance

• Your own 40 Day Meditation

• Lifestyle recommendations: skincare, diet, recipes

Learn more at lightonkundalini.com

Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening and the Compation Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual

Relive the Light on Kundalini Book Launch Ceremony

See the book on Amazon here.

Audiobook now available on Audible and Audiobooks.com!

Out now! A Kundalini Yoga manual by LOK and Karuna! Start reading now by visiting lightonkundalini.com.

New Podcasts and Featured Guests

Karuna with Humanity Stream

Karuna on Spiritual Rockstar

Twillow Talk with Special Guest Karuna

Karuna with Dom Brightmon on The True North Podcast

Karuna with Humanity Rising, part II

Yoga Sets You Free

The No BS Spiritual Book Club Meets Karuna, and Karuna’s Ten Best Spiritual Books

Power of Inspiration and Awakening Radio

Healing the Healer, the heallist podcast with Yuli

Healings and Teachings

81 Facets of Mind with Karuna

Humanity Stream featuring: Awakening the Ten Bodies, 81 Facets of the Mind, Healing Grief, and 3 Minute Meditations

Sacred Stories: Healing Grief

Sacred Stories: Awakening the Ten Bodies

YouTube Channel

Sharing Deeper Conversation

Karuna in Awakening World

Teach.Yoga

Karuna in Canvas Rebel

A Quest for Well-Being - Kundalini Yoga: The Flow of Spiritual Energy

Wisdom Keepers, The Mystical Path of Kundalini Yoga

Sacred Stories: Karuna as Luminary

Karuna on Voyage Denver, Part II

iOS Mobile App

With over 100 classes filmed in live classes for you to engage and participate. The time is now! It’s all here for you.

Dear Ones,

Happy New Moon.

A new beginning that does not ask us to become someone else —
but to listen more carefully to who we already are.

I have been playing…
listening…
reading the voices of everyday people — their reflections, their humor, their questions.

One comment stayed with me:

“What’s the matter — haven’t you ever seen God pumping gas?”

I smiled.

Because yes — this is where we are now.

We are being asked to recognize the sacred in the ordinary.

There was also a conversation about music…
about Bob Dylan and John Lennon…
about who influenced whom, who borrowed, who created, who led.

And one truth rose gently through it all:

There are only so many notes.

Pause with this.

There are only so many notes — and yet, infinite songs.

What does this mean for us?

In our practice…
in our relationships…
in our lives…

We are not here to compete over the notes.

We are here to learn how to play them with presence.

The mind may ask:

Who is original?
Who is better?
Who leads?
Who follows?

But the soul asks something different:

Are you listening?

Are you present to the music moving through you?

In yoga, in meditation, in lifestyle — we return again and again to the same simple notes:

Breath.
Movement.
Stillness.
Awareness.

Nothing new.

And yet — everything changes when we truly practice.

There is a place where ego enters.

Comparison.
Competition.
The need to be seen as the one who knows.

We see this everywhere — in art, in music, in conversation, in community.

Two voices trying to rise above each other.

Two egos trying to win.

But I ask you gently:

Are there really any winners there?

What if we shifted the question?

What if instead of asking
“Who is greater?”

We asked:

How can we serve?

Seva.

Selfless service.

This is where the notes become sacred.

This is where the music changes.

Not because we invented something new —
but because we are playing
from a different place.

The New Moon in Aries brings courage.

But not the courage to dominate.

The courage to be true.

To say:

This is my voice. This is my offering.
And I do not need to compete to belong.

There is a healing needed now
between the masculine and the feminine.

We feel it.

Women are rising —
speaking, remembering, reclaiming.

And our brothers —
so many are hurting quietly.

Afraid to speak.
Afraid to be seen.
Afraid to be received.

We are not meant to stand apart.

We are meant to meet.

In truth.
In respect.
In partnership.

If we say we are people of peace and love — then we must live it.

In how we listen.
In how we speak.
In how we treat one another.

In how we honor the tribe.

In how we care for those who are hungry —
not only for food,
but for kindness,
for truth,
for belonging.

The root of so much pain is simple.

We forget the source within our own heart.

And we begin to look outside
for validation,
for identity,
for worth.

But your practice brings you back.

Your meditation clears the noise.

Your breath steadies the nervous system.

Your awareness lifts you — not into escape — but into presence.

You do not need to invent new notes.

You do not need to force your brilliance.

You do not need to compete to be heard.

You are already part of the music.

So I ask you today:

Who are you listening to?
What are you allowing to influence you?
And how are you choosing to play your notes?

Are you captivating and alive?

Are you present in your own life?

Are you writing your own song — or repeating someone else’s without knowing?

Let this New Moon be simple.

Return to your practice.
Return to your breath.
Return to your truth.

Play your notes with care.

And allow others to play theirs.

Together — this is how harmony is created.

Sat Nam.

Love,
Karuna

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