About Karuna
About Karuna
learn karuna’s
teaching style
Rooted in compassion, joy, and a deep connection to nature, she offers personalized one-on-one Kundalini Yoga sessions, blending traditional practice with intuitive insight to meet each student’s unique needs. Her approach integrates mantra, meditation, and mindful movement, encouraging transformation through presence, ritual, and inner awareness. True to her spiritual name, Karuna—meaning “compassion” — she teaches with humor, music, and a deep commitment to transformation. Karuna believes “we start from the earth up in any practice, and every practice is reviewed by nature first.”
about karuna’s
unique journey
From successful careers in modeling and acting, and as the daughter-in-law of Laura Ashley who created a fashion empire, Karuna recounts her life experiences with fashion icons Guy Bourdin, Eileen Ford, Vogue and Mademoiselle, well-known film directors and actors, alongside spiritual leaders Father Thomas Keating, Ken Wilber and many others on her journey to surrender, change, and elevated awakening.
Carrie Pagano (1979-1985)
Caroline Ashley (1985-Present)
Chanté Eton Wo Wa Gla Ka Win (1995-Present)
Karuna (2004-Present)
Liv Preet Kaur (2005-Present)
about karuna’s
Training
Karuna is a certified KRI yoga instructor for Levels 1, 2 and 3 of Kundalini Yoga and the Modules for 21 Stages of Meditation, Authentic Relationships, Conscious Communication, Mind & Meditation, Vitality & Stress, and Lifecycles & Lifestyles. She is certified also in the Super Health Program, Radiant Children Yoga and Pre-Natal Yoga. Under the umbrella of Light on Kundalini LLC (LOK) she has trained over 200 Kundalini Yoga teachers.
Karuna spent seven years studying intensively in India with Masters of the artistic and devotional aspects of yogic lifestyle in the Hindu and Sikh traditions. This concentration included Ayurvedic nutrition and the well-being practices renowned as ”Ishnan”. Following on this she immersed in Native America ceremonial and healing practices and was given the name “Chante Eton Wo Wa Gla Ka Win” (woman that speaks with her heart) by the Lakota clan of Medicine Man Frank Fools Crow. She is ordained through international interfaith organizations as a “Wisdom Keeper” in the above traditions, an Interfaith Minister, and a member of the global Evolutionary Leaders Circle.
additional
work
Karuna is a guide of awakening and a teacher of Kundalini Yoga, meditation, and mantra as practical tools for lived transformation and everyday life. A Kundalini Research Institute Associate Level One, Two, and Three Teacher Trainer, she has taught yoga and meditation within Southern California Charter and High Schools and spent more than fifteen years working with triathletes, elite-level athletes, and other high-performing individuals in Boulder, Colorado, cultivating focus, resilience, and clarity through yoga, meditation, mantra, and gong practice.
Her path into self-discovery began long before formal yoga training. Classically trained as an actress at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in England and a SAG-AFTRA member since 1983, she also worked internationally as a model represented by New York City’s Ford Models. These early experiences cultivated presence, devotion to craft, and an embodied understanding of transformation that would later inform her spiritual work.
Karuna is the author of Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening, its companion The Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual, and the LOK App, which together offer teachings, classes, courses—including Mind, Rebirthing, and Healing Grief—and meditations supporting daily practice. Her work weaves personal reflection, yogic teaching, and embodied wisdom into an accessible, lived path for integrating Kundalini Yoga into daily life.
Grounded, compassionate, and deeply human, Karuna brings warmth, integrity, and pure joy to all that she offers.
