November 25th, 2024
In this episode, Caroline Ashley, also known as Karuna, shares her profound experiences as a Kundalini Yoga practitioner and spiritual guide. While training, she studied Hinduism and Buddhism in India for seven years. She also studied with the Medicine Men of the Lakota Sioux healing tradition. She advocates for yoga as a way of life that fosters love, awareness, and community.
She began her career as a Ford model before transitioning into yoga and spirituality. A classically trained actress and lifelong learner, she has dedicated over 40 years to Kundalini Yoga and meditation. As a mother, teacher, and healer, Karuna has led yoga teacher training programs and retreats globally, combining her expertise in yoga, acting, and holistic healing. Her work reflects her commitment to empowering others with compassion, humor, and spiritual wisdom.
Karuna’s new book, Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening, available on Amazon, is a blend of personal anecdotes and Kundalini teachings, aimed at guiding readers to redefine their realities and clear physical and emotional blockages. The book draws from her decades of practice, offering reflective exercises and yogic principles to help readers move through challenges. She explains how to explore your inner world to redefine your reality.
Karuna is fully present. She is full of love, humor, and forgiveness. She shows us how to compassionately honor ourselves, others, and the planet carefully and intimately. She offers private, one-on-one teachings designed for each individual, holds weekend intensives on varying themes including rebirthings, relationships, women’s issues, practicing non-violence, understanding grief, and mastering challenges, and leads special events and retreats all over the world including an annual Reboot Retreat in Costa Rica.
