Dear Friends,
Sat Nam from the Rockies! I hope this finds you so well in 2025.
The worst mis-take you can make, is letting yourself down.
You let others down when you let yourself down. How can you lift anyone up without lifting yourself up? You let yourself down when you let the God in you down, when you disappoint yourself. In any situation, there is an opportunity to rise above your behavior of shrinking or distracting yourself from the pain.
The problem is the consciousness is scattered. Practicing yoga allows your innate skill to contain yourself to blossom and mature, so that you do not shrink away from any situation, because no situation is too big for you to handle.
You can organize your brain, the grey matter, to be more patient, more allowing, more forgiving, and more graceful. These are components of your character that make you strong and willing to evolve, and change your DNA, allowing thirty trillion cells to actively participate and fully engage in life.
The discipline of yoga will give you the clarity of mind to know exactly what is needed in any situation, removing all doubts that hold us back. It’s really a no-brainer, Kundalini Yoga is a 5000 year old gift. You don’t have to do anything. Mind, spirit, and body love working together.
I just revisited this interview with Dom Brightmon of the Going North Podcast, which gave me so much joy, only to remind me I am actually still living this interview. And his joyfulness and his willingness to look at a practice with such substantial value, gives me great forward movement to share more with my heart. And I get to do this again on Monday night to share my book this time. I am so grateful Dom has asked me back.
You know these podcasts and interviews are so important because you get a chance, not only to lay out the facts, but share the experience of living this lifestyle. Right now I can only think of presence, not looking in the future or from the past, but inspiring presence. Stop, take a deep inhale, exhale, be present, one minute, don’t move, don’t even flinch. It always goes back to the practice when you come from your heart. So you’ll be getting a lot of heart in the next few months with all these interviews. I am excited to share each and every one with you.
It is a great honor to be asked to look back in my library for my favorite books, ones that inspired my journey. and fondly in their own way, each one of these books, changed my journey, in the same way that my dream world changes my journey.
At first it felt just like, oh my god, seriously, homework? But wow, then I dove in, and I cried immediately at the stories I read over these decades. To inspire my own messaging as resources that surprised me, and reminded me of their gifts. I hope you too are inspired by these great writings. I want to thank Sandie who has given me a great assignment to revisit where I was at the time of reading these books, and finding the support from these books for the now is a unique gift. It’s genius how Sandie has designed her show to give us the opportunity as authors, to celebrate not only my own book, but other books that have inspired me along the path.
Please enjoy, my dear friend and beloved sister Jude Currivan interviews with Sandie Sedgbeer, and please also enjoy her film attached to this interview which is phenomenal. Let’s all participate in this kind of work. There’s a place for everyone, just reach out.
Sat Nam
Karuna
