Speaker 1: You are listening to the power of inspiration and awakening
Speaker 1: radio with Julia Griffin to master a higher frequency for
Speaker 1: new state of mind. Once you walked in a forest
Speaker 1: of splendor in which everything you did and everything you
Speaker 1: thought was aligned. It is possible at this time to
Speaker 1: begin to return to the old knowledge. Intuitive healer and
Speaker 1: manifester Julia Griffin is here to talk about this unique
Speaker 1: time in history when all sentient beings, animals, plants, trees,
Speaker 1: and the earth are intent on creating this change. The
Speaker 1: wolves awakened her to the most incredible light, which opened
Speaker 1: gifts and brought knowledge that she longs to share. You
Speaker 1: are creators and you were born to be creators of beauty, possibility,
Speaker 1: and joy. Join Julia on a journey into a beautiful
Speaker 1: and magical world where amazing possibilities exist. Let us help
Speaker 1: open the door. The power of inspiration and awakening with
Speaker 1: Julia Griffin starts right now.
Speaker 2: For the next hour and let us help you experience
Speaker 2: a higher vibration and a new state of mind. For
Speaker 2: those of you who don't know me, I awakened with
Speaker 2: wolves when I met a wolf. It talked to me
Speaker 2: the same way I'm talking now. And they spent years
Speaker 2: teaching me how to read the energy of the heart.
Speaker 2: And I can intuitively hear plants, animals, and people. I
Speaker 2: became an intuitive healer and writer as a result. Now,
Speaker 2: we always have a special guest, but we have a
Speaker 2: very special guest today. And let me tell you about her.
Speaker 2: She has spent 40 years studying yoga, working from the
Speaker 2: inside out. She works with the Kundalini Research Institute. She
Speaker 2: was a former Ford model and actress. She's co-founder of
Speaker 2: Light on Light Publications and Media and host editor for
Speaker 2: the magazine's annual yoga editions. in partnership with the International
Speaker 2: Day of Yoga Committee at United Nations. She lives in Boulder, Colorado,
Speaker 2: but she teaches worldwide. She's the author of Light on Kundalini,
Speaker 2: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga. She's certified for the Kundalini
Speaker 2: Research System, and she's an ordained interspiritual minister. And I
Speaker 2: think that's enough to tell them, but let's start with
Speaker 2: Kundalini in case people are not familiar with it. And
Speaker 2: then we're going to share some details of her Path
Speaker 2: to Awakening program.
Speaker 3: Wonderful. Hello, everyone. I'm so excited to share my heart
Speaker 3: with you today. Just the heart, just the devotional heart.
Speaker 3: Our beautiful Julia always reminds us that she is the
Speaker 3: witness to the wolf and must have sent the black,
Speaker 3: white-tipped wolf tailed fox yesterday for me when I came
Speaker 3: out of the medicine wheel. I was praying for my
Speaker 3: son's birthday and up I come, you know, from deep
Speaker 3: in the forest to up to the dirt road. I
Speaker 3: live in rural mountain, old historical town of Gold Hill
Speaker 3: where they first founded gold. And gold is really, you know,
Speaker 3: an essential part of our aura. Our golden, we have
Speaker 3: a mantra that goes, you know, the Rayman mantra. I
Speaker 3: have a bracelet here that I carry with the mantra
Speaker 3: on just to remind me that we do have the
Speaker 3: ability to create a golden aura. And it does.
Speaker 2: I live near a gold place too, like from Dulanaga,
Speaker 2: which is one of the first places they discovered gold. And,
Speaker 2: you know, in alchemy, they have the four sides of
Speaker 2: the pyramid. And they say when you can align your emotional, physical, mental,
Speaker 2: and spiritual selves, then you can create gold.
Speaker 3: Wow. Let's try that. Yeah. Should we try that? I
Speaker 3: felt like we should just sink into that for a minute.
Speaker 3: Say that again. Sure.
Speaker 2: In alchemy, you know, they say that one of the
Speaker 2: things they do is to take a normal piece mineral,
Speaker 2: a piece of iron, a piece of lead, and transmute
Speaker 2: it into gold. But what the gold is really about
Speaker 2: is bringing your physical body, your emotional body, your mental body,
Speaker 2: and your spiritual body, and forming the four-sided pyramid. And
Speaker 2: when you can lift up all four parts of yourself
Speaker 2: and put them in alignment, they say you can create
Speaker 2: gold at that point.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Did we all see that this time around,
Speaker 3: that delivery? Could you connect those angles and triangles of
Speaker 3: what Julia just described? Because it took me back to
Speaker 3: my daily walk, my meditative walk, where I integrate that
Speaker 3: understanding of each step, each breath. It's Thich Nhat Hanh, right?
Speaker 3: Julia says, inhale one step forward, exhale the next step forward.
Speaker 3: It takes three hours to go one mile. And it's
Speaker 3: useful for the brain. It's useful for the rhythm and
Speaker 3: the cadence of what you wove together with the mineral
Speaker 3: of gold. And your TTN here is gold and everything
Speaker 3: around us should be gold and golden and not should
Speaker 3: be is has a quality of gold and now don't
Speaker 3: you all i just see gold everywhere i see it
Speaker 3: in your hair in your background and everything i just
Speaker 3: see the aura of gold well it's.
Speaker 2: What we're supposed to lift ourselves up to and interestingly
Speaker 2: there is a good bit of gold in seawater but
Speaker 2: they don't know how to extract it.
Speaker 3: All right yeah coronado beach in san diego When you watch,
Speaker 3: it's all gold sand, golden sand. So how do we
Speaker 3: extract that with kundalini yoga?
Speaker 2: That's what I was getting ready to ask.
Speaker 3: What a segue. I mean, with the inhale and the exhale,
Speaker 3: the step-by-step, the metatarsal to the heel, the mindful placement
Speaker 3: of the... So we don't get super overwhelmed with the
Speaker 3: outside world. We have to integrate the inside of our
Speaker 3: authentic voice from our authentic chakras. You know, the chakras
Speaker 3: are spoken about as spirals, right? You're used to the spiral. No.
Speaker 3: There's something different that just came through and they're hoops.
Speaker 3: So the base of the spine to the second chakra,
Speaker 3: negative mind, to the third chakra, positive mind, to the
Speaker 3: fourth chakra, heart, neutral mind, are all spiral. They're like
Speaker 3: spinning discs. And I just saw it spewing gold. You know,
Speaker 3: because when we wring out the tension or the anxiety
Speaker 3: or the keeping up, we excrete these happy hormones that
Speaker 3: keep us connected with the joy and the light and
Speaker 3: the yoga of awakening is the end title of my book.
Speaker 3: It's the eventual steps we take and commitment we have
Speaker 3: towards ourself and keeping ourself healthy Happy, wholesome is a long, long,
Speaker 3: early morning journey.
Speaker 2: So you're telling people this is a good way to
Speaker 2: start because we are going through a chaotic time, but
Speaker 2: we're also receiving more light. So the way I see
Speaker 2: it is we have two choices. We can get sort
Speaker 2: of consumed by the chaos or we can decide to
Speaker 2: move into awakening, which then somehow or other makes sense
Speaker 2: of the chaos or doesn't care.
Speaker 3: It cares very much, yes, it cares so much.
Speaker 2: Detached is a good way to say it.
Speaker 3: You see it, you know it.
Speaker 2: But you're detached.
Speaker 3: Yes, because that attachment consumes the old subconscious patterns in
Speaker 3: the mind. And really, we're looking at generator-organizer delivery now.
Speaker 3: And yes, Shiva and Shakti work as the Ida, the Pingula,
Speaker 3: the right-left hemisphere of the brain.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's say it in a way that they
Speaker 2: can follow you with it. What would be the right
Speaker 2: and the left sides of the brain?
Speaker 3: So the right side is the masculine.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: And the left side is the feminine. And with the
Speaker 3: nostril breathing, like the breath of fire through the nostrils
Speaker 3: or through... the navel point, when you generate, organize, and
Speaker 3: deliver a specific breath prana, you go straight up below
Speaker 3: the lower chakras that keep us grounded. So the chakras
Speaker 3: that keep us grounded are activated through the nostril breath,
Speaker 3: which is the ida and the pingula, which runs up
Speaker 3: and down the right-left side of the spine. And that spirals.
Speaker 3: And then you come to the heart center. You center there.
Speaker 3: And that's the shishmana. And that's where you want to
Speaker 3: speak from. That's where you want to come from. You know,
Speaker 3: if you want to be heard, as you've just correctly asked,
Speaker 3: how do we see that in an everyday world? Well,
Speaker 3: do we not have a right and a left side,
Speaker 3: all of us? We have that in common, no matter
Speaker 3: what our gender, is we're right and we're left. And
Speaker 3: if we can understand the right side of the brain
Speaker 3: with the left, energetic, And the right side of the
Speaker 3: body with the left side of the brain will balance.
Speaker 2: And that's what we find in the heart chakra because
Speaker 2: it's in the center of the system. We've got three
Speaker 2: chakras above it and three below. So if we're in
Speaker 2: the heart, our energy is balanced.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 2: I was just going to say, when you do speak
Speaker 2: through the heart, it is such a surprise because you're
Speaker 2: saying things you wouldn't normally say. And you can even
Speaker 2: say them in a soft voice and everyone hears it.
Speaker 2: It has a completely different effect on life.
Speaker 3: And it has a cooling effect. Not only calming, but
Speaker 3: cools the body down. So when we go into the
Speaker 3: nutritional part of the diet, the cucumber, the celery, the
Speaker 3: body needs to be cooled down because the fire, the
Speaker 3: Leo we're in right now, That fire sign is sparky, no?
Speaker 3: Look at the equinox, you know, and look, I mean,
Speaker 3: coming in the eclipse. Look at the eclipse. It's so
Speaker 3: vital to understand the cosmos and the planets integrated into
Speaker 3: your yoga practice.
Speaker 2: Fun stuff. This would be one of the things they
Speaker 2: would learn in your path.
Speaker 3: Yes. Yes. Yes.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about the program just a little bit
Speaker 2: so people can understand where you would take them.
Speaker 3: Yes, love to. So the mind is what we're working
Speaker 3: with here on the 81 Facets. And the 81 Facets
Speaker 3: has its projections and it has its tendencies to throw
Speaker 3: us into an old curriculum, if you like. An old pattern.
Speaker 3: You could call it subconscious, conscious, unconscious. You can call
Speaker 3: it all the science you want. It's pretty practical. Go ahead.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was just thinking about how those patterns are
Speaker 2: also written in your body.
Speaker 3: Oh, sweetheart, so written. So written. I went to a
Speaker 3: reunion recently, and I said to everyone, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: Tell me all about you. And they were like, I'm retired.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, you're kidding. We're supposed to do that? Oh,
Speaker 3: at 55? We're supposed to do that? Really? And then
Speaker 3: our poor dog gets all our energy, right? You're still home.
Speaker 3: You're not doing anything. I just want to sleep. Leave
Speaker 3: me alone. But, you know, it's really how you keep
Speaker 3: your energy awakened enough.
Speaker 4: To live through your 50, 60, 70s with the brain intact,
Speaker 4: with the mind intact and there's a responsibility to all
Speaker 4: of this.
Speaker 3: So there's the defender, there's the manager, there's the preserver
Speaker 3: and those are all in the negative mind, the second
Speaker 3: chakra we spoke of. The third chakra is the positive
Speaker 3: mind and they have the artist, the producer and the missionary.
Speaker 3: And then there's four meditations that go with each one
Speaker 3: of these aspects. And then the last three aspects is
Speaker 3: the strategist for the great leader and the teacher. And
Speaker 3: that's the nine aspects. So what we do is we
Speaker 3: call out. If one of those resonated with you, Julia,
Speaker 3: would it be the defender, manager, preserver? Would it be
Speaker 3: the artist, producer, missionary?
Speaker 2: It would be a real balancing between those two things
Speaker 2: because I love being creative, but if I start, I
Speaker 2: can't stop.
Speaker 3: Yes. So you'd find that the strategist might be something that,
Speaker 3: or the mission, missionary might be something that would balance
Speaker 3: between the artist and the other you.
Speaker 2: Were speaking of. Or to preserve, because certainly when I'm creating,
Speaker 2: everything goes everywhere.
Speaker 3: You know, my son, Mama, you're such a preserver. I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: I restore a lot. Everything. And it does start with
Speaker 3: your own furniture and how you polish yourself when you
Speaker 3: polish the wood. And you shine, you know, you shine
Speaker 3: your copper with, You know, it's just all.
Speaker 2: That is bringing out the inner beauty of something that exists.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 3: And this is the course. So there's nine aspects, 27 projections.
Speaker 3: So we have four meditations per aspect. So just for
Speaker 3: an example, if you were feeling super defensive, you would
Speaker 3: call out, Karuna, I want the defender today. I want
Speaker 3: to work with the defender. And I would say, great,
Speaker 3: we're going to work with the soldier today. We're going
Speaker 3: to work with the ombudsman and we're going to work
Speaker 3: with the prospector. But we're going to first work on
Speaker 3: the defender and we're going to do a specific meditation.
Speaker 3: Only three minutes to get you right to there so
Speaker 3: that maybe in your Buddhist or other practices you don't
Speaker 3: believe in mantra. You don't believe in chanting. You don't
Speaker 3: believe in what I do with you with the gong
Speaker 3: is going to raise your vibration. It's okay. It's okay. Eventually,
Speaker 3: you might just say, and I answered this question the
Speaker 3: other day with a really strong, strong Buddhist practitioner. I said,
Speaker 3: just take it to devotion. Doesn't a song make you
Speaker 3: feel fabulous or sad or make you feel something? And
Speaker 3: she goes, gosh, I could really do that. I can
Speaker 3: do that. So there's a way through every block. And
Speaker 3: we do it with the mind course. And that's the
Speaker 3: 81 facets. And then, Julia, we have the healing grief
Speaker 3: that is an add-on that you can take during this course.
Speaker 3: So this course is 12 weeks. We have another six-week
Speaker 3: course of healing grief where we get into that beautiful
Speaker 3: place where you're stuck. And I call it beautiful because
Speaker 3: it's a gift to understand I'm stuck. That's the first
Speaker 3: door opening is admitting.
Speaker 2: And I think in all spiritual work, people will say,
Speaker 2: how can I become more intuitive? And I'll say, observe more.
Speaker 3: Thank you. And observe from spirit versus ego.
Speaker 2: Right. And if I'm in a pattern, I'm in a pattern.
Speaker 2: It's where I'll live for a few hours. I can
Speaker 2: observe it and change it.
Speaker 3: And excite yourself that you will. And that's the biggest thing, Julia.
Speaker 3: We see change. We say, oh my gosh, I haven't
Speaker 3: attracted that same person for the last year and a half. Wow,
Speaker 3: I've moved on. And maybe it takes six months to
Speaker 3: understand what you're doing here. But it doesn't take 22
Speaker 3: years like a.
Speaker 2: Yoga practice does.
Speaker 3: We don't have time. And as a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: the physical body says, give me a break.
Speaker 2: We have a physical body and we have our spiritual
Speaker 2: propensity to connect to the light. And you put those
Speaker 2: things together and it's powerful.
Speaker 3: So gorgeous what you say. Don't we just want to
Speaker 3: hear Julia repeat everything she says? Are you with me
Speaker 3: on that? I mean, the light, the light on Kundalini. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's Kundalini, but no, not only that. It's lifestyle now, Julia.
Speaker 3: I had to bring Path of Awakening out with the begin,
Speaker 3: the deepen, the transform, and the fourth is to lead.
Speaker 3: And that's exactly, the leader is the eighth aspect, which
Speaker 3: below it has the protector, the commander, and the pathfinder
Speaker 3: in its meditations. So we connect to the protector. So
Speaker 3: we put... Mantra, perhaps, all these are super easy to learn.
Speaker 3: And they mean something. True in the beginning, true through
Speaker 3: all times, true even now. Namik says will always be true.
Speaker 3: I think the.
Speaker 2: Really good thing about mantra too is you can make
Speaker 2: a mistake with it and it's self-correct. After a while
Speaker 2: it will hit you. Oh I left that part out
Speaker 2: or oh I mispronounced this and you just know it.
Speaker 3: You just feel it. Yeah. You feel it and that
Speaker 3: knowledge that one you know of those four steps of
Speaker 3: who I am, who am I, You know, am I
Speaker 3: the critic right now? Is there really anything called a
Speaker 3: mistake anymore? It is just a mistake.
Speaker 6: Oh, good.
Speaker 3: I don't have to beat myself up or stay up
Speaker 3: all night, you know, create these habits to get me
Speaker 3: to go to sleep. So I talk a lot on
Speaker 3: the YouTube channel. There's some new interviews there. about medicating
Speaker 3: and meditating. And I learned this 15 years ago when
Speaker 3: the Dalai Lama was in Washington, DC, and I was
Speaker 3: his guest with one of his people who support him,
Speaker 3: his donators. And we sat in the company of the
Speaker 3: Dalai Lama for three days And he spoke with scientists, researchers,
Speaker 3: everyone to do with pharmaceuticals. And he said, it's okay.
Speaker 3: And I say, and I agree. And I've tested the
Speaker 3: water since. Yes, medication is necessary. But meditation gives you
Speaker 3: permission to honor how you're trying to heal and take
Speaker 3: care of yourself. And you know what happens? Suddenly, like
Speaker 3: we just said, things dissolve and change. And you don't
Speaker 3: need it anymore, perhaps. But get the doctor to tell
Speaker 3: you that. The doctor will.
Speaker 2: Be your first guide. I will tell you a funny
Speaker 2: story about the Dalai Lama. A good friend of mine
Speaker 2: had an audience with him. And he told him all
Speaker 2: of his problems and how all of his life was going.
Speaker 2: And he said he was quiet for about three minutes
Speaker 2: and he looked at him and he said, what if
Speaker 2: you were happy now?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes. And that brings me to what one feels
Speaker 3: after a session of the mind. When you start this course,
Speaker 3: and you can start with me on September 22nd, that
Speaker 3: I got, I launched it on 8.8. Lionsgate. I've been
Speaker 3: working on it since February. Actually, it was activated at
Speaker 3: the UN in October with the ELs, with our committee
Speaker 3: to bring Yoga Day, International Yoga Day back into play.
Speaker 3: And we play. We play in this course. We engage.
Speaker 3: We speak. And if you don't want to speak, you don't.
Speaker 3: But you feel what you just described the Dalai Lama said.
Speaker 3: What if you feel happy right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because that's where happiness starts is in the moment.
Speaker 2: Just a few moments of being happy. And it's certainly
Speaker 2: making me happy to talk to you now. But it
Speaker 2: alters the flow of your day.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're right. Don't we love this woman so much?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Julia, that's why we're talking about awakening because and that's
Speaker 2: why you're offering this is because it's a transformation from
Speaker 2: what everyday life is right now that you're just in
Speaker 2: your mind or emotions that certainly can't make you happy
Speaker 2: to moving to a higher place where happiness returns to you.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes.
Speaker 6: And then creating An event creating something like these 81
Speaker 6: facets to help each other become happy, to honor that,
Speaker 6: to have a party, a celebration at the end of
Speaker 6: this 12 week series where.
Speaker 3: We all come together on top of this mountain and
Speaker 3: we tell our stories and we have, you know, a
Speaker 3: beautiful feast. And we take, you know, time to really
Speaker 3: settle in. So there's an ongoing, because on top of
Speaker 3: the healing grief, we add the ten bodies. So we
Speaker 3: add the ten bodies so we understand there's seven chakras,
Speaker 3: soul body, negative, positive, neutral mind. Then there's the physical body,
Speaker 3: the intuition, the aura, the eighth body is the prana,
Speaker 3: the breath. the ninth body subtle, and the tenth body
Speaker 3: is radiant body. It is today you are radiant. Not tomorrow,
Speaker 3: or I'm going to become, or let me just lose
Speaker 3: 20 pounds. All that is your continuing pattern of repeating,
Speaker 3: which is necessary in meditation and mantra to repeat, but.
Speaker 5: Not the negative stuff. Let's repeat the If you just say, say,
Speaker 5: it does something. If you say, it opened my temples.
Speaker 3: It opened my inner ear. It put a vibration. And
Speaker 3: what does it mean? The sun and the moon come
Speaker 3: together and we dance and delight. And yes, there's sadness. Yes,
Speaker 3: there's dropping of all that melting down like wax into
Speaker 3: the earth again and then restoring. So after we do
Speaker 3: the 12 weeks and we add the healing grief and
Speaker 3: we add the 10 bodies, in January we do the rebirthings.
Speaker 3: 33 rebirthings. One right after the other, once a week.
Speaker 3: We just pile through our stuff that the virus residue
Speaker 3: might not have got to. And that's the course. Because
Speaker 3: when you said transform, we transform with the rebirthings.
Speaker 2: And we become more of who we truly are. Because
Speaker 2: I was thinking when you talk about the radiance, every
Speaker 2: now and then a tree will show me It's radiance.
Speaker 2: And I was telling the student that. I said, that
Speaker 2: would be a good way for you to develop your
Speaker 2: intuitive gifts because you already have a thing going with trees.
Speaker 2: And she said, well, do they do this often? And
Speaker 2: I said, yeah, if you ask them to, they'll show
Speaker 2: themselves to you. But they don't want just everyone to
Speaker 2: see them.
Speaker 3: Connection. You're talking about whatever I can lean into and hug.
Speaker 3: That's a safety for me. When, you know, practitioners that
Speaker 3: have practiced and gone to India and done so much
Speaker 3: come up to me and go, you made me feel safe?
Speaker 2: Ha, ha, ha.
Speaker 3: My job is done. It's like the conservationism when I
Speaker 3: put around this property so we wouldn't destroy Mother Earth
Speaker 3: anymore and build on her. Let her breathe.
Speaker 2: I should add, this is one more reason that we
Speaker 2: are doing this kind of work and talking about it,
Speaker 2: is because it builds the earth. We may not see
Speaker 2: that yet, but it is happening.
Speaker 3: Yes. And then the four-legged winged ones, plant kingdom, all
Speaker 3: those that creep and crawl and fly, come. And guess what?
Speaker 3: They chat with you. And they do prayer pose. Check
Speaker 3: out a chipmunk on twos, not fours. And he gets up.
Speaker 3: And he says to the hummingbird, what's up? And you
Speaker 3: get to see this because you give it time.
Speaker 2: And you see it a different way. Okay, it's time
Speaker 2: for us to go to break. So you're watching the
Speaker 2: Power of Inspiration and Awakening show with Julia Griffin. And
Speaker 2: I have my wonderful guest, Karuna. We're talking about awakening.
Speaker 2: And when we come back, she'll tell us more about
Speaker 2: her class, The Path to Awakening. And whether or not
Speaker 2: you're drawn in that direction, you should certainly hear what
Speaker 2: we're saying. because it will help you with opening and
Speaker 2: feeling life. We'll be right back. Hello, everyone. I'm Julia Griffin,
Speaker 2: and you're listening to the Power of Inspiration and Awakening
Speaker 2: show on Transformation Talk Revolution. And I'm here today with Karuna.
Speaker 2: And we are talking about the changes that come with awakening,
Speaker 2: some of the different things you can do to get
Speaker 2: yourself there, what light is in spiritual work. And Karuna
Speaker 2: has a course that is a very good way to
Speaker 2: get into the discipline of this. And so my first
Speaker 2: question is, what is the difference between discipline and devotion?
Speaker 2: And I'll explain it to you. I actually have a
Speaker 2: family member who was doing a lot more yoga than
Speaker 2: I was. And she said, nothing's changed. She said, why
Speaker 2: does your body stay the same for the last 20 years?
Speaker 2: or so and i couldn't answer her question and so
Speaker 2: i've been meditating on it since memorial day in a
Speaker 2: couple weeks it hit me because i thought about doing
Speaker 2: a difficult pose and not being flexible and then i
Speaker 2: remembered what it's like when like the universe just sends
Speaker 2: the energy through your body and you can do it
Speaker 2: And I heard that's devotion.
Speaker 3: Wow. I love that. I love people asking us these questions. We,
Speaker 3: you and I, we love all of us just to
Speaker 3: dive into something that we can, you know, these, the
Speaker 3: younger ones that are really listening more so than speaking even. Right.
Speaker 3: are just a nice little question like that one. Because
Speaker 3: when we fall into devotion and the devotee is the
Speaker 3: devotion part of it. So we become identified. There's many
Speaker 3: different types of yogis. And so I have been identified
Speaker 3: before as a bhakti yogi, a devotional yogi. And I
Speaker 3: am that for sure. I started, you know, defending friends
Speaker 3: from day one in elementary school, you know, and they
Speaker 3: still tell the story of how it changed their life
Speaker 3: of me meeting someone who was bullying them in the alley.
Speaker 3: And I don't think I drew blood, but he never
Speaker 3: bothered her again. And she today tells me about this
Speaker 3: and reminded me about this. And it just wove in
Speaker 3: why I am a bhakti yogi, a devotional yogi. And
Speaker 3: it's not necessarily to go to church for me, which
Speaker 3: drives the parents crazy. like mad because there's no institution
Speaker 3: around me except nature. And I found my church is
Speaker 3: in nature and at the banks of the Mother Ganges
Speaker 3: in India and sacred sites just in my backyard. I
Speaker 3: had to because, you know, raising a family and Understanding
Speaker 3: the ups and downs of relationships and everything's drawn into devotion.
Speaker 3: And ask yourself this, every one of us, am I
Speaker 3: walking what the Native Americans call the red road, the
Speaker 3: path that is honest for myself? Or am I biting
Speaker 3: the bit and not saying how I feel? and keeping
Speaker 3: me up at night. So there is a practice, there's
Speaker 3: a practice, it's called the chakra balance meditation, and it's simply,
Speaker 3: you know, bringing your hands, bringing your left hand into
Speaker 3: a palm, wrapping your right hand over into like a
Speaker 3: cinnamon roll, crossing your right thumb over your left, putting
Speaker 3: it at your heart, and simply chanting in four rounds,.
Speaker 3: And so suddenly now I'm on my horse, Chief, and
Speaker 3: we're going.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 3: Is the tip of the tongue, it hits the upper
Speaker 3: palate awakening 84 meridian points. So all the organs, glandular
Speaker 3: system and the muscles of the tongue and the upper palate,
Speaker 3: the intuition, all are ignited, activated and eventually sisters and
Speaker 3: brothers and family and community, it works. But it doesn't
Speaker 3: like the Dalai Lama repeat How about if happiness starts now,
Speaker 3: right now? How about if it's working for you right now?
Speaker 3: You don't have to negotiate and have the blueprint in
Speaker 3: front of you.
Speaker 2: But discipline does pull us through challenge times, I must say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, discipline does. And if you can do this every day,
Speaker 3: because I know, as you mentioned, there's a yoga class
Speaker 3: down the mountain for me, if I had to go
Speaker 3: to one, I created a home. I create a yoga
Speaker 3: studio here, wherever you are in any corner of your
Speaker 3: home in a closet. Even I just took me back
Speaker 3: to my mentor where I went into a closet and
Speaker 3: meant and meditated. And you would think, you know, that
Speaker 3: there would have been a yoga space, but we all are,
Speaker 3: looking for the place where we can find that silence,
Speaker 3: that love, ultimately that peace, and it's not in the chatter.
Speaker 3:
Speaker 3: And you hold this tight. And
Speaker 3: what did we say? The right and the left come together.
Speaker 3: It feels like, you know, that romantic Klimt painting of
Speaker 3: the oneness.
Speaker 2: Well, the other thing about this is let's say they
Speaker 2: start their discipline and their routine with you. You start
Speaker 2: to have these breakthroughs where all of a sudden you're
Speaker 2: just like you think you understand something. You're not always
Speaker 2: sure what it is, but it quiets some of the
Speaker 2: conversation you have within yourself. And then from there comes
Speaker 2: the intuition and the answers. But I think another important
Speaker 2: thing about this kind of study is you learn to
Speaker 2: wait for the answer. Like when I ask, why are
Speaker 2: we doing the same discipline? And she probably is doing
Speaker 2: more than I am. And it changes me, but it's
Speaker 2: not changing her. What in the heck is going on?
Speaker 3: One would say it's none of our business.
Speaker 2: But it was nice to get an answer.
Speaker 3: In a very polite way. Like, I'll take responsibility if
Speaker 3: I'm understanding that, oh, this is where Karuna was saying,
Speaker 3: just let it come. Allow the spaciousness, the quiet, to
Speaker 3: be so loud that it reveals itself when you're doing
Speaker 3: your own discipline to become devotional in a practice. You're
Speaker 3: on a mission. It is literally the missionary in the
Speaker 3: nine aspects that we call in to bring the creator,
Speaker 3: to bring the true identity of you, of your authentic voice. And,
Speaker 3: you know, goddess forbid us to lose our voice, power
Speaker 3: and love and joy. And there's so many chiefs. Yes.
Speaker 2: There really are.
Speaker 3: Great, great, you know, opportunities and wisdom galore. But if
Speaker 3: we're stuck in negative mind trying to control the group
Speaker 3: and if the ego is so big, I'm sorry, that's
Speaker 3: old school. And we're talking about a new program, a path,
Speaker 3: the path of awakening inside of you, not me. I
Speaker 3: practice every day. I will not come with my demons
Speaker 3: to you today. And if that takes a six-mile walk
Speaker 3: and a two-hour sadhana and a cold shower and yogi tea,
Speaker 3: I'm going to do it because this conversation means a
Speaker 3: lot to me. I have it delivered to you and
Speaker 3: all of us out there.
Speaker 2: We should add, too, that if you work that hard
Speaker 2: on your path... Loneliness will go away because the one
Speaker 2: is there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just disposes itself. It's like, I'm joy now. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm light. Like you said, I'm light. I want to
Speaker 3: drink that light. Every day that nectar, and you dang
Speaker 3: well deserve to drink that nectar. It's your body. It's your,
Speaker 3: you know, it's your... ideas, inspirations, connections of community, grabbing
Speaker 3: people you don't know and saying, hi, like I did
Speaker 3: in Paris at age 19. And they went like, oh,
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, my gosh, is this life? You know,
Speaker 3: when you come from Boulder, Colorado, and you're like, you know,
Speaker 3: football coach, daughter. It's a big change in every game.
Speaker 3: But you're also the cheerleader who's running, you know, the
Speaker 3: the energy of the group. It starts early with your
Speaker 3: children and with our inner child. And there's this longing
Speaker 3: because there's divorce.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: There's death. There's trauma. And that's why I offer the
Speaker 3: trauma course, the healing grief. Because when we can tap
Speaker 3: in and understand and listen to this trauma, that's part
Speaker 3: of our mission. So the protector cares. The devotee becomes.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 3: Let me just say that the enthusiasm builds. And then
Speaker 3: what happens? We find the creator inside of us and
Speaker 3: around us.
Speaker 2: I would say somehow or other those stories of trauma
Speaker 2: are slowly or quickly rewritten depending on what's going on
Speaker 2: in your life.
Speaker 3: You understand them so much more, as you just said, differently.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They're rewritten. And there's a compassion. Karuna means compassion. And
Speaker 3: it doesn't mean, oh, I'm compassionate when I get that name. No.
Speaker 3: It means you have a lot of work to do
Speaker 3: to understand what compassion really means. There's many goddesses. There's Durga.
Speaker 3: And she really pulls on your hair and your heartstrings.
Speaker 3: There's Kali that burns. So we cover in these courses
Speaker 3: all that. And you talked about brought trauma back. This
Speaker 3: is so important to understand where the trauma gets stuck.
Speaker 3: And it gets stuck in the psoas. It gets stuck
Speaker 3: in the hips. It gets stuck in the digestive trap
Speaker 3: and traps you in the gut. So then you've got
Speaker 3: that reflex going on when you try to eat something.
Speaker 3: You can't digest the food. So there's techniques that I
Speaker 3: will share during the trauma, the healing grief courses that
Speaker 3: come in an angle. And as you said, change the
Speaker 3: mindset around it. But physically, when we work on the
Speaker 3: 10 bodies I mentioned, we do specific breath holding posture.
Speaker 3: And whether you can do it or see yourself doing
Speaker 3: it or use a chair or lay down the whole
Speaker 3: time and just listen, it's all about the participation and
Speaker 3: the devotion. Yeah. It's just such a great conversation.
Speaker 2: And then whatever you're supposed to do from there, you
Speaker 2: will figure it out.
Speaker 3: And we will figure it out with you. but we
Speaker 3: won't tell you what to do because it's none of
Speaker 3: our business.
Speaker 2: That's what I meant. People will ask for more specific
Speaker 2: directions in my class. And I'm like, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to say you have to do this 10 times or
Speaker 2: you have to use that color. I said, I count
Speaker 2: on your discretion with these things.
Speaker 3: And please, I invite your conversation to teach me. When
Speaker 3: I went to the Santa Monica schools and taught the
Speaker 3: high schoolers, They were like, we don't know what you're
Speaker 3: talking about. And we ain't doing that. And I was like,
Speaker 3: what do you like to do? And they said, hip hop.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, next class, you bring the CD player.
Speaker 3: This is in the late 90s. You bring the CD
Speaker 3: player and the CD and put it in and you
Speaker 3: teach me hip hop then. Because I want to learn
Speaker 3: what you got. Whatever that is, I want that. It's
Speaker 3: in my book I say that. And it's exactly the
Speaker 3: way I work with people to give them, teach me.
Speaker 3: I'm just curious. You know, it's a woman's deal to
Speaker 3: be curious, a divine feminine.
Speaker 2: I'm too curious, but I'm always curious. I wanted to
Speaker 2: ask you, I saw something that throughout your life you've
Speaker 2: asked too many difficult questions. or life has made you
Speaker 2: ask a lot of difficult questions?
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: How would you define that? Because I've had that too,
Speaker 2: but I'm just interested in someone else with the same experience.
Speaker 3: I love that. I forgot I said that.
Speaker 7: I think intuitively I see, because of my own suffering,
Speaker 7: I see the suffering in others.
Speaker 3: And all I want to do is ask, how are you?
Speaker 3: And that's a difficult question for people. And especially your
Speaker 3: parents or your siblings or your partner. It is. Because
Speaker 3: they're like, oh, no.
Speaker 2: Don't start on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And they shut you down. So you have to
Speaker 3: find another way to ask it.
Speaker 2: Agreed.
Speaker 3: Whenever my, you know, whenever my mom would ditch me
Speaker 3: or my dad or somewhere, I'd always find them. It was,
Speaker 3: we have a gift of intuition and we have the
Speaker 3: power of love and prayer and tenacity and curiosity to
Speaker 3: not insult people when we ask them these difficult questions
Speaker 3: because we've asked ourself and we've sat with that question first. Right.
Speaker 2: Now, here's a fun question that you and maybe our
Speaker 2: listeners will like. And that is that let's assume, if
Speaker 2: you're not sure, you can assume that such a thing
Speaker 2: as reincarnation. So why did you choose your parents? I
Speaker 2: asked myself that and just got some amazingly wonderful answers.
Speaker 6: And?
Speaker 2: You want to hear some of them?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay. Well, I grew up really close to the earth
Speaker 2: on a big farm. I learned things like how different
Speaker 2: fields smelled. how the dirt felt, how to tell what
Speaker 2: was happening that day from animal tracks, how to fish
Speaker 2: and go out on a pond because we had a
Speaker 2: big pond, what it's like in the spring to go
Speaker 2: out and pick fruit with your family and everybody's laughing,
Speaker 2: things like that. Those were wonderful, wonderful things. And everyone
Speaker 2: in my family loved poetry. And some nights everyone would
Speaker 2: come over and read their favorite poem And they loved
Speaker 2: it so much that sometimes they would weep if it
Speaker 2: was a new beautiful point.
Speaker 3: Oh, do we not love Julia? I mean, honestly. Can
Speaker 3: we be on that farm? Before I got that.
Speaker 2: I would think of my parents and I would think,
Speaker 2: and this bad thing happened and they should have done
Speaker 2: this or that. But when I asked myself that question,
Speaker 2: all the love came up.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It was so... important for all of us to
Speaker 3: just close our eyes and see Julia's farm and see
Speaker 3: the soil and see the freshness of the air and
Speaker 3: the flowers. See the gathering at night to be together,
Speaker 3: to drink tea, to sit on each other's laps or
Speaker 3: close by and hug a sister or brother or friend
Speaker 3: or whoever, mother or father, doggy, cat, and feel the
Speaker 3: poetry in motion of you, my friends out there. Please
Speaker 3: honor that visual right now because every one of us
Speaker 3: has a good story.
Speaker 2: A good story about our early life, whether we remember
Speaker 2: it or not.
Speaker 3: Dad taught me to pee in the woods. He put
Speaker 3: me on his back and it's, you know, and, you know,
Speaker 3: and we were squatting the four crumb grinders, my brothers
Speaker 3: and sisters and I in the woods because we had
Speaker 3: to pee. And we were raised with an understanding of,
Speaker 3: You know, that we were together. I say we, because
Speaker 3: I had a sister and two sisters above me and
Speaker 3: a brother below me, you know, you might know who
Speaker 3: he is, you know, NFL football coach, superstar, hilarious brother.
Speaker 3: I used to call Sally ballerina. Chuck Pagano is his name.
Speaker 3: And now the guys are coming towards the woman who's
Speaker 3: listening to this and going, she's, she's Chuck's sister. Because
Speaker 3: football was how I was raised. I was raised with
Speaker 3: a football and I can throw a football. And I,
Speaker 3: you know, at the time girls weren't playing football, but
Speaker 3: you know, there was this camaraderie and this closeness of siblings.
Speaker 3: that you're talking about in that atmosphere. And it was,
Speaker 3: you know, mom was an opera singer. So go figure.
Speaker 3: The arts, the artists you're speaking of, within and around me,
Speaker 3: I became a model in New York. I modeled women.
Speaker 3: with the best photographers that were at that moment and
Speaker 3: still alive and still famously, Arthur Elgort for one, was
Speaker 3: you can look him up and his son is a
Speaker 3: big actor and his daughter and he's just, and he
Speaker 3: founded me from Paris and the whole thing had to be,
Speaker 3: you know, taking me by the hand to Mademoiselle magazine
Speaker 3: and sitting down with a book of French Vogue, you know,
Speaker 3: all made up and Mademoiselle was as natural as you
Speaker 3: could get. And Arthur said, this is her book, but
Speaker 3: that ain't her. So if we're talking about seeing through
Speaker 3: the veil, He saw my spirit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And he started my career in New York City with
Speaker 3: Eileen Ford. And I went on for eight years, you know,
Speaker 3: and ended up marrying a man who moved me to London.
Speaker 3: And then I went to the Bristol Vic Theater School
Speaker 3: because there was something driving this spirit. And in that,
Speaker 3: dear sisters and brothers, I had a loss. Of a sibling.
Speaker 3: And it was when I was going to New York.
Speaker 3: It was the month before. So it's always like crisis
Speaker 3: happens and gives you an opportunity to keep moving through it.
Speaker 2: We remember that's what Yogananda said. His sister died. And
Speaker 2: that was when he moved into devotion and pretty much
Speaker 2: renounced his wealthy life.
Speaker 3: Love Yogananda. Thank you for bringing him in. Exactly what
Speaker 3: happened to me. And I didn't know that. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Because when I looked up and I was going on
Speaker 3: auditions and interviews with the highest end people in New
Speaker 3: York City and all over the world and creating a
Speaker 3: portfolio and you know, going to dinner with the Reagans
Speaker 3: because Arthur was photographing Nancy Reagan at the time, you know,
Speaker 3: and meeting Heinz Ketcher, you know, and all these politicians
Speaker 3: and people. I was just innocence from Boulder still, even
Speaker 3: though I spent the first year in Paris.
Speaker 2: I find it remarkable that you lost your sister and
Speaker 2: you managed to go forward with all of that.
Speaker 3: One thing I'll share with you about this and everyone,
Speaker 3: I'm so glad I kept her alive in me to
Speaker 3: this day. Hon, I am so, and so is she.
Speaker 3: I stop in my track and say, okay, I'm taking
Speaker 3: the hug. I'm in a hurry, but I'm taking the hug.
Speaker 3: You know, I stop because I feel her. When I
Speaker 3: think of her, I stop.
Speaker 2: Well, the dead are never far away. They're just in
Speaker 2: another realm.
Speaker 3: Yes, and helping us.
Speaker 8: Yes, all of them.
Speaker 3: So with loss, with death of a parent, with loss,
Speaker 3: of any loss, we must remember their soul.
Speaker 2: What if you were happy now?
Speaker 3: What is it? whispering what if you were happy now
Speaker 3: what if you knew i could actually help you more
Speaker 3: than i could then now and that to me is
Speaker 3: not woo woo no we're.
Speaker 8: All connected on both fields yeah okay well we're coming
Speaker 8: to the end right now so why don't you tell
Speaker 8: them where they can find you and find your path
Speaker 8: of awakening The.
Speaker 3: Path of Awakening can be found on Light on Kundalini, L-I-G-H-T-O-N-K-U-N-D-A-L-I-N-I.com.
Speaker 3: And that's the course. I've got an early bird special
Speaker 3: on it. We're upgrading it to a bigger course. So
Speaker 3: come join me September 22nd. Let's run it for 12
Speaker 3: weeks with this early bird admission. And also YouTube, everything.
Speaker 3: I made it very simple for everybody. Light on Kundalini.
Speaker 3: So it's either Instagram at light on Kundalini. And every
Speaker 3: Sunday we can meet nine o'clock mountain time, dear ones.
Speaker 3: And for a free class by no nation, always good
Speaker 3: to give and give and give. And, and so, and
Speaker 3: now on Tik TOK, Julia says, I did 28 TikTok
Speaker 3: videos on the 4th of July, and I'm posting them
Speaker 3: all from the launch on A-Date for Prosperity.
Speaker 2: That's wonderful.
Speaker 3: And at that moment, I had three followers. So come on, everyone.
Speaker 3: Go to TikTok and tell your friends. We'll find you.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So everyone who's listening, grab this chance at awakening and
Speaker 2: picking up a really great discipline with Karuna.
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2: You can find me at OneTrueSelf.com, OneTrueSelf.com. You can read
Speaker 2: about the wolves. You can find me for classes or newsletter.
Speaker 2: So I hope to hear from you. Namaste.
Speaker 3: Namaste. Sat Nam. Namaste.
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