Light on Kundalini - by Karuna (Paperback)

About the Book

Yoga saved my life. May it help you to live yours. With Kundalini Yoga, you can find your authentic voice and true self, alter your engrained narratives, and upshift your own life.

Book Synopsis

If you've ever asked yourself, "Is there more to life than this?" this book is your answer. With a blend of personal anecdotes, expert yogic teachings, and reflective exercises, it's a companion for every phase of life. Embrace the opportunity-take this journey, explore your inner world, and redefine your reality.

With Kundalini Yoga, you can find your authentic voice and true self, alter your engrained narratives, and upshift your own life higher and higher. With dedication and devotion, the practices in this book help you to release blockages that become stored in the physical and mental bodies, resulting in suppression, separation, and pain.

From being photographed by Pamela Hanson for my first professional portfolio in the wheat fields of Colorado, I have navigated a journey of fantastic and sometimes blistering experiences with over four decades of yoga, meditation, and Ayurvedic diet. I started blind in Paris on a one-way ticket to "make it" as a professional model. After months of fruitless auditioning, on pluck and providence, Guy Bourdin considered one of France's most famous fashion artists and photographers, took one concerted look at me and booked me for 6 months at French Vogue. From his photos and legacy, my image is now in museums worldwide.

Then contracted as a model with Eileen Ford, who brought me from Paris to New York, exuberant and riding high on the energy, I broke both arms pedaling a bike down Fifth Avenue to a Mademoiselle shoot. Always intent on "Showing Up," I went to the Ralph Lauren show the very next day, as I was cast to walk the runway and sadly had to observe instead, double-casted. This immediately sparked my advocacy for model protection, and I was one of the first to advocate for emergency insurance. When privacy on set for models became a reoccurring issue, I used my voice and championed those privacy rights along with Jerry Hall.

In my next "stage," I stood on my head to audition for The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where I graced the same boards as Sir Daniel Day-Lewis and Sir Anthony Hopkins. While still modeling and acting, I raised two very young children, living a very full householder life. I happened to be the daughter-in-law of Laura Ashley who created a fashion empire and left us a legacy championing women, a reason you often saw Princess Diana wearing Laura Ashley.

Hopefully, my stories of being poked, provoked, and confronted, which eventually led to surrender, change, and elevated awakening, will resonate with your experiences and provide guidance and support as you find a way in and through your challenges to make your life full of love, humor, and forgiveness, compassionately honoring yourself, others, and the planet more carefully and intimately. Let us meet and greet each other with love along the way, blending our hearts, communities, and paths into One.

Review Quotes

Light on Kundalini serves as a well-articulated manual of practices led by a master practitioner. Karuna intimately shares her yogic journey as a testimony to the transformational power of Kundalini Yoga and as an invitation to others who wish to be transformed in love. Sat Nam! -Jeff Genung, Co-Founder, Contemplative Life

This book beautifully bridges the ancient wisdom of Yoga cosmology with our contemporary understanding, showing how the structure of the universe and the dynamics of our own existence are intricately connected. -Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, International Yoga Festival President

As I was reading passages from her book, I was reminded of the Bhagavad Gita, "Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self." -Denise Scotto, Esq. Chair, International Day of Yoga Committee at the United Nations

She has a magical quality about her; she always has. And she is a hard worker and an incredible friend. -Pamela Hanson, author, Girls and Boys

Karuna has created the quintessential book on Yogic life. No stone is left unturned in this deep exploration that is accessible to everyone, as a wealth of compelling and enlightening wisdom and stories fill the pages, taking the reader on a journey into a truly powerful way of life. -Steve Farrell, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Humanity's Team

I lovingly refer to this book as "All I really need to know about yoga I learned from Karuna." -Kate Sheehan Roach, Co-Founder, Contemplative Journal

This book is the gift that keeps giving. Karuna has provided us with "A Yoga of Everything" guide filled with history, advice, exploration, practices, and every imaginable dimension of the Yogic lifestyle that can equip us with everything we need to awaken more deeply to our divine destiny. -Diane Marie Williams, Founder, The Source of Synergy Foundation

Karuna Ji is a living, loving exemplar of the Kundalini Yoga wisdom teachings. -Ben Bowler, Co-Visioner of UNITY EARTH

Karuna's commitment to Sadhana and studentship deeply informs her teaching. Her students appreciate her humility and care and her friendship is a balm. -Elena Brower, bestselling author, Practice You and Softening Time

Karuna captures through her anecdotes, those unexpected thresholds we face in life, and presents her well-tested spiritual practices here to help us navigate life. -Swami Prakashananda, aka Rt. Rev. Chris Deefholts, Dharma Heir, Sacred Feet Yoga