Why Karuna?

I feel it is really appropriate to start with my "why's".

I feel this questions should be present in our daily life as a self-reflection practice. Why do I do what I do.

It's not always easy, especially in face of different challenges that we have to endure through life.

Once I read in one of Osho's books, where he wrote, that it is better to be a sincere doubter than blindly believe. So I have become a gymnasts of my own beliefs. I know that at our core we have same magic but there are different paths that leads to embodying it. We can have a cognitive understanding but it is through embodying certain expressions we begin to truly allow this truth to flow through our bodies. So question as much as you need.

I came to a point where my practice is about creating safety, connection and dialog. It just fells right so I carry on because this is what fells good in my heart and I don't know any other way. It also fells very vulnerable, as if honesty was a niche. Can you build a business that's just about being honest?

So still all you can do sometimes is just to carry on. So as I practice I question more and more and more and I would get lost but maybe lost is exactly where I need to be. Maybe lost is where the unknown can come and meet me. Maybe lost is where the neuroplastic healing happens. So I let myself be lost. And being lost is most uncomfortable feelings that I have come across.

My main why is because, I noticed lack of foundation, functionality, trust, connection, lack of rest. I learned that it takes time, patience, resilience to build trust. Trust, trust, trust...and what would happen if you took out the essence out of the form. And suddenly trust would overflow because there were no boundaries that would hold its essence in certain shape and form.

However abstract if feels, it doesn't matter. I am not here to teach you anything. I am here just to show you some practices that worked for me, that has brought me some more trust, that has brought me some more safety and that has helped me to soften my edges down.

So why. My why is because I craved safety, connection, love, trust and I couldn't find it anywhere, I had to go within. I had to. And I Learn that somewhere around your liver, somewhere behind you ears, somewhere in the surrounding of your heart, very close to your skin, your hair there is this soft place that's softer than a cotton pad and it loves your attention and focus and it wants you to keep coming back.

Why? Because the marketing dictates what you should believe, what is good for you. and it is self fulfilling prophecy. I want us to be concerned more of how we internally feel towards the information provided to us. I want us to be able to discern which information are nourishing and which are just another bundle of clutter that will end up somewhere in the corner of your mind.

Why? Because sometimes, we lost touch with what is nourishing to the point where it feels so foreign to the body that it can feel wrong.

Why? Because when we open up to create more regulation within our internal systems we also find that our yoga practice changes to accommodate it, changes to be more softer and gentler practice.

Why? Because, I recognize our innate ability to recover, build back up, restructure, sometime all we need is a deep rest. But not just laying down, or watching stuff on Netflix, the rest on a deep cellular lever where you have better ability to communicate internally, where the chaos settles, where your palms turns into ears and listen to the quiet beating of blood pulsating in your forearms.

Why? Because I believe that face is a great communicator, that movement is the first language and yoga is a profound science of love.

Why Karuna? Because compassion is one of the most complex, difficult practices that I have come across.

So, I am really happy that you are here!

And take a moment to look away from the screen, notice how you are sitting, maybe your body needs a stretch, feel, do it...can you feel your breath what is it like?

Did you feel lost?

Confused.

Disconnected.

Great. Its a wonderful place to start.

With curiosity,

Kathrine.