Karuna brings her own unique brand of compassion, enthusiasm, and pure joy to every Kundalini Yoga practice. Based in Boulder, CO, 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. Also certified in teaching yoga to children, teenagers, and prenatal moms, Karuna has taught for the Santa Monica/Malibu school system in California, leading classes for second and fourth graders, as well as high school students. She continues to be an Associate Level Trainer in the Aquarian Trainer Academy and arrange Level One teacher training programs and Level Two teacher training modules in conjunction with Lead Teachers from the Kundalini Research Institute. She also has 15 years of teaching at RallySport Health & Fitness Club, Boulder’s oldest health and fitness center, training triathletes and professional swimmers to maintain focus with Mantra and meditation.
Additionally, Karuna practices in the healing arts, which includes a nutritional background in line with Ayurvedic diet and energetic healings in ceremonial and ritual cleansings initiated by the Lakota tradition (in her embodiment as Chanté Eton Wo Wa Gla Ka Win). Karuna believes “we start from the earth up in any practice, and every practice is reviewed by nature first.”
Carrie Pagano (1979-1985)
Caroline Ashley (1985-Present)
A Ford model, Carrie’s path to Self discovery began long before she ever took her first Yoga class. Beyond beauty, pouring all her energy and JOY into the lens, it was her first discovery of what it meant to offer and hopefully have others feel the pure bliss emanating from her heart.
While studying at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in England as Caroline, a classically trained actress, she began sharing decades of her own personalized style of Yoga with the young and upcoming students becoming actors, classmates who came to her for her guidance and Yoga practice. She later helped develop The Life Centre’s Yoga program in London.
Chanté Eton Wo Wa Gla Ka Win (1995-Present)
Karuna (2004-Present)
Liv Preet Kaur (2005-Present)
Karuna continued to find more of herself as she studied Hinduism / Buddhism for seven years in India as well as being apprenticing a Medicine Man of the Lakota Sioux healing tradition. She also received a certificate of ordination as Reverend Caroline Ashley Order of Universal Interfaith-Interspiritual Cleric and Minister and is a member of the Founding Mother’s Movement for Planetary Peace and Partnership dedicated to TRUTH, LOVE, and LIGHT.
True to her spiritual name, which means “compassion,” Karuna helps her students from all walks of life push beyond self-imposed limits. Her classes are filled with humor, music, and the spirit of transformation.
Karuna’s Kundalini Yoga Teachings can be found on her Light on Kundalini website, Light on Kundalini App, YouTube Channel, Vimeo, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and X, formerly Twitter.
Teach.Yoga / Sacred U / Humanity’s Stream
Karuna has been featured as a luminary on Teach.Yoga, Sacred U, and Humanity’s Stream: Healing Grief, 81 Facets of Mind, Awakening the Ten Bodies, and Three Minute Meditations.
Light on Light Magazine and Media
Karuna was a co-founder of Light on Light Publications and Media and its many activities (VoiceAmerica radio, video series, etc.) in 2017. She is Host Editor for its free e-magazines, especially the annual issues published with the International Day of Yoga Committee at the United Nations. Karuna is also a host of Light on Light’s Convergence series on VoiceAmerica and, given her background in film, represents Light on Light at the ILLUMINATE conscious film festivals, which Light on Light co-sponsors.
What Karuna Wants You to Know
Karuna encourages you to find your path and purpose as she has recognized through her own experience how life pokes, provokes, and confronts only to elevate us into our authentic voices and destinies, “waking up, growing up, cleaning up, and showing up” to become a community of enlivened, thriving souls. Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening and the accompanying Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual are her offerings of support when they find their way into the palms of your hands. At that point, the work is almost 70% done, and these are the practices to guide you to the full and whole 100%. If patience pays, and your politeness and privilege are devotional, you will find yourself heading towards your destiny. Just keep up, and you’ll be kept up. Sat Nam!
