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Open your ears.... 👂🏽 What do you hear? Close your eyes... 👁 What do you see? Put your hands on your heart... ♥️ What do you feel? Follow That. ✨ Yoga and Sound Offerings🧘🏽‍♀️🦋🎶 • Tuesday 6:00pm Yoga Nidra & Sound Meditation With @rzwyoga @davesastangayoga • • Thursday 6:00pm Aṣṭāṅga Vinyasa Mix @urbanyogaphx • • Saturday 8:30am Aṣṭāṅga (Gentle) @urbanyogaphx • • Saturday 4:30pm Restorative Yoga and Sound Meditation @urbanyogaphx • • Sunday 4:00pm All Levels Flow @urbanyogaphx • • Sunday 5:30pm Restorative Yoga and Sound Meditation @urbanyogaphx • • A Yin-ki Experience With @sarabrookewolf Friday, 9/7 @naamarizona • • Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Beginning 9/14 @urbanyogaphx For more info: @urbanyogaphx300ytt • • Trance Dance & Cacao Ceremony With @hamid.jabbar Saturday, 9/22 @urbanyogaphx • • For more info about these classes and events, visit kariannlevine.com. Link in bio. ✨🙏🏽 • #yoga #sound #yogateachertraining #trancedance #cacao #medicine #jai #ॐ

Urban Yoga’s 300 Hour Teacher Training Program debuts on Friday, September 14th. (Yay!! 🎉🎊) • • This nine month program meets every other weekend and is open to those already certified and first-time YTT students. • • This is an in-depth program, that will take you beyond the basics of this ancient and multifaceted discipline. • • Tonight at 7:30pm at @urbanyogaphx there is a free info session for anyone interested in learning more about the program, and seeing if it is a good fit for you and your journey. • • You’ll be introduced to lead instructor, @anushamoore , and myself — and we will discuss more details of the program as well as answer any question you may have. • • Below is a list of the course I will be teaching over the course of this program. Some of which are a little unorthodox and outside the box for what we normally see in western yoga teacher trainings.... which I’m pretty stoked about. 🔥✌🏽 • • For more information on each course, follow the link in my Bio. • • Thank you for reading and watching, and I hope to see you this evening. 🙏🏽✨ॐ Jai Ma! जै मा - Kari • • The Bhagavad Gītā: A Practice in Svādhyāya (spiritual self-study) *four meetings • • Intro to Tantric Philosphy: The other River of Knowledge in India • • Hindu Deities as Energetic Archetypes • • Remembering the Yoginī: History, Mythology, and Implications for Modern Practitioners • • Teaching Yin Effectively • • Teaching Restorative Effectively • • The Energy Body: The Cakra, Kośa, and Nadi • • Singing the Soul: Embodying the Spirit 🎶✨ • • Please message me with any questions. Also check out and follow @urbanyogaphx300ytt to stay in the loop! • • I hope to see you at Urban tonight at 7:30pm! 🧘🏽‍♀️💫 • #yogateachertraining #300houryogateachertraining #ytt #300ytt #yoga #yogini #yogateacher #grateful #jaima #ॐ

I do not seek approval, validation, or direction from the world outside. I tune into my own internal guidance system. 👊🏽✨ • You have and internal GPS too! Tune into it this week with Yoga and Sound. Here’s where you can find me.🧘🏽‍♀️🎶 • Tuesday 6:00pm Yoga Nidra & Sound Meditation @davesastangayoga • • Thursday 6:00pm Aṣṭāṅga Vinyasa @urbanyogaphx • • Thursday 7:30pm 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Info Session w/ @anushamoore @urbanyogaphx • • Saturday 8:30am Aṣṭāṅga Half Primary Series AKA Intro to Aṣṭāṅga @urbanyogaphx • • Saturday 4:30pm Restorative Yoga and Sound Meditation @urbanyogaphx • • Sunday 4:00pm All Levels Flow @urbanyogaphx • • Sunday 5:30pm Restorative Yoga and Sound Meditation @urbanyogaphx • #dreaming #seetheunseen #courage #yogini #yoga #sound #jai #ॐ

🔥 Major Announcement Alert 🔥 • Words cannot express how grateful, honored, and excited I am to be a contributing teacher to Urban Yoga’s very first 300 Hour Program!! • I have viewed Urban Yoga and it’s staff as top notch since I started teaching and practicing in the Valley. That I am now teaching along side instructors who I admire is truly surreal and absolutely humbling. • At the outset of 2018, I set my intention as the following.... • ✨TO LIVE THE LIFE OF MY WILDEST DREAMS.✨ • If this is not proof that dreams come true, and that heart felt intentions do turn into incredible manifestations, I don’t know what else is. This dream in particular has been five years in the making, and I almost cannot believe it’s now right before my eyes. • • With all this being said, if you are looking to take the deep dive into this practice and study with a truly extraordinary roster of teachers, please consider the @urbanyogaphxytt300 program. • • **Follow the above link to learn more.** • Here are some other ways you can support me and this program.... • 1. Share this post on your social media account and in the online groups you are a part of. 2. Share this post with someone specific you feel may be interested. 3. Sign up for this training when we offer it again, because I just know that this is the beginning of something incredible!! • Last but not least, I will be posting next week the list of courses I will be offering, along with a brief description of each. So excited to share what I’ve got cookin’ for these budding 300 Hour YTTS! 🧘🏽‍♀️🦋 #dreamwild #manifest #yoga #yogini #teacherofteachers #sograteful #jai #ॐ

“Healing is communication; and music, in its universal nature, is total communication. In the deepest mysteries of music are the inspirations, the pathways, and the healing which lead to oneness and unity.” - Olivea Dewhurst-Maddock • • Let’s open our bodies and minds to the sounds that yearn to move through, and emanate from within us. Here’s where you can find my yoga and sound offerings this week.... 🎶🧘🏽‍♀️💫 • Tuesday 6:00pm Yoga Nidra & Sound Meditation @davesastangayoga • • Thursday 6:00pm Aṣṭāṅga Vinyasa @urbanyogaphx • • Saturday 8:30am Aṣṭāṅga Half Primary Series AKA Intro to Aṣṭāṅga @urbanyogaphx • • Saturday 5:00pm A Yin-Ki Experience Yin Yoga, Reiki, and Healing Sound With @sarabrookewolf @walk.in.wellness • • Sunday 4:00pm All Levels Flow @urbanyogaphx • • Sunday 5:30pm Restorative Yoga and Meditation @urbanyogaphx • • #love #light #yoga #sound #jai #ॐ

I love working with strong, divinely inspired women who make things happen! • • Tonight @sarabrookewolf and I join forces to bring you a highly charged experience of Yin Yoga, Reiki, and Sound. 💫🎶 • It’s going to be blissfully beautiful. Tonight at 7pm at @naamarizona in Mesa. Link to event in bio. I hope to see you there. 🧡 • #magic #yin #reiki #sound #medicine #jai #ॐ

I’ll never forget when, as a child, my friend told me that I could not be an artist when I grew up. • • I remember feeling defeated, confused, and sad at this assertion. This friend was a bit older than me, and was a bully at times. And I believed her. • • I think most of us can relate to this story in one way or another. Consciously or otherwise, we have a memory of someone telling us our dreams are impractical, unattainable, and unrealistic. That a path alternative to convention isn’t just unacceptable, it is laughable and ridiculous. • • In the twenty years since this conversation, I’ve spent a lot of time walking the conventional path, and feeling less than whole as a result. I’ve also used up much energy trying to fit my artistic needs and goals inside the lines of what society deems acceptable and appropriate. • • But my aesthetic hates lines. It prefers to be organic, free-flowing, and messy. My aesthetic has its own conception of time and space. It cannot be placed on a time-line, because my art takes as long as it takes. • • And my aesthetic is not one thing. It cannot be placed in a category or put in a box. But rather it moves and changes and creates itself as it creates me creating it creating itself.... and so on and so on. • • It took a long time for me to embrace these aspects of myself in the face of a society that calls the eccentric loons and quacks. And I’m still working on it. • • But I’m finding, that the more I follow my art, the more my surroundings bend and mold and full-on shapeshift around me to make space for more art to come through — providing more opportunities for me to share it, and more fuel for it to expand and evolve. • • .... Continued in comments.... • #art #sound #medicine #motherearth #fathersky #framedrum #shamandrum #crystalbowls #gong #love #jai #ॐ

Travel is Spiritual Pilgrimage. If we choose to treat it as such. It gives us an opportunity to reflect back to ourselves from a different perspective. To immerse ourselves in the unfamiliar. And to see what rises to the surface as a result. • In the journey to self understanding and actualization, sometimes switching up the mirror is just what the doctor ordered. • Over the last two weeks, I’ve encountered many mirrors. From family, to waterfalls, to war paint. Each of them revealing a different aspect of myself — some easier to swallow than others, but all of them equally as vital to my evolution. • It is impossible to return from these experiences unchanged, and I’m looking forward to sharing what I’ve learned in my classes this week. I hope you can join me. ✨🎶 • One last thing — thank you so much to @sarabrookewolf and @helofajourney for inviting me to share the powerful Medicine of Sound at the Wild Woman Howling Retreat this past weekend. And to all of my new Wild Woman Sisters — thank you all so much for your vulnerability, your strength, and your love. I am so grateful for each of you. #protectthethrone 🐺⚡️🦋 • Schedule this week 🧘🏽‍♀️🎶 • Monday 7:30pm Restorative @mokshayogaphx • • Tuesday 12:00pm Aṣṭāṅga Mix @metta_yoga • • Tuesday 6:00pm Yoga Nidra & Sound Meditation With @rzwyoga @davesastangayoga • • Friday 7:00pm A Yin-Ki Experience Yin Yoga, Reiki, and Healing Sound With @sarabrookewolf @naamarizona • • Saturday 8:30am Aṣṭāṅga Half Primary Series AKA Intro to Aṣṭāṅga @urbanyogaphx • • Saturday 4:30pm Restorative Yoga and Sound Meditation @urbanyogaphx • • Sunday 8:30am All Levels Flow @urbanyogaphx • • Sunday 10am Urban Flow @urbanyogaphx • • Sunday 4:00pm All Levels Flow @urbanyogaphx • • Sunday 5:30pm Restorative Yoga and Sound Meditation @urbanyogaphx • • #pilgrimage #wildwoman #warriorwoman #yoga #yogini #sound #soundhealing #vibrationalmedicine #movementmedicine #flute #gong #crystalbowls #framedrum #shamandrum #love #gratitude #jai #ॐ

I wish I could say that sharing my story has made my relationship with food a more harmonious one. Unfortunately it has not. • After I posted, I received so much wisdom and encouragement. Some of it resonated. Some of it didn’t. Some of it hit the nail on the head. • When something triggers me, it’s a good sign to pay attention. So when I received a text from a dear friend that essentially said, “I am so sorry that you are going through so much pain right now. It’s going to take a lot more than telling your secret on social media to get through this. Call me if you want to talk,” and immediately felt resistant, I knew there was truth in what she said. • I think many of us wish there was some kind of magic pill that would take away our pain, our struggle. We even come to our spiritual work with this mentality. • “If I do this practice... say this mantra... work with this healer... sit with this medicine... fill in the blank... I’ll be able to get through this.” • Of course, there is some truth to this. These methods and modalities do help us on our journey, but they are only one part of the equation. The real healing is the work we put in, on the ground and in the day-to-day. This is where we create new patterns, new mental scripts, new perspectives. #miracles • During my first medicine ceremony I learned that the ceremony itself is only 10% of the work. The rest of it happens in the integration of what was revealed to us. • I think the same can be said for the other practices we do. It’s not about what happens on our meditation pillow, on our yoga mat, or even in the big reveal of a secret that has been eating us alive that sets us free. It’s about what we do after this. How we integrate the lessons that creates the change we are seeking. • So while I am still so proud of myself for ‘coming out of the closet,’ so to speak, about my experience with food, and absolutely believe that this was an essential component of my healing journey, I know that there is a lot more work to be done. • It’s not all sparkles and rainbows on the path. But this is what’s real, and real healing is what I’m seeking. • #journey #healing #medicine #love #jai #ॐ

The response to yesterday’s post was utterly overwhelming. Seeing and feeling the energy behind what I, and so many of you, shared — in itself — was extraordinarily healing. And for this I want to thank each and every one of you. • Immediately after I hit “share” yesterday, I turned my phone on airplane mode and went outside on my parent’s porch to do my practice. • • Often times when I post something, I’ll check, recheck, and check again for the response. And while I certainly was curious — this time was different. I didn’t want to concern myself with the response. At least not yet. Instead, I wanted to let the energy of simply sharing something so vulnerable sink deep into my being. • • About an hour after I posted, my mom came outside, and I did something I am not sure I have ever done before. I told her about the post, reasoning it was better for her to hear about it first from me, rather than discover it by surprise. I meant what I said about her deep unease with “airing dirty laundry.” • • I told her about the post, acknowledging her discomfort, and did my best to explain why I felt it was important for me to share. She expressed her concern, and rather than getting upset and arguing about the merits of her opinions and feelings versus mine (which is the path I normally take) I took in what she had to say, and we parted ways in a sort of peaceful understanding of our dissonance with one another. • Before my mom left, she said that she wouldn’t be reading the post. I told her that I understood, and she went back inside. • A few minutes later, I heard her voice calling from her office, “Kari, there are 40 comments on your post! And people are commenting right now!!!” • I ran inside, and peered over her shoulder. 40 comments and counting. I couldn’t believe it. And I could. All at the same time. • The first comment I saw was from one of my dearest friends. The first line, “First of all, I love you.” That was all I needed, and the waterworks started pouring. • ... Continued in comments.

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