On July 21st, Optimization Coach and Kundalini Yoga Teacher Kara Bitar and I spoke about Kara’s journey from high powered lawyer to ill health to healing to teaching and coaching:
I hold a J.D. from Duke University School of Law and practiced high-stakes corporate litigation at one of the largest law firms in the Southeast. I planned my whole life to be an attorney. I graduated summa cum laude from Siena College. I went to Duke University School of Law on an academic scholarship and then was recruited by and did accept a job offer at one of the largest law firms in the southeast. I had success at the firm, I was respected by my colleagues, I was on partnership track. I had everything I thought I wanted, everything I planned and worked so hard for – money, success, the beautiful home. Despite my success, I was unhappy. It was the hardest decision I ever made, but I eventually left the firm and left behind everything I had worked so hard for. I did not have a plan as to what my future would hold, but I wanted answers. Did success have to come at a price? Was living in states of depletion, stress and overwhelm just normal? Did we have to watch our bodies deteriorate? Was joy something that we experienced only in moments here and there? I took me a number of years, a lot of research and experimentation, and many dark moments. But I eventually found what I was looking for and transformed my life and I now help others do the same. I do this through Optimization Coaching, Programs I developed, and Kundalini Yoga.
I could have returned to the practice of law, but I now that I know we can live lives where we revel in ourselves and our own creativity, lives of fulfillment and joy – I have made it my mission to share how to do this with others.
As a former litigator I am well spoken and I am passionate about what I now do, which comes across in interviews. Some of the things I can share with listeners: my story; how one can live an Optimized Life, a life where one is fulfilled, abundant, and healthy, even in this high-pressure fast-paced experience; the benefits of Kundalini Yoga and how this practice can fit into even the busiest of lifestyles; and how everyone has their own unique gifts and talents and how when one knows these and utilizes these one can live in states of energy and abundance.
We also speak to:
- the quest for finding answers about the possibility of feeling and experiencing life and self differently
- feelings of guilt, failure and doubt
- particulars of Kara’s early healing journey including much study and many modalities and irony of feeling worse
Kundalini yoga
- I ask what is the kundalini snake and what do we do with it?
- the immediate transformation of Kundalini yoga:
- especially in relational areas of life
- increased energy (for living), inspiration, worthiness, clarity of mind
- some of the mystery of the subtle energetic realms and science of how Kundalini yoga works
- insights on what did and didn’t work via retrospect and why
- [correction on video version: Abhidhamma hasn’t been around for thousands and thousands of years, Wikipedia says from 3rd Century BCE]
- what Kundalini yoga is including breath work, asana, sound currents, mantra, hand and eye positions, relaxation and meditation, kriyas to work on multiple levels including, emotional, energetic, mental, psychological, etc.
Optimization
- Kara’s optimization programs in order to have such a different experience than states of overwhelm, monotony, grind, dis-ease, fear, worry and unworthiness by learning who you are and how to function
- identifying, awakening and fostering unique gifts, talents, abundance, energy, thriving, the inner teacher/internal guidance
- how to tame and direct the mind to serve us not the other way around
- unlearning, deprogramming, dropping unhelpful beliefs
- returning to the truth of who we are
- the highly efficient and effective nature of Kara’s programs suitable for those still in the more regular work/career world
- prioritizing knowing thyself to benefit self and others
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Audio: Lawyering Down, Kundalini-ing Up With Kara Bitar
The raw unedited YouTube transcription of this podcast:
okay homeless welcome this is josh dippled of integrating presents and today i’ve got
kara batar with me kara how’s it going good how about you so happy to be here
ah i’m doing well thanks for joining um so as folks might know who listened to this uh watch this and or watch this um
i like to toss it back to guests to have them introduce themselves so who is cara bataran what kind of work do
you do so i am a former litigator i worked at one of the largest law firms in the
southeast in high stakes corporate litigation and a graduate of duke law and i worked
my whole life to become an attorney and now i am an optimization coach
i work with people to help them live really their highest healthiest and happiest versions of themselves i do
that through programs i developed and i also teach kundalini yoga
wow well that it’s a great uh it’s i guess maybe that shows some of your lawyer training is very concise clear
and to the point right and yeah so well i mean this is fascinating uh and i’ve
a few guests i’ve had on too i’ve noticed things about this where they’ve they’ve
had found really great success in what the world kind of told them
you know the options just the regular standard world has offered them and what they say would make them happy and
successful and you know and it turned out that they they did have some success in that but
it it’s ultimately not what they were after and looking for so i’m kind of interested in
um what seems relevant about your your law school journey
and that story expanding on that however you’d like um yeah i don’t know where to really
probe into this right now but i i feel that you would know what’s relevant to say about this right
yeah so so yeah my i think my experience is probably going to be somewhat similar to
some of the other people that you’ve spoken to so i when i was in fifth grade i decided that
i was going to be an attorney and i worked really hard to that end like i was really committed to it i
um you know graduated high school highest honors i graduated summa laude from college i published in
college as an undergraduate i went on to do law i published while i was there and then i was recruited by
and i did take a job with one of the largest law firms in the southeast and so
at that law firm i was doing really significant legal work
i felt really appreciated and respected by my colleagues i was also doing a lot of pro bono work
for victims of domestic violence and i was eventually named head of that project and so um
yeah i was making a lot of money um i had this really charming house in the
city and i had like two cute dogs and i had like you know i was married i have a husband and i had this beautiful
wardrobe and i could like go on vacations and like so i think um
if you were to look at my life you would say well you accomplished
everything you set out to do and it was like i did everything that i that i had decided i was going to do
like i did it and um you know if you
were to look at my life on paper it just looked like it was like perfect like i had everything
and sorry if you hear that snorting i have a little dog right here next to me she just snorted really loudly
um so it looked like i had really everything and i had everything that i
thought i wanted i had everything that i worked so hard for and that i had planned for and so i’m in this job
and i am so deeply unhappy like so deeply unhappy and i don’t know why
like i don’t know why because it’s like it’s it’s confusing in a way it’s like wait a second
i have everything that i worked for but more than that i have everything that everybody told me was going to make me
happy right like i have everything that like kind of society and like this experience is looking at going like these are the things you want right this
is like what it is for you to do and when you get that you know and you know it wasn’t like i was in
this like great happy state during college or law school like i wasn’t but
i had this thing of like but once i make it right it’s like once i get these things that we’re told are so important
and then are gonna make us happy then i’ll be happy right and so then i get there and i have all of them
and i’m so deeply unhappy i feel so incredibly unfulfilled even though
you could argue i was doing significant work and it was so confusing it’s like wait a
second i have everything and and you know people probably have situations in the
law world or in many jobs where they’re in jobs where maybe they don’t feel appreciated or they don’t feel respected
or they have these issues with like the people they work for like i didn’t have any of that i felt very appreciated felt very
respected i i really loved the people that i worked with and so
and so yeah so that was the situation i found myself in and
it was like i blamed myself for it
like something’s wrong with me right that i can’t just i have all these things and
here i am so unhappy right um and it was like i kept trying to make
things work like i kept trying to to to make myself happy in a way and i kept
but it was like nothing nothing worked nothing made me feel fulfilled nothing really
it was like nothing was working and so eventually it was just like i just felt like some
something has to give like this this cannot be what life is like there has to be
more like and so you know there was this part of me that was like there isn’t
more like this is it you know and it’s it’s not good but there was something in me
that was like no there has to be more and i have to i want to know i need to know i need to know if there’s more
and so it took me quite frankly years but i eventually left that job and
i i didn’t leave it with this great state of clarity again i left it with this like
i don’t know why i’m so unhappy but this job is like the biggest thing in my life i mean like we did work a lot like it
was high stress you know and so it was like this seems to be the thing that has to give and
i did something too that um yeah i don’t know if anybody at the firm has ever done it which is i i left without a plan
i did not know what i was going to do next and like listen i had a great resume i was well connected if i want to
get another job i could have but there was again there was this thing in me being like if you do that it’s going to
be different faces different places and you’re going to feel the same and so
so yeah i left this job and this career that i’d worked for and planned for my whole life
and i left it with without a plan and uh
talking a little bit before the show or chatting a little bit we have um similar yet different paths too i was in
the corporate market marketing world and while i could see that you know a a big lavish lifestyle
wasn’t for me and then that that wasn’t going to be fulfilling especially for me
i had the the opposite or the uh a different well kind of opposite where i yeah i didn’t feel respected right and
um so this was uh but then i i ended in left without a
plan too because i knew that that track wasn’t for me as well but you
know that you’re the guest here and so i’m not going to go into any further
details on that right now i’d like to know about this transition between of
this letting go this kind of you know
it’s uh one of the metaphors i’ve heard from a teacher that i used to follow more closely is you have to get off one
train completely before you get on another train a different train right now i hear some stories of how
people will you know have everything kind of planned with their transition but that was definitely not the case for
me either just just leaving without a plan yep so i guess especially the emotional
what what do you feel would be relevant to share emotionally with that maybe some
relationships and maybe support systems i i feel
um it could be relevant here too as well as that and just kind of what
the transition process was like for you yeah so
so when i left that job there was a part of me that was like okay you’re gonna leave this job and you’re never gonna have
anything to do ever for the rest of your life right because like this is all i knew um and then there was this other part of
me that was like you know give me two weeks away from all of this stress and all of this pressure and like i’ll
figure something out right so the two week thing didn’t happen um
what happened was i i left the job and a couple things happened that really
surprised me and the first was i realized i was not in a good state of health my it was like when that stress
went away it was like my body really showed me here’s the state of your health actually
like here’s what’s actually happening in your body and really what i you know now knows it was like i had been operating
on adrenaline probably most of my life that was the thing that was getting me up in the morning that was the thing
that was driving me not this like passion for life right and so and so when that stress and that job
went away and i stopped kind of living on that adrenaline it was like i completely crashed and i went from
being able to operate at this like super high level and do all of this stuff to feeling like i couldn’t even drive
somewhere i just had no energy my body ached everywhere um health problems i
had had since i was a child it was like they seemed to get way worse and so i find
myself in this really poor state of health and this surprised me because even though i was working a lot i woke
up at 4 a.m every morning and i did yoga i made my lunches and i brought them to
work so i could have something healthy to eat i ran on the weekends or whenever i had time like i was i tried to
stay healthy um but the thing that happened that surprised me even more and this is
something that you touched on which is when that job went away you would think
like okay i’ve i’m not in that job anymore but i
did all of those things like i have that resume i have that degree from duke law i i worked at one
of these big firms like i did it all and i left of my own volition
and so you’d think that would give me some sense of like worth and value
but when that job went away it was like every shred of what i thought i had of
like worth and value it just went right with it and so i felt terrible about myself i mean like
worse than i realized i could feel about myself i felt like i was just nothing
and so that was the state i found myself in after i left this job
and so i made the decision i’m going to give everything i have all of my resources all of my time all of my
energy everything to finding answers i’m going to give everything i have to finding
can i heal my body i’m going to give everything defining like can i feel differently about life can i
have a different experience of life can i have a different experience of myself
and so that’s what i did
it’s it’s really beautiful a similar type thing too when i started the daily meditation
practice um so much stuff was coming up that i had no idea that was uh buried for so long
and that came up to be seen and healed and there was plenty of weeping during that but it was okay because i was by
myself but that then you know shortly uh or alongside of that was this
uh one having to know things you know it was just like oh my goodness it was just
but so many possibilities opened up but then all these questions came and i
was just so driven to finding answers to these and i was so glad that i i spent time
doing that um as well and the answers came to me but just to share here that uh now i find that
some of those answers were very satisfying but in the this how beautiful life is that they’re only part of the
picture too we can get so many different answers and you know it’s kind of boundless the uh amount of progression
we can keep going but rewinding again here to that yeah it’s like
that house had to be burned down completely before something else could be built in its place right and the
foundation kind of ripped up and it is not pleasant at all you know um
uh so but it’s almost necessary with with something like this right uh i
feel i mean maybe there’s other ways around it but if it could have happened any other way it would have
so it it is just a beautiful uh uh inspiring thing for me actually as as
as heart uh wrenching as it is that it feels to me too hearing your story there’s the kind of
silver lining or the polarity of that you know that’s the way it was
meant to be with this yeah yeah and um yeah and you’re right
like i i just didn’t you know i didn’t see at the time what was happening you know i
didn’t know at the time and like i felt like a failure i felt guilty i felt like
all these things you know and it’s like i’m looking at the people who are still in the job like why didn’t i why why
couldn’t have i just done that and just stayed and just you know and but you’re right
you know i was i didn’t see it at the time but like you
know when we make a decision that we want answers to something we get them right like i love how you i
loved how to you use the word boundless i think that’s such a
accurate word to like what is available to us
and um so again at the time i felt totally like
i felt lost and all these things but i did i made this very powerful decision
not knowing i made it you know what i mean not knowing at the time what i was doing but it’s like i made this decision
like i want answers and i did get them and i did get that
guidance and that everything that i needed now it didn’t come right away from me so for for me
i spent a year and a half doing this like full-time like i was um
taking programs i was like researching i was reading i was doing all these different diets and cleanses and like i
bought a sauna i did floats i learned how to make flower remedies i learned how to do human design readings i um
i trained in a number of modalities um became certified in them i worked in a clinic where like you know working with
these modalities on people to see the impact and so for a year and a half i did this
like this is all i did and at the year and a half mark i found myself in this was shocking worse health
than i was before and i also found myself feeling worse
because it was like you know when i was in my job there was
this part of me that was like if you leave this there’s never gonna be anything else for you ever but there was this other part of me that was like
but if you tried right like you haven’t even tried like if you tried there would be something else right and
so now i’m in this place where it’s like i’ve tried i have left everything behind
i mean i i i ended up too like i mean i didn’t have this job anymore so i um i moved right like i didn’t keep the same
house that i had and um it was like i had left everything behind
and given everything i had to finding answers and here i am
feeling like i do not have the answers feeling worse about myself feeling like my health is worse
and so there was a part of me that was like just go back and practice law like you
know like you’ve tried um at least then you were making money you know and it really was the darkest
one of the darkest times of my life because it was like this this time of like this thing that i’m searching for
it doesn’t exist and life just isn’t that great do you know what i mean
it dark night of the soul classic dark knight so and we can have multiples multiple years too yeah
yeah and go ahead yeah but like at the time for me i like
didn’t know what to me i’m just like okay here i am like failing again
and i left everything and here i am you know just i just didn’t have that knowing june i mean i just didn’t
i didn’t have that knowing in me yet that and and this is where our you know the well first off the amount of
programming that goes in that we have to undo and unlearn and i can’t even really imagine without
the law background how how intense intensive that type of programming is
and so unlearning that letting go of that allowing just the house of cards
kind of to come down and collapse and how devastating it can feel
but that devastation that silver lining with that is it can reveal deep truths within us
when it’s not judged as much uh i feel um now it just it it feels so
real these things right but a lot of times there it’s there’s not truth
in the fact that we think we’re failures or things like this it feels that way
but it’s not true and and now we talk about like
on my path like something like what i’m doing really didn’t exist right and so
and then kind of had to create it ourselves so would you like to talk a little bit about kind of the um i guess building up
to what you’re doing now after after that how you found that and how
you uh design i guess the transition into and then we can start talking about some of the the
kundalini yoga and i have a little bit of specific um questions i guess on that and then these
optimization programs as well yeah so i
obviously did not go back to the practice law i kept going there was i listened to that keep going you know i
was like there’s this thing in me that was just like keep going and so i did and one day i
tried a kundalini yoga class didn’t know kundalini yoga was never heard of it um
and the class while i was doing it quite frankly it seemed really odd like i was like oh this is what my life
has become wonderful but um after that class i felt i felt different like i like noticeably
different and so it was enough that i was like i’m gonna keep taking these classes and so the i kept taking classes the more classes i
took the better i felt and so then i went and i got trained um
to teach kundalini yoga not to teach it but i just was like i want to know what is this thing
that is really changing my life like why am i feeling so much better because like
uh the more i did come to my yoga it was like the aches and pains in my body started to go away
i started to feel energized like energized not energized because i drank caffeine or energized like i started to
feel just energized like energized by life i started to feel really inspired like
this kind of inspiration and creativity started to flow through me that i really hadn’t experienced before
um and so oh and the other thing that happened was i i started to feel
this sense of worthiness not from anything that i was doing just
because of who i was and so when i got trained in this and the more i did it
the more i benefited from it and the more i started to understand oh this is why this is working
and i quite frankly i don’t think we totally know why kundalini yoga works i think we have some sense i don’t think we’ve actually gotten up with yet why it
completely works we know some reasons why it works they all seemed so logical they made so much sense to me there were
things that i didn’t know about before um but then what happened is it was like
as i was doing kundalini yoga it’s like now i’m getting this clarity of mind and now i’m feeling inspired
and now and really what kundalini yoga was doing i didn’t realize it at the time but it was
tapping me into me into who i was and so as i tapped more and more into
who i was into the you know the creativity that i held within the knowing that i held within
and i started to get this very like clear mind i was able to look back on
all of those other things that i’ve done and i was able to see oh this is why like this didn’t work
this is why this didn’t really move the dial for me and then i was able to to be like okay
well what does work and why does it work and so it’s like i was
able to just with really tapping into myself then i was able to take myself to even
greater levels of transformation it was like i started to watch my entire life
transform my relationship with my body my relationship with myself my relationship with my husband like
my experience of this world it was like everything just started to really
transform and so it was really from that that space and with that understanding
that i started to kind of be like well wait a second if like if this worked for me
what would happen if i shared this with other people would would they get a result too and so then i started to do that
and as i started to do that i started to see oh they’re getting results too this really works um that’s where i then
developed my programs and that’s what led me into what i’m currently doing now and i have to say it has surprised me
like talk about someone who’s had like a plan their whole life you know and then it’s like now i’m doing this thing that
wow didn’t see this coming you know it really is cool and i
go back to the it seems like one of the cores of this at least is and and i’ve seen this so
much too is with the feminine the sense of worthiness i mean it’s just that is so key
and when the the payoff of finding that that worthiness is
creativity and so however the feminine finds that worthiness that it seems so very
central right and it’s just amazing uh gift and reward of
how that flourishes into creativity yeah i’ll just give some background here
um i had uh daily or no weekly yoga practice to support my meditation
practice probably from around somewhere in 2013 to right
when the this um kovi thing started i kind of stopped them and transitioned
more to jinjing and and qigong and i did take
one kundalini yoga class for sure if not two and that’s what the teacher said right away is one of the reasons he got
into it is he felt i think he was an ex-addict though but he said he felt high like naturally
and i noticed the amount of intensity involved with it and kind of just fire
energy it was it was different than the other types of yoga that i had done for sure
so you you know i thought it was fascinating when you said um we don’t really know how it works and
that’s i’ve heard so many different things you know so i’m like well what is this kundalini snake in the
spine you know um how does it work and what do we do with it you know
so i i’ve heard so many things i’d be interested in hearing your take on that yeah so
it’s like i really think that the the yogis and the yogic scientists and that tradition they really were tapped into
the subtle realms and so it’s very different from our kind of modern science
right and they’re really tapped into those subtle realms and understanding the body in those energetic
from those energetic places and again those subtle realms right and so it’s
like we have scientific we have some scientific studies that show that kundalini yoga works that it’s effective
like they’ve studied certain meditations um and so we know that they’re effective
but it’s so interesting it’s like there’s a meditation for that um it works on the brain and
um it’s recommended now if you go into like alzheimer’s like websites like they actually recommend this meditation
because there have been studies done showing this can help prevent alzheimer’s right so it’s so interesting
though if you read into it it’s like it’s like the studies based like this works but like we don’t know why you
know what i mean it’s kind of like and they found um you know they have some hypotheses and um
they there’s a mantra that’s used with this meditation and they they found that if they don’t
use the mantra then they don’t have the it’s not effective they use the mantra it is effective right so it’s like it’s almost like in
the in the kind of the realm we’re in it’s kind of like we we understand that this works but we don’t we’re not
totally clear on why um and so i do think that modern science what i
would say is we’re actually catching up to what the yogis knew absolutely and i tell
people this a lot of times with neuroscience is study the abi dhamma so
this is uh advanced um psychology in the buddhist tradition
right and they had all this stuff mapped out in my new detail thousands and thousands of years ago
um so you’re welcome to go and in any what some people would call woo because i’ve done plenty of that on here too yes
science cannot do that right now anything like that is off the table um
you know there’s pros and cons to that as well um but yeah so i mean you’re welcome to go into that or we can also
go into the um the optimization and well and uh just for people not familiar with
kundalini yoga i guess uh you could also tell folks like what is kundalini yoga
and how it differs from regular yoga and maybe how you teach it too yeah
so um i think what people so there’s a lot of different types of yoga and i think what
people generally associate with yoga is like a form of yoga which is like the
postures and the poses right um again there’s a lot of variety though
in yoga which you you’re probably familiar with as you’ve i’ve seen yes remind people this is just the asana
practice and most yogas are a lot of different yogas there’s eight different limbs but in the west it seems like a
big focus on just the asana our postures loses uh limb exactly that’s exactly right yeah
and so kundalini yoga it does use postures and poses however those postures and poses
they vary quite a bit and they’re going to some of them you’ll see something that might look familiar to you if you’re
used to doing like hatha yoga a number of them are going to look quite different um so it does use postures and poses um
it also uses a lot of different types of breath work so there’s a number of different types of breathing that we do
in kundalini yoga it utilizes hand positions and eye positions because our hands are
connected to parts of the brain that we can like stimulate the pituitary gland with the use of the eyes we can stimulate the brain with eye positions
it uses sound currents so it uses mantra so there’s chanting in kundalini yoga
it also uses meditation and relaxation and so if you were to go into a kundalini yoga
class it does look quite different it’s a very very dynamic
practice there’s a lot going on um and then kundalini yoga also uses
what are called kriyas and if you could almost see these as like a recipe it’s like they’re putting together certain
postures and poses and breath work and hand positions and eye positions and meditation and mantra and breathing
and they’re like put together in this very specific way to create a specific result
and so what kundalini yoga is doing with all of this is it’s working on
all levels of our beingness so we’re dynamic and complex beings and so it’s working from a physical level
and it’s doing some really critical things at that physical level like it’s working the nervous system is working the endocrine system
and that i found was a game changer for me because if you actually want to be and
kind of exist at different states of beingness like where you feel good you’ve you’ve got to have the nervous system and
endocrine system that can go there with you um and so it’s working on the physical body it’s also working you from a mental
level so it’s working on the mind it’s helping one to learn how to control and direct their mind
it’s also using different practices to rid you of old subconscious like programs and patterns and
beliefs it’s working on an emotional level so it’s helping you deal with suppressed emotions and let those go and
release them it’s helping you deal with current emotions and then it’s working on an energetic level so when we’re
talking about like the chakras we’re talking about the electromagnetic field um it’s working on that level too and so
it’s really it’s like doing all of this at one time and so i think like when i think of kundalini
yoga it’s like a lot of bang for the buck right because like doing all this at one time and once i started to understand the
practice more it was like oh well now i understand why this is having
this really kind of massive impact on me like why is this having why is this changing
me so like why is this helping me so much like oh well it’s doing all of these things at one time
right on yes and then just the more and more we progress we’ll be able to tap in you know on all those different levels
and just have more and more details of how all that stuff works specifically
right and then some people even talk about the unseen and the things that normal people are
normal whatever that means regular people can’t see but with inner sight things become even you know more
detailed more apparent um so what about this optimization coaching
how do you work with people with this how did you design some of these programs yeah so i
so this really was like okay i realized like we can have such a different experience like we have such a
different experience and but it’s like how do we do that how do we have this different experience and
and what it really boils down to what i learned is like we have to know who we are and how we function
and it sounds so simple right and most people be like well i know who i am and i know how i function and i would say if
you’re living in states of stress of overwhelm of monotony if you’re living in states where life feels like a grind
if you’re living in states of disease um if you’re living in states of worry and fear and unworthiness you actually
don’t understand who you are and how you function you have misunderstandings about that and so when i realized like okay this is
this is where it’s at and it’s so interesting too right because like i’m highly educated i spent a long time
being educated and yet i didn’t understand me
i didn’t understand who i was i didn’t understand how i functioned i didn’t understand that i held within me
unique gifts and talents and when i used those then i stepped into abundance and that’s how i actually got my energy i
didn’t realize that i was structured to thrive in certain ways i didn’t realize that i had internal
guidance within me showing me all the time what the thing for me was right and so
there and so this is what my programs are about they’re about you knowing you and
i also didn’t understand how my mind and my thoughts work i didn’t understand how to control and direct my mind i just
felt run around by it that’s a lot of people do it’s like oh please can i just make my mind stop it’s like that’s not
gonna happen okay so so it’s not even happening in meditation and that’s not the point of meditation right so it’s about
understanding well how do i control and direct my mind and use it to serve me in powerful ways and so
my programs that’s what they’re about you understanding you you doing a deep dive into you
and that takes something and it takes something because of like you touched on before it’s like we are living from
these false senses of self we’ve taken on all of these beliefs that are not true that are not the truth of who we
are we’ve been programmed in a sense out that is not expressive of who we are
and we haven’t been living from what i call the truth of who we are and so it takes something to then come
back to that and so that’s what my programs are about and i
i structured them and the other thing about my programs that was really important to me was i structured them
such that if i was still practicing law i could do these programs and benefit from them
so they’re structured to be highly efficient and effective and work with even the busiest of
schedules that was really important to me because it’s like is arm can most people just do what like i did or what
maybe you’d like it sounds like what you did can they just up and leave their job in many instances they’re not going to
do that right this is great i love that that kind of
attitude and uh method of approach too and it’s so important obviously the know thyself you
know this classic axiom from just ancient axiom that’s so important and i
also love how you and talked about kind of awakening this inner teacher too and that’s what seems like uh kind of
the programs you’ve designed and the coaching you offer too will give people this um
i guess development to be able for that inner teacher to wake up within themselves
and that is ultimately kind of our ultimate teacher right uh
when that comes from within and this seems like a great support for that as well all right on
so um i guess i’m gonna give you the last word here
any kind of messages that you’d like to or what whatever you’d like to leave the audience with and then also you can talk
about where people can find you online your website social media if you have any
kind of events coming up um any courses planned or anything else you’d like to
mention yeah great so what i would um like to leave people with is
i know we are told all of these different things that should be our priorities right
and i would say make your absolute number one priority
to know yourself and to be who you are make that your absolute number one priority
it’s like we have this idea of like all these other things are told to us to be our priority and i there is nothing more
powerful than you being you everything you want is with you being you and when you are being you you don’t
just benefit yourself that’s where you really benefit the world and so what i would offer to people is make that
you knowing you your absolute number one priority
and the other thing for in terms of my work so if you want to work with me
or get in touch with me my website’s kara nicole batard.com that’s k-a-r-a-n
and i’m also on instagram and facebook at cara nicole batar and um on my website you can sign up for
live streamed kundalini yoga classes you can sign up for my programs and i
also do these really unique sessions that i also include in my programs uh they set forth your gifts and talents
how you’re structured to thrive and they also set forth like if you have certain
um kind of things you just find like keep repeating in your life like i keep having issues with money i keep having
issues with relationships i do a session that sets forth why that those things keep happening in
your life and so again my programs are really about efficiency and effectiveness and that’s
why i include these sessions and the work that i do because they give you a ton of information at
one time and then you can have it and use it for the rest of your life well very cool it was a a pleasure honor
and enjoy having you on today so much for having me you’re welcome and
may you all um i wish you all the most ideal and optimal uh
self-knowledge and discovery and knowing for yourself and for
the liberation and well-being of all beings everywhere bye-bye
Integrating Presence 