My Special Guest - Zita Harkaran
Zita has a spark in her smile, a luminous gaze and a very sharp intuition. When you meet her, you feel her presence, you feel her spirit alive and in full service to the instant. She inspires me as a woman, as a teacher, plus her intuition and her devotion as a lightworker in this planet are just a few of the things that have drawn me towards her. I bow to her discipline, her devotion and her wisdom... Let me introduce her to you...
1. Tell us a little bit about yourself... the woman.
I was born in Slovakia and enjoyed pretty free upbringing roaming various neighborhoods, hidden places and dark forests in and around my home town of Presov. When I was 19 I unintentionally moved to New York. I was suppose to spend only 2 months in New York and return in September back to college to study Hisotry and Philosophy. You see, I always wanted to be teacher. Ten years later I've become a Kundalini Yoga teacher.
2. How did Yoga happened in your life... and why kundalini? and how do you use it now in your life with yourself and others?
As a former dancer I was always a little prejudiced against yoga thinking it being slow and boring. But at some point after I finished college and had more time on my hands, I found few yoga classes on Netflix. I think second video I tried was kundalini and I was hooked from first Ong Namo ... tune in. It felt like I've arrived home like this is how Yoga is supposed to feel. It challenged me mentally and physically but the changes I've seen in my body and in my mind were almost instatenous. It was as if I started to exist on a new brighter plane. After few months of frequent home practice I knew I had to find a teacher. And so I did find Hari Kaur and signed up for teacher training after few months frequenting Kundalini classes.
Kundalini yoga teachings encompass so much that I think I will be studying it to the rest of my life. For example, a simple little finger movement for 3 minutes will improve your communication skills which is very useful if you have an important meeting coming up or you will be giving a speach. I get blown away by the results of these practices and it makes me even more intrigued about subtle energetics of our bodies and how they work in relation with the universal energies. I practice different kriyas and meditations every day and can't imagine not doing it. I have become this practice. My life is easier this way.
3. What is your biggest dream?
I have little dreams for myself but my biggest dream is to help create greater awakening on our planet. May we respect, help and restore our planet and may we all have courage to live beyond greed, fear and pettiness. I see little hints of that happening and it makes me so hopeful and happy.
4. What does an authentic and happy life look like for you?
Being authentic gives you character and when you have character people feel they can trust you. Happiness is something we can strive for but never fully reach. We get beautiful glimpses of it and we can elevate ourselves to have higher levels of happiness. But we also have to except that the world we live in has darkness, illness, injuries and breakups. So in this sense happiness is being able to balance between the light and dark. Here is a simple example I teach my daughter these days: Ice cream makes me happy but too much ice cream will give me soar throat and that will make me unhappy.
The true authenticity and happiness and love is how pure god exists.
5. How does love feel to you?
Love feels like belonging. It's a connective tissue between people and elements that seem otherwise separate. It is "a fabric on which the universe plays" I'm putting this in quotes because I've read somewhere but don't know where. Love also gives you an ability to allow for existence of others that we don't agree with.
6. A book to recommend that touched your life.
There have been so many books. They change my life every day. I love reading and support my local public library. I'm just saying that because I've read many many books in my life but one book or actually it was a series of books that changed my life is called Ringing Cedar Press and the first book is called Anastasia. It is suppose to be a real story of a woman who lives in Siberian taiga in unity with nature and has lot of supernatural powers. It reads like the most fantastical fiction. If you give it a try it will require of you to suspend your sense of what you believe is possible. But it will deliver a beautiful images on how to live as one with nature and with one another. It strips down all superficial cultural norms and shows you what is truly important.
7. The best advice you had ever been given?
From Hari Kaur - "don't rush"
You can find Zita: www.happyfreespirit.com instagram:@zitaharkaran youtube: zitaharkaran