What if the spiritual path isn’t about escaping the human experience — but learning to inhabit it more fully?
In this episode of Soul Sync, I’m joined by author, educator and yoga therapist Cynthia Abulafia, whose work challenges what she describes as our spiritual bias towards transcendence.
Cynthia asks a fascinating question: after we’ve climbed the ladder towards expanded states of consciousness, awakening and the Divine… what happens when we climb back down into the body?
We explore Cynthia’s own transcendent experience at the age of 12, why the body and ordinary human life may be just as sacred as the states we’re so often trying to reach, and why awakening isn’t always the blissful experience it’s made out to be.
We also get into Kundalini awakening — what it actually means, what can trigger it, and why it can radically reorganise someone’s experience of reality.
Along the way, we talk about religion, conditioning, grief, the Divine Feminine and one of my favourite ideas from the whole conversation: that curiosity may be the beginning, middle and end of the spiritual path. Cynthia also explores the importance of reclaiming our sovereignty rather than continually looking outside ourselves for someone else to provide the answers.
Perhaps awakening isn’t about leaving this life behind.
Perhaps it’s about arriving more fully into it.
Cynthia is the author of Embodying the Goddess: How to Awaken Curiosity and Reverence on the Spiritual Path. Her work centres on embodiment, the Divine Feminine and restoring curiosity and reverence to spiritual practice.
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