Kundalini 101 — A 5-Module Course with Kate West & Craig Holliday
⚡ A course for those in the lightning phase

Kundalini 101.

Hard-won answers from people who've been to hell and come back.

A 5-module course built around the questions our community most needed answered, with a teacher whose words once saved me.

5 modules
5 hours of teaching
With Kate, Gordon & Craig Holliday
Kate, Gordon, and Craig at Kripalu
Kate, Gordon & Craig at Kripalu
Kate with Little Bear
How this course came to be

After $100K of borrowed money, I found someone who'd been there.

My Kundalini awakening was a torturous nightmare. I spent $100K of borrowed money trying to find someone, anyone, who could explain what was happening to me. Mainstream medical. Esoteric healers. Specialists. Nothing worked. Nothing even made sense.

When I found Craig, the first thing I noticed was that he wasn't trying to fix me or talk me out of what I was experiencing. He'd been there himself. He knew hell, and he wasn't afraid of it.

In one of our earliest sessions, when everything in my life felt like a horrible mistake, he said something I never forgot:

This is not a mistake, Kate. Your life is not a mistake.

I held onto that sentence for years.

Gordon and I now lead a global community of people walking this path. We see what saves people and what doesn't. The single biggest thing that saved me was knowing Craig had been there and was ok.

This course exists so that knowing can save you too.

We asked our community for the questions that came up most. The fears. The symptoms. The doubts.
The "is this normal?" and "will it ever end?" and "am I losing my mind?"

We brought all of it to Craig. This course is his answer, co-hosted by Gordon and me, who share our own experiences and what we've learned about the topics covered.

Private sessions with Craig might not be accessible to everyone, and this path has likely already asked enough of you. So we built something that could reach further than one-on-one sessions ever could, at a fraction of the cost and on your own time.

Craig Holliday teaching
Meet Craig Holliday

He's been to hell. He's not afraid of it. (And neither are we.)

Craig is an internationally known spiritual teacher. But what matters here is that he's lived this. His own Kundalini awakening came with head injuries, the loss of his marriage, financial ruin, and years of chronic pain and symptoms he couldn't explain. He raised two kids as a single dad while going into tens of thousands of dollars of debt. He lived on potatoes. He knows this territory not from books, but from his own body and his own life.

What makes him different is something he said about himself:

If I see people struggling in the mud, I'm going down in the mud with them. I'll live through that struggle with them.

Where most teachers stay above the suffering, Craig goes into it. Where most try to fix what's happening, Craig holds the bigger frame: life is not fair, but life is absolutely intelligent. Your symptoms are not a mistake. Your awakening is not a punishment.

He runs a full therapy practice helping people internationally make space for Kundalini to heal them. He has decades of his own integration work behind him. He has the rare gift of holding spiritual depth and human messiness at once, without making either smaller.

See it for yourself

A taste of what's inside.

The curriculum

What we'll cover.

Five modules. Five hours of teaching. The questions you've been asking, finally answered.

Module01
Introduction.
  1. How and why we came together
  2. How long will this take?
  3. What is Kundalini asking & why we can trust the process
  4. How we understand the "ego"
  5. Cultivating self-love
Module02
The basics.
  1. Kundalini: is it a curse or a blessing?
  2. What is the physiology of Kundalini?
  3. Becoming more human and more God
  4. Being fully in the world
  5. How must we arrange our lives to make it easier?
  6. Engaging in life
Module03
Living with Kundalini.
  1. Finding a teacher (or not)
  2. Finding a community, managing aloneness
  3. Navigating the medical system
  4. Why you must stop Googling symptoms
  5. Communicating with friends & family
  6. Our relationship to time
  7. Titrating your healing & learning to self-soothe
  8. Work: supporting yourself through the process
  9. Arranging your living situation
  10. Proper nourishment, on all levels
Module04
Going deeper.
  1. Why me?
  2. Mental illness: how to know you're not going crazy when you feel like you are
  3. Is it worth it? What do I have to look forward to?
  4. The different phases: how to know where you are on the journey
  5. Will I lose my entire former self?
  6. Why now?
  7. Depersonalization & derealization
  8. What if I want to end it?
  9. Addressing resistance
Module05
The big picture view.
  1. Why me? Why now?
  2. A modern context for healing
  3. The Great Okayness
  4. What others think & living your gift
  5. Finding your purpose & gift
  6. Becoming the totality
What's included

The course, the companions, the community.

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5-module online course

Five hours of easily accessible modules with answers to the most commonly asked questions about the process, drawn from Craig's thousands of client sessions and Kate and Gordon's years inside the community.

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Three people walking with you

Craig leads the teaching, with decades of his own integration work and a lived experience of Kundalini awakening. Kate and Gordon host every module alongside him, bringing the community's questions and the perspective of fellow travelers.

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A community of experiencers

Access to The When Lightning Strikes Community on Mighty Networks, where people walking this path connect daily. Our hosts lead live support sessions where you can show up exactly as you are and be met by people who know the territory.

Things to consider

Before you enroll.

This is not a quick fix.

Integration is an ongoing lifelong process. Understanding that will help you integrate and return to life with greater ease and comfort.

It requires your full participation.

The process is asking for your full participation. You must be willing to meet what's being asked of you, in order to receive the rewards waiting on the other side.

The path is difficult, and it's also worth it.

This is a divine process even if you hate it. What's waiting on the other side is more joy and connection than you could possibly imagine.

From the community

What people are saying.

"I was out there in the ocean without a raft, without a framework from which to find myself, without safety, connection, or land in sight. I was drowning and then I wasn't. It is as simple as that. This has helped me stay afloat."
— Tawni
"It would mean a lot to just be able to talk about this with someone who knows what it's about, without being scared of being labeled as crazy."
— Geir, Norway
"By the grace of God, I made my way out of a spiritual emergency that truly nearly killed me. Thank you for doing this work. There must be a reason I survived this, and I intend to find out why."
— Corrine
"I don't realize how much I need the support of a group like this until I come and all this stuff comes up, and I realize the connection I need with others who are on this journey."
— Christi O
"I have benefited a lot from this work. I'm not feeling nearly as alien and isolated, and I can speak more effectively about my Kundalini process."
— Lyna
"This is the only place I've seen where all parts of you and your process are welcome, even the ones that say FUCK YOU GOD. You're not alone in the despair. I see your suffering and I see your brilliance."
— Julianne
Enroll

You are no longer alone.

Private sessions with Craig might not be accessible to everyone. This path has likely already asked enough of you. We built this course so the wisdom is available without the cost adding up.

Single payment
$195
One-time · Full course + community
Enroll now

This course offers spiritual guidance and community support. It is not a substitute for medical or mental health care. If you're in crisis, please reach out to a licensed professional.

One more thing

Heal for real.

You are not crazy. You are not alone.

This is the content we wish we'd had when lightning first struck. We're honored to offer it to you now.