To achieve kaivalya, you must burn negative karma.
Burning karma happens when you face your enmeshment patterns, trace them back to their origins, and do not repeat them.
Here’s some examples of enmeshed behaviors that lead to negative karma —
People-pleasing to avoid rejection
– Acting against your truth to maintain attachment.
– Reinforces the belief that love requires self-erasure.
Manipulating others for control
– Using dishonesty, guilt, or fear to shape outcomes.
– Reflects an addiction to power rooted in insecurity.
Staying silent in the face of harm
– Withholding truth to maintain safety.
– Bonds the soul to complicity and guilt.
Performing perfection to earn worth
– Seeking identity through achievement or approval.
– Binds the soul to a false self-image.
Avoiding responsibility through blame
– Projecting pain onto others to avoid shame.
– Strengthens karmic loops of victimhood and resentment.
Self-abandonment in romantic relationships
– Sacrificing one’s needs or identity to stay connected.
– Enacts ancestral karma of enmeshment and dependence.
Participating in systems that exploit others
– Benefiting from injustice while denying complicity.
– Ties the soul to collective karma through passive violence.
Punishing children for being expressive
– Repressing a child’s soul because it threatens your control.
– Projects inherited trauma, creating karmic bondage.
Withholding love as a form of punishment
– Using emotional deprivation to control others.
– Turns love into a weapon, distorting its nature.
Identifying with superiority or specialness
– Believing you are more valuable than others due to status, intellect, or identity.
– Generates karmic separation, reinforcing spiritual immaturity.
Burning Karma Through Performing Tapas
In yogic and Vedic traditions, the concept of Agni, or fire, is central to transformation. Fire is the force that changes what it touches. Fire also symbolizes truth, and when truth meets illusion, karma burns away. Tapas, meaning spiritual heat, is a powerful and effective way to burn karma. This work is slow, long, and painful. It requires deep commitment, honesty, and the willingness to face what you once avoided in order to return to who you truly are.
April Dawn Harter, LCSW
At the Kaivalya Institute, I help you burn negative karma by offering two forms of modern-day tapas:
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On the Signal App, I will assess your natal chart using Jyotish, the system of Vedic (Indian) astrology, to analyze your negative karma. I will need your birth information, which includes your birth date, location of birth, and exact time of birth. Your birth time must be accurate, ideally sourced from a birth certificate or confirmed by your family of origin.
I will then use this assessment to educate you and confront the truth of your enmeshment patterns.
Text chat is not therapy, but we will be discussing your traumatic history in depth as part of the process.
The fee is subscription based. You may cancel at any time. Please note that there are no refunds.
Platform: Signal App
Chat frequency: Available daily, Monday to Friday.
Fee: $250 per month
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On the Zoom platform, I will assess your natal chart using Jyotish, the system of Vedic (Indian) astrology, to analyze your negative karma. I will need your birth information, which includes your birth date, location of birth, and exact time of birth. Your birth time must be accurate, ideally sourced from a birth certificate or confirmed by your family of origin.
I will then use this assessment to educate you and confront the truth of your enmeshment patterns.
Next, I will use a modified form of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, developed over five years, to help stop your enmeshment patterns permanently. This process also supports you in experiencing kaivalya, where you come to know the true identity of your soul.
I work with all English-speaking international clients. Within the United States, I only work with clients located in Texas, Idaho, Colorado, and Illinois.
The fee is subscription based. You may cancel at any time. Please note that there are no refunds.
Platform: Zoom, online.
Session frequency: Once per week
Fee: $600 per month
You may begin text chat at any time, but to start therapy, you must first become a client through text chat. I do not work with clients in therapy unless they first work with me through text chat. This is the first step in the process.
Check Availability: You may check the announcement banner on this website for the current status of how many clients I am accepting for text chat and therapy.