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July 2026

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Living Ritual Series Starts July 2026

Altered States: The Breath. Certified Training starts February 2027

Pregnancy Teacher Training Sept 2026

Ritual & Ceremony Workshop October 2026

Shame Workshop October 2026

Mondays: The Anger Reset

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Who am I?

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You could glean public information about me from my Wikipedia page, or read through ten years of weblog to discover my more personal thought processes.

Carolyn on Wikipedia

I was born in Chelsea in 1960. This seems relevant because it frames my open-minded and creative approach to my work as a psycho-sexual and relationship therapist. My areas of interest, work and specialisation include, in no particular order, sex therapy, couples and relationship work, Maternal Perversion, trauma both past and current, addiction in all its forms, anxiety in all its forms, and pre and post natal issues including birth trauma, diastases recti and tocophobia. I am an embodied psychotherapist and work with the internal trauma cycles as they affect the mind, behaviour and regulation of the self.

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Change Maker.
A Specialist in Shame, Anxiety, Addiction, Sexuality, Breathwork and Yoga.
Kundalini Global Yoga Founder
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35 years ago, when I first got sober, peer recover 35 years ago, when I first got sober, peer recovery gave me something extraordinary: other people who understood, a structure for getting through the day, and the possibility of another life.

But sobriety also uncovered everything I had been trying not to feel.

Yoga and breathwork became central to my recovery because they helped me work with my anger, fear and agitation, not only talk about them.

I began to learn that breath and movement could change my state. That I could create space between what I felt and how I behaved. That my history had shaped me, but did not have to dictate every part of my future.

Thirty-five years later, I still reset myself.

I still play with the breath. 

I still practise taking part in my own life.

That, for me, is recovery.

Carolyn x
I am 35 years clean and sober today. Thirty-five I am 35 years clean and sober today.

Thirty-five years since I stopped drinking, taking drugs and gambling, all on the same day: 31 July 1991.

It is big. It is a lot.

Milestones like this increase the pressure around sobriety in a funny way. They make me look back across the decades and reflect on that immortal question:

How did I get here?

This photograph was taken when I was two years sober.

I was sober, but I was still learning how to live.

When I stopped using, I began to remember all the things I had been drinking and taking drugs to forget. I discovered that I was angry. Frightened. Ashamed. My mind was not a naturally meditative mind. It was a mind that needed to be calmed.

The next 33 years became an education in how to do that.

Today, I am deeply grateful that I stayed.

More later today on what recovery has taught me.

Carolyn x

#sober #soberliving #recovery #recoveryispossible #recoveryisworthit
If you have shame, you will shame. You will also f If you have shame, you will shame. You will also find curious ways to defend yourself (if you aren’t in attack). If you are someone who chronically apologises, it may be challenging to think this way but it truly is a safety mechanism that you may choose to do some work to put down. 

If you’d like to learn more about shame you can check out my book, Shame: The Path Out of Hell, or you can consider my Shame Workshop in October. Both can be found on my website at carolyncowan.com
Spaces are filling up on The Shame Workshop in Oct Spaces are filling up on The Shame Workshop in October. Find out more or register via the link in my bio or go to carolyncowan.com
You can get a copy of my book, or learn more about You can get a copy of my book, or learn more about The Shame Workshop, via the link in my bio. or go direct to carolyncowan.com 

This Autumn’s workshop is filling up quite quickly, so if you would like to attend, I recommend signing up fairly soon. It is a brave undertaking, but a very transformative one. 

With love 

Carolyn x

#recoveryispossible #shamerecovery #traumarecovery #innerchildhealing
Pregnant women deserve to be served well. They de Pregnant women deserve to be served well.

They deserve teachers who understand the pregnant body. They deserve classes that are safe, intelligent, inclusive and kind. They deserve to be met in the reality of their experience, rather than in a fantasy of what pregnancy “should” be.

This two-day training is for qualified yoga teachers who want to learn how to adapt yoga safely, creatively and confidently for pregnancy.

5th & 6th of September 2026, Hybrid – Online and in person in Battersea, London.
A Two-Day Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training with Carolyn Cowan

Yoga Alliance Professionals Accredited: 16 CPD/CPE Hours

Find the link in my bio to register
Sign up at CarolynCowan.com. The course is 16 CP Sign up at CarolynCowan.com. 

The course is 16 CPD hours with Yoga Alliance Professionals.
Pregnant Yoga is a wonderful add on to any yoga te Pregnant Yoga is a wonderful add on to any yoga teacher’s offer. You serve a group who truly need serving. Find out more about training with me via the link in my bio. 

#pregnancyyogateacher #pregnancyyogatraining
Prosperity begins with what you believe you’re all Prosperity begins with what you believe you’re allowed to receive.

Join me in September. 

carolyncowan.com
26th & 27th September 2026, 9:30am – 5:30pm Hybrid 26th & 27th September 2026, 9:30am – 5:30pm Hybrid: in person, in Battersea, London, or online.

When we’re anxious we’re in the pain of the past and the fear of the future. We’re not present. 

When we think about prosperity and abundance, beginning to understand how the energy field works requires understanding what is stopping us from understanding how the energy field works. It’s not a secret! It’s there all the time. It is just that some of us have understood how it works and some of us are stuck in the pain of the past and the fear of the future.

The first thing to think about is what are the blocks to prosperity and abundance? We could begin with looking at what your beliefs are about money?  How do you think about money? What were you taught about money when you were little?

Words that can come up are ‘dirty’ ‘greedy’ ‘secret’ ‘not deserving’ ‘struggle’… What terrible belief systems about money that we have in place! It’s fascinating, when we start to delve in to our thought processes.

What do we think about prosperity and abundance if we think that about money? Is it bad to be abundant? Is prosperity bad? If we see money as such a ‘bad’ thing what does that mean in our relationship to prosperity and abundance? Why is it something we’d want to explore? To work with?

This is the very start of the enquiry we will work through together on this workshop.

You can join me in person, or online. If you’d like one day of each, that’s good too.

I would love to see you there.
26th & 27th September 2026, 9:30am – 5:30pm Hybrid 26th & 27th September 2026, 9:30am – 5:30pm Hybrid: in person, in Battersea, London, or online.
Join me for two days exploring and expanding your belief in possibility. 

You may not know this, that that is what prosperity and abundance is about: belief in possibility.

It’s about friendship. It’s about having enough food. It’s about arriving at a point that you recognise that the universe is with you and not against you. It is being open hearted, it’s about gratitude. It is also about presence, the ability to be here.

We only have these magical abilities when we’re present.

#prosperity #abundance #transformyourmind
Beautiful Person, Our homes hold our habits, our Beautiful Person, 

Our homes hold our habits, our histories and our states of mind. They can become places we merely manage…or places that help us remember how we want to live.

On Ritual & Ceremony, we will explore altars, sacred space, seasonal rituals, malas, mantras, space clearing and the ritualising of the home.

Nothing elaborate is required. This is about using ordinary spaces and repeated acts to create presence and personal meaning. 

Ritual & Ceremony
24th & 25th October 2026
In Battersea or live online
£280
CarolynCowan.com

#CarolynCowan #RitualPractice #SacredSpace #IntentionalLiving #HomeRitual
Ritual & Ceremony 24th & 25th October 2026
Batters Ritual & Ceremony
24th & 25th October 2026
Battersea or live online

Ritual does not require you to deny what frightens you or pretend the past did not happen.

It gives you a way to return to the life taking place now… to the body, the room, the breath and the things that still hold meaning.

Over two days, we will explore how ritual, ceremony and repeated acts of attention can help us create beauty and steadiness in our homes and inner lives.

Ritual & Ceremony takes place on 24th and 25th October, in Battersea and live online.

CarolynCowan.com

#CarolynCowan #RitualPractice #EmotionalWellbeing #MindfulLiving #PresentMoment
Beautiful person, We have always created ceremon Beautiful person, 

We have always created ceremonies around thresholds: seasons, births, deaths, endings, beginnings, grief, release and renewal.

Without them, life can become strangely shapeless, don’t you find? 

I would like to explore how we make meaning, mark what matters and create a deeper relationship with the life we are actually living.

Ritual and Ceremony is a brand new workshop. 24th–25th October, in Battersea and live online. Details and booking at CarolynCowan.com.
So many clients tell me they have imposter syndrom So many clients tell me they have imposter syndrome.

When we look more closely, what we often find is something much older… Shame.

Shame convinces us that we are pretending and somehow, magically, fooling everyone. In this state,  our achievements don’t count, our strengths aren’t real, and sooner or later we’ll be “found out.”

Beautiful person, shame lies.

Recovery doesn’t require you to gather more evidence that you’re good enough.

Shame has been narrating your life for far too long.

Join me this October as we explore shame, where it comes from, how it shapes our lives, and how we begin to loosen its grip.

Find out more about my flagship Shame Workshop via the link in my bio. 

#shame #psychotherapist #traumatherapist
If perfectionism leaves you exhausted rather than If perfectionism leaves you exhausted rather than fulfilled, perhaps it isn’t ambition.

Perhaps it’s shame.

Join my Shame Workshop this October. Find more via the link in my bio or at carolyncowan.com 

#perfectionist #healingfromwithin #psychotherapist
If you want to change how you feel about yourself… If you want to change how you feel about yourself… underneath the behaviours, the anxiety, the phone addiction, the “if only I could…” 

Join me for The Shame Workshop. You will find details on my website: carolyncowan.com 

It can be found via the link in my bio.
5th & 6th of September 2026, Hybrid. Online and in 5th & 6th of September 2026, Hybrid. Online and in person in Battersea, London.

A Two-Day Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training with Carolyn Cowan

I have worked with pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period for decades. My background includes work as a pregnancy yoga teacher and trainer, a doula, a psychotherapist, and a teacher of breathwork, yoga and embodied practices. I have taught many women through pregnancy, birth preparation and the earliest days after birth, and I have trained teachers to understand the pregnant body and the emotional landscape of pregnancy with depth, practicality and care.

My work has always been rooted in the mind-body relationship: how stress, fear, trauma, shame, breath, posture and presence are held in the body, and how intelligent practice can help people return to themselves.

Register or read more via the link in my bio or on my website:

carolyncowan.com

#yogatrainer #yogatrainingteacher #pregnancyyogateacher
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