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Mondays: Kindly Gently Slowly

Tuesdays: Kundalini Rising Sept 2026

Wednesdays: The Courage to Trust

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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
Join classes and workshops:

Join me for six breathwork classes beginning tomor Join me for six breathwork classes beginning tomorrow morning on Zoom. No experience required. All recorded for catch up. We will do breaths that allow you to move through your week with presence. 

It sounds dramatic - that your phone is a portal to hell - until you think about what we ask our systems to absorb every day.

Horror.
Outrage.
Arguments.
Other people’s lives.
Bad news.
More information than we could possibly metabolise.

And all of it arriving through something we carry everywhere. A screen we prod and swipe at and somehow think will save us from ourselves. 

Many of us can’t avoid it, but we can do more to counterbalance it.

Look up.

Notice the season.

Notice the light.

Notice the sound outside your window.

Notice your own breath.

Notice that your body is here, now, while your mind may have been hundreds of miles away.

This is some of what I mean by Kindly, Gently, Slowly.

Tomorrow morning we begin six weeks of Monday breathwork: using the breath to soften urgency, make space in the nervous system and practise meeting ourselves without force. you can sign up via the link in my bio or go to my website (carolyncowan.com⁠)

Kindly, Gently, Slowly
Starts tomorrow, Monday 31 August
6 to 6.30am UK time
Live on Zoom + recorded

Come and begin the week differently.

#breathwork #kundaliniyogateacher
A series of six breathwork classes, beginning tomo A series of six breathwork classes, beginning tomorrow morning at 6am UK time on Zoom. £4 per class. 

Slowly is not about becoming passive or unproductive.

It is about noticing.

The speed of your mind.
The pace of your body.
The things you routinely walk straight past because your attention is somewhere else.

I encourage the presence that comes when we slow down enough to hear the birds, notice what is growing, look at another person, feel the weather, turn the pages of an actual book.

Small things.

But they return us to the extraordinary fact that we are here.

Tomorrow morning we begin Kindly, Gently, Slowly: six 30-minute Monday morning breathwork classes exploring what it means to meet ourselves without so much force.

Kindly does not mean indulgently.
Gently does not mean without strength.
Slowly does not mean nothing is happening.

It is another way of beginning the week.

Monday mornings, 6-6.30am UK time, live on Zoom and recorded. The recordings are available throughout the series and for four weeks afterwards, so you do not need to be a natural 6am person. (carolyncowan.com)

We start tomorrow.

Details and booking via the website or link in my bio.
Starting tomorrow, beautiful person. £4 per class. Starting tomorrow, beautiful person. £4 per class. Read more or sign up via the link in my bio or At carolyncowan.com 

#breathwork #pranayam
Pregnant women deserve to be served well. Join me Pregnant women deserve to be served well. Join me next weekend, either online or in person, to learn how to add pregnancy yoga into your offer as a teacher. 

Pregnant women 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.

It is not limited to Kundalini Global teachers, or to teachers of one particular style of yoga. 

The intention is to give you practical, grounded knowledge that can be applied to the yoga you already teach.

Over two days, I will teach you how to work with the pregnant body, how to adapt posture and sequence, how to think about safety and contraindications, and how to begin to hold pregnancy yoga classes with clarity, confidence and sensitivity.

Find out more or register via the link in my bio or on my website at carolyncowan.com
If you are a yoga teacher, and if you’d like to st If you are a yoga teacher, and if you’d like to stand up to serve a group that need you, my pregnancy yoga training runs next weekend. @@

Two days. Huge fun. I will teach you what to avoid, what will really help, when effort has huge benefits for the pregnant body, how to adjust… we will also have lots of discussion about how to find a new audience for your classes. 

Suitable for all forms of yoga, this training is hybrid. You can come join me in Battersea for two days, or take it on via Zoom. I’d love to see you there. The registration page, with lots more information, is linked in my bio. Or go to carolyncowan.com
Next weekend! For yoga teachers who want to do som Next weekend! For yoga teachers who want to do something amazing. We will have a wonderful time and you will pick up some fantastic skills and some excellent CPD hours (accredited by yoga alliance professionals). 

Sign up via the link in my bio. Or do feel able to ask questions. 

#kundaliniyoga #yogatraining #pregnancyyogatraining
Join me for six online Kundalini Global yoga class Join me for six online Kundalini Global yoga classes that explore the ability to trust. To notice how fear: of the future, of loss… keeps you lost in the pain of the past. 

The brain. The body. The mind. They all work in concert. 

In these 90 minute classes I will give a short talk, walk you through some breathwork practices, and explore a yoga series that works with the theme and intention I set in each class at the opening. 

They are all recorded, on Zoom, the first is next Wednesday evening at 18:30 UK time. It is £50 for the set of six live classes and access to recordings throughout those six weeks and for another four weeks after we end. This works out less than £8.50 per class. I keep my classes affordable and available for catch up because I know what a difference it makes to work through these practices and move back out into the world, after each class, reseat. 

The link to sign up can be found in my bio or you can visit my website, carolyncowan.com 

Any questions do ask. The classes are suitable for all levels of experience but not for pregnancy. 

Kundalini Global is a form of Kundalini Yoga that has amended practices for the 21st Century body and mind, with a non dogmatic approach, excellent music, good humour, and accessible to all. 

#kundalini
The Courage to Trust: Six Yoga Classes on Zoom Be The Courage to Trust: Six Yoga Classes on Zoom

Beginning Wednesday 2 September

There is a curious paradox in trust. We tend to want certainty… to know the outcome and to feel reassured that nothing ‘bad’ will happen. That you won’t be abandoned or shamed or hurt or humiliated… 

But if all of that were available, trust would not be required.

Trust exists precisely because we cannot know everything.

In this six-week series, I will explore trust through the body, the breath and the practice of staying present.

Beautiful person, all that is required is the willingness to meet the present moment without constantly trying to control it. And I can help you with that! You do not need any experience with yoga. 

The Courage to Trust begins Wednesday 2 September.

Six weeks of practice with Carolyn Cowan.

Booking via the link in my bio or at carolyncowan.com.
The Courage to Trust A series of six 90-minute yo The Courage to Trust

A series of six 90-minute yoga classes beginning 2 September, on Zoom, recorded for catch up. 

£50 for the series and the recordings, with those recordings available for the duration of the six weeks and for four further weeks after we end. 

This works out at £8.33 per class. 

Trust is often spoken about as though it is a decision we make consciously. 

We say things like “just trust yourself” or “trust the process.” 

However, beautiful person, the body may have a very different response.

If your system is wired to brace, anticipate, control, prepare for disappointment, then trust can be a risk. 

Yoga gives us somewhere to explore that.

In The Courage to Trust we will explore what becomes possible when we can stay present without needing certainty.

Details and booking via the link in my bio or go to my website at carolyncowan.com
Beautiful Person, The Kundalini is not something I Beautiful Person, The Kundalini is not something I ask you to manufacture or awaken. 

It is not something outside you that you have to earn.

It is already there.

But our nervous systems, histories, habits, stress and conditioning can make us forget.

Yoga can offer a moment of remembering.

A moment when the system settles enough for you to notice the experience of simply being here and being present.

And the practice is not only about finding that experience on the mat.

It is about becoming more able to recognise it, return to it and perhaps stay there for a little longer.

Kundalini Rising
Six Tuesday classes 
A great place to being.

Starting next Tuesday at 9am UK time on Zoom. I teach a free class tomorrow at 10am if you’d like a taster. 

Details of both via the link in my bio. Or you can go to my website directly: carolyncowan.com

#kundalini #kundalinienergy
What do we mean when we talk about the Kundalini? What do we mean when we talk about the Kundalini?

Traditionally, it is described as an energy within the body… feminine, often dormant, often waiting to be awakened.

My approach is less about chasing an extraordinary experience and more about noticing what is already present.

The Kundalini can be understood as the divine within. And if the language of divinity does not speak to you, perhaps think instead about presence: the experience of becoming completely here.

Through movement, breath, the spine and stillness, we explore what happens when the system moves out of stress and contraction and into something more expansive.

Kundalini Rising begins Tuesday 1 September.

Six weeks with me on Tuesday mornings at 9am on Zoom. If you’re curious, I have a free class tomorrow morning at 10am on Zoom. Come and give it a try. 

Details and booking via carolyncowan.com or all is linked in my bio 

#kundaliniyoga
Beautiful person, I teach a free class tomorrow mo Beautiful person, I teach a free class tomorrow morning on Zoom (10am UK time and recorded) and, next Tuesday, begin a new six week series. The details to sign up for both can be found via the link in my bio or on carolyncowan.com
Kindly, Gently, Slowly A six-week Monday morning Kindly, Gently, Slowly

A six-week Monday morning breathwork series with Carolyn Cowan. 6am UK time on Zoom and recorded for catch up. 

Begins 31 August

We talk a great deal about kindness towards other people.

Less often about the extraordinary cruelty many of us direct towards ourselves.

The rushing. The criticism. The constant demand to do more, recover faster, cope better, get on with it.

Kindly, Gently, Slowly explores something very simple and potentially very profound: what happens when kindness becomes something you actually practise?

In the breath.
In the body.
In the pauses.
In the way you return from rest.
In the way you respond when you notice yourself pushing again.

Over time, gentleness can become less unfamiliar.

And that can change far more than a yoga or breathwork practice.

Six Monday mornings, beginning 31 August.

Booking now via the website at carolyncowan.com 
Find it linked in my bio.
Kindly, Gently, Slowly Monday Morning Breathwork Kindly, Gently, Slowly

Monday Morning Breathwork
6:00–6:30am UK time, via Zoom & Recorded

31 August
7, 14, 21, 28 September, 5 October 2026

Join me for a series of early-morning breathwork classes built around three simple words:

Kindly. Gently. Slowly.

We live in a culture that rewards urgency and effort. We are encouraged to push harder, move faster, achieve more, and override the body when it asks us to stop.

Even practices intended to support us can become another demand. Another thing to do correctly. Another opportunity to judge ourselves for not being calm enough, disciplined enough, productive enough, or healed enough.

These classes offer a different way.

Kindly does not mean indulgently.
Gently does not mean without strength.
Slowly does not mean that nothing is happening.

They describe a way of meeting yourself that does not rely upon force.

In these six 30-minute sessions, we will use the breath to soften urgency, create space within the nervous system, and practise responding to ourselves with greater care. The practices will support you to become more aware of the pace at which you are living, the pressure you are carrying, and the places where you habitually push beyond your own limits.

Find out more or register via the link in my bio or at carolyncowan.com 

#breatheinbreatheout #breathwork
How do you speak to yourself first thing on a Mond How do you speak to yourself first thing on a Monday morning?

For many of us, the week begins with pressure before anything has even happened.

Hurry. Get moving. Sort yourself out. Do more.

Kindly, Gently, Slowly is an invitation into something different.

Through breathwork, pauses, awareness and practice, I invite you to notice the ways you push against yourself and to explore what changes when you meet yourself with more kindness, gentleness and time.

No abstract idea…. a practice.

Six Monday mornings beginning 31 August. All on Zoom and all recorded. Just £4 per class. 

Details and booking via the website at carolyncowan.com or find the link in my bio. 

#breathworkhealing
Join me for a completely FREE 30-minute breathwork Join me for a completely FREE 30-minute breathwork class on Monday morning at 10am. It will be recorded and available for three days for anyone who cannot make it live. 

Sign up via the link in my bio. 

Breathwork can be a remarkably direct way to influence the nervous system.

It is one of the ways we can begin to communicate to the body and the mind that we are safe enough.

How you think affects how you feel.
Your mind affects your body.
And your body affects your mind.

This is part of what makes the breath so powerful.

It sits at the meeting point between body and mind, between the automatic and the conscious. When we begin to work with it intentionally, we can create space in the system very quickly.

Space in the mind.
Stillness in the body.
A different experience of ourselves.

In this free 30-minute breathwork class, I will guide you through a range of breath practices designed to settle the system, create more inner space and help you explore what becomes possible when the breath is used consciously.

If you are curious about my work, this is a beautiful place to begin.

Free Breathwork Class
Monday 24 August on Zoom. 10am UK time. 

Come and breathe with us. People sign in from all over the world. No experience needed. You can join early to chat, or last minute to remain utterly anonymous.
There are old stories in the teaching of pranayama There are old stories in the teaching of pranayama that say:

To fear holding the breath in is to fear life.
To fear holding the breath out is to fear death.

Whether you take that literally or metaphorically, it is an extraordinary idea.

Because the breath can reveal so much.

Where do you tense?
Where do you rush?
What happens when there is a pause?
How quickly do you want to fill the space again?

Breathwork gives us an opportunity to become curious about all of this.

To notice what happens when we work with something that is usually completely automatic.

I am offering a free breathwork class on Monday 24 August, a chance to experience her approach, explore the breath consciously and perhaps discover something unexpected in the spaces between the inhale and the exhale.

No previous experience is needed.

Just come and breathe.

Details via the link in bio. Totally free. On Zoom. Recorded. Sign up on carolyncowan.com 

#breathworkjourney
Free Breathwork Class on Zoom Monday 24 August at Free Breathwork Class on Zoom
Monday 24 August at 10am UK time 
Recorded 

Come and experience what a different way of breathing can do.

You are already breathing.

But most of us are not using the breath consciously as a way to shift how we feel and how we meet the day.

Breathwork can be a surprisingly powerful way to create space, regulate the nervous system and reconnect with yourself.

If you have been curious about Carolyn’s work, this is a beautiful place to begin.

A free breathwork class with Carolyn Cowan
Monday 24 August

No experience needed. Just come as you are.

Link in bio / details on the website at carolyncowan.com

#breath #breathwork #breathworkjourney
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