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Free Yoga Class 25th August

Free Breathwork Class 24th August

Mondays: Kindly Gently Slowly

Tuesdays: Kundalini Rising Sept 2026

Wednesdays: The Courage to Trust

Living Ritual Series Starts July 2026

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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 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
Join me for a FREE class this Tuesday on Zoom. 10a Join me for a FREE class this Tuesday on Zoom. 10am UK time for one hour. 

The yoga mat is an extraordinary space because, on it, you can begin to experience yourself differently.

You may discover that you can be still.
You may discover that you can breathe.
You may discover that your body is capable of softening, even if only for a few moments.
You may discover what it feels like to be safe enough.

When we are stressed or anxious, we often repeat the same behaviours over and over again. We stay in loops of doing, rushing, worrying, scanning, pushing, anticipating. We tell ourselves that we will stop when things feel completely safe.

But the truth is that life rarely offers complete safety.

If you are waiting to feel 100% safe before you slow down, become still or do something differently, you may be waiting a very long time.

“Safe enough” is a more interesting threshold.

Safe enough to pause.
Safe enough to feel.
Safe enough to notice.
Safe enough to begin.

This is one of the beautiful things that yoga can offer. Not perfection. Not escape. Not a guarantee that everything will be fine. 

My classes invite you to experience a space in which your system can settle enough for you to have a different experience of yourself.

And from there, often, something begins to change.

You may want to return to the mat more often.
You may find that stillness becomes less frightening.
You may notice new choices becoming possible.

If you would like to experience that for yourself, I am offering a free yoga class.

Free Yoga Class
Tuesday 25 August

A chance to move, breathe, be still, and explore what becomes possible when you are safe enough.

Link in bio to sign up. It will be recorded for catch up and available for three days. 

#kundalini #kundaliniyoga
Tuesday 25 August, 10 – 11 am UK time Join me for Tuesday 25 August, 10 – 11 am UK time

Join me for a free 60-minute yoga class.

Whether you are new to my work or already practise with me, you are warmly invited to come and experience a full class combining movement, breath and awareness.

No previous experience is needed. Sign up via the link in my bio or on my website at CarolynCowan.com and I will send you everything you need to join.

#kundaliniyoga
A Free Yoga Class Tuesday 25 August at 10am on Zoo A Free Yoga Class
Tuesday 25 August at 10am on Zoom. 

Come as you are.

Link in bio to sign up or find on the website at carolyncowan.com 

You do not need to be flexible, experienced or “good at yoga” to come to class.

You only need a willingness to arrive and take part.

My yoga classes invite you into movement, breath, awareness and a different relationship with yourself. 

If you’ve been wanting to try a class with me, this is a perfect opportunity.

The class will be recorded and the recording will be available to those signed up for a total of three days.
Prosperity & Abundance A two day workshop that wil Prosperity & Abundance
A two day workshop that will expand your belief in possibility. Let’s do it Beauitful Person. Choose yourself. 

September 26-27 2026 in London and Online
Link in bio or go to carolyncowan.com
What did you learn about money when you were littl What did you learn about money when you were little?

Who had it. Who didn’t. Whether it was talked about. Whether wanting more was greedy. Whether you had to struggle for everything you received.

We carry spoken and unspoken contracts with our families, histories and cultures. And sometimes we don’t realise they’re there until we begin to question them.

Prosperity & Abundance is an invitation to do exactly that.

To explore money, deserving, trust and possibility and ask what might become possible when some of those old beliefs no longer get to make the decisions.

Join me this September, in London or online. Full details via the link in bio.
Prosperity & Abundance A two-day exploration of m Prosperity & Abundance

A two-day exploration of money, deserving, possibility, trust, and the beliefs that may be holding you back.

26-27 September 2026
In London and Online

Follow the in my bio to learn more and register.
Shame rarely introduces itself as shame. It appea Shame rarely introduces itself as shame.

It appears in the things we do to avoid feeling it.
The ways we protect ourselves.
The things we believe we have to be in order to be acceptable.

And until we can see it, it is very difficult to do anything differently.

Three days. In person. No hiding from the difficult stuff, be brave and fearless Beauitful Person. You will find a great deal of laughter, humanity and care while we explore it.

The Shame Workshop runs 16-18 October in Battersea, London

This is my one training/workshop that is never offered online. For good reason. Spaces are limited and filling up. 

Link in bio.
Why do you keep going over what you said? What yo Why do you keep going over what you said?

What you should have said.
What you could have said.
What they might now think of you.

Very often, we call it overthinking but underneath it can be something much more painful: the need for redemption.

Many of us, perhaps unconsciously, carry around a fantasy that somewhere there was a perfect version of that conversation. One in which you said exactly the right thing, nobody misunderstood you, nobody rejected you, and you walked away knowing that you were still acceptable.

That is where shame and perfectionism become so deeply entwined.

Shame tells us: I got it wrong. I am wrong. I need to fix this.

And so we go back. Again and again. Looking for the sentence that might finally make us safe.

In October I am teaching my three-day Shame Workshop in Battersea, London.

We will explore where shame lives in our lives and our bodies, the ways we mask it with perfectionism, our core wounding, and the tools we can use to begin doing something different. 

16th–18th October 2026
Battersea, London

Details and booking through the link in my bio.

#Shame #Perfectionism #Overthinking #Rumination #Trauma
The moment you are triggered, you move into attack The moment you are triggered, you move into attack, protect or defend.

And often, you don’t even know you’re doing it.

You snap, withdraw, blame, explain yourself endlessly, become defensive, shut down. You try desperately to make the other person understand.

Because something has happened in the present that has touched something much older.

This is one of the ways shame behaves.

When shame is triggered, the nervous system moves towards safety, and suddenly you are no longer simply responding to what is happening now. You are protecting yourself from everything this moment has come to represent.

Learning to recognise that moment changes things.

What triggered me?
What am I protecting?
What am I so frightened you will see?

In The Shame Workshop this October, we will explore the origins of shame, how it gets triggered, the behaviours we use to protect ourselves, and how we begin to respond differently.

If you recognise yourself in attack, protect or defend, come and explore what sits underneath it.

The Shame Workshop, October 2026

Details and booking via the link in bio.
Ready to add pregnancy yoga to your teaching? Boo Ready to add pregnancy yoga to your teaching?

Book your place at
CarolynCowan.com
Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training with Carolyn Cowan Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training with Carolyn Cowan, who has 20+ years of experience as a pregnancy yoga teacher and trainer and is a published author on breathing/breathwork in pregnancy, which will form a part of your learning. 

5, 6 September
Online + Battersea, London

Find out more and book at CarolynCowan.com
Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training 5-6 September 202 Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training

5-6 September 2026
Online + in person, Battersea, London

Book at CarolynCowan.com
Imagine starting your week with a nervous system t Imagine starting your week with a nervous system that doesn’t believe it’s under attack.

The breath changes hormonal flow.
The breath changes how you hold yourself.

Come and experience why.

A totally free class. Online. People join in from all over the world. 

Link in bio to sign up. I’d love to see you there. I offer free classes several times a year. We often have well over a hundred participants. It will be recorded. Available for three days after for those signed up.
Come and do something amazing with me. For free. Come and do something amazing with me. For free.

On Tuesday 25th August, I’m opening my usual Tuesday morning Kundalini Global class to everyone.

An hour to move your body, breathe, become present and to notice what changes when you reset your system. 

You do not need to know anything about yoga. You do not need to be flexible, spiritual, good at sitting still, or wearing the right leggings.

You simply need to turn up.

This is also a chance to experience the way I teach before the next six-week Kundalini Rising series begins the following Tuesday.

If you’ve been curious about Kundalini Global, if you’ve been meaning to come back to your practice, or if something in you simply thinks yes, I need this, join me. People log in from all over the world. 

Tuesday 25th August
10-11am UK time
Live on Zoom
Completely free.

Book your place through the link in my bio (if you sign up for the free breathwork class you will get this link too!)

And then come as you are!
Beautiful person, After taking a summer break fr Beautiful person, 

After taking a summer break from live classes, I return on Monday 24 August  9:00-9:30am UK time

Join me for a free 30-minute morning breathwork class.

This is an opportunity to experience my approach to breathwork, begin the day with greater presence, and discover how even a short practice can shift the way you feel.

No previous experience is needed. Simply sign up via the link in my bio and I will send you everything you need to join.
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