Open to everyone as a personal experience, or for yoga teachers to certify via Yoga Alliance to teach breathwork. Altered States: The Breath is £850 (+£100 for certification, if wanted)
28th, 29th, 30th of March and the 16th, 17th and 18th of May 2025. GMT 9.30am – 5.30pm with mid morning and mid afternoon breaks and, a 75 Minute lunch break.
This training is being offered for the first time in a hybrid format.
You can join me, in-person, in Battersea, London, or you can join via Zoom. If you can only make it to London for one weekend, you can do one of each. You can also do both in person or both online.
Pranayama, or control and manipulation of the breath, is one of the many practices of the multi-faceted system of yoga. The breath is a vital life force, and these various practices bring about many benefits including the management of stress, clarity of mind, and hormonal as well as lung health. The breath regulates our body on its many planes – emotional, physical, spiritual and psychological. How we breathe gives us insight into the relationship we hold with our own state of being.
Despite its potential to transform, pranayama is not always taught in a yoga class and this training will give you the tools necessary to confidently incorporate it seamlessly and safely into the classes that you teach. You will learn the benefits, contraindications and methodologies of pranayama practices.
In this two-part, six-day training, you will explore the breath through two specific lenses: low oxygen and high oxygen breath techniques. These approaches allow exploration of three specific states of being – the negative mind, the neutral mind and the positive mind. You will work with both ancient and modern breath techniques, understand how stress and relaxation systems work and explore the deepest stillness all the way through to releasing DMT (the “spirit molecule”) into the body.
Days will also include lecture, break out rooms (where you will be practising in smaller groups) and plenty of time is included for questions. The training manual will be provided a few days before we start. The training will take place from 9.30am-6.30pm each day. There will be breaks in the morning and afternoon and a good hour for lunch each day.
If you are a yoga teacher, you’ll come away more complete and resolute, able to help your students be more present in their practice of yoga. If you are not, you will have a huge array of ways to play with the breath in your personal practice.
If you wish for Yoga Alliance certification, there is an additional charge of £100 to cover the cost of an examination following the course in which you will be tested on your knowledge.
Details of the in-person address, alongside Zoom links for those joining online, access to the manual, etc. will be sent to you one to two weeks before the training. Meanwhile, if you have any questions, do get in touch.
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Feedback from the most recent Workshop
The Altered States breath training has been an incredible learning experience for me. The thoroughness and exploration of what we are capable of doing to ourselves simply through the breath is mind blowing. When it comes to breath work training, I feel this offering is second to none in terms of the exploration of both science and esoteric knowledge. There is an invitation and container for us to discover a different relationship to ourselves and I especially love that we are encouraged to feel into our instincts when it comes to the effects of the breath. This opens up a whole new level of understanding and as a teacher already, I feel this training supports me to develop integrity in my own offering. Many disciplines are covered and anyone of any ability can do it. That’s the beauty of breath, we are always breathing, why not learn how to play with it and change how you feel?
Carolyn is such a font of knowledge. Altered States is an absolute romp through the breath, the lectures are fantastic and sometimes hilarious and always mind blowing.
A way to get off your head just by breathing
It will engage you, challenge you and change you.
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Also wanted to thank you for such a unique training , every second of the training was so fulfilled with knowledge that I need to watch and re watch to digest them.This training was beyond my expectations ,every yoga teacher should and must do this training . I actually feel short of words to express myself but I’ll try. I love your passion about sharing your gift with us so generously and so genuinely , I’m always amazed by your intelligence and your humbleness . These are not only a great teachers quality but also an amazing human beings personality . Feeling very grateful to know you.
I feel very lucky to have had the time to do this very rich and empowering course using breath for some serious transformations. Its magic! To change how I feel within a few breaths. It really is a magnificent course, with an incredible teacher, who brings in so many colours from other sources into the teachings of breath. The Altered States manual is like a piece of art, incredibly insightful with beautiful illustrations. This knowledge is must for anyone who wishes to live to their most highest self, want to be in control of their stress system and open all the doors – just by breathing more consciously! I really enjoyed meeting the other students on the course in the zoom rooms too! This was my first time interacting like this. It really was exciting and fun to see who I would meet every time Carolyn gave us time to practice teaching in the rooms. Carolyn is gold, her knowledge, the other students I met online – this all really made the course my GOLDDUST of 2020.
