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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...

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Free Breathwork Class 24th August

Mondays: Kindly Gently Slowly

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Change Maker.
A Specialist in Shame, Anxiety, Addiction, Sexuality, Breathwork and Yoga.
Kundalini Global Yoga Founder
Join classes and workshops:

The Courage to Trust Six evening classes: Yoga, B

The Courage to Trust

Six evening classes: Yoga, Breathwork & Lecture
18:30–20:00 UK time, via Zoom & Recorded

2, 9, 19(!), 23, 30 September, 7 October 2026

Join me for a series of evening classes exploring what it means to trust… to trust ourselves, other people, the body, and the universe.

Trust is often spoken about as though it should come naturally, as though we should simply decide to let go, soften, and believe that everything will be all right.

But trust can require enormous courage. And trust is not black and while. All or nothing.

When you have experienced betrayal, abandonment, shame, instability, or fear, the nervous system learns to protect you. You may become watchful, controlling, self-reliant, or unable to settle into uncertainty. You may find yourself anticipating what could go wrong, doubting your own perceptions, or waiting for safety before allowing yourself to move forward.

These responses are not failures, but intelligent adaptations.

However, the very strategies that once protected us can eventually become exhausting. The need to know, predict, manage, and control can leave very little room for intimacy, possibility, creativity, or rest.

Across these six 90-minute sessions, we will explore trust as an embodied experience rather than an abstract idea. Each class begins with a short lecture, followed by breathwork and a yoga series designed to support regulation, presence, and a deeper relationship with yourself.

Please note: these classes take place live on Zoom on Wednesday evenings and are recorded. In week three, the class is being moved to Saturday owing to a work commitment I wasn’t aware of when setting dates.

Read more or register via the link in my bio.

Kundalini Rising Six Kundalini Global Yoga Classe

Kundalini Rising

Six Kundalini Global Yoga Classes
9:00-10:00am UK time, via Zoom & Recorded

1, 8, 19(!!), 22, 29 September, 6 October 2026

Kundalini Rising is my regular Tuesday morning yoga class: one hour in which we come together to move, breathe, become present, and change something.

(Please note, in this block of six, one of the classes, in week three, is happening on a Saturday owing to a work commitment)

These are strong classes, but strength does not have to mean force.

We work with effort and stillness. Movement and breath. Intention, attention, laughter, resistance, possibility and rest. Each class is different, but the invitation remains the same: to meet yourself fully on the mat and notice what becomes possible when you stop abandoning the present moment.

In Kundalini Global, we work with a potent equation:

Posture + breath × intention = transformation.

The postures matter. The breath matters. But intention changes the practice from something you perform into something you inhabit.

Your mat becomes a place to explore how you respond to challenge. Where you hold back. Where you push too hard. What happens when you remain present instead of distracting, overriding or disappearing.

And then the class ends.

We leave the mat and return to our lives — to our work, relationships, families, decisions and difficulties. But we return differently. More present. More connected to the body. More capable of choosing how we respond.

That is where the practice becomes powerful.

Not because yoga removes the complexity of being alive, but because it can change the person who meets it.

Across these six 60-minute classes, we will work with breathwork and complete Kundalini Global yoga series, each framed by a different intention. The practice may be dynamic, challenging, playful or deeply still. There will always be time for relaxation and integration at the end.

Sign up (£7 per class with recordings) via the link in my bio.

New Breathwork Classes for September Now availab

New Breathwork Classes for September

Now available to book.

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.

Read more and sign up via the link in my bio.

Go to my website to read (or listen to) more about

Go to my website to read (or listen to) more about my flagship training, Mastering the Addictive Personality: The Path Out of Hell

carolyncowan.com

Getting sober wasn’t just about putting down a dri

Getting sober wasn’t just about putting down a drink.

It meant changing almost every relationship in my life.

Some people didn’t understand it. Found me untrustworthy. Some people wanted the old version of me back because it was more comfortable for them.

Recovery asks you to do something incredibly brave: to disappoint people in order to stop abandoning yourself.

Boundaries aren’t punishment. They’re how we protect what we’re trying to build.

One of the things we explore on Mastering the Addictive Personality: The Path Out of Hell is that recovery isn’t simply about stopping a behaviour. It’s about understanding why that behaviour became necessary, learning how to regulate your nervous system, building a life that no longer requires escape, and having the courage to let your relationships change along with you.

If you’re curious about addiction, recovery, anxiety, shame or the patterns that keep pulling you back, I’d love you to join us this November.

Tap the link in my bio to find out more.

Beautiful person, A diagnosis can help. It can e

Beautiful person,

A diagnosis can help. It can explain and it can validate.

It can help.

But then comes another question.

What is your anxiety protecting? What lies underneath? What happened in your story to make anxiety what it is you turn to as a coping my mechanism?

Some of you may not like that I describe anxiety as a coping mechanism when it may feel like the opposite. But … anxiety is most often layered on top of shame and/or trauma. Understanding what happened, and what you cleverly did with what happened to try and feel safe (and it likely worked, to begin with) will give you new ways at looking at why you behave how you behave and feel how you feel.

What would happen if you didn’t need it anymore? The anxiety?

Recovery begins with that sort of curiosity.

What if life isn’t working against you? Join me:

What if life isn’t working against you?

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

One of the questions we’ll explore on this workshop is your relationship with the universe (or God, life, nature… whatever language feels true for you).

Do you experience it as generous? Indifferent? Punishing? Supportive?

The answers shape far more than we realise.

Sometimes prosperity begins not by getting more, but by changing the way we relate to life itself.

Join me for Prosperity & Abundance this September. More information via the link in my bio.

This is one of my favourite workshops to teach. J

This is one of my favourite workshops to teach.

Join me. 26th & 27th September 2026, 9:30am – 5:30pm.

Over two days we’ll explore your beliefs about money, deserving, trust, possibility and the stories you’ve inherited about what you’re allowed to have.

There’ll be yoga, breathwork, discussion, practical exercises and plenty of time to reflect. You’ll leave with your own Prosperity & Abundance plan to take into everyday life.

If it speaks to you, I’d love to see you there.

Full details via the link in my bio.

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.

Prosperity isn’t just money

Prosperity isn’t just about what’s in your bank account.

It’s about your relationship with possibility.

When we’re contracted by fear, shame or anxiety, our world gets smaller. We stop trusting ourselves. We stop taking opportunities. We stop believing life might have something good in store.

This workshop isn’t about pretending everything is positive. It’s about exploring what keeps you small, and what becomes possible when you begin to loosen those old patterns.

Join me this September

Find out more via the link in my bio.

Thirty-five years. Not one enormous act of willpo

Thirty-five years.

Not one enormous act of willpower.

Thousands of ordinary days.

Thousands of moments of noticing, resetting and beginning again.

There are many ways to get sober. There are many ways to stay sober. Find the path that helps you become present enough to take part in your own life.

To everyone on a recovery journey of any kind: I think you are extraordinary.

Carolyn xxx

#recoveryispossible #addictionrecoveryjourney #recoveryjourney #soberisbetter

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

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