13th, 14th and 15th of March 2026, in Battersea, London.
Shame is a dark and uneasy emotion lurking within the depths of our psyche, which when stirred, fires up a host of painful emotions and a deep and unavoidable desire to change how we feel, and thus, is a major trigger for the addictive personality.
Shame is insidious, hard to identify, awful to feel, tricky to contain and easy to pass on.
In this 3 day workshop we will focus on where we hold shame, where our family holds shame, in what areas of our lives we feel shame, and how much we mask its hold upon us with perfectionism. We will identify our core wounding.
Talking, lecture, group-work and frank discussion will give us a clear view of how to identify our shame, how we hold shame for others, and how we shame. No previous experience of yoga is necessary.
Tools, strategies, postures, breath and new thought concepts will all come together to give us a major leap forward on our journey towards wholeness and the ability to be present, to master the “shattered self”.
This course will be delivered in person at 5 The Old Laundry, Battersea, London SW11 1YF. 9.30am start and finish at 5.30pm with breaks for lunch and tea! all times are GMT.
Please bring a yoga mat, small pillow, shawl for the relaxation. Any questions please do email me.
Refunds & Cancellations: a full refund will be given if you cannot attend and if you let us know two weeks prior to the start of the workshop. There is a 50% retention fee if you cancel one week prior to the start and after that time no refunds will be issued.
Recent Reviews
Carolyn is a formidable teacher, and this workshop will fundamentally transform your relationship with yourself, with others, and the world.
Truly a game changer.
I really didn’t know what to expect in all honesty. I was excited, apprehensive and a little unsure. I didn’t feel that confident too. I walked into the room and was met with warmth, kindness and friendliness. People from all different backgrounds were in this group, however we were all one. We shared, we were taken into deep places but it felt a very safe and secure environment. Carolyn guides you through your journey alongside others with an expertise akin to nothing I have experienced before or since. My shame started to make sense and has led me to explore more which has in turn led me to a greater understanding of complex me! What an achievement in my later years – thank you Carolyn.
Although I’ve been practicing Kundalini for a number of years. With great teachers around me, as well as my own daily practice. I found myself in September hitting a wall and being in quite a dark place. I knew that shame was at the root of it. I follow Carolyn and have been wanting to do her shame class for sometime, until this point I had not managed for one reason or other. Then finally I managed to book it. I can honestly say it brought me through one of the darkest moments. It was like an electric jolt back to base level and onwards. I am massively grateful to the universe for aligning it all. For Carolyn’s endless knowledge I loved hearing her talk about it. The no nonsense approach. The joy and ease she brings to the class…..and of course the MUSIC!!! It’s a great class. If you’ve been watching and thinking about it. Just dive in. Pick a workshop. Great value for money. Can’t wait to try an IRL. Thank you Carolyn 🙏
I highly recommend the in-person Shame Workshop with Carolyn Cowan. Over the course of the 3 days we 20 or so participant strangers formed close bonds and shared the most terrifying, shameful and intimate stuff and let some of that negativity go. It was well worth the leap of trust it took to attend and I left the course armed with new ways of approaching my life in a positive and less negative way.
Early morning breathing classes , full softness into the deep connection of true nature to be alive. I can be still within the compassionate nature of Carolyn, gender free, a release to be free!!!
The talking book of the Shame is the gift in my life, I can listen in repetition repetition,in parts or through it all in Carolyn’s clear gentle voice reading through the book of my reality. have been mirrored,picked up and have now tools of stretching, kundalini yoga ,breathing and knowledge. I
have been able to move out of a destination which was reprogramming my shame, I have now the tolls,direct,compassionate. Guided from a trauma therapist , who was there herself, doesn’t hold back with the pain behind the depression and the anxiety .
I can lean on my true kundalini heartbeat
The breathing classes are my therapy my warm hug of the divine.
Life or recorded
That is Luxurious
Thank you Carolyn
The online shame workshop gave me total permission to release all the shame I’ve been carrying that was not even mine. Carolyn is an exceptional teacher and I hope more people come to her work – it is transformational.
Carolyn’s classes, workshops and retreats have been of immense value to me and to my continued progress as an individual aspiring to hold both integrity and agency. The Shame Workshop, in particular, has been profoundly life-altering. I believe every person would benefit from understanding how shame shapes the trajectory of our lives — and how we can consciously choose to reroute and begin making decisions that support life and health.
Carolyn, personal review, thank you so very much for map and shame, both smashed my world. What you offer and give is beyond belief, please take this and hold it close x will be back when able to do so thank you for being you xx
Carolyn Cowan is brilliant —deeply inspiring, extremely talented, and with real depth of knowledge in what she cares about and transmits. Her teaching comes from a place of genuine care and lived experience. I’ve been her student in many ways, including Kundalini Global Yoga classes, The Great Anxiety Hack for Alternatives, the Prayer Workshop, and a course offered a good few years ago called The Mother’s Journey, which was absolutely incredible and took place in Madrid. She creates a safe and spacious environment that feels subtly tantric, grounding and transformative. Carolyn is powerful in the truest sense, and I wholeheartedly recommend her work. I’m also currently reading her book The Path Out of Shame, which I’m enjoying thoroughly and feels very special.
This workshop was a very honest look in the mirror. It was not easy! It was challenging and out of my comfort zone in so many ways. It made me reflect for months afterwards and unearthed some deeply held emotions and conflicts inside myself. Going through this experience with others was intense and raw. Years later I remember some of the most intimate details shared in that space. Carolyn held space for a room full of big emotions — she was so present. We all had them, and we all shared them with each other. You know thinking about it, the contrast was stark from the everyday. I wondered then and I still continue to wonder why I create such distance in my life from myself and others. Feeling into the depth of what we all hold in our worlds was breath taking. I walked away with a lot of tools and insights. Blown away by the warmth and generosity of the space Carolyn and her family shared with us. There was nourishing home made food, tea, her lovely friendly pup, and a lot of love and care there. Thank you Carolyn…
Carolyn validated the mad notion to actually attend a Shame workshop, where the purpose from the beginning was to wade into discomfort. However, the safety she generated in the room made it exhilaratingly possible. I follow Carolyn on Instagram and am currently working my way through her latest book on SHAME, again not for the faint of heart, however, she remains a consummate guide through hell and back to the light. Also, attending in person was essential and after some months, I am still integrating the benefits.
First time I had done a breathwork class after reading Carolyns book about Shame and it was so interesting and helpful that I intend to do more in 2026.
Carolyn welcomed the group and gently guided us through the shame workshop. The course is life changing, the space created within the room, from Carolyn’s teachings, and reflections exercises shifted emotuons for me in such a way that have given me a new outlook and continue my exploration to recovering my authentic self. I am so grateful that I stepped into the room and embraced the course. It has led to wider zest for knowledge and understanding exercises that work for me to move gracefully through my life and let my thoughts and feelings stay present.
Thank you
Thank you for such an informative welcoming space. You truly are wonderful at what you do; being able to cut through the noise of societal norms to the core of what it means to be a grounded human. Thank you for giving hope.
Thank you so much for the workshop. It has been totally transformative.
I am grateful to you for many to things but I found your ability to create such a safe space in which for us to do the work we did, is a powerful testimony to the depth of your own experience and knowledge of the subjects we explored.
The best thing I’ve ever done to make genuine positive and long-lasting change in my life. I only regret that I didn’t do it sooner!
Gosh what a trip, thank you so much, I really can’t recommend this workshop enough. If the thought of it scares you a bit, or a lot, then you neeeeed to come on it!! It takes you to your worst fears, you cry , you laugh, but most importantly you get perspective to just look at them objectively and see them for what they are , and amazingly leave a lot of them behind. If you have any interest in a less painful life, of turning off that shame filter you seem to be applying to everything. Then try it What have you for to loose, other than a bunch of shame!
This shame workshop is THE self initiation to be Free and fully responsible of my life.
In this 3 day intensive workshop, I have experienced in an enormous safe and caring group setting that Iam loved, valuable and worth it Carolyn Cowan , has created this shame workshop with absolute radical inclusiveness and no rejection of any feeling, every emotional abandonment experienced in the past had her love and believe.
Carolyn’s background as a therapist hold’s the group in deep trust and safety.I could let go of the coat of the shame of my tall dark history . I was heard and listend to. I learned and understood the 8 types of abuse and shame, as well as my own safety mechanisms in relation to my stories.I learned about the attachment of such in our physical body’s, vagus nerve, major muscles, fascia and my own trauma bonding.I learned how to release stress , to regulate (because I can)for the pure joy of being present. Here and now smiling with gratitude 🙏
This past weekend was groundbreaking and I am feeling the doors are now open for huge change. I came into the workshop with dread, heaviness and feelings of helplessness. Over the 3 days together, you created an exquisitely safe space for deep inquiry, truth-telling, and transformation. I never knew I could go to the realms you took me to…I really got in touch with my strength like never before and I came out feeling empowered, lighter and with spaciousness in my heart. There is no one else I know who can guide with such integrity, generosity and kindness. I recommend the Shame workshop for anyone who is feeling stuck because of their stories and their past and is ready to take responsibility for themselves and move forward in life. It is a worthwhile journey.
