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Free Breathwork Class 24th August

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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 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

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

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