About Carolyn
With family life and a busy job, it was with the discovery of Scaravelli yoga that I managed to find space and sense in amongst the joys of everyday chaos. The feeling of space and lightness in my body after my first class was exhilarating and I was eager to keep coming back to learn more. Exploring movement and taking time to breathe, yoga helped me become re-connected with my body and I found I was able to see things from a different perspective.
Following three years of training I have now been teaching yoga for over ten years and my approach is founded on the teachings and yoga of Vanda Scaravelli (author of Awakening the Spine) who emphasised the profound relationship between gravity, breath and the spine.
I have additional specialist expertise in yoga for backs, and am a registered Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs teacher running regular courses for back pain prevention and care.
For several years I worked with the charity Ourmala which provided trauma informed yoga for refugees and prisoners of conscience as well as on a pilot NHS project for those affected by the Grenfell Fire tragedy.
I have been a mentor for several LYTTC trainee teachers and my students range from complete beginners to experienced yoga practitioners.
In 2022 I began training in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) and was drawn to this way of working as there is a similarity of approach between Scaravelli yoga and Craniosacral Therapy in that both empower the student or client to be part of their own healing process.
I had already had BCST many years earlier when my children were small and I was suffering from a painful back. The gentle approach belied its powerful effects. Within a few sessions, my back was better and I could confidently manage the demands of working and being a mother of five small children. The practicality was important, but what remained with me and encouraged me later to train as a therapist was the deep sense of calm and nurturing received in those treatments. It was as if my body was being listened to rather than just being fixed.
BCST supports the nervous system and energy levels, and one’s sense of well-being. It gives a chance to reset, to find the space for new pathways and new approaches. Simply, one can see life in a different way.
I love that these ways of working are deeply rooted in allowing the whole of us, body, mind and spirit, to express itself and align with a more comfortable and natural way of being.
Relevant Qualifications
2022-4 Diploma in Craniosacral Therapy, RCST : Circle Cranio.
2013-15 Certificate of Teaching : London Yoga Teacher Training Course (LYTTTC)
2024 – Postgraduate training in CST for Pregnant Women, Mothers & Babies: Still Learning/Sarah Nesling
2025 – Postgraduate training in a Craniosacral Approach to Migraines & Headaches / Nicci Parry and Mary Bolingbroke
2022 Registered Teacher R-YHLB : Yoga for Healthy Lower Backs (BWY accredited)
2020-21 Myofascial Anatomy & Movement : Natural Bodies/Gary Carter
2023 Backcare Basics : Yoga Campus/Tias Little
2021 Foundational Qigong for Yoga Teachers: Mimi Kuo-Deemer
Professional Associations
I am registered with and adhere to the code of ethics and standards of practice of the Craniosacral Therapy Association. (CSTA)
Teacher Member of the British Wheel of Yoga. (BWY)
Additional:
First Aid at work / Enhanced DBS certificate
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We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness that one thing against another creates.
In Praise of Shadows 1933, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki
