Yoga provides powerful practices and wisdom that equip us to thrive in our intense Bay Area lifestyle. Carolyn’s classes offer practices to cultivate strength and sensitivity, focus and flexibility, willingness and will. Why? We get to lead healthy, happy, effective lives. We can aim for our highest aspirations and step into the flow of Life with the capacity to stay aligned in the wild, unpredictable dance – and smile while we’re doing it.
Carolyn’s teaching is grounded in the understanding that yoga is a path of direct experience, not dogma. She is steadfast in keeping the practice fresh and relevant to our daily lives here and now. It has to make a difference in our lives – how we feel and what we do. Carolyn demystifies yoga philosophy and terminology, and creates opportunities to test out ideas in our own bodies and our own lives. We challenge ourselves in every way. We nourish ourselves and taste profound pleasure. We strengthen our ability to listen on the inside to our body’s wisdom and to our very funny inner chatter. We invite break-throughs that release old patterns in the body, mind and heart. We grow.
With a background in competitive sports (figure skating, water polo, triathlons and soccer), Carolyn first came to yoga in 1989 to cultivate an alert, steady state to tap the muse and write a novel. She returned to yoga again and again to relieve chronic back and neck pain, and unwind a convoluted Scoliosis spine. She became a loyal practitioner after yoga lifted her out of a stubborn depression and restored her natural happiness, and she realized yoga could help her sustain that joy.
Yoga became a full-blown love affair in 1999 when she stumbled into Anusara yoga with Hanneli Francis, who became her primary teacher, mentor and beloved friend. Carolyn has trained extensively (1,000+ hours) in Anusara and Tantric philosophy with master teachers and scholars such as John Friend, Katchie Ananda, Sianna Sherman, Noah Mazé, Darren Rhodes, Carlos Pomeda, Paul Muller-Ortega, Douglas Brooks and Sally Kempton. Carolyn’s practice is also influenced by her studies with other master yoga and meditation teachers, and her love of transformative dance and wilderness questing.
Carolyn began teaching in 2003. She loves helping people reconnect with their natural vitality, clarity and joy -- and challenge themselves at their own pace. She leads an annual spring retreat in Northern California and provides one-on-one mentoring to people on the path.
Off the mat, Carolyn is active in the Green Yoga Association and is co-founder of Up2yoga, a year-round series of call-in workshops and courses about living yoga’s wisdom.
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Carolyn’s teaching is grounded in the understanding that yoga is a path of direct experience, not dogma. She is steadfast in keeping the practice fresh and relevant to our daily lives here and now. It has to make a difference in our lives – how we feel and what we do. Carolyn demystifies yoga philosophy and terminology, and creates opportunities to test out ideas in our own bodies and our own lives. We challenge ourselves in every way. We nourish ourselves and taste profound pleasure. We strengthen our ability to listen on the inside to our body’s wisdom and to our very funny inner chatter. We invite break-throughs that release old patterns in the body, mind and heart. We grow.
With a background in competitive sports (figure skating, water polo, triathlons and soccer), Carolyn first came to yoga in 1989 to cultivate an alert, steady state to tap the muse and write a novel. She returned to yoga again and again to relieve chronic back and neck pain, and unwind a convoluted Scoliosis spine. She became a loyal practitioner after yoga lifted her out of a stubborn depression and restored her natural happiness, and she realized yoga could help her sustain that joy.
Yoga became a full-blown love affair in 1999 when she stumbled into Anusara yoga with Hanneli Francis, who became her primary teacher, mentor and beloved friend. Carolyn has trained extensively (1,000+ hours) in Anusara and Tantric philosophy with master teachers and scholars such as John Friend, Katchie Ananda, Sianna Sherman, Noah Mazé, Darren Rhodes, Carlos Pomeda, Paul Muller-Ortega, Douglas Brooks and Sally Kempton. Carolyn’s practice is also influenced by her studies with other master yoga and meditation teachers, and her love of transformative dance and wilderness questing.
Carolyn began teaching in 2003. She loves helping people reconnect with their natural vitality, clarity and joy -- and challenge themselves at their own pace. She leads an annual spring retreat in Northern California and provides one-on-one mentoring to people on the path.
Off the mat, Carolyn is active in the Green Yoga Association and is co-founder of Up2yoga, a year-round series of call-in workshops and courses about living yoga’s wisdom.
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