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About Carolyn

I am a Psychosexual Therapist specialising in couples, pre & post natal, addiction, trauma recovery. I run workshops and teacher trainings in various subjects in the UK and abroad.

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Welcome to my site. The hub for information on teacher trainings. This site is dedicated with love and the deepest respect to Kali, Lilith, the Virgin Mary, Guan Yin, Shekem, The Morrigan, Baba Yaga, Hatshepsut & all female deities.

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Less than a month until the start of our 220 hour

Less than a month until the start of our 220 hour training with @carolyncowanofficial

Many are curious about what happens on an average day of the training. Whilst the assortment in what is covered over each module is huge, the 20 days to tend to follow a format somewhat similar to what you will find below, and in more detail in a PDF we have put together to learn more, which you can find via the link in our bio.

07:00 - 08:15 Yoga.

We always start the day with a class, making our way through an assortment of series from the manual to give trainees an introduction to the breadth of alternate experiences of the self that Kundalini Global classes can bring.

08:15 - 08:45 Practicum.

After the class, trainees are sent off in small groups. This may be to teach each other part of what we have worked with in the morning’s series in or it may be to discuss named aspects of the class such as ‘how was it to be taught in an extremely gentle way?’

08:45 - 09:30 Breakfast.

09:30 - 11:15 Lecture and Q&A with Group Work

We will often continue our day with a lecture, exploring one of the key aspects of the syllabus for that weekend. Participants will be put into groups for peer discussion to help consolidate learning.

11:00 - 11:15 Short Break

11:15 - 13:00 Practical Aspects of Learning E.g. A Posture Workshop or exploring breath, meditation etc.

13:00 - 14:15 Lunch

14:15 - 14:30 Questions

Carolyn usually begins the afternoon with an opportunity for trainees to bring any questions that have come up over the lunch break.

14:30 - 15:45 Lecture or Workshop

During the afternoon session we may go deeper in to an aspect that came in during the morning or we may come to a whole new topic.
Space is always given for questions and breaths and stretches are woven into the teaching as needed.

15:45 - 16:00 Short Break

16:00 - 17:00 Questions and Checkout.

17:00 Supervision

At 17:00 we will either end for the day or take a break and then come back together for supervision. For more on what supervision is and involves see the FAQs on our website.

If you have questions about the training do let us know!

register and find out more on our website.

This Saturday. A free, live, Zoom call with @carol

This Saturday. A free, live, Zoom call with @carolyncowanofficial in which you can learn more about our upcoming, 220-hour, yoga teacher training.

Our next training begins in May. Set over five, four-day, modules. The training is online, with two optional in person modules.

Kundalini Global is Kundalini Yoga done differently. With its foundations in understanding the body and mind of the 21st Century human, our training will equip teachers with much-needed, expert, knowledge on:

- The hormones of stress and how yoga can help in changing hormonal flow.
- The vagus nerve and the nervous system.
- The limbic system and how to work with a mind that has been weaponised by social media, the internet, and modern life.
- The fascia and how to work with it.
- The major muscles of the body and how stretching and/or building strength within them can radically change how you feel.

Our training goes far beyond the physical, with a deep dive into cults of thought, into religious belief systems, into the roots of yoga and more. We will find each trainees gold and how they can work with it to be a teacher who truly helps the other in creating their own change.

In this live call, on Saturday morning, Carolyn will talk over the training, what to expect and what a day on the training looks like. She will answer any questions and you may even meet some of our graduates.

To get the link for the call just make sure you’re signed up to our email list, or to Carolyn’s, which you’ll find on our website.

www.kundalini.global

The excellent and inspiring @yokati.de - a teacher

The extraordinary @franziska_francoise - one of ou

The extraordinary @franziska_francoise - one of our most recent graduates, teaches the body locks. One of three key aspects of our opening sequence which you can follow along with via a free download available via the link in our bio.

Our next training begins in May.

On Saturday 6th April @carolyncowanofficial will be hosting a free zoom call to talk about the training. If you’d like to attend then simply ensure you enter you email address in our site - either via accessing that free download or anywhere else, and we will be sure to send you the link.

@franziska_francoise is a Kundalini Global teacher who draws on over a decade of experience in the well-being space and yoga.

Her journey includes an academic background with an MA in Cultural Studies and Arts from Goldsmiths.

Beyond her work in well-being, she is an actress based in Germany, merging her love for movement, dance, somatics, and film into a unique tapestry.

She is currently teaching at Sha-La Berlin.

Go check out her page and say hello.

Here, our fabulous @nici_phoenix walks you through

Another of our excellent teachers @juliefayevans s

Another of our excellent teachers @juliefayevans shares their take on our opening stretch - a practice we are inviting you to take on, every day, over the next 40 days. We have a free download, on our website, that walks you through instructions for the practice.

It is a fast reset to the stress system.

Move from stress to presence with five minutes of daily practice.

Download via the link in our bio.

And thank you to Julie, who teaches a lot of classes in Dubai, go and check her out. @juliefayevans

The wonderful @feellikeafishinwater chats about on

The wonderful @feellikeafishinwater chats about one of the reasons she loved our 220 hour, Yoga Alliance Certified, yoga teacher training.

Lots of our teachers already had a 200+ hour training before they did ours, and all, with exception, have reported huge benefits in doing so.

Our next training begins in May. Five four day modules. All online, with two in person, optionally.

On April 6th @carolyncowanofficial, our founder, will be hosting a live zoom call to talk about the training and answer your questions.

To get the link simply ensure you sign up to the newsletter on our website.

Kundalini Global teachers are self-initiated. We are tasked, throughout our training and beyond, to shed (or, at the least, deeply examine) our ‘cult thought,’ be ourselves, and bring our humanity into how we approach the role of being a yoga teacher.

People who have practised Kundalini Yoga in other forms are sometimes surprised by how slowly we tend to move. Particularly when it comes to postures they are familiar with such as Spinal Flex or Spinal Twists.

This is a conscious choice born of an understanding of the physiological and psychological impact of slow, mindful, considered, movement, where we can explore the sensations of the body as we move.

It often allows for a more embodied practise to emerge for the practitioner.

If you are interested in training to teach, or deepen your practise of, Kundalini Global, find out lots more on our website:

www.kundalini.global

Day Two of our 40 Day Challenge. Practise the firs

Day Two of our 40 Day Challenge. Practise the first part of our opening sequence with Reverend John Russell, a Kundalini Global teacher who is also a part of the faculty for our 220 Hour Level One Teacher Training.

You can download the full sequence instructions on our website via the link in our bio.

John is an Anglican priest, a member of the Quakers and a trained spiritual director. Previously, he’s worked as a university academic and a Human Rights Lawyer. He got clean and sober in 2012, and lived with Benedictine monks in Yorkshire for 3 years.

He served as Assistant Curate at St Luke’s in Chelsea, and then as Associate Rector at St James’s Piccadilly.

He is currently the Acting Lead for Spirituality at the London Jesuit Centre in Mayfair where he runs the embody programme and teaches Kundalini Global in the context of Christian spirituality.

John teaches Kundalini Global as a fun, playful and accessible spiritual practice that helps people towards a place of stillness and safety in which a transformative encounter with their version of the divine becomes more possible.

Our teachers are a diverse group of humans with a shared aim to work toward radical inclusivity in our classes.

If you’d like to train with @carolyncowanofficial on our 220 hour training, which begins in May, be sure to sign up to our newsletter on the website.

In Saturday 6th April, Carolyn is doing a live Zoom call to talk more about the training and answer your questions. If you’d like to join us for that then either downloading the free guide to our 40 Day Challenge, or entering your email elsewhere on the site, will ensure the link goes out to you closer to the time.

All - as well as links to John - is on our website:

www.kundalini.global

Free Download. On Monday, 04/03/24, we will begin

Free Download. On Monday, 04/03/24, we will begin a 40 Day Challenge, inviting everyone who would like to take part to practice the Kundalini Global Stretch every day for 40 days. It takes a few minutes but it works. It changes how you feel.

More soon, but you can download instructions for the stretch via our link in bio.

Over coming days and weeks, our teachers, trainees and trainers will be sharing how they use the stretch. We will have a variety of teachers sharing how they teach it and will be explaining a lot more about the understanding of the body and mind that makes this simple practice a real salve for the times.

Join us.

www.kundalini.global

Mastering The Addictive Personality: The Path Out

Mastering The Addictive Personality: The Path Out of Hell, a seven day training with @carolyncowanofficial is back on Zoom for the first time since 2021.

15th-21st June 2024.

Carolyn has been asked many times, over the last few years, if she will run MAP online again and she has listened.

This seven day training works excellently via Zoom and this Kundalini Global training, focused on understanding and working with the addictive or anxious personality, being available online is important owing to the global nature of this community.

This training is open to all who identify as having an addictive or anxious nature, and to those from all styles of yoga practice (or no yoga practice at all).

We will explore the background to the anxious or addictive nature., discovering what we can do to “change how we feel” in a way that does not create more harm, more disconnect, more isolation.

This training is a “personal” experience, but if you wish to gain a certification as a yoga teacher for addiction recovery to be able to run your own classes, or to teach in prisons and rehabilitation centres, this experience will equip and certify you.

Find out more and download a PDF full of info and FAQs on:

www.carolyncowan.com

To train as a Kundalini Global teacher is to commi

To train as a Kundalini Global teacher is to commit to yourself.

It is to recognise that the universe listens.

Carolyn Cowan, our founder and lead trainer, will guide you toward the self activation necessary to really hold that idea.

The universe listens, and she listens intently, to what you’re saying.

If you’re telling yourself “I’m hopeless, I’m helpless, I’m useless, I can’t do this. I know I’m going to struggle.’

The universe is listening.

This is an energetic projection, a quantum field, that the universe will respond to with a simple

“No problem! We can do that.”

And she does. Reliably.

If you notice what you are telling the universe, and choose to change it, you have power.

The power comes from your consciousness.

The minute that you understand the power of your projections then, boom, you have an energetic field.

Yes we can face real challenges, things can be hard, but, by recognising the choice that is always there in how you interact with the universe, things shift.

It’s about having a conscious awareness of the effect that you can and do have on your reality.

As a teacher, having the awareness is important.

The Kundalini Global training is unique. Like no other. 220 hours to change. For yourself. To help others.

Find out more about our next training, which begins in May, on our website:

www.kundalini.global

The Magnificents: The Maha Mudra This posture sho

The Magnificents: The Maha Mudra

This posture should be practiced, and is best experienced, slowly, languidly, aiming to really open the heart on the inhale and then fold over to feel that amazing flush through the legs as the spinal nervous system is stretched.

In this seated, legs out version some of us will have knees that will be bent and the posture uncomfortable.

Sit on a bolster and gently, over time, you will begin to soften into the posture and fold over more comfortably.

Legs are stretched out parallel. If space is needed for the belly, allow for it. Stretch forward and place the first two fingers of each hand around the corresponding big toe, thumb on the big toe nail. If you cannot reach your toes worry not. Hold what you can reach. Perhaps your ankles, perhaps your shins…

Exhale the head down so that your torso is folded down over your legs and your head is down, elbows bent. Inhale and raise the head, chest and
then torso, pushing the chest forward and the chin up.

Exhale the head down as before and continue, slowly raising up and down on the inhale and exhale, each time pushing the chest forward opening the heart on the inhale.

Continue for 3 minutes. And do be sure to leave some time to lie back afterwards and notice how you have made yourself feel.

We recognise how posture can change us profoundly, and in these posts, titled The Magnificents, we are choosing some of the very best to share with you.

Selected for their potent effect on the stress system, on recognising that you can take responsibility for yourself. And from there, have whole new experiences of yourself on, and beyond, the mat. They are postures you will find taught regularly in Kundalini Global classes. If you want to learn more about them go to the link in our bio and ‘Find a Class’.

Let us know if you try it.

Our next training begins in May. From our founder:

Our next training begins in May. From our founder: @carolyncowanofficial

It’s time, Beautiful People.

Make a commitment. Start now. Train with me to be an excellent teacher and, in the personal, for yourself, start a path of real transformation.

Shed old habits, old ways of being and thinking, break cult thought and move up into new levels of consciousness.

It is hard to take the leap because we fear change, but the rewards of doing so are enormous.

The way forward, in these times, is to take personal responsibility for yourself.

As a Kundalini Global yoga trainee and teacher, the invitation is to own your power and the infinite possibility that opens up when you can stand, as yourself, knowing what it is you have to say and offer in order to serve with integrity in these most challenging times.

Find out more about joining my Level One 220-Hour yoga teacher training on the Kundalini Global website:
 www.kundalini.global

My name is Carolyn Cowan. I have been teaching K

My name is Carolyn Cowan.

I have been teaching Kundalini Yoga for close to thirty years. I love what I do more than ever. That includes training teachers.

I began working on the Kundalini Global teacher training in 2018.

There are many stories about my journey to starting my own teacher training. Many of them would shock you. Some may make you wonder why on earth I would want to do it. I had many moments where I thought the same thing. But I am so glad I took the giant stride forward in deciding to go ahead.

I did it because I wanted, hoped, to create change. I committed, and continue to commit, to training and supporting teachers to be reflective, knowledgeable, well-boundaried and able to be themselves, not some sparkly instagramable version of what a yoga teacher ‘should’ be. Not claiming that they can heal others, or release trauma, or make other outlandish claims that are at best questionable and, more likely, dangerous.

I needed those I trained to have integrity and know the edges because, when it comes to wellness, many do not…

The first training began, in London, at the start of 2020. Since then, four trainings have taken place and over 100 trainees have taken part.

The majority of these trainees are now active teachers, out in the world sharing the practice. I am proud of them.

More teachers certify as the months pass.

How yoga teachers view their role is an interesting thing.

Many are unconscious of the position they take, presenting themselves as all-knowing, as gurus. It is not a criticism, this observation, but I think it is something that should be spoken about more often.

I created a training that encourages
well-informed, open-minded, and inclusive teachers with excellent boundaries, and a form of yoga that is kinder, more accessible, and much less alienating that some of what I (and very many others) have experienced elsewhere.

The next round is hybrid. Two in person modules and three online. The in person modules are also available live, online, for anyone who cannot make it to Battersea, London, in May and September.

Go to the website to read more and do ask any questions if you have them.

www.kundalini.global

Breathe in time with me. The Magnificents: Breat

Breathe in time with me.

The Magnificents: Breath to Manage The Mind

One of the magnificent things about this breath practise comes in it’s simplicity. It is very easy to remember and a great tool to use in everyday life when you notice your thoughts are short, fast, contracted. You can do it anywhere.

This practise is just as potent as some of its more complicated counterparts. It’s impact on the body and mind is profound.

Sit comfortably. Eyes closed if you can.

Inhale through tight lips. Exhale through the nose.

Once settled into the breath, do your best to make the breath as silent as you can, which will naturally lengthen it out.

Practise for as long as works. 3 minutes is a great place to start.

All Kundalini Global classes include breathwork. It is the fastest way to take over your stress system and land in presence. Find out more about our trainings and classes on the website:

www.kundalini.global

Altered States: The Breath is a six-day Kundalini

Altered States: The Breath is a six-day Kundalini Global training with @carolyncowanofficial that takes place entirely online.

On the first weekend you will work with breathwork to become still. Altered states of stillness, of which there are very many, ever expansive in nature. You will understand how these practices work on a physiological level.

How to become still is a very very extraordinary thing. You can become so still that you do not need to breathe at all.

You can become some phenomenally still that everything goes almost to nothing.

The hormonal flow that you can create in your body from this stillness is incredible.   On the second weekend Carolyn will m ramp things up, with three days of high-oxygen breath practices.  
Join us! You can certify, if you are a teacher, to teach all you learn.

The training is open to everybody. Yoga teacher or not.

Find more information, including a PDF you can download to answer FAQs and more, on Carolyn’s website.

The dates are 1,2,3 March 3,4,5 May, 2023.

www.carolyncowan.com

A free class, tomorrow morning on Zoom with our fo

A free class, tomorrow morning on Zoom with our founder @carolyncowanofficial

Come play with Kundalini Global yoga. It will be the perfect way to begin your Christmas Eve. A global community of, often, hundreds of people sign into Zoom for these free classes that Carolyn regularly offers. Breathwork, stretching and to play with the intention of being present rather than giving presents. 🎁

Sign up via Carolyn’s website — we’ve put the link in our link in bio and stories too.

The email with the link goes out this evening at 7pm UK time so be sure to sign up before then if you do not want to miss it.

We hope you have a lovely time over the next few days.

Spinal Twists. How to. Magnificent. Slowed down.

Spinal Twists. How to.

Magnificent. Slowed down. Kundalini Global style.

This posture is like giving your diaphragm a workout. Eyes closed. Sitting beautifully. Begin with empty lungs. Elbows up, thumbs in front of the shoulders, fingers at the back.

Twist as far as you can to the left. Inhale. Carry your full lungs all the way across, as you twist as far as you can to the right, exhale there.

Then, empty lungs carried, again, all the way to the left. Inhale. Continue. Inhaling on the left. Exhaling on the right. Slowly. Slowly. Keep it slow.

Notice all of the thoracic muscles are being stretched. You start to feel it in the lymph. It is Divine. In your body. Notice that.

A magnificent gift. Just like the free classes @carolyncowanofficial is offering over the next week or so, the first this Sunday, Christmas Eve.

How wonderful it is that we can come together in this way.

Sign up for the free classes via the link in our bio.

Start 2024 with some sparkle. Carolyn Cowan @carol

Start 2024 with some sparkle. Carolyn Cowan @carolyncowanofficial is offering a totally free workshop on New Year’s Day. This will include a talk, breathwork, yoga…

Carolyn’s New Year classes are always attended by hundreds, online. A radical global community with the intention to create change through the magic of presence.

If you’re new to Kundalini Global, this will be an excellent place to start, alongside the free class on offer on Sunday this week, Christmas Eve.

Sign up via Carolyn’s website at www.carolyncowan.com

You’ll find it via the link in our bio.

Learn to change how you feel. For free! Perhaps

Learn to change how you feel. For free!

Perhaps you love this time of year, whatever your belief system, however this time manifests in your life. Many embrace December as a time to let go, unwind, reflect, hibernate, make change.

And many do not.

Our awareness as teachers is that a huge number of people dread the festive period. Be that because it brings an experience of loneliness front and centre in our awareness (whether we are surrounded by family and friends or not) or because it’s all just extremely stressful/unnecessary/dull.

Whatever your experience is, over the next week or two, life is a little different for us all.

Carolyn’s class will offer real solace for all. These free classes often have hundreds of participants and the energy is incredible. Global. Epic.

The sign up is on Carolyn’s website but we’ve added a link via our bio and stories too.

The website is www.carolyncowan.com

Sending everyone, each of you, who has been a part of the Kundalini Global community this year huge gratitude, love and, if you are struggling, in any way, in this time we do hope we can send you some solace, hope, community.

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