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Three Workshops with Caroline Harvey

Location: Erector Square
Friday Through Sunday April 30 - May 2nd
Friday April 30th Free Your Voice
Saturday May 1st Massage Techniques for Couples
Sunday May 2nd Awakening the Yogini:
Extraordinary Yoga & Education for Women
Details and Fees Below

Free Your Voice

Free Your Voice: Building Vocal Confidence, Freedom and Power
Friday April 30th
6:00 - 8:30 PM Erector Square Location
$35
A unique workshop designed for poets, speakers, teachers, leaders and anybody interested in cultivating an honest, powerful & connected voice.

In this rare event speaker, poet and teacher Caroline Harvey will share her transformative voice work, Embodied Poetics. Previously shared at UCLA, The Esalen Institute & with performance troupes nationwide, Embodied Poetics is a personal sound revolution.

Expect a lively and creative combination of writing exercises, vocal exploration and process coaching. Drawing from traditional techniques as well as her lifetime study of expression, this workshop is not your average voice class. Wear clothes you are comfortable moving in, and bring a notebook, a pen and a poem (your own or one that inspires you). No experience necessary, just bring your willingness and your breath.

Participants say:
Incredible!
A light in the dark!
I have never felt so confident speaking in front of a group. Finally, my voice feels connected to my heart.

Massage Techniques for Couples: Level 1
with Couron Marselle and Caroline Harvey

Massage Techniques for Couples: Level 1
with Couron Marselle and Caroline Harvey
Saturday May 1st
10:45 AM - 1:45 PM
$80 per couple

Join bodyworkers Couron and Caroline for an afternoon of learning to give and receive therapeutic massage. Bring your spouse, your sweetheart or your best friend! Great for beginners as well as non-beginners, this workshop will provide fun and user-friendly skills to help ease neck and shoulder tension, relieve back pain, loosen sore muscles, soothe headaches, create relaxation and more.

Couron Marselle brings over a decade of experience in the healing arts to his practice, and his style is a dynamic mix of the many techniques he's studied: structural integration, tui na, lomi lomi, deep tissue, craniosacral therapy, reflexology and more. A gifted educator, Couron brings a sense of humor and a healthy dose of jokes to all of his teaching. Read more about him at naturalflowtherapy.com.

Caroline Harvey enjoys a lifelong passion for the power of healing touch and is constantly amazed at the transformations bodywork can facilitate. Her practice is a creative blend of various massage techniques, craniosacral therapies, and the teachings of yoga and breath. You can read more about her work on www.carolineharvey.com She hopes you'll join her and her partner Couron for an afternoon of fun and learning!

Private sessions for bodywork with Caroline and Couron will be available. Stay tuned for more details.

Notes to participants: Please wear comfortable yoga or chill-out clothes, no tight jeans or belts. Bring your yoga mat, some water to drink and maybe a light snack. If you like to take notes you are welcome to bring a notebook, but it won't be necessary!

Awakening the Yogini: Extraordinary Yoga & Education for Women

Awakening the Yogini:
Extraordinary Yoga & Education for Women with Caroline Harvey
Sunday May 2nd
Erector Square Location
Part 1 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Part 2 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
$45 for 1 Part, $80 for both

Yogini is a word that refers to a passionate and insightful woman who practices the mental and/or physical disciplines of yoga. A yogini's path empowers her to get, and stay, connected to her physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies; she is a strong woman who speaks freely and gracefully, is capable of profound transformation and growth, and is committed to vibrant all-over health. A yogini feels intuitively that she is part of a larger universe filled with energy, mystery, and adventure. She cultivates compassion, truth, and a connection with all beings and natural cycles.

Part One: Lecture and Discussion 9:30- 12:30
The morning portion of Awakening the Yogini will give insight into different aspects of the female body and life, drawing from expert sources in many schools of yoga, bodywork, medical science & folk traditions, as well as Caroline's own dynamic path of professional work and personal healing. Topics to be covered may include:
--The Anatomy of the Female Pelvis, including Sexual Anatomy and the supporting structures of the back, legs and abdominal core
--Vibrant Emotional Health including the Theory of Scar Tissue and Healing Trauma
--The Transformational Stages of Life and the “Blood Mysteries,” including menstruation, ovulation, pregnancy and menopause
--The Subtle Energy Body including the Chakras, the Meridians and Accessing and Demystifying Kundalini

We’ll discuss together what "healthy" really is, address concerns about urinary health, organ stability, sexual pleasure, pre- and post-natal health, and menstrual health questions about irregularity and endometriosis. We’ll talk through the yogic prescriptions that can help restore equilibrium and prevent new injury or discomfort, and you’ll get tools for continuing to build your yoga practice for life…on and off the mat. There will be space for your questions, emotional support and voluminous belly laughter!

The Lecture portion of Awakening the Yogini is designed as a great lead-in to the afternoon Yoga Practice, but it may also be attended on its own. Bring a notebook, your yoga mat, maybe a light snack and/or water, and wear comfortable yoga clothes. Your fee for the Lecture includes your Awakening the Yogini written materials and manual.

Part Two: Yoga Practice 2:00 - 4:30 PM
Women in all stages of life and practitioners at all levels of yoga experience are encouraged and invited to participate in this women only yoga class. Caroline will guide you through an inspiring yoga flow that will draw from Forrest, Yin and Restorative techniques, as well as Caroline’s own work in Deep Flow Yoga. Discover how conscious core connection can awaken an imbalanced or painful pelvis, how deep breathing can help clear tension and trauma from your body, and how a connection to your natural rhythms of breath, blood, emotion and energy can empower you to stand strong in your feminine nature, desire and life purpose. Expect to experience your physical, emotional and energetic anatomy in a whole new way, a way that will leave you feeling energized, refreshed and deeply connected. The practice space will be safe, comfortable and accepting.

The Yoga Practice portion of Awakening the Yogini is designed as a follow-up to the morning lecture, but can also be taken on it’s own. Bring water, your yoga mat, and any special props you need for practice. It is suggested that you come on an empty or only lightly-full stomach.

About Caroline

A passionate teacher, professional artist and health practitioner for over a decade, Caroline currently works as a yoga, dance and meditation instructor, a doula (birth attendant), and is in private practice as Craniosacral Therapist and Somatic Coach in Boston. She is the creator of Sacred Groove, an ecstatic dance practice, Awakening the Yogini: Extraordinary Yoga and Education for Women, and Free Your Voice, a unique curriculum of creating vocal freedom and confidence.

Caroline also teaches and performs poetry nationwide. She was featured in two documentaries and appeared on Season 5 of HBO’s Def Poetry. Caroline's writing has been published in various literary journals and anthologies including the 2005 National Poetry Slam Anthology "High Desert Voices" and the Harvard publication "The Charles River Review."

Caroline was awarded a Master’s Degree in Dance from UCLA and she holds a BFA in Theater from Boston University. Caroline is a devoted student of health and yoga pioneer Ana Forrest and is a graduate of her Foundational, Advanced, and Continuing Educational Forrest Yoga Teacher Trainings. Caroline also greatly appreciated her two Yin Yoga Teacher Trainings (one with Insight Yoga founder Sarah Powers and another with Sati Solutions co-founder Joshua Summers), and she completed a Movement Leadership Training with Vinn Marti, originator of the conscious dance practice Soul Motion.

Caroline is a graduate of The Massage Therapy Institute of Davis, CA, and has completed multiple programs with the Upledger Institute for Craniosacral Therapy, for which she is now a Teaching Assistant. Caroline has also studied closely with bodywork and movement innovator Julian Walker, the Women's Sacred Anatomy Project founder Ellen Heed, the Center for Movement Education and Research founder and director Judy Gantz, and the Men's Yoga Tribe founder Jonathan Bowra. Along the way she also investigated Reiki energy work, The Alexander Technique, Breathwork, Native American Ritual and Practice, and Vocal Techniques designed to free the natural voice. She feels incredibly lucky and wholeheartedly indebted to the many pilgrims, elders, family members and mentors who have led the way and lit her path.

Caroline laughs when recalling that her imaginary friend as a little girl was the moon. One of her other earliest memories is of leading a meditation about "floating on the ocean" for a group of first grade girlfriends at a slumber party. She’s been collecting feathers since pre-school, and she hopes never to stop talking to the sky.

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