Breathwork + Somatics
20 hours training, learn to heal the root cause of your emotional trauma - next course beginning 16th May 2026.
only 1 in 5 people who purchase online courses complete them,
in my last 2 online courses 100% completed the course.
I have created something that really works.
Each week experience a range of breathing techniques, and somatic practises.
This course is where you learn through education and lived experience
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Week 1
Education, practise, lived experience
Body focus - feet + legs
Safety
What is breathwork
What is somatic
What are emotions
Understanding Resistance to feeling, being in stillness and silence
Understanding emotional trauma and triggers
Working with implicit memory
Identifying brain speaking versus body
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Week 2
Understanding Resistance
Healing is about holding emotional pain not fixing it
Focus- hips + stomach
Feeling
Difference in perceptions and feelings, when break speaks versus body
Judgement versus compassion
How to change patterns/learned adaptations
Body map of emotions + illness
Listening without agenda
Learning to feel difficult emotions
Understanding root of current unwanted patterns
Healing judgements and stories around difficult emotions
Shame, anger, vulnerability, fear of rejection, identifying ego
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Week 3
How to process and complete difficult emotions
Focus – lungs, shoulders, twists
Letting be
Resistance and limiting beliefs
Identifying root of your current unwanted patterns
Healing Inner child, exile parts
The unknown and questioning
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Week 4
How to love yourself
inner child, present self, future self, connecting and allowing parts to speak
Focus- spine
love
taking action with to deepen self love and self worth
Integration of 4 weeks
Healing judgement and deepening compassion
Why choose this course
It is live. You will complete this course, and it has the potential to change your life and give you everything you desire.
These are skills for life, not only to support your current clients if you teach, but also for yourself and the people you love. Emotional trauma is something we will all experience throughout life, but with the right education, support and tools, it is possible to move through even the deepest pain.
This work can help prevent addiction, relationship breakdowns and a life of solitude, patterns people often turn to as ways of coping with emotional pain.
We are powerful beings. This is one of the most important skills anyone can learn, to listen and attune to the incredible, mind-blowing intelligence of your body and allow that to guide you, a guidance rooted in love.
To live only in the mind, in thought, is to live in fear.
People heal when they are supported to stay present with their pain. In that space, everything can unfold for their highest self.
“By the power of consciousness, the universe unfolds herself.”
A sutra from Kashmir Shaivism, written over 6,000 years ago
Often, it is the breakdown and heartache of romantic relationships that brings people to this work. But what truly needs healing is the relationship to self, the blueprint formed between the ages of 0 to 3, and the energetic patterns created with your mother and father.
This course is rooted in how to access intelligence of the body, how emotional process works & how to heal unwanted patterns and curate change
This course is right for you if;
✔ You need this work for yourself and are currently processing heartbreak
✔ You work with the body and trauma, and want to understand trauma and healing on a deeper level
✔ You are tired of the same unwanted patterns and feel exhausted by your life, or your clients are experiencing the same
✔ You don’t know what you want, and that frightens you. You feel uncertain about what comes next and carry a sense of emptiness
✔ You want to understand the education and scientific research behind this work, and are drawn to clear, direct guidance without fluff
What do you get when you enroll?
4 weeks of live learning, with 20 live sessions covering education, practice and discussion of your findings.
All sessions are recorded, so you can fit the learning around your life. You will have access for 12 months to support your integration after the intensive.
Direct mentoring with Carla, including 2 x 1:1 sessions.
“The eye can see everything but itself.” It is vital to have a direct mirror when working through this material and healing. This is a space to reflect on how you are meeting the work, ask questions, and be supported. Emotional pain requires deep support in order to be held.
Emotional anatomy sessions will teach you the psychosomatic language of the body, helping you to expand your skills and deepen your knowledge.
Access to a like-minded community is one of the most powerful aspects of this course. Hearing other people’s stories allows each person to act as a mirror throughout the journey. Healing in community helps you access exiled parts and emotions that fuel unwanted patterns, which often cannot be reached without group work.
Listen to my past members thoughts:
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Ciara
“The Connect to Self course is a massive invest in yourself! If you are feeling stuck, navigating negative patterns or dealing with distorted self views, this course will really support you in working with this. The daily practices are so nourishing and insightful, they have made a really positive impact on my self worth.
During the course I felt to cared for and held even with it being online. I learnt so much about myself and I have gained so much wisdom that I will carry with me forever. The group element really adds an extra layer to the healing through the being seen and meeting everyone where they are at and loving them.
If you struggle with being seen like me, even the showing up and talking to the group will break down those barriers. I felt very seen and understood by Carla and everybody, I am so grateful for this opportunity. Carla's way of holding space is super relaxed, honest, fun and her knowledge will blow you away. I highly recommend to everybody.”
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Paula
“Before I joined Connect to Self, I was feeling guilty about doing anything for myself. Now I understand that the more I invest time and love in myself, the happier I am. It’s hard setting boundaries with other relationships, as setting aside time for me is something they are not used to. But I now know it is something I must do.
A big realisation was just how much I have carried my childhood trauma throughout my life - and how that led me to living a pattern of repeated trauma. I was genuinely very skeptical about doing this type of work. But I can honestly say that if you take the time and invest in yourself, you will you reap the rewards.
The first step for change in my life has been to take the plunge with Carla’s Connect to Self course, it was the start of my well deserved journey. If you are pursuing a self care journey then take the plunge!”
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Deirdre*
“Before joining Carla’s course, I was completely stuck, continuously falling into the same cycles of addiction and abuse. Well Carla help me break out of the abuse and deal with it in a way I didn't know I could. For the first time in since childhood, I learned to sit with myself, to not abandon myself and to bring myself to a place of calm and clarity naturally from within.
My capacity to sit with myself and regulate myself has improved so much. I’m excited to see where the tools I’ve acquired can take me as I feel I’ve only just scratched the surface and want to working with Carla to heal so much more.
This course has had a profound impact on me, even if your curious take the leap you will not regret it.”
*Name changed for confidentiality
This is a course to stop intellectualising your healing and start actually feeling.
The heartbreak and rejection can feel like your world is shattered, and you don’t think you will ever recover. It brings up your worst thoughts and beliefs about yourself, as if to say, “If only you were different, this would never have happened.”
This is your opportunity to heal the energetic patterns that have been repeating in your life, patterns that began before you could cognitively think.
Addiction, busyness and constant doing are forms of pain management. It is exhausting. Your body becomes full of tension, tired of snapping. You feel stuck, and change or a different way of being can feel impossible.
You feel stuck because you are still trying to heal alone, trying to process pain in secrecy and through judging and berating yourself.
You can’t tell the difference between thoughts and feelings, or what is real and what is not. You need to create space and learn to listen, which cannot be done while you are sprinting through life at speed, multitasking, with your phone constantly demanding your attention.
In this state, you keep going around in the same circles: tension, pain, run, pretend, ignore, collapse. Moving between two speeds, 90mph and collapse, with no real flow.
This course is where that pattern is disrupted, and where you learn skills for life, no matter what waves come.
What Other Women Are Saying
“Do this course if you want change in your life. If you are stuck or dealing with distorted self views, this course will really support you” - Ciara
“I’d recommend working with Carla to others because the world needs more unapologetically relaxed, outspoken & unafraid women” - Giordan
“I 100% feel less anxious, more connected to myself and others around me. I feel more headspace for work and more gratitude too. Highly recommend 100%” - Ros
Why Me?
Because I get it. I was resistant to all of this for YEARS.
I had built a successful corporate career in alcohol industry. I was addicted to being busy - always multitasking, every second of the day filled.
I was prescribed yoga and meditation by my therapist after being diagnosed with CPTSD at 27. I was so disconnected from my body I couldn't tell my arm from my leg.
I was addicted to exercise and was convinced my therapist was trying to make me fat when she suggested I give up training.
I would rather have died, that been still and silent.
My first response to yoga? Looking like a professional rugby player trying to touch their toes.
My reaction to meditation? Holding my breath so much that I ended up passing out.
Something kept me showing up.
Every so often I would feel tingles, pleasure, waves of love- our true nature. At our core we our BEings of love, but carrying too much traumatic energy disconnect us from our innate care system.
I help women like you who are:
have a bratty resistance to healing (my specialty)
desperate for change but attached to the way you are currently
too exhausted to feel, can’t identify emotions
addicted to work / food / exercise / other
have a mix of anxious and avoidant patterns in relationships
I’m grounded, good craic and make this work which can feel airy fairy, as tangible as possible.
My approach is through love, truth compassionate curiosity.
I have a gift for the work that I do, in truly seeing you, how powerful you are.
I will give it to you straight while holding and supporting you.
I also know that I don’t have the answers, you do.
I just help you find them.
The Breakdown
Course Dates: 16th May - 12th June 2026
✔ 4 weeks of breathwork + somatic healing
✔ 25 live group practice sessions
✔ Educational sessions covering childhood trauma, core beliefs, resistance to self and healing practices that actually work
✔ Access to a private community group for sharing and support
✔ Timetable
Sat 16th May, 1pm- 3pm Welcome call
Mon 7.45pm- 8.45pm
Tues 7am- 8.00am
Wed 7am- 7.30am
Thurs 7am- 7.30am & 6pm- 7pm
Fri 7am-8.00am
All Breathwork sessions are recorded if you cannot make lives.
You are not here to keep repeating the same patterns. You are here to learn how to meet yourself differently, and that changes everything.
Are you ready to answer that invitation?
Some things that are probably on your mind ↓
It sounds like an awful lot of work, what if I’m too busy?
If you’re busy now, keeping yourself busy isn’t going to change anything. One of the most profound things you can do for yourself is carve out some space to slow down. Why can you commit to work but not to learning about yourself? If you can't commit to yourself, how will you be able to commit to another?
I don’t like the idea of being vulnerable in front of a group. Do I have to share?
There is incredible power in the experience of being witnessed by others. We create a closed, safe space and sharing is highly encouraged but not mandatory. The more you can allow yourself to open up, the more benefits you’ll experience. But we never want anyone to feel uncomfortable.
I’m afraid I’ll join and then never show up. What’s the commitment?
Embedding supportive practices as part of your daily life gets so much easier once you have received and experienced their many benefits. Getting started is the hardest part. There is a high level of accountability involved. I am totally immersed with you all for the month and will be by your side for encouragement, support and to navigate challenges with you.
The weekly commitment is five 30 min practices, one education session and one 1:1 call along with any time you spend engaging with the community and me in our closed Facebook group. The course lasts 4 weeks.
How much 1:1 support is included?
You will receive three 1:1 60 minute calls with me. You’ll be provided a booking link so you can choose a time that best suits you. The 1:1 support can be spaced out as you see fit. I recommend one just before/at the start of the month, one during and the final one towards the end/just after finishing.
What if I can’t attend early morning sessions?
I appreciate that not everyone is an early bird. I do really believe in the power of a morning practice which sets you up for the day. I’d encourage everyone to do their best to attend live if possible but I totally understand that other commitments might clash. Recordings of each session are made available within 24 hours of the call (usually much less) so that you can partake.