Carol tried her first yoga class in 1976. Since then she has sampled and consistently practiced many styles of yoga. She currently practices (for the last several years) power vinyasa and hatha. She is passionate about sharing the benefits of yoga with others.
Carol has been a bodyworker for over 30 years. She specializes in Craniosacral Therapy for pregnant and postpartum people and infants. Carol spent decades serving her community as a doula and a home birth midwife. She has developed unique hands-on techniques to enhance the mobility in a pregnant person’s body including the bony pelvis, the abdominal organs, the support structures and lower segment of the uterus. The goal is to give babies more room to develop, grow and get born. Her specially-designed yoga classes have grown naturally from the roots of midwifery, bodywork and yoga.
Babies who have more room to grow and move during gestation are less likely to develop conditions like torticollis (and the resultant positional plagiocephaly), hip dysplasia and scoliosis. They are less likely to lodge in the maternal pelvis in a less than ideal birth position such as occiput posterior, military or asynclitic. This means that they are more inclined to be born normally – without surgery, forceps or vacuum extractors. Their labors have a better chance of beginning on time and progressing efficiently.
Carol is the founder and director of MamaSpace Yoga in Portland, Oregon. She is proud to offer prenatal yoga classes for people in all stages of pregnancy. These classes enhance and support the bodywork Carol practices and teaches.
Carol holds ERYT-200, YACEP and RPYT certifications from Yoga Alliance. She completed prenatal yoga teacher training with Marisa Toriggino at Yoga Garden San Francisco. Carol has also studied with Doug Keller, Leslie Howard, Leslie Kaminoff, Shiva Rea, Tiffany Cruikshank, Julie Gudmestad and many others.