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About Caroline Carey

Caroline is an English Grandmother and an aspiring crone~elder, an author of four books, a speaker and innovative and creative teacher, offering her work via workshops and gatherings online as well as internationally. By adapting the religious education insisted on by her family, she was able to recognise her own innate connection to God/Spirit and has been on a spiritual path since childhood. She is a champion of music, dance and poetry as healing tools since she was four years old and developed an innate understanding of the soul’s journey, a connection to physical embodiment through movement, theatre and the creative arts. Her work is harmonious with nature. Her journey has manifested as her own personal training into eldership and crone-hood, carrying the wisdom needed for stability and balance in individuals, relationships, families and communities. Mothering her six, now adult, children, gave Caroline the art of play, creativity, story-telling and opened up the deep surrender and unconditional love that motherhood can bestow. Caroline has trained in many modalities of dance, therapeutic and spiritual teacher trainings since 1986. She is a writer who has published her autobiography and four other books about her spiritual work. Her latest book, 'Middle Earth Wisdom' will be published soon. She lives in UK with her husband Ben Cole, a film-maker, a director who works with men’s initiation groups. They often offer work together, incorporating dance, presentation and film. Caroline is: A mother and grandmother A writer and poet A dancer A spiritual life coach A catalyst for change She is available to you for guidance

falling in love

“The soul and ego need each other; they need to fall in love. The soul is the dreamer, the one that lives within the mystery. The ego becomes the hands of the soul as it falls deeper and deeper into … Continue reading

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Motherhood as spiritual practice

In a Bill Plotkin workshop many years ago, I recall him saying that ” there are two kinds of spiritual practice, one is parenting and the other is everything else!” It took me a while to understand what he meant. … Continue reading

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How do we reclaim our soul?

Do you ever remember a time, even some time long ago, when you felt that gut wrenching vibration filling your body, as if some mighty hand reached in and pulled at every muscle within you?  It took you far into … Continue reading

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dark night of the soul

It is true that sometimes in order to re-claim our soul, we must journey into the darker places, the mystery, the hunger, the deprivation that lingers. We must uncover the earth where sorrow lies and dig into the rocks that … Continue reading

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Shamanic Nature & its Ecstatic Calling

‘Shaman’ literally means one who is working with their spirit guides. A word derived from Siberian people living mainly in the regions of  Yakut and Evenki in Russia. A word meaning monk, devotee or ascetic or hermit, a person with … Continue reading

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Rhythm is Medicine

 “My dance is a celebration of my life, it tears me apart, and that is where I find God. When my body is moving beyond limitation, when my heart is bursting wide open, when sounds are pouring from my body, … Continue reading

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New Ways

the one who is silent, the one who dreams, the one who dances wildly and the one who screams. the one who sings to the plants in her garden encouraging their growth and dances with her fingers amidst the undergrowth. … Continue reading

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Remembering why we are here…

There is a way to live, a way that is beyond what we can imagine today. A way to be with our fellow human kind, to accept the deep and necessary art of owning our innocence and accepting that we … Continue reading

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How many world leaders are still seeing ‘the world’ as the family unit?

I wonder how many people in authority are still acting out their wounded childhoods? How many of us have seen pain inflicted because someone is angry with their parents or siblings? Unless the work is being done, the past will … Continue reading

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‘Spaced Out’ or ‘Soul Safety’

Many of us have, or have had the tendency to do what is known as ‘spacing out.’ But do we know why? What causes it? For some it is because of trauma, abuse, neglect. And I am sure many other … Continue reading

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