Yoga Teacher and Therapist
ERYT200, RYT500, C-IAYT, YACEP
Yoga Alliance Registry ID 51703
International Assoc. of Yoga Therapists
Member No. 72051889
Carol has been practicing yoga since the mid-nineties. Her training has included an array of
lineages and methods. This culmination of experience has helped her to develop a teaching
style that emphasizes pure movement and appropriate alignment for each practitioner,
recognizing that each person is unique and how they are able to practice is also unique.
Students are supported in ways that enable them to move and breathe so that they may focus
their mind inward, experiencing greater ease in their body, mind, and breath.
To help students grasp the subtle nature of the poses and how they affect the body, mind, and
breath, her teaching includes careful observation of the movement of the body and the breath;
effective cueing; personal hands-on guidance when beneficial; the use of props for support;
detailed explanations, and demonstrations; as well as opportunities for stillness. Learning to
be truly present with her students has been one of the most important skills she attributes to
effective and caring teaching. Her students have experienced greater ranges of motion,
increased strength, more stability, better balance, and for many a reduction or eradication of
pain and tension. They feel better, more relaxed, more aware, and with improved patterns of
movement, breathing, and even thinking.
Her practice of yoga has had a transformative and healing effect on her own life both
emotionally and physically. For many years people had asked her if she taught yoga after
learning about her dedication to her practice and she always answered, “No, I’m only a student,
there’s so much more I need to learn before I could ever teach.” Then she realized that she will
always be a student, just as her teachers are still students, and that she already has many
years of knowledge and experience that she can share with those interested in learning yoga.
For Carol, yoga is a life-long and dynamic practice, continuously growing and changing. One
can never finish learning, which is one of the reasons she embraces the practice and believes
that it will always be an evolving, intrinsic part of her life. Yoga has proven to her, with her own
body and mind, and those of her students, that change is always possible.
Carol has deep gratitude and love for those who have taught her. They have helped her to
deepen her practice and understanding of yoga. She has attended numerous asana,
pranayama, meditation, anatomy, biomechanics, ayurveda, and philosophy classes,
workshops, trainings, and retreats offered by: Susi Hately, Stacey Kilps, Kat Kelly, Kirsten
Richardson, Andrea Russell, Michael Stone, Mona Warner, and many others. Carol continually
seeks to learn more by attending classes, workshops, and continuing education opportunities,
studying on her own, teaching others, and most importantly, doing and living this amazing
ancient practice.
In 2023 Carol completed her certification training for yoga therapy through Susi Hately, director
of Functional Synergy, Calgary, CA. She completed her RYT 500 training with Kat Kelly, director
of Bay Area Yoga Center in Green Bay, WI and has been teaching there since 2009. In 2011 Carol
began offering private yoga sessions in Appleton, WI.
In addition to yoga, Carol’s other passion is interior design. Her career began over twenty-five
years ago and encompasses both residential and commercial design. She believes that there
is a strong connection between the spaces that we inhabit and the way that we feel. Form and
function, as well as harmony and balance pertain not only to the places we occupy, but also
to our bodies and our minds. This suggests that there is a link not only between yoga and
design, indeed there is a link between yoga and all other aspects of our lives.
You can contact Carol at carol-bolton@att.net, or 920-277-3191.