#78 - CARLING HARPS -On functional movement, building community, losing identity as a new mom and freestyling students

Carling Harps (@carlingnicole) has been teaching yoga since 2012, is a certified Mobility Specialist, Registered Pre/Postnatal teacher, and birth doula. A life long lover of movement & education, Carling has spent the last decade+ studying Yoga, Sports Mobility, Women's Advocacy & Birth. Surrounded by offerings from teachers such as Annie Carpenter, Philip Askew, Tiffany Russo, Caroline Myss, and multi-disciplinary systems such as Function Range Conditioning, Kinstretch, Postpartum Athleticism coaching, and doula training with Penny Simpkin in 2014. 

As a founder of Awakening Yoga Academy, Carling has traveled the world offering workshops and facilitating trainings in the AY method as well as offers classes both online and in person with her Seattle-based studio, Commune Yoga. As a mother, teacher, and female founder, Carling strives to bring a sense of curiosity, conscious connection, and empowering education to all of her teachings. 

WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT

-Morning affirmations and positive self-talk

-Realising you are not your thoughts

-College cheerleader to functional movement teacher

-What is mobility and functional movement?

-Managing students who freestyle in class

-The key to building a strong community

-Loss of identity as a new mum

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