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Hi, I'm Caro.

My first yoga class was during my studies in business psychology through the university sports program. I wasn’t enthusiastic afterward — quite the opposite. It simply wasn’t challenging enough for me.

At that time, I lived by the motto higher, faster, further. Everything had to be efficient: top grades, career, performance. My body was expected to keep up — even when it was already exhausted or beginning to rebel.

A few years later, a friend took me to another yoga class — this time Vinyasa. And something shifted. I began not only to do yoga, but to feel it. I felt calmer, more grounded, and reconnected with myself and my body in a way I hadn’t experienced for a long time.

My curiosity was awakened, and many trainings and further certifications followed in different fields. Yoga — and especially Yin Yoga — breathwork, and everything I learned along the way began to fundamentally change how I viewed the working world and life as a whole. I started asking new questions: What truly matters to me? How do I want to feel? And what is my body trying to tell me through all these symptoms?

Despite earning both a bachelor’s and master’s degree, completing a corporate trainee program, and maintaining a clear focus on my professional career, I increasingly felt unbalanced and internally empty. My connection to myself became fragile, and my mental health suffered.

My first yoga teacher training ultimately became a turning point. It not only gave me a new perspective, but also the courage to let go of my long-term career in human resources and to become self-employed as a yoga teacher in 2018.

Following my own very positive experience with coaching, I soon completed my first coaching certification with a focus on positive psychology. Alongside my academic background in psychology, my personal burnout experience, and my high sensitivity, a deep interest in the autonomic nervous system began to grow.

This path and my curiosity led me to train as a Somatic Practitioner and Buteyko Breathwork Coach, as well as to earn certifications in nervous system regulation, Polyvagal Theory, and emTrace emotion coaching. I am currently in the third year of a three-year Somatic Experiencing training program to deepen my work in body-based trauma healing.

Today, I bring all of these elements together — body, breath, nervous system, and awareness — in my work, creating spaces where true regulation, connection, and sustainable change can unfold.

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Caro Ann Körner Foto Felix Matthies

Looking back, it was this conscious awareness — this slow and intentional taking seriously of my body’s signals — that changed everything. The more I stopped fighting against it, the more balance, clarity, joy, and a sense of connection began to unfold.

This is how a deep conviction grew within me: that sustainable well-being, inner balance, and true fulfillment are only possible when we reconnect with our autonomic nervous system, our body, and our emotions — when we live embodied.

To me, embodiment means a lived connection between body, mind, and heart. A state in which we don’t just understand, but truly feel. A state in which we can perceive, regulate, and act from this connection.

 

There are many ways to cultivate this embodied connection. In my work, I use tools that I myself have experienced as deeply transformative over many years — and that I now share to support others on their own journey.

Not as a quick fix, but as a gentle reminder of how to come back home to yourself.

SOMATICS, EMBODIMENT, NERVOUS SYSTEM WORK & BREATH

My work invites you to move from thinking back into sensing. Through somatic practices, breathwork, Yin Yoga, and embodiment, I support people in regulating their nervous system, tuning into bodily signals, and returning to a safe, embodied connection with themselves.

From the very beginning, I have been deeply interested in how sustainable change truly happens — not through intellectual understanding alone, but through lived, embodied experience. How inner safety, emotional balance, and clarity can emerge when the body is no longer something we “drag along,” but is consciously included.

SOMATIC PRACTICE & COACHING

As a Somatic Practitioner and Coach, I integrate body-based approaches with psychological depth. At the center of my work is always the autonomic nervous system — as it shapes how we feel, think, respond, and experience connection and relationships.

My work is less about quick fixes or self-optimization, and more about a subtle remembering: of the body’s innate wisdom, of inner resources, and of the capacity for self-regulation. Emotions are not analyzed, but understood as expressions of the body and supported with care and presence.

MY OFFERINGS

I support individuals through one-on-one coaching, group programs, retreats, and trainings. I also train yoga teachers in Yin Yoga, Embodiment & Somatics, and educate coaches in body- and nervous system–based approaches.

Having been raised bilingually (German & English by my US-American mother) and now based in Spain, I work multilingual.

My offerings are available in German, English, and Spanish.

TRAININGS & CERTIFICATES

  • Somatic Experiencing (SE), Somatic Experiencing Barcelona (in training, year 1/3)

  • Somatic Practitioner Training - The Core Rising, The Core Rising & Maggie Hayes (2025)

  • emTrace Emotion Coach, Brainboxx Hamburg (2025)

  • Certified Buteyko Breath Coach, Dr. Ralph Skuban (2024)

  • 50h Polyvagal informed Certificate Course, Dr. Stephen Porges, Polyvagal Institute & Polyvagal Akademie (2024)

  • Basics of Somatic Experiencing (SE), Somatic Experiencing International (2024)

  • Somatic Practitioner Training: Awakened Body, Dr. Chris Walling et al., Embodied Philosophy (2023)

  • Integrative Somatic Parts Work, Fran Booth, The Embody Lab (2023)

  • 55h Mental Health & Wellness Yoga Teacher Training (Yoga Alliance), Tiffany Cruikshank, Valerie Knopik & Diane Malaspina, Yoga Medicine (2022)

  • Yogamaya Coaching Mastery Mastermind, Cari Merriam (2022)

  • Sequencing for Yin Yoga, Jo Phee, triyoga London (2021)

  • Lumia Life Coach Training (Focus: Positive Psychology; ICF accredited), Lumia (former JRNI Coaching) (2021/22)

  • Embodied Yoga Principles (EYP) Training, Mark Walsh, Berlin (2020)

  • 20h Yin & Restorative Yoga, Rae Helsel, Zem Yoga Studio Rom (2020)

  • Yoga Therapy: Neck & Shoulders, Doug Keller, Yogamoves Hamburg (2019)

  • 120h THRIVE Mentorship Programme for Yoga Teachers, Annika Isterling, Hamburg (2018/19)

  • Trauma informed Yoga “Yoga & Trauma”, Yoga für Alle e.V. & Nicole Witthoefft, Hamburg (2019)

  • 20h Yin Yoga: A Functional Approach (Yoga Alliance), Paul Grilley, Pranamaya (2019)

  • 35h Thai Yoga Practitioner Training, Tobias Frank, Shivasloft Düsseldorf (2019)

  • 50h Yin Yoga Teacher Training (Yoga Alliance), Bernie Clark & Diana Batts, Semperviva Vancouver/ Canada (2018)

  • 35h Breathe To Heal Teacher Training (Yoga Alliance), Max Strom, myShanti Yoga Nürnberg (2018)

  • 200h Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training (Yoga Alliance), Nadine Maslonka & Fabienne Bogdahn, Damn Good Yoga Hamburg (2017)​

  • Systemic Coaching Basic Training, dr. alexander et kreutzer / Institut für systemisches Coaching (2007)

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FORMAL EDUCATION

  • BSc Business Psychology, Leuphana University Lüneburg (2006-2009)

  • Psychology, Universidad de Málaga, Spain (2008/09)

  • MA Human Resources Management, University of Hamburg (2010-2012)

training & education

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