about karolin
Karolin Frick is a Vienna-based somatic practitioner, trauma-sensitive yoga teacher and mind-body coach with a background in social and environmental anthropology. Her work explores embodiment, aliveness and our relationship with the more-than-human world.
She is interested in what becomes possible when we slow down enough to actually come into relation: to our bodies, to our emotions, the people we love, our environments and the living systems we are part of. Her work brings together somatics, trauma-sensitive practice, polyvagal theory and embodied approaches to personal growth with a wider ecological perspective.
For Karolin, embodiment is not only a tool for individual wellbeing. It is also a way of questioning how we have been taught to move through the world — often disconnected from our bodies, from one another and from the environments that sustain us. Developing greater capacity to feel, sense and respond can become a practice of agency, relationship and care.
She is certified in Mind-Body Coaching through The Embody Lab, holds additional training in Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga and Hatha Yoga (200h), and is a Licensed Psychosocial Counsellor (accredited training according to Austrian standards). She brings over 1,000 hours of experience in the psychosocial field, alongside a background in outdoor guiding, slow travel and ecological practice.
Her approach is grounded in choice, curiosity and attunement, while honouring each person's unique pace and capacity.
Alongside her coaching work, Karolin teaches somatic movement and trauma-sensitive yoga in Vienna, creating spaces to explore the body as a source of information, relationship and aliveness.
my purpose
I didn’t come to this work already feeling at home in myself. For many years, I felt disconnected from my own sensations and unable to access the emotional depth I longed for. Travel and writing became early doorways into self-exploration, and in 2018 - while in Mexico - yoga and meditation opened a new path toward sensing, softening, and coming alive again. During my teacher training in India, I remember being moved to tears by the simple wisdom of the body - a moment that reshaped how I approach both life and teaching.
Having experienced the shift from numbness to genuine presence, I’ve come to understand how powerful attention, nervous-system awareness and conscious choice can be. This transformation is what gives my work purpose: creating supportive spaces where others can reconnect with themselves, explore at their own pace and discover their own inner aliveness.
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?“
– Mary Oliver