Trauma sensitive yoga
What is trauma sensitive yoga?
Trauma-sensitive yoga is a gentle, intuitive, and body-centered practice that invites you to reconnect with yourself in a safe and supportive way. It’s not about perfect alignment or achieving certain postures, but about noticing your sensations, exploring movement and breath, and finding ease within your own body. This practice helps regulate the nervous system, cultivate presence, and create a sense of safety, curiosity, and aliveness.
Each session is an invitation to explore your own rhythms, honor your limits, and discover the intelligence of your body. It’s a practice of self-awareness and choice, where you move at your own pace and reconnect with what truly feels nourishing.
I teach trauma-sensitive yoga in Vienna at Manas Yoga and online, offering both group classes and private sessions. Whether you prefer the energy of a shared space or the intimacy of your own home, the sessions are tailored to support your unique needs, helping you feel grounded, regulated, and alive.
student love
„I feel REgrounded.
We are in a world that wants us to be all over the places, with our bodies and our minds
Today I don't feel grounded in stillness. I feel grounded in motion - from being scattered everywhere, collecting pieces of myself from all over, to recentering myself.
Just in these moments with her, I found what YOGA truly means... it's definitely not just about stretching. When we hugged ourselves today, guided by her voice, my tears started falling ….“
– Adele
„I am so grateful to have Karolin and her wonderful offerings in my life <3”
– Sunniva
„Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to take a yoga class in the safe space you are creating dear Karolin <3 it's always so calming for my mind and I love the opportunity to join whenever I can and be at home when I do”
– Lina
Why practice online?
Practicing online offers a unique opportunity to move, sense, and rest in the safety and comfort of your own space. Because this approach is not about perfect alignment and adjustments wouldn’t be offered in person either, it works wonderfully online. You can fully tune into your body, explore movement freely, and even make sounds—without fear of being seen or judged.
This format allows you to practice in a way that honors your own rhythm, nervous system state, and needs, whether you are new to yoga or experienced. It’s a chance to cultivate presence, self-regulation, and curiosity, and to integrate the effects of your practice directly into your daily life.
Available for group classes and private sessions, online trauma-sensitive yoga brings the benefits of somatic awareness, choice, and gentle exploration straight to your home.
We don’t use the body to get into a pose,
we use the pose to get into the body!
- Bernie Clark
Yoga Teacher, Author
Community sessions
This weekly gathering is a gentle, choice-based yoga and somatic practice where there’s no need for perfect alignment or performance—online or in person. The focus is on sensing, feeling, and moving in ways that support your body, nervous system, and personal rhythm.
What makes this space special is that we do it together. Being witnessed and held in community is an essential part of the practice, especially when working with trauma. At the end of each session, there’s an open space to share, if you wish, and to be seen in your pain, grief, joy, or simply in your presence.
Here, practice becomes not just individual self-exploration, but a shared experience of connection, compassion, and aliveness—supportive, regulating, and nurturing in the safety of your own home.
weekly donation based practice
every wednesday evening, 6pM CEST
Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.
- B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga master and Pioneer
Private yoga sessions
In these sessions, I guide you through a gentle, intuitive, and inquisitive practice rooted in choice. Together, we explore sensing and feeling, supporting nervous system regulation, vagal flexibility, and the experience of safety in your own body. Each session is tailored specifically to you, your organism, and your own needs, allowing space for your unique rhythm and unfolding. This is not about perfect alignment or performance—online or in person, the focus is on your experience and aliveness.
At the end of each session, we include a short integration phase—bringing the practice into your everyday life and harvesting its effects—something often missing in regular yoga classes.
These sessions are available in Vienna or online, in a space that supports curiosity, presence, and embodied exploration.
Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.
- Judith Hanson Lasater
Yoga Teacher, Author
Book your first session
Private sessions are available exclusively as a 10-session package, providing the time and space for a full, supportive journey.