Caroline Harvey is a writer, performer, educator and somatic therapist in Boston, MA.  In addition to her private practice as a coach and teacher, she is currently a Visiting Artist at Berklee College of Music. She's whole-heartedly committed to a life's work of cultivating creativity, awareness, vibrant health and transformation.

Caroline still has the feather collection she began in pre-school, and her imaginary friend is still the moon.  One of her favorite early memories is of leading a meditation about "floating on the ocean" for a group of first grade friends at a slumber party; another is writing plays in kindergarten and sharing the debut performances in the family living room. Front-row tickets cost 75 cents!

Caroline's parents remind her, with a wink, that she was never very good at following the rules she didn't agree with.  But she comes by her love of subversion honestly-- her grandfather was famed civil and human rights attorney Arthur Harvey who represented artists (like Paul Robeson), women, and minorities at a time when doing so made him a target for the McCarthy hearings. So Caroline, influenced by a legacy of outspoken mavericks, skipped past both the third grade and her last two years of high school and left home to follow the Grateful Dead around the country, write wild poetry and dance.  Eventually bored without her books and studies, at 16 Caroline relocated to England where she could investigate creative writing, art history and philosophy at Oxford Tutorial College.  After studying and traveling in Europe, Caroline lived for a time in Colorado before studying Fine Arts and English at various universities in NY.

In 1999 (after attending five undergraduate universities!) Caroline was awarded a BFA in Theater from Boston University where she graduated Summa Cum Laude and won the Dean's Award for Academic Excellence.  Her stage directorial debut dealt with the work of poet Anne Sexton and was chosen for review by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Caroline additionally earned a Master’s Degree in Dance from UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures in 2002, where she wrote and performed a thesis called "Inward Music: The Rug Dance Project." The Project examined the witnessed and felt embodiment of intuition and gazed cross-culturally at sacred art.  She dove into her studies at UCLA, exploring anatomy, dance movement therapy, choreography, site-specific performance, the politics of the body, and many movement techniques including the sacred practices of Afro-Cuban dance and drumming. Both the renowned movement artist/choreographer Simone Forti and the celebrated theater revolutionary Peter Sellars sat on her thesis committee.  While at UCLA she also studied at the Department of Theater, Film and Television where she served as a choreographer for films and was the Teaching Assistant for many of the "movement for actors" courses.

  Caroline is a devoted student of health and yoga pioneer Ana Forrest and is a graduate of her Foundational, Advanced, and Continuing Educational Forrest Yoga Teacher Trainings. Caroline also greatly appreciated her two Yin Yoga Teacher Trainings (one with Insight Yoga founder Sarah Powers and another with Boston-based acupuncturist and Sati Solutions co-founder Josh Summers), and she completed a Movement Leadership Training with Vinn Marti, originator of the conscious dance practice Soul Motion.  Caroline also loves to dance with her dear friends and guides Michael and Anneli Molin-Skelton, creators of Spiritweaves.

Caroline is honored to be a Teaching Assistant for the Upledger Institute for Craniosacral Therapy. The most comprehensive and intensive CranioSacral Therapy training venue in the world, the Upledger Institute was founded by Dr. Upledger who is accredited with the groundbreaking discovery of the Dural Pulse and the creation of the term "CranioSacral Therapy." Caroline is also a graduate of The Massage Therapy Institute of Davis, CA, and has completed multiple anatomy courses at the graduate school level.

A registered member of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapists, Caroline has studied closely with bodywork and movement innovator Julian Walker, the Women's Sacred Anatomy Project founder Ellen Heed, the Center for Movement Education and Research founder and director Judy Gantz, and the Men's Yoga Tribe founder Jonathan Bowra. Along the way she also investigated Reiki energy work, The Alexander Technique, Breathwork, Native American Ritual and Practice, Linklater Voice Work, and the Psychopharmacology of Trauma.  Caroline remains a student and an adventurer, and she expands her expertise and perspective as often as she can. 

She feels incredibly lucky and wholeheartedly indebted to the many pilgrims, elders, friends, family members and mentors who lead the way and light her path. 

A dedicated teacher, professional artist and health practitioner for over a decade now, Caroline currently works as a yoga, dance and meditation instructor & workshop leader, a doula (birth attendant), and is in private practice as a Somatic Therapist in Boston, specializing in Craniosacral Therapy and Voice Work.  She is the creator of Sacred Groove™, an ecstatic dance practice, Awakening the Yogini: Extraordinary Yoga and Education for Women™, and The CranioYoga Work: the artful synthesis of Restorative Yin Yoga and CranioSacral Therapy™. 

Caroline teaches and performs poetry nationwide, and is the creator of two original voice curricula, Free Your Voice™ and Embodied Poetics™. She was featured in two documentaries and appeared on Season 5 of HBO’s Def Poetry.  A past member and coach of multiple Poetry Slam Teams, Caroline has been a part of victories on both national and regional stages. Most recently, she helped the Berklee College of Music Slam Team win the "Spirit of Slam" award at the 2010 Collegiate National Poetry Slam. She is especially committed to facilitating creative writing classes for at-risk youth, survivors of trauma and those working to get free from drug and alcohol addiction and she works in conjunction with The Attleboro Arts Museum to provide poetry education for teens in foster care.  She is honored to have been featured at schools and organizations such as YouthSpeaks, The Esalen Institute, Bristol Community College, Northeastern University, UC Berkeley and UCLA. Caroline is a registered member of the Voice and Speech Teachers Association.

Caroline's writing, which explores ideas of the sacred and tracks her belief that even the fiercest traumas contain within them the capacity for profound healing and beauty, has been published in various literary journals and anthologies including the 2005 National Poetry Slam Anthology "High Desert Voices" and the Harvard publication "The Charles River Review."  She is currently working on a new collection of poems based on the women Salvador Dali painted and a book about her most recent travels in Asia and Central America.

She continues to collect feathers, to be curious, questioning, pioneering and wild, and she hopes never to stop talking to the moon.