No matter what your circumstances—you have children, aging parents, you're a busy entrepreneur or professional, you already workout all the time, you think you're too stuck in your ways—this is for you. We all live in a body and have a nervous system, and our nervous system affects how we think, act, feel, and experience the world. This is a space and practice designed for you to access your own wisdom and healing potential. The Pause method focuses on helping you rebalance mind, body, and spirit using tools from leadership coaching, mindfulness, neuroscience, and wisdom traditions.  Carolyn has consumed the research and practiced all of the tools personally and with clients for years, and knows how transformational they are for people who are high-performers and spending most of their time in their heads. Pause helps you drop into your body and heart so you learn to trust yourself more, destress on a cellular level and feel rejuvenated. It's also for people who don't connect to Sanskrit or other parts of the yoga lineages or Eastern practices, but want to move and stretch and breathe and get similar benefits. This is also for you if you are looking for gentle cathartic experiences rather than high-intensity nervous system purges like using psychedelics or holotropic breathwork which can leave you feeling raw or even traumatized.     

You are welcome here, and there is restoration for you in this place.

The Pause portal opens in January, 2024 (with the exact date TBD) so you can dive into the video and audios that spark you the most. Each week you'll be able to join a live video Pause session and receive a shorter audio with a specific theme such as sleep, focus, or pleasure. This pacing allows you time to absorb and sit with each teaching and practice, so you start to feel the shifts before adding on new insights or actions, without overwhelm.

The membership portal includes weekly live video sessions (45min.) and guided audio (10min. or less) for you to have in your back pocket all week. All recordings are saved for easy access, as well as the bonus meditations and activations. Carolyn has been doing professional voice overs for radio and digital media for over a decade so this is an integrated and valuable part of the membership offering.

The amount of content is designed to help you feel ease and not overwhelm. Humans think they need variety and novelty and are always seeking more because we get a dopamine hit by accumulating knowledge. But what's better than variety is depth and results. Using these tools repetitively and showing up for yourself consistently over time to go deeper, release more, and discover more will lead to a paradigm shift. 

Knowledge consumed rarely leads to transformation and results. Action and embodiment are the keys. This is an invitation to pause and become truly embodied.

Yes! We want to co-create the container of this community with the founding members. The Pause values are compassionate listening to your body, honoring individuals' needs to destress at their own pace, and being genuine and kind. 

Over the past several years, our human needs for safety and belonging have been threatened. It has led to individual and collective trauma, burnout, a loneliness epidemic, and a mental health crisis. These effects are taking a toll on our health and wellbeing. People need more meaning and connection, not mental clutter and distraction.

We envision a community where people are sharing their insights and experiences, and are supporting each other on the platform. 

Pause is designed for 1-hour a week of actual guided sessions and you can increase the amount of time you practice as you like. This is not a course with lectures you can consume while on the go. The content is experiential and designed to help you shift into a different energetic and nervous system state. Being fully present will help you get the most out of it, and if you can't make it to the Live sessions you can access the recordings when it works best for you, and again and again.

Yes. We have a 14-day complimentary trial and you can cancel the monthly membership at any time before the next billing cycle, worry-free.

Yes, it is a natural benefit of this method. Working with the body and supporting the nervous system is a pathway to healing trauma just as it's the best way to release stress. There isn't an adult in this world who is trauma-free because trauma is not an event. It’s the energy that’s released into the body when something is too much for your system, but that energy is not expressed-- resulting in physical tension and subsequent issues. 

That being said, we don't talk about trauma in Pause and it is not a substitute for psychotherapy, psychiatric support or medical advice. If you're looking for a place to receive a deeper level of support, we recommend working with a qualified trauma release professional in a 1:1 session. Carolyn Barnwell is unable to provide any 1:1 private support/coaching in the Pause group membership.

Carolyn is also a certified Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®) Provider but does not teach TRE® in the Pause portal or as part of the method.

No! This isn't a workout class where people will feel out-of-place if they're not wearing tight athletic wear. You might get a little bit sweaty depending on what kind of somatic exercises we're doing, but you're welcome to just come as you are in comfortable clothing and have a journal/notebook and pen handy. Some people like to have a pillow or two and a blanket to get extra comfortable for deep rest.