Hi there,
My name is Caroline Bricout, but most people call me Cara. I am a yoga teacher and a holistic therapist working with embodiment and somatic practices. I am also a student of psychology and psychoanalysis.
Throughout my journey, I have had the opportunity to explore different branches of yoga, including Traditional Tantra, Yin, Hatha, and sacred dance. Over the years, I have gathered enough experience to facilitate retreats and events such as women’s circles, cacao ceremonies, and rites of passage.
My Personal Story
My relationship with the world of therapy began very early, in the silence of a loss far too great for my four-year-old self. A few days after her birth, my sister passed away. This tragedy deeply shook my family and left me with a sense of guilt and a profound emptiness ; one that I only truly began to meet and understand in adulthood.
My teenage years were marked by inner storms. At that time, I didn’t yet have the tools to understand what was happening inside me. The body was already speaking, long before words were available.
Around the age of 23, this dialogue became impossible to ignore. Insomnia, anxiety, somatic symptoms ; something within me was clearly calling for help.
That is when I decided to “try yoga.” Like many people who know nothing about yoga, I simply chose a class that fit my schedule. I found myself in an Ashtanga class led by a former classical dancer ; very serious, very demanding.
Needless to say, for a first encounter, yoga felt anything but gentle or relaxing.
I remember leaving the class wondering what people could possibly find calming about this practice, convinced it definitely wasn’t for me.
And yet, something stayed.
A few years later, during a silent retreat in Thailand at the Dipabhāvan meditation center, yoga revealed itself in a completely different way. For the first time, my body was no longer a place of struggle, but a space for listening.
That was where a path opened.
A path that has never left me since.
“Yoga is a profound school of self-discovery”
Over the years, I have explored various approaches: Hatha, Yin, Traditional Tantra, somatic practices, and sacred dance. My own healing journey naturally guided me toward a slower, more sensitive practice; one that respects the rhythms of the nervous system and the stories held within the body.
Becoming a yoga teacher was never a career plan, but a continuation. A way of offering what I wish I had found earlier: a safe, respectful space where the body has nothing to prove.
Today, my interest in psychology and psychoanalysis deepens this approach. I explore the connection between body, emotions, and lived experience, with the intention of supporting people in cultivating more presence, integrity, and gentleness toward themselves.
I share this path for those who feel called to reconnect, to reconcile body and mind, and to rediscover their true self. Because even in emptiness and pain, it is possible to rebuild, to breathe, and to feel whole again.
If this path resonates with you, you are warmly welcome to contact me.