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Alpaca Shepherdess . Writer . Unschooling Mama . Yoga & Meditation
About Carly
I’m Carly and I’m an alpaca shepherdess, writer, unschooling mama and yoga & meditation facilitator.
I specialise in natural alpaca care, CameliDynamics and working with the alpacas for wellbeing, work I facilitate through my role as Herd Manager at Hideaway Wood Farm with the most amazing all female farming crew.
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I live in a caravan in the Northamptonshire countryside with my silversmith and writer husband and our young daughter.
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A lifetime of trauma, burn out and struggle led me back home to nature and initiated a process of gradually retreating from the modern world to find solace in simpler, slower and more cyclical and ancestrally inspired ways of living.
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For almost a decade I worked with women in service of reconnecting to ourselves, our cycles and the cycles of nature (formerly as Moon Forest Flow) through the modality of yoga, nidra, nature and circles.
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Then in 2021 I gave birth to our daughter and the powerful process of matrescence changed everything and I was guided towards my lifelong dream of working with animals and writing.​​
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I now find myself working and raising my daughter on a beautiful patch of rewilded land and have found home, healing and meaning amongst the alpacas.​
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The rewilding of women is still central to my life and worldview and is the thread that runs through all of my offerings from my writing which I share on my blog and on Substack to our offerings on the farm.
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If you feel the call to spend time with these calming, beautiful, therapeutically supportive creatures you can head to our website or drop me a message and we can talk about the various options we offer at the farm.
I also love supporting other Camelid owners to find more ease, calm and fulfilment with their animals using CameliDynamics handling. If this is you pop me a message and we can have a chat about your requirements to see if I can help.​​
Offerings
Writing
I write because I can’t not write. Words burn inside of me waiting to find a moment to escape onto the page. I have written a personal blog for ten years publicly and behind a paywall on Patreon and I am now continuing over on Substack, sharing my journey to becoming an alpaca shepherdess and life with the alpacas amongst many other things.
Yoga
I specialise in yoga for women throughout all ages, life stages and cycle phases. I offer a permissive approach to movement that honours and nourishes our wild and cyclical ways.​ An invitation to surrender to the flow and be released from expectations of consistency, predictability and infinite resource. A call back home to our wilder selves.
I offer occasional pop up yoga classes and alpaca yoga on the farm.
Nidra
An immensely powerful and healing practice of deep rest and effortless meditation. I offer creative and nature-infused practices and my delivery style is inspired by the natural world and my love of language. It involves a blend of structured rest and creative freedom.
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Join me as a Founding Member on Substack for access to recordings.
Alpaca Shepherdess
I take care of the alpacas at Hideaway Wood Farm in the role of Herd Manager. We specialise in natural alpaca care, CameliDynamics and alpacas for their therapeutically supportive benefits to our wellbeing. As a trained yoga and meditation teacher, certified Animal Assisted Activity and Animal Assisted Interventions specialist, we offer experiences for people to come and enjoy being amongst the alpacas and learning to handle them using CameliDynamics handling and training techniques for their wellbeing and ours.
Rewilding Women
I have spent a decade working with women in nature. Over the years I have come to see the many ways that our modern world and our enculturated captivity* affect our capacity to thrive.
We are born wild and gradually accept the limitations of our domestication until our wilder heritage is unknown to us. Many of spend a lifetime suffering as a consequence without knowing why.
Some of us lose the capacity to cope with the modern world somewhere along the way. At the time it feels like breaking but we soon realise that it is in fact breaking free.
These pivotal moments connect us back to our hearts and our wilder heritage.
We catch the scent of home and long to return.
We have awakened to the culturally imposed bars on our windows and this cannot be undone.
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We are the women breaking free of captivity.
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*Credit to the work of ecopsychologist Vaughan Wilkins for this powerful phrase.