Carly Chandler-Morris
Wild words, wild yarns & wild nidras for women breaking free from captivity.
Wilder Women
In my decade of working with women in nature and natural settings, I came 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 known to us.
Many of us spend a lifetime suffering as a consequence without knowing why.
Some of us lose the capacity to cope with the modern world 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.
We are the women breaking free of captivity.
Wild Yarns
Fibre craft products, workshops and private tuition at Catanger Llamas, home to my little fibre herd of llamas and alpacas
Wild Words
Writing has always been there for me and helps bring me back home to myself. I find when we see a piece of ourselves in the story of another it can help us to feel a little less alone.
Wild Nidras
Creative and nature-infused practices inspired by the natural world and my love of language. These recordings involve a blend of structured rest and creative freedom.
About
Hello! Welcome. I'm so glad you've made it here.
I'm Carly and I'm a mother, alpaca & llama shepherdess, writer, fibre artist and yoga nidra facilitator.
Alongside home educating my daughter and writing, I keep a small fibre herd of llamas & alpacas at Catanger Llamas and offer fibre craft workshops and private tuition including spinning, knitting, felting and peg looming with their beautiful fleeces.
I spent ten years as a yoga teacher specialising in wild & cyclical yoga for women's bodies and yoga nidra for deep rest. This is still something I offer from time to time and my nidras are available to try out - check out my Wild Nidras page.
Carly x
Healing through herding & hand crafts
It's been a long meandering journey to find my way back home. To animals. To writing. To who I always was beneath it all.
I spent nearly a decade working with women in the wild. Wild & cyclical yoga, circles, hiking, wild swimming, deep rest through yoga, singing, dancing and story telling.
And then the initiation of birth and mothering and I felt an unerring impulse to change what I was doing but had absolutely no idea what lay ahead.
I dropped into trust and was led home to animals and writing, the first loves of my childhood.
And today I still find myself working with women this time with ancient crafts in our hands to soothe our souls and lift our hearts
I began spinning as a way of processing the fleeces we produce every year but continued as a way of processing my mind and emotions.
Spinning, knitting, felting and rug making became the place my hands went to in the quiet moments.
Turning pasture and water into yarn. Shifting anxiety and rumination into peace and creation.
Over time I've found something very special happens when we gather together as women to spin yarn as we have for thousands of years.
