For a formal CV, please click here: Caroline Harvey Curriculum Vitae

Education & Training:

At age 15, after following legendary rock band The Grateful Dead around the country, Caroline relocated to Oxford, England where they studied creative writing, art history and philosophy at Oxford Tutorial College.  After studying and traveling in Europe, Caroline lived for a time in Colorado, and then also studied Fine Arts, Theater and English in NY and MA. In 1999, Caroline was awarded a BFA in Theater from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts where they graduated Summa Cum Laude and won the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence.  Caroline’s 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 from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures, where they wrote and performed a thesis entitled “Realizing the Inward Music: the Intersection of Ritual, Performance, and Therapeutic Corporeality.” The Project examined the witnessed and felt embodiment of intuition and gazed cross-culturally at sacred art.  At UCLA they also studied 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 their thesis committee.  While at UCLA Caroline also studied at The Department of Theater, Film and Television where they 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 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 they completed a Movement Leadership Training with Vinn Marti, originator of the conscious dance practice Soul Motion.  Caroline also loves to dance with their dear friends and guides Michael and Anneli Molin-Skelton, creators of Spiritweaves.

Caroline is a graduate of The Massage Therapy Institute of Davis, CA, and has completed multiple anatomy courses at the graduate school level. Caroline is a student and practitioner of CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release, and 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.”

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 Caroline also studied and trained in The Alexander Technique, Breathwork, Native American Ritual and Practice, Linklater Voice Work, Reiki energy work, and the Psychopharmacology of Trauma. Caroline remains a student and an adventurer, and they expand their expertise and perspective as often as they can. She feels incredibly lucky and wholeheartedly indebted to the many pilgrims, elders, friends, family members and mentors who lead the way and light their path.

Professional Life:

After over a decade teaching at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Caroline has transitioned into teaching solely at Berklee Online, the UPCEA award-winning online school that delivers access to Berklee’s acclaimed curriculum from anywhere in the world. While an Assistant Professor in the Liberal Arts Department, Caroline taught traditional poetic form, academic writing, yoga for musicians, and their ground-breaking, original Slam Poetry performance curriculum, and coached the Berklee Poetry Slam Team. At Berklee Caroline also collaborated often with the hit songwriter and teacher of the popular Stage Performance Technique classes, Livingston Taylor, and with Lyric Writing teacher and famed author Pat Pattision. Caroline now focuses her Berklee energy on helping to deliver the extraordinary curriculum of Dr. Camille Colatosti by facilitating the transformative Developing Your Artistry course, which contains some of Caroline’s original lessons and lectures.

Teaching online allows Caroline to stay close to their passion of arts education, and has made room for their newest adventure: the purchase of Dogtown Book Shop, a legendary and independent bookstore that’s been serving Gloucester, MA since 1997. As a co-owner of Dogtown with partner Lucas Cotterman, Caroline loves to connect people with the books that will heal, inspire, and enrich their lives, and is passionate about helping new and experienced writers hone their own creative voices. Dogtown Books is a charming storefront on Gloucester’s historic Main Street that offers a distinguished selection of new and gently used books, as well as new gift items, vintage oddities, and apparel for all ages. Dogtown is also a comfortable and inclusive community meeting locale, a center for literary learning and group discussions, and a hub for exciting special events including: workshops, themed book clubs, adult and youth writing contests, open-mic nights, children’s book readings, and unique author events.Before their career at Berklee and Dogtown, Caroline worked for 12 years as a yoga, dance and meditation instructor, a doula (birth attendant), and was in private practice as a Somatic Therapist for over a decade, specializing in Craniosacral Therapy and Voice Work. Their areas of expertise relate to surviving trauma, overcoming creative blocks, and non-verbal communication. Caroline is no longer seeing individual clients, but this cherished time in private practice continues to influence their teaching style and Caroline remains committed to genuine connections with their students. Refer to Upcoming Events for more information on Caroline’s public offerings.

From 2005 through 2015 Caroline was a regular Leader at The Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where they shared their original curricula (listed below) for staff and students. Now under new management and in a time of extraordinary transition following natural disasters, layoffs, and road closures, Caroline looks forward to returning to Esalen when the land, community and the facility have healed and restored their values and mission.

Caroline is regularly featured as a performer and teacher at academic, cultural and healing venues across the world. Most recently, Caroline facilitated writing & voice workshops for the remaining descendants of Ni i’hau (“The Forbidden Island” of Hawaii) on Kauai at Ke Kula Ni i-hau, and in 2011 they were featured at the US Embassy in Serbia where they performed original work & led workshops about free speech for the first generation of youth to grow up post-Milosevic. Caroline has shared work at such organizations as YouthSpeaks, Lesley University, Northeastern University, Brandeis University, the louderARTS Project, UC Berkeley and UCLA, among others.Caroline was featured in two documentaries, including a Lucasfilm, and appeared on Season 5 of HBO’s Def Poetry.  A past member and coach of multiple Poetry Slam Teams, Caroline continues to be a part of poetry performance victories on both national and regional stages. Caroline’s writing, which explores ideas of the sacred and tracks their belief that even the fiercest traumas contain within them the capacity for profound healing and beauty, has been published in literary journals, teaching guides, and anthologies including the 2005 National Poetry Slam Anthology High Desert Voices, the Harvard publication The Charles River Review, and Caroline is published in Pat Pattison’s award-winning book, Songwriting Without Boundaries: Lyric Writing Exercises for Finding Your Voice. Caroline was a 2012 Pushcart Prize Nominee for their publication in Gertrude Press.  Caroline was a 2013 nominee for Best Poet and was a recipient of the 2014 Steelgrass Residency on Kauai, HI. (See radio & print and video to learn more.)

Original Curricula:

Sacred Groove™, an ecstatic dance practice

Awakening the Yogini: Extraordinary Yoga and Education for Women™

The CranioYoga Work: the artful synthesis of Restorative Yin Yoga and CranioSacral Therapy™

Free Your Voice™

Navigating Trauma in the Classroom™: an introduction to best practices for creative writing teachers & mentors. (Co-taught and created with Geoffrey Kagan Trenchard.)