Welcome

Hello,

My name is Catherine Larget-Caplan and welcome to my website.

I am the founder of Cathar Yoga and an alternative practicioner, healer, and lecturer on alternative healing and traditional living .

I provide private Shaistu Healing sessions and Cathar Yoga classes for those with recent, chronic or old injuries with intent on full healing and recovery as welll as strength and body education of the whole body.

As I cannot write everything I do on my website, please contact me if you have a question or comment.
I welcome challenges and am committed to my clients health and well-being.

-Catherine Larget-Caplan

Cathar Yoga

Cathar Yoga utilizes the Ma Roller as its sole prop. It is a yoga of transformation and humility bringing us to our most basic physical levels so we can improve from a strong foundation.

A personal, interactive, healing and cathartic yoga discipline awakening the body to its original purpose and intelligence, leading to peace and balance, harmony and prosperity. Only from here can we be truly healed and educated in our body's workings and needs.

On a physical level Cathar Yoga activates and stretches the energy lines known as meridians and realigns the body. To do this, we begin by re-learning how to stand, sit, kneel, lie down, and incorporate poses from Makko Ho and Hatha Yoga. Cathar Yoga can assist in healing and the prevention of injuries.

Shiatsu & Esoteric Healing

Shiatsu is a pressure-point technique developed in Japan over 1000's of years ago. Fingers, hands, elbows, and even bare-foot pressure is applied to specific points on the body to stimulate and unclog meridians. A range of pressures are used.

Each treatment starts with a Hara Diagnosis (the internal center of gravity) and Hara Treatment. The chi is re-directed and stimulated so that the intelligence of the body can take over the healing process.

As hands are used insted of needles or other tools, the healer is able to move with the client's energy (chi flow); sometimes staying in one place for 20 seconds or 2 hours. Shiatsu is a reconstructive process not a simple massage.

The MA Roller

Created in the 1970's by Ramana, an acupuncturist, the MA Roller is a piece of wood about the size of a rolling pin. Originally created solely for lying upon, Catherine created Cathar Yoga for the expanded use of the MA Roller for a greater efficency of Hatha Yoga and Makko Ho.

Finger Surgery

As traditional Shiatsu functions with treating of pressure points, I have coined the term 'finger surgery' as a means of further separating and restructuring the space within the body. Using fingers, the muscles, ligaments, and bones are separated so that they may return to their original shape, reintegrate with the body, and resume their proper functions, and I am able to go deeper and with more sensitivity than otherwise with needs ir tools. This is one of the primary factors for rebuilding the chi flow of the body in a more permanent fashion.

Some Issues Addressed

• Chronic & general degenerative conditions
• Old injuries & traumas
• Muscle-skeletal problems
• Sprained ankles
• Pelvis distortions
• Spinal distortions such as spinal collapse & scoliosis
• Digestive disorders
• Circulatory dysfunction
• Breathing & lung disorders
• Assimilation & elimination disorders
• Shoulder, hip, knee, & foot dislocation &/or separations
• General pain & discomforts
• RSD
• PTSD
• Depression
• Fibromyalgia
• Bulging discs
• Frozen parts of bodies (shoulders, etc), and many more.
• Unknown & unnamed challenges are also accepted

Methods Used

• Comprehensive biochemical, nutritional, energetic, & mental treatment, education & support
• Yoga therapy
• Finger Surgery
• Joint resettlement & relocation
• Muscle reshaping
• Reordering of the Chi flow
• Revitalizing of internal organs
• Sourcing & eradicating of emotional stagnations
• Character evolution
• Traditional living counseling
• Spiritual & philosophical life counseling
• Cathar Yoga
• Reflexology