Welcome

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 practicing in Dorchester, Massachusetts. I provide private Shaistu 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. As I cannot write everything I do on my website, please contact me if you have a question or comment.
I welcome challenges and committed to my clients health and well-being.

-Catherine Larget-Caplan

News: Cathar Yoga & Shiatsu Healing is now located in Dorchester (5 minutes south of Boston) and is accepting new clients.

Cathar Yoga

A personal & interactive cathartic discipline that awakens the body to its original purpose: peace and balance.

Cathar yoga utilizes the Ma-Roller and is a yoga of humility bringing us to our most basic levels so we can improve from the foundation. Only from here can we be truly educated in our body's workings & needs.

We begin by re-learning how to stand, sit, kneel, & lie down. From a place of alignment & knowledge we incorporate the poses taught for centuries in the Far East. The body transforms from a disaster to an aster, a star, enhancing all aspects of your life, all realms of your being. Created by Catherine as an alternative & complimentary healing practice for those who have no choice but to get better. Cathar Yoga moves beyond just lying on the Ma.

Shiatsu & Esoteric Healing

Shiatsu is a pressure-point technique developed in Japan. Fingers, hands, & even bare-foot pressure is applied to specific points on the body to stimulate "meridians" (pathways through which life energy (chi) flows).
Each treatment starts with a Hara Diagnosis (the internal center of gravity) & Hara Treatment. The the chi is re-directed & stimulated so that the intelligence of the body can take over the healing process. Treatments includes spinal, muscle, & ligament realignment through finger surgery. This is necessary to eradicate & dislodge the embedded traumas & injuries.
As hands are used insted of needles or other tools, I am able to move when and where the client's energy (chi flow) tells me to; sometimes I am in one place for 20 seconds or 2 hours.

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 has expanded upon its use for a greater efficency of Hatha Yoga.

Finger Surgey

As traditional Shiatsu functions with treating of pressure points, I have coined the term 'finger surgery' as a means of further separating & restructuring the space within the body, . Using fingers, the muscles, ligaments, & bones area separated so that they may return to their original shape, reintegrate with the body, and resume their proper functions. 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 biofeedback
• 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