Caitlin Olson - ITP.

Caitlin Olson - ITP. Hello, I'm Caitie, a devoted yoga instructor with a passion for guiding individuals on a journey of self-discovery through yoga and meditation.

Somatic Yoga Teacher & Integrative Trauma Practitioner
Helping women slow down, tune into their bodies, and heal from stress and trauma
Passionate about guiding others to feel more embodied, grounded, and free

Accepting new clients! My dedication lies in helping you unravel more about yourself, fostering a deeper connection between mind, body, and spirit. Join me in exploring the transformative

potential of yoga and meditation as we embark on a path of self-awareness and personal growth together. Creating Safety, Inspiring Calm: In the comfort of your home, my mission is to offer private sessions of gentle yoga and meditation, providing a personalized haven for soothing the nervous system and allowing you the freedom to truly be yourself. Join me on a journey of tranquility and self-discovery tailored specifically to you, fostering well-being and personal strength in the privacy and comfort of your own space.

09/05/2026

What happens?

Do you actually settle?

Or does your brain immediately start listing everything you should be doing?

Do you reach for your phone? Feel restless? Guilty? Lazy? Uncomfortable?

Do you tell yourself you’ll rest after the laundry, after the emails, after the workout, after everyone else is taken care of?

A lot of us have gotten really good at overriding the quieter cues from our bodies.

I’m tired.
I need a minute.
I don’t want to do this.
This is too much.
I need help.

Until eventually the body has to get a little louder.

This is something I get really curious about in somatic work.

Can you notice what you need before your body starts screaming at you?

Can you rest before you’ve earned it?

Can you experience softness, pleasure, safety and comfort without immediately needing to get back up and be productive?

And maybe the practice today is literally just noticing what happens when you try.

That’s where we start.

two things can be true at once. let them.
09/04/2026

two things can be true at once. let them.

09/01/2026

I speak from experience here. I’ve had a total hysterectomy, and one thing that still gets me is how casually we treat what women’s bodies go through with reproductive health.

the years of painful periods.
the internal ultrasounds.
the biopsies.
the fertility appointments.
the pelvic exams.
the endometriosis surgeries.
the pregnancy losses.
the traumatic births.
the hysterectomies.
the “everything looks normal.”
the “give it six weeks.”

and then… back to life.

a hysterectomy is major surgery. an organ is literally removed from your body. but once the incisions heal and you’re medically cleared, there can be this weird assumption that the experience is finished.

but there’s a whole person attached to that uterus.

there’s the body that lived through everything leading up to it. the pain. the appointments. the procedures. the vulnerability of constantly being examined. the surgery itself. the recovery. the changes afterwards.

and your body doesn’t necessarily move on just because you’ve been medically cleared.

not every difficult medical experience is trauma. but reproductive healthcare can ask A LOT of a body, and I don’t think we give women nearly enough space to acknowledge that.

this is a big part of why I care so much about the work I do now.

in somatic sessions, we’re not trying to convince your body that everything is fine or digging around looking for trauma. we slow things down. we notice what’s actually happening now. we work with safety, sensation, boundaries, movement, breath and whatever your body has the capacity for that day.

because maybe your surgery was years ago, but nobody ever gave you space to process what it was actually like to live through all of it.

if your reproductive health history feels like something your body never really got to catch up with, you’re welcome here. 🤍

somatic sessions in Okotoks + online.

09/01/2026

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.

There are versions of me I spent years being. The way I handled things, the s**t I tolerated, what I thought mattered, what I thought I had to prove, even the way I treated my own body.

And I don’t hate those versions of me. I actually understand them a lot better now.

I just don’t really relate to her anymore.

Which is kinda wild when you think about it.

Anyway, I went outside to play with the dogs, noticed one yellow leaf and then noticed like ten more.

First tiny sign of fall. 🍂

08/30/2026

one of the easiest sensory cues I use at home: warm, cozy feet. 🧦

okay, first thing: I clearly have no idea how to make slipper content aesthetic.

your feet are taking in SO much information all day: temperature, texture, pressure, balance and where your body is in space.

so yes, I’m a big believer in making that sensory input as pleasant as possible ✨

warm slippers. fuzzy socks. soft rugs. heated blankets.

I want the body getting little cues of comfort wherever I can sneak them in.

warmth, softness and gentle pressure can be really nice sensory input. your feet are packed with sensory receptors that are constantly sending information back to your brain about what’s happening around you and underneath you.

is it going to regulate your entire nervous system? no lol.

but somatic work and nervous system regulation don’t always need to involve a whole practice. I’m all about finding tiny ways to make the body feel a little more comfortable and give the nervous system pleasant, predictable sensory information without turning it into another thing you have to “work” at.

08/30/2026

this work is incredible, but not because it teaches you how to never feel overwhelmed, activated, angry, anxious or sad again.

it doesn’t.

for me, the magic is in having somewhere those things don’t need to be immediately fixed.

somewhere we can get curious about what your body is doing, what it might be protecting, and what happens when we give it a little more time, choice and support instead of asking it to hurry up and feel better.

sometimes that looks like movement. sometimes breath. sometimes shaking, tears, laughter, anger, stillness or absolutely nothing noticeable at all.

and sometimes the work is simply having another human stay present with you while something feels hard.

not dragging you toward the light.

just sitting beside you long enough for your eyes to adjust.

that’s the kind of work i believe in. 🖤

08/28/2026

i’m always going to tell you to choose yourself.

even when you don’t really like yourself.
even when you’re carrying shame.
even when you’re still figuring out who the f**k you are.

you don’t have to love every part of yourself to start being on your own side.

and you definitely don’t have to trade who you are for approval while you figure it out.

let people misunderstand you.
let people dislike you.
let people have their version of you.

just don’t abandon yourself trying to change it.

08/28/2026

You can know where the pattern came from.
You can name the coping strategy.
You can recognize the loop while you’re literally in it.

And still find yourself doing the same thing.

Overexplaining. People pleasing. Shutting down. Bracing for conflict. Replaying the conversation. Trying to anticipate everyone else’s needs. Knowing you’re safe, but not necessarily feeling safe.

That doesn’t mean the awareness isn’t working. Awareness matters.

But sometimes the pattern isn’t being maintained by a lack of understanding. It’s being maintained because your body learned that response through repetition, and repetition is often part of how we begin creating something different too.

This is one of the reasons I use simple body-based practices like tapping in my work.

Not because tapping magically fixes the pattern. But because somatic work gives us somewhere else to go besides endlessly analyzing it.

Notice the pattern.
Notice what happens in the body.
Interrupt the familiar loop.
Practice another response.

And then do it again.

That’s where the work gets interesting.

08/26/2026

I’m not giving up on titration 😂

Because this is actually one of the most important things to understand about somatic work.

Less can be more.

Titration is a trauma-informed somatic practice where we work with small, manageable pieces of an experience rather than diving into everything at once.

We can touch into something for a moment, notice what happens in the body, come back to steady, and go from there.

We don’t need the biggest release. We don’t need the whole story. We don’t need to push until something happens.

Sometimes one little drop gives us plenty to work with.

Okay. I have now explained titration with significantly less yapping. ✌🏼

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