What is Thank You Body?
By understanding our bodies, we move from fear to fluency, and from blame to belonging.
About TYB
Learning to decode the body's language of sensation and symptom, we can listen to the intelligence of the body and what it's trying to communicate. By celebrating the magnificence of our design and its wisdom, we amplify wellbeing, healing and high performance.
Sensations and symptoms aren't malfunctions to override. They're messages, a door into the parts of you asking to be understood rather than silenced. When we stop treating the body as something to criticize and control, and start treating it as something to listen to and respect, symptoms become signals, and healing becomes a conversation instead of a battle.
Changing the culture of criticism to a culture of celebration, one body at a time.
What we believe
If you've got a body, you belong here.
Health and wellness are your birthright. Inclusivity is our standard, not a slogan.
Lead with love. And the fierce kind sometimes.
There's a reason clients call Carly "General Darling." She'll hold you in your becoming and call you forward when you're ready.
We walk the walk, and we speak human.
Everything we share comes from 14 years of deep study, in the books, the clinics and the curriculum of life. No performative wellness, no spiritual bypassing, no whirly swirly verbiage. We bridge the realms of science and the spiritual, finding language that unlocks your own connection to the sacred.
You're not broken. You're remembering.
This body is worthy of reverence, not judgment or fear. It's our greatest ally, and we're here to help you listen. We honor the full spectrum of being human: the grief, the grit, the highs, the lows and the mess in the middle.
It's an inside job.
We're here to help you trust your own knowing again. There are no quick fixes and no one coming to save you, and you won't be doing it alone.
Progress over perfection, always.
Healing is rarely pretty, so we celebrate every micro-miracle along the way. If you're here, you've already made progress.
About Carly
Originally from the Far North Coast of NSW, Australia, Carly has been based in Los Angeles for the past 10 years. She's a Transformational Bodyworker, Soft Tissue Specialist, Australian-trained Naturopath, Doula and Somatic Movement & Dance Facilitator, with 14 years of experience across Australia, the USA and many ancient wisdom traditions.
For 12 years she worked privately, by rapport and referral only, caring for some of the world's highest performers: elite athletes, sporting teams, artists and individuals, on set, on tour and behind the scenes. Thank You Body is how she shares that knowledge with a wider community.
Her own life has been a curriculum too: her own health journeys, life as an elite athlete, and recently, losing her beloved mother Ruth to cancer. Thank You Body honors her mother's life, a legacy of reverence, grace and right relation with this body.
Every Tuesday, Carly leads Frequencies of Freedom, the dance and healing movement practice she created, at DanceSpaceLA. As she says, "it's always better together."
She lives at the intersection of the Sacred, the Science and the Sweaty, with some swearing and silliness along the way.
Training & credentials
Bachelor's Degree of Naturopathy, Southern Cross University, Lismore
Diploma of Remedial Massage with Distinction, TAFE NSW Sydney
Level 1 Jikiden Reiki
Certified Holistic Doula, Matrona Academy
Mayan Abdominal Massage, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Contact Beyond Contact Level 1 & 2 Facilitator Training, Unity Space Guatemala
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