Carolyn Chilton Casas
poetry for mindfulness and healing
BOOKS
Our Shared Breath
Under the Same Sky
Unlocking Ordinary Wonders - coming in 2026
Endorsements
“
In a voice ripe with experience and gratitude, Carolyn Chilton Casas draws from her background
with Reiki and metaphysics to shine light on how everyday moments inform the miracle of existence.
With equal ease, Under the Same Sky explores themes of impermanence and grief alongside those of joy and awe. The poems reach beyond “time’s precious edge,” in a sincere quest to
make sense of difficult times and bewilderment following loss. These are, indeed, poems that ring like 'a dinner bell to a table set for all who care to come.' In her second collection, Carolyn Chilton Casas brings clarity, wonder, respect for the ways things change, and a keen eye for 'the everyday holy.' In a time of disconnect and fear, these are essential poems of celebration, connection, opening to grief, and praising the life that remains.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of All the Honey, host of The Poetic Path
“
"Waking is a miracle," as Carolyn Chilton Casas writes in the opening poem of this
wondrous new collection, reminding us [over and over again] that we are here not just to
awaken our hearts, but also to give ourselves fully to "the mysteries we carry unaware."
Her poems open us to the everyday awe of simply being alive, seeing the light in the
eyes of another, and holding onto the kindnesses we offer each other. "I want to be
open/for the world to pull me in," she writes, and as we read and re-read Under the
Same Sky, we will come to see the same is true for us; we too want to receive all the
beauty and love available in each new moment, in each of these carefully rendered
poems.
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Carolyn Chilton Casas has intuitively infused healing light into her poems, which, like prisms, extend beyond ecopoetics into the realm of the modern mystic, the lightworker,
the spiritual healer.
Her verse reads like a cross between hymns, lullabies, and ancestral
wisdom trickling through the author's close kinship with the Earth.
James Crews,
author of Unlocking the Heart: Writings for Courage & Self-Compassion
Catherine L. Schweig,
founder of Journey of the Heart Spiritual Poetry Project
ABOUT
Carolyn Chilton Casas is a practicing Reiki master and teacher whose favorite themes to write about are nature, mindfulness, and ways to heal. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Braided Way, Grateful Living, One Art, and Third Wednesday and in anthologies including The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal and Thin Spaces & Sacred Spaces. Carolyn writes articles regarding energy healing for wellness magazines in several countries. More of her work can be found on Facebook and Instagram.
CONTACT
You can reach out to Carolyn through Instagram @mindfulpoet_ or by submitting the contact form below.